Is it too early to report winners and losers from the fall TV season? Not really. Five U.S. network shows have already been canceled: in order, they are NBC’s The Playboy Club, Hank Azaria’s NBC comedy Free Agents (the one I had first in the pool), the dumb CW reality show H8R, CBS’s How to be a Gentleman
Bazinga! As expected The Big Bang Theory came back big with overnight estimated Thursday night audiences of 3,718.000 and 4,053,000 on CTV. Grey’s Anatomy (2,313,000) was another big winner for the Canadian private broadcaster.An out-of-simulcast pre-release of the new remake of Charlie’s Angels managed 955,000 at 7 p.m. on CTV.Over at sister station CTV Two,
Earlier this week, Global sent out about a hundred women wearing dark hats and glasses onto the streets of Toronto. Some sort of Blues Brothers marathon on TV? A salute to Fedora the Explorer? No, it was to remind all of us to watch their new crime import Prime Suspect, premiering Thursday night at 10
NBC UPFRONT PART TWO: Still smarting from that whole Leno at 10 fiasco, NBC has plenty of problems with the back end of its schedule. New dramas Chase and The Event were rejected last season. Friday Night Lights is no more. The whole Law & Order franchise seems to be on its last legs.Among the new hopefuls