The cast gets the NBC numbers for Thursday night’s Saving Hope Well placed on a quiet, non-hockey night, Saving Hope opened big on CTV in Canada, drawing an overnight, estimated 1.52 million viewers.Given that the U.S. has 10 times the population, the Toronto-lensed hospital drama should have pulled 15 million NBC viewers Thursday night. Summer ratings
What is curious, Alex? That would be how Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune wound up at CHCH, where they’ll premiere in Canada next September. CBC paid big bucks to import the two long-running CBS Paramount International Television gamers, which they began airing in 2008. Jeopardy! in particular consistently delivered million-plus audiences weeknights from 7:30 to 8
The stars of Saving Hope. Paging Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard… CTV sent a prescription along with their screener for tonight’s premiere episode of Saving Hope (9 p.m.). “Apply one dose of Saving Hope to dilated pupils,” it advised.It might help to already have pupils dilated from recreational drugs to best enjoy tonight’s episode. The series
Arrow‘s Stephen Amell will help CTV pull up its socks These Canadian network upfronts are micro-managed to within an inch of their lives. Studio publicists sit on stacks of screeners as well as talent releases for fear a Canadian journalist might be prepared for an interview, or, worse, stumble on any actual news.Despite these stubbornly
“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
The folks at Bell sent me a letter the other day. Inside was a sales pitch which began with the words, “Enjoy many of the channels you really want, with HD channels always included.”It may have been a fine deal but I read no further having been scared off by the photo at the top
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.