“And it was a child who led them tonight…” Wednesday, October 29: Sportsnet National+ drove in an estimated, overnight 4,970,000 Jays fans across Canada. What they witnessed was a record-breaking, 12-strikeout performance by 22-year-old rookie pitcher Trey Yesavage. Of the audience total, 1,713,000 viewers were in the 18-49-year-old demo. Add what Rogers also collected over
All those extra innings Monday night has some critics trying to calculate if Game 3 lasted longer than Ken Burns documentary series Baseball. It did not but close. Here are the box scores from Games 3 and 4 Monday and Tuesday: Monday October 27: this was the 18-inning, six-and-a-half hour marathon won by the Dodgers.
Having a Canadian team in an important championship final does make a huge difference, audience-wise. The first two games of the 2025 World Series show the Toronto Blue Jays/Los Angeles Dodgers final round averaging over six million viewers in Canada after a two game home split in Toronto. Imagine, Rogers Sports and Media execs must
There was a time when “Upfront Week” was covered like the Super Bowl. Now it is more about football than any new comedies, dramas or even reality shows. Today at these big budget presentations, sports leads; dramas and comedies are thrown in as extras. Upfront Week is simply now known as the second week of
Few shows in TV history are more associated with geriatric viewing than the 1986-95 lawyer drama Matlock. It starred folksy Andy Griffith as a lawyer whose down-home mannerism hides a brilliant legal mind. Or at least, that’s how I understand it; I’ve never seen an episode. The fact that anyone under 60 knows anything about
The first scene of the new Fox and Global series Murder in a Small Town is set at that most sacred of Canadian television landmarks: the diner from The Beachcombers, Mollys Reach. Seated inside, shooting a first date scene, are two actors representing several generations of Canadian acting royalty: Kristin Kreuk, the Vancouver lass who went from Edgemont to Smallville to Beauty and
The new series Murder in a Small Town opens with the most Canadian scene ever. Cassandra, played by Vancouver-born Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Burden of Truth), meets Karl, played by another Vancouver native, Rossif Sutherland — he of the famous half-brother Kiefer and the late, great actor Donald and wife Francine Racette. Cassandra and Karl are
Earlier this week at their annual upfront in New York, the Fox Network announced their planned schedule for the 2024-25 season. Unlike CBS, Fox’s new offerings are not based on existing I.P.’s or simply spun off from current franchises, so points for originality in an age where playing it safe is the new norm. The