CBS says their decision to shut down The Late Show with Stephen Colbert next May is a financial one. It is, but perhaps not for the reasons they suggest. True, late night talk shows are not the oil wells they were back when Johnny Carson and David Letterman ended the night for millions of viewers.
Here are the headlines: three days after CBS’s parent company Paramount paid $16 million to settle a Trumped up, meritless 60 Minutes dispute with the US president; hours after a bill passed yanking a billion dollars in funding from PBS and NPR; CBS announced that Stephen Colbert will be silenced at CBS. Colbert mocked Trump
Two thousand and twenty-three was a challenging year in the TV business. Inflation and higher interest rates had consumers thinking twice about streaming subscriptions. The writers and actors strikes put a cork in the content pipeline. Peak TV seemed to slip back from the summit. The big success story in Canada, however, was the rapid
Giddyap, pardner. This week’s episode of brioux.tv: the podcast takes a deep dive into everything you need to know about collecting your favourite TV shows on DVD. My guest is archivist, curator and classic TV expert Andrew J. Klyde, executive producer of Bonanza: The Official Complete Series. For many boomers, Sunday nights were spent with your
SEAL Team has finally battled its way back north of the border. The series, starring David Boreanaz as Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Jason Hayes of the US Navy SEALs, fell off Canadian radar screens after a few episodes aired at the start of this fifth season. The reason? ViacomCBS migrated the series away from
There’s a line in tonight’s fourth season opener of Star Trek: Discovery that neatly defines Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green). President of the Federation Rillak (Chelah Horsdal), a new character who quickly books herself aboard Discovery, sees Burnham barely pull her crew through yet another deadly crisis. She commends the captain for her nimble and
UPDATE: Follow this link to fresh intel on the fate of SEAL Team in Canada. Attention, grunts: SEAL Team, the CBS military drama now in its fifth season, has orders to ship out of Global stat. After Sunday’s episode, David Boreanaz, Irish-Canadian actor A. J. Buckley (Pure) and company have orders to abandon the Global
Disney told their investors this week that their Disney+ streaming service has crossed the 100 million subscriber threshold. As Goofy would say, “Gawrsh!” The service was launched at a very reasonable cost: $8.99 a month in Canada or $89.99 a year — much cheaper than Netflix at nearly $15. That price went up in February,