Look, I sort of get why there’s a fascination with serial killers, so I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised that, for the third week in a row, Ryan Murphy’s miniseries DAHMER: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has been the most-streamed show in Canada on Netflix. Maybe it is the double colon thing in the
As Joel Keller writes in Decider, “The Empress tries to fill the sexy costume drama hole that Bridgerton has left between seasons.” The sexy costume drama stars Devrim Lingnau as Elisabeth, the willfully independent young Empress of Austria, who ruled from 1854-1898. It was back in a much simpler time when inbreeding led to dynasties and
It discourages me that so many viewers are that interested in serial killer TV shows. I get it: people are fascinated by monsters. Still, do we have to package and market and sell real life serial killers to audiences throughout the world? Does this not, in some ways, celebrate them, or at least raise them
This year, November is really September. All those network favourites postponed due to COVID and delayed due to strict safety protocols are finally back this month. We’re talking just about everything scripted: NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, Blacklist, FBI, Chicago Fire, Law & Order: SVU and even sitcoms such as Young Sheldon and Mom and Canadian shows
First things first: the breakfast was way better this year at the Toronto Intercontinental Hotel. Rogers had a guy warming up those gross McEggy things with a heat lamp the past few years in a room way up at SkyDome, but, really, they tasted like the eggs had been tossed around the dugout and dropped
UPDATE: Preliminary overnight rating reports show Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIX will be the most-watched TV show in U.S. and Canadian history. Marc Berman over at TV Media Insights reports it scored an overnight record 49.7 rating/72 share in households. No surprise, really, given the tight, back-and-forth score and dramatic ending. Thanks to a last minute goal
This was a quieter than usual week, with some reruns slotted in as the U.S. networks headed into the November sweeps. The numbers below are overnight estimates for the week of November 3 to 9, adults 2+. MONDAY Gotham remains bat-strong drawing 1,690,000 in the overnights. I’m guessing the next two were repeats on CTV: Law
Some early successes in the Canadian prime time ratings race may have to be tempered with U.S. results. Fox seems to be in free fall, with only Gotham on steady ground. Don’t count on a full season of Gracepoint, for example, no matter how well it does on Global. The impact of Rogers’ NHL deal