Forget, for a moment, that many of us, if we’re watching broadcast at all so far this fall, have been binge-ing baseball, football or hockey. Set aside the fact that non-sports fans are finding their primetime fix on Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+, Prime Video or Paramount+. Disregard the utter chaos from the strikes that has left
Fire up the Tiki torches and pass the Doritos. Who better to deliver the scoop on ther 45th edition of Survivor than Murtz Jaffer? By day, Murtz Jaffer works as Associate Producer of Global’s The Morning Show. By night, he’s recognized as the world’s foremost expert on reality TV, traveling to countless final episode tapings and attending
At this time of year, Canadian broadcasters have traditionally ramped up the ballyhoo with breathless releases about all the fabulous new shows they’re importing for the coming season. The phrases most often used to achieve this are “most talked-about acquisition,” and, wait for it, “buzzworthy.” On Wednesday in Toronto at Corus Entertainment’s first post-COVID in-person
Part II in our series, “Battle of the Network Stars: Executives Division,” features Daniel Eves, Senior Vice President, Broadcast Networks, Corus Entertainment. Eves helped guide the network to a breakthrough last fall when Global became Canada’s No. 1 draw in Core Prime (8 p.m. to 11 p.m.). While CTV still won the full, Fall/Winter/Spring season,
Numeris, Canada’s broadcast measurement authority, last week sent out a correction to its Top-30 list of most-watched shows across Canada for May 23 to 29. The final results vary quite a bit from what was originally reported. Survivor remains in the top spot for its season finale, but the total is more than a quarter
UPDATED: Global buried the lead Wednesday. Their nearly hour-long, virtual “UsFront” (they don’t call it an UpFront) reel was half done before the proud boasts began. Eventually, however, those who fought through a long streaming delay (this happens to at least one of Canada’s major media companies every year of this virtual era) came to
Fire up the Tiki torch and pass the Doritos: Survivor remains the most-watched show in Canada for an eighth week in 2022. In it’s 42nd edition, the castaway series was No. 1 among all viewers in Canada, in total, Live+7 data, every week in May and three out of four weeks in April. Over a
Survivor keeps living up to its name in Canada. After 22 seasons, it has more No. 1 finishes than other other show this year, The long-running CBS castaway import topped the weekly #Numeris Top-30 in English Canada for the week of May 16-22 with over 1.7 million viewers. There should be an asterix, however. If