Yes, it’s finally time to Go On.The 2012-13 TV season doesn’t officially begin for another week-and-a-half, but some new shows are already sneaking onto schedules. Tuesday night, for example, Matthew Perry’s new comedy Go On (9 p.m., NBC, Global), Guys With Kids (9:30 p.m., Global) and The New Normal (9:30, NBC/CTV) all air in their
The view from City-TV’s rooftop in Toronto’s Yonge/Dundas Square Rogers Media invited press to breakfast with its top TV executives Thursday atop its City broadcast centre at the Yonge/Dundas Square. The view from there is very Tokyo/Times Square, with plenty of downtown billboards. A big, circular portrait of Sash Baron Cohen as The Dictator looks
For those who may have blinked and missed me as a background extra this week on Murdoch Mysteries, here’s a little something extra. The historical drama returned for a fifth season Wednesday night in Canada and drew just 385,000 on City opposite Game Four of the Stanley Cup finals. Who the heck is scheduling these
Max Greenfield: Schmidt was in the house It’s “Upfront” Week in Canada, an odd mix of American razzmatazz and Canadian reserve. Rogers’ kicks off a week of these things with their 2012-13 upfront today at Massey Hall in Toronto.In past years, the Canadian nets seemed to be trying to out do each other with pricey venues
“Cancelled?? Whaaat??” Just last month, CTV was bragging it had the “No. 1 new series of the season” with Missing, which hit a high of 1.8 million Canadian viewers in April. Now Missing, along with many other U.S.network shows, are not just missing but finished. The Ashey Judd drama was cancelled along with almost two
Meriwether (right) with showrunners Jake Kasdan and Peter Chernin New Girl started strong when it began last fall, with adorkable Zooey Deschanel becoming everybody’s instant crush. Ratings have sliped a bit in the States, but seem to be holding steady in Canada heading into tonight’s season finale (9/8c on Fox and City).For me the reason
CBC and TSN were probably counting on long playoff runs from the mighty Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins. Now Sidney Crosby and the Sedin twins are out of the race for the Stanley Cup, and Southern teams such as Phoenix and Nashville are on to Round Two.With Detroitalso eliminated, and Ottawa do or die to
TV titans Pelley, Crull, Stewart, Dion and Robertson. Photo: CityNews So we were all sitting in the dark with a bunch of ad folk early Thursday morning when something crazy happened at the TV Day symposium in Toronto: news.Not at the industry day itself, which was organized by the folks at the Television Bureau of Canada.