“Is regular network TV programming dead? These four Canadian broadcast execs say no, it’s evolving.” That’s the headline to a feature I wrote appearing in Saturday’s Toronto Star. Read the full story here if you’re a subscriber or, better yet, buy a copy. People have been writing the network TV obit for years. Tina Fey
Here’s a royal how-do-you-do: Canadians, proportionally, were more into Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetrime Special than viewers were in the U.S. A total Canadian English audience of 3,206,000 watched the two hour special Sunday March 7 on Global according to Numeris. That made the special by far the No. 1 show of
CBS Presents: Oprah with Meghan and Harry was an even bigger draw in Canada than in the United States Sunday night. On Global in Canada, the two-hour special drew an average minute audience of 2.8 million viewers according to Live+ same day data from Numeris. This makes it, according to the network, the No. 1
No surprise Wednesday with the release of the latest Numeris Top 30 of the week in English Canada: CTV’s coverage of Super Bowl LV stands well out in front of the pack. CTV’s Total share of the Super Bowl viewing in terms of average minute audience was close to 7.8 million viewers. TSN alone accounted
I was a little wary before screening the pilot episode of the new NBC sitcom Young Rock. I was expecting a chokehold, given that the title sounds too much like Young Sheldon; or an eye gouge, as I would want to gouge out my eyes after screening another unfunny network sitcom. Happy to report, however,
If you’re looking for a new TV series that would go well with a nice glass of Chianti, well… keep looking. For those of you drinking something stronger, there’s Clarice. Described as a psychological horror crime drama, the shot-in-Toronto series premieres Thursday night on CBS and Global. It’s based on the book and the Oscar-winning,
The first Super Bowl of the COVID era shows that the “Big Game” is still TV’s top draw — even if audience levels slid slightly in both the U.S. and Canada. Host broadcaster CBS claims Super Bowl LV had a Total Audience Delivery of 96.4 million viewers across all their platforms, including the main broadcast
Last summer, while up north on the shores of Lake Huron, I was offered a chance to do a zoom call with two of the stars from Prodigal Son — Tom Payne and Michael Sheen. Fortunately, I had my laptop with me and could use my mobile phone as a hot spot — a bit