Ay carumba! Spain’s Euro 2012 soccer victory over Italyon TSN was the most watched show of the week in Canada. What’s next—euro-style bailouts? Sudden interest in David Hasselhoff? The Jays had a big week, too, as did CFL football. Live sports—and, for some strange reason, cooking shows–seem to be all TV is good for this
It’s happened. The most-watched TV show of the week in all of Canadais a soccer game (Sunday’s UEFA England/Italy tilt). Somewhere, Don Cherry weeps. Beyond TSN’s Euro 2012 coverage, the NHL Awards were still a decent draw on CBC. Summer doldrums have set in, however, and despite strong showings by domestic dramas The Listener, Saving
Here’s a shocker—a guy walking on a wire across Niagara Falls beat the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs as the most-watched program of the week in Canada. Leafs should check to see if he can play goal. Otherwise a week full of Euro Cup soccer, NBA finals and Jays baseball booted reruns in
To the great relief of everyone at CBC, hockey finally heated back up as the Los Angeles Kings were embraced as the Cinderella team of the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs. That chick behind the Devils’ bench with the big show of support probably didn’t hurt, either. A good week also for several Canadian returnees, including
For those who may have blinked and missed me as a background extra this week on Murdoch Mysteries, here’s a little something extra. The historical drama returned for a fifth season Wednesday night in Canada and drew just 385,000 on City opposite Game Four of the Stanley Cup finals. Who the heck is scheduling these
Bisson (left), Brioux (middle) and some guy with lines Yes, the long wait is over. Tonight’s the night I make my big debut on Murdoch Mysteries.It’s a buddy picture, really, me and Yannick Bisson, way up in Dawson City in the Yukon, panning for blogger gold.Bisson’s hardly in it, really. Sure, they give him lines,
“Screw Wheel and Jeopardy–we’ve got the Cup!” Hey–good news! CBC apparently found millions of dollars!That was the impression at Thursday’s “Dancing Past the Budget Cuts with the Stars” 2012-13 Launchapalooza at the public network’s downtown Toronto broadcast centre.The extravagant happening began around noon in a cavernous 10th floor sound stage. That’s one big advantage CBC has over
I figure what the CBC could use these days is a few more unpaid consultants. There are some tough decisions ahead as the public broadcaster deals a $115 million reduction in their parliamentary appropriation. Network officials have dropped several hints as to where they are going in advance of their May 10 2012-13 season launch