A couple of Mondays ago, CTV launched Battle of the Generations. Billed as a “nostalgia-packed quiz show,” it features four contestants per episode, each representing a particular generation: Baby Boomer, Gen X, Millennial or Gen Z. Basically it is Trivial Pursuit for the whole family, from the kids to the grandparents. Therein lies the appeal:
There was plenty to celebrate Thursday as Bell Media closed out a week of Toronto-based Upfronts with their annual ad orgy at the Meridian. If you tally up the English and French-language output, Bell will have 96 titles and 1037 hours of original content in 2023/24. CTV remains, after 22 straight years, the most-watched broadcast
Fifteen years ago I wrote a book about TV’s greatest rumours and myths. Marilyn Denis and Roger Ashby, then the morning team at CHUM 104.5 in Toronto, were both incredibly welcoming and gave the book plenty of play. Then they walked me over to the CHUM AM side, introduced me to that team, and I
Bell Media scored a major win Sunday with their coverage of the Rhianna concert, aka Super Bowl LVII. A live, overnight tally of 7.4 million viewers plus saw the big game on CTV while another 1.744,000 watched on TSN for an english language broadcast and specialty total of roughly 9.15 million viewers. Factor in those
This Friday, The Spencer Sisters premieres on CTV. The mother-daughter detective series stars Lea Thompson, still best remembered for her breakout role in “Back to the Future,” and Stacey Farber (Degrassi: The Next Generation; Saving Hope). You can hear both of them now on brioux.tv: the podcast. Viewers were given a chance to see a
This Monday, February 6, the 100th episode of brioux.tv: the podcast will go live at 7 am ET. The episode will feature not one but two stars: from CTV’s new series The Spencer Sisters, Lea Thompson and Stacey Farber. The above link will take you directly to the 100th episode starting Monday morning. To listen
CTV’s NFL numbers in Canada continue to grow as we count down to Super Bowl LVII on February 12. Last Sunday afternoon’s National Football League Championship between the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles drew an overnight, estimated 1,828,000 CTV viewers. The primetime American Football League matchup Sunday between the Cincinnati Bengals and the
An overnight, estimated 1,867,000 CTV viewers watched the Buffalo Bills lose to the Cincinnati Bengals in NFL Sunday night playoff action. The late afternoon’s disappointing end to the Bills season drew just about the same number of Canadian viewers as the evening prime time NFL playoff game Sunday. That’s where San Francisco 49ers defeated the