Canadian network coverage of the 2025 Federal Election kept score okay, but they had a hard time following the puck Monday night and into Tuesday morning. With votes still being counted Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney emerged with a minority government victory over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. The NDP got stomped, the Bloc battered, and the
When it comes to viewership among the broadcast networks and news channels, CBC remains an essential service. As Donald Trump would say, “The numbers were Huuge!” For last Thursday’s English language debate, the public broadcasters drew an overnight, estimated average minute audience of 1,239,000 viewers. Keep in mind the debates were scheduled earlier than usual.
Global in Canada was a new network on the air about a year when, in 1975, it imported a little weekend show from NBC. Known back then as Saturday Night, it soon added Live and turned out to be one of the smartest buys the Canadian network has ever made. Five decades later, Global celebrated
Monday January 20 is inauguration day in the US. So everybody raise your right hand, and for those listening here at home, hang onto those Canadian passports. A dozen years ago The Donald was just another tanned game show host when I interviewed him in his 26th floor office at Trump Tower in New York.
Fire up the Tiki torch and pass the Doritos: Genevieve Mushaluk, a 33-year-old corporate lawyer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, had her torch snuffed on last week’s two-hour, second-last episode of Survivor 47. After finally winning an immunity challenge on the second-last episode in a diving, swimming and puzzle-solving competition, Mushaluk was also able to partake in
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