If you thought Pluto TV was something you’d only find on Disney+, don’t be Goofy. Pluto TV, which hails from the same U.S.-based media giant as Paramount+ and CBS, is actually the world’s leading FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) service. It made its debut in Canada December 1, with a very compelling four word pitch:
The third and final episode of our three-part, post-upfront series, “Battle of the Network Stars: Executive Division,” features CBC Executive Vice President Barbara Williams. Williams, a respected industry veteran who called the shots at Global prior to joining CBC, oversees all of the public broadcaster’s English language programming services. This episode finds her just back
After weeks of landing in the No. 2 or 3 spots on Numeris’ list of the Top 30 TV programs in English Canada, Private Eyes finished its summer run in the very top position. Close to 1.4 million Canadians said goodbye to Matt Shade and Angie Everett (Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson) on the final
Really Global? You cancel a show when its ratings are higher than ever? Private Eyes‘ second-last telecast was the third most-watched show in English Canada the week of August 16-22 according to Tuesdays Top-30 release from data service Numeris. Total ratings for the series finale, which aired last Thursday, will be released next week. A
What is vying with naming Mike Richards the new host of Jeopardy for Worst Call in Television for 2021? Global’s decision to announce, before it aired, that this would be the fifth and final season of Private Eyes. The Jason Priestley/Cindy Sampson Toronto-based detective drama has owned the summer of ’21, averaging over a million
The final week of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games dominated the English Canadian Top-30 weekly ratings, although it missed the No. 1 spot on the list due to a technicality. For some reason, Numeris measures the CTV Evening News from Monday to Friday only, and then breaks out the weekend edition of the same
In TV ratings totals, the first week of CBC’s Summer Olympic Games coverage took the gold medal in Numeris’ weekly Top-30 program rankings. In terms of average minute audience date, CBC’s week-long, prime time average of close to 1.4 million viewers included repeats of several medal-winning highlights. Thay included Maggie Mac Neil (pictured above) and
America’s Got Talent came back rather slow this summer but by the week of July 19-25 it had climed to the No. 1 spot in the weekly English Canada TV ratings. This is a week that saw the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games vault CBC into two Top 10 finishes for the week, including the encore,