The big winner Sunday with their coverge of Super Bowl LVIII was CBS Sports. Nielsen data and Adobe Analytics report that the Kansas City Chiefs’ overtime victory over San Francisco 49ers drew 123.4 million average viewers across all platforms (CBS Television, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Univision and digital properties such as NFL+). That makes it the most-watched
Cop or detective shows nowadays have to have some sort of an extra hook. The main character has some sort of Spidey-sense, or can tell if somebody is lying, or they’re an old rookie — something. Anything! In the new CTV police procedural Sight Unseen — premiering Sunday after the NFL playoff game and then
To see your way clear to a new spin on a cop show is not easy. Sisters Karen Troubetzkoy and Nikolijne Troubetzkoy, series creators who’ve proven themselves on hits such as Orphan Black and Transplant, looked within themselves for inspiration. Karen, or Kat, has struggled with vision loss requiring multiple surgeries since her twenties. It started suddenly after
As Douglas Pucci reported Tuesday on The Programming Insider, hardly anybody watched Fox’s broadcast of the 75th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Part of the tune out could be blamed on confusion. The Emmys usually air in September at the start of the TV season. It was pushed back four months due to the actors’ strike,
If you’ve been waiting until the Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selina Gomez comedy Whodunnit Only Murders in The Building came to an old-fashioned broadcast network, well, congratulations. Starting tonight, the Hulu/Disney+ streaming series premieres from the beginning on ABC and CTV. This is a shrewd bit of re-purposing by networks still reeling from a lack
Forget, for a moment, that many of us, if we’re watching broadcast at all so far this fall, have been binge-ing baseball, football or hockey. Set aside the fact that non-sports fans are finding their primetime fix on Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+, Prime Video or Paramount+. Disregard the utter chaos from the strikes that has left
On the eve of the series’ 9th season finale, CTV announced Tuesday in Toronto that The Amazing Race Canada will be back in 2024 for a 10th season. The coast-to-coast adventure series, hosted by Jon Montgomery, once again dominated Canada’s summer TV ratings. The series emerges as the top-rated Canadian program for the 2022-23 broadcast
This week’s guest on brioux.tv: the podcast is the always charming and hilarious Sabrina Jalees. She can currently be seen in two summer TV shows — Farming for Love (Sunday nights on CTV) and Roast Battle Canada (Mondays on CTV Comedy). What’s next? Dyeing her hair gray and replacing Lisa Laflamme on the CTV News? Sabrina