The cast gets the NBC numbers for Thursday night’s Saving Hope Well placed on a quiet, non-hockey night, Saving Hope opened big on CTV in Canada, drawing an overnight, estimated 1.52 million viewers.Given that the U.S. has 10 times the population, the Toronto-lensed hospital drama should have pulled 15 million NBC viewers Thursday night. Summer ratings
The stars of Saving Hope. Paging Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard… CTV sent a prescription along with their screener for tonight’s premiere episode of Saving Hope (9 p.m.). “Apply one dose of Saving Hope to dilated pupils,” it advised.It might help to already have pupils dilated from recreational drugs to best enjoy tonight’s episode. The series
Is Bill Pullman the next Leslie Nielsen? Pullman has landed another gig playing the president of the United States in 1600 Penn, one of the new Friday night comedies that has just landed on NBC’s fall schedule.Monday morning at the annual NBC “upfront” presentations to advertisers, NBC announced seven new comedies will join its 2012-13
President Barack Obama Slow-Jammin’ the news? Believe it. The “POTUS with the Mostest” guested Tuesday night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in a special episode taped at the University of North Carolina. Go ‘Heels.Not to be outdone, it was announced today in Ottawa that, all this week, Stephen Harper will be Slow-Jammin’ his toast.
Following up on an earlier post about the passing of Dick Clark: racial integration on the dance floor of American Bandstand happened a lot faster than I remembered. Bill Harris at the TorontoSun helped dig out the Sun story I wrote in 2003 about a visit to the Los Angeles set of American Dreams, a
Bent did not break in the U.S. Wednesday night. I like the new NBC rom-com, starring Amanda Peet and David Walton, and say so here in my overnight review for theStar.com. NBC seems determined, however, to toss it away, dumping it into Wednesdays at 9 opposite American Idol, Criminal Minds and Modern Family with little
A couple of screwballs: Danny Pudi and Chevy Chase of Community What’s an analogy? According to Britta on Community–which returned Thursday after a four month hiatus, “it’s like a thought with another thought’s hat on.”Wacky, right, maybe even–screwball? There is enough of a twisted thread of logic to that definition to make you get it,
Fashion Star “mentors” Jessica Simpson, John Varvatos and Nicole Richie Asking me to review Fashion Star is a bit like asking Rob Ford to recommend a vegan restaurant. The Toronto Star asked anyway and so my review of the new NBC/CTV designer talent search series can be found here. My review in a nutshell: if