Wednesday is Marg Helgenberger’s last day on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. After 12 seasons and over 250 episodes, the 52-year-old actress is the latest to leave the long-running forensic crime drama. Her final episode is entitled, “Willows in the Wind” (10 p.m., CTV and CBS).Helgenberger is leaving to open a string of fast food restaurants.
Martin Gero, unidentified extra and Kate Todd on the set of The L.A. Complex PASADENA, CA–On Monday’s long and winding bus ride from Warners (Suburgatory) to Fox (New Girl), critics passed by the seedy inspiration for a new Canadian series.The Highland Gardens Hotel certainly isn’t much to look at. There are half a dozen other
A couple of weeks ago, CTV released a year-end ratings tally that showed the private network once again stands as the dominant player on the Canadian TV landscape. The release declared that, from the September launch of the new season through mid-December, CTV had 12 of the Top-20 shows in Canada in total viewers and
CTV engaged in some good old fashioned brinkmanship today with their surprising announcement that they have secured rights to the upcoming Charlie Sheen comedy Anger Management.The network teased last Thursday in an email to critics that a “Blockbuster Hollywood Star” was going to make a surprise on-air announcement Monday in a commercial break between 9
A Russell Peters Christmas drew 2,071,000 viewers to CTV Thursday night, an early Christmas present for the private broadcaster.The special was largely panned by critics as well as the 18- and 21-year-olds in my home, who both said they’d rather see one of his stand-up specials.The critical response was so tepid even CTV had trouble
All that hot weather across Canada last week has cooled TV ratings. The only show that didn’t cool down was City’s sizzlin’ Hell’s Kitchen (featuring chef Gordon Ramsay, right).Numbers were down almost everywhere else. Big Brother hung in as Canada’s No. 1 summertime distraction but it was a tough week for the launch of Global’s
A sobering chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson on the radio this week includes musings on the meltdown at Canwest Global (good thing CHML’s a Corus station), fear and panic overall in the television industry and–to change the subject–my new weekly radio spot across the border on Ohio’s WIMA. You can listen in here.Meanwhile, it sounds