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 Sunday, The Simpsons premieres its latest “Treehouse of Horror” episode, the XXXIII’rd in the never ending series. This generally means a pail full of tiny Halloween-sized American chocolate bars is shipped north to the Brampton bunker. It arrived last week, and there are bite-sized versions of Twix, Snickers, Milky Way and Musketeers Minis that
When they named their new series Monarch, programmers at Fox likely did not expect to be launching it straight into the middle of a royal funeral. With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, however, the real monarch lies in state just as this new Monarch premieres. In Canada, Global has the first episode Wednesday night
He started 67 years ago as a little green ball of clay. Now Gumby will be re-shaped and rolled out on several platforms by Fox Entertainment. Fox announced Tuesday that the character, introduced in the ‘50s in a series of home-made, stop-motion animated adventures, is now their intellectual property. Gumby, Pokey, the Blockheads and Roo
Warning: stay off Fantasy Island. No, there’s not COVID outbreak, or any other hint of reality. This latest re-boot of an old series, which premiered Tuesday night on Fox and Global, is simply dull. The only fantasy is that today, in 2021, some network executives thought that another go at this escapist nonsense from the
In the new Fox reality competition series Crime Scene Kitchen, the one who seems to be making out like a bandit is host Joel McHale. How does Mister Hipster Ironic get away with being above it all and dismissive and also host a network baking reality show? Is this really how you follow a brilliant
Thursday night marks the series finale of Last Man Standing. The sitcom, starring Tim Allen, Nancy Travis and Hector Alizondo, bows out after nine seasons and 194 episodes with a one-hour episode on Fox. Never a runaway smash hit like Allen’s breakout series Home Improvement (1991-99), It nevertheless ran on ABC for six seasons before
The Fox Network — now part of the Disney media empire — plans to add just three new shows this fall. They are: The Big Leap is a feel-good drama focusing on a diverse group of down-on-their luck characters who risk it all in a reality show dance competition. The whole thing builds to a