With Upfronts behind us in Canada, and as we stagger past the pandemic, it is time for a closer look at what the media companies have planned for the 2022-2023 season. The executives who make the major programming decisions agreed to discuss their priorities in a series of brioux.tv podcast episodes I’m calling, “Battle of
Let’s get this out of the way “up front”: CTV won the overall TV season ratings race in Canada for the 21st year in a row. That message was hammered home again and again Thursday in Toronto at the Meridian Centre qt Bell Media’s live and in-person Upfront pep rally for advertisers. Just the day
How slim were the picking at this year’s Hollywood screenings for Canadian broadcast buyers? In advance of their upfront next week in Toronto, CTV announced Thursday that just three new imported US broadcast network programs would be joining their fall 2022-2023 lineup. They are all very Red, White and Blue, with the names of States
UPDATE: The Amazing Race Canada — the nation’s most-watched summer series for a half-dozen years prior to the pandemic — will return to CTV this summer. The globe trotting TV competition, hosted by Canadian Olympian Jon Montgomery, has been left at the starting gate since 2019 due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Producers vowed to
Time was that the US networks would each order seven, eight, ten or twelve new TV shows each season, providing Canadian broadcast show-fetchers a suitcase full of distractibles to defrost the North. Not anymore, Snow Birds. At the recent US upfronts in New York, which were dominated for the first time by streaming platform news,
A tight, exciting game capping one of the best NFL playoffs runs ever helped Super Bowl LVI reverse the downward ratings trend in recent years of TV’s biggest draws. In Canada, the 2022 Super Bowl, won in the dying minutes by the Los Angeles Rams over the Cincinnati Bengals, attracted an average audience of 8.1
Children don’t ruin everything. Snow ruins everything. A lot of it is being dumped across Ontario all day today. If only there was a great podcast episode to listen to while you’re shoveling. Hey, wait a minute — there is! Click on the blue and white arrow above and listen now to writer/showrunner Kurt Smeaton
Schitt’s Creek proved you can go for it when it comes to a TV title. Children Ruin Everything, for example, is snappy and straight to the point. The series premieres Wednesday at 8 p.m. on CTV. The eight-episode season stars Meaghan Rath and Aaron Abrams as Astrid and James, a young couple raising two young