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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–Back when I was at the Toronto Sun, I wrote a column praising Whose Line is it Anyway? as a very funny show the whole family could enjoy. That certainly was the case at my house.To my surprise, the day the story appeared, Colin Mochrie emailed out of the blue to thank me

Attention, Nikitaverse: Nikita returns for a third season tonight at 9 p.m. on The CW and CTV TWO. The spy series, starring Maggie Q, is generally  off the radar in the Criticverse, but it has its fans and they are loyal.That’s the report back from Dillon Casey who plays ex-Navy SEAL Sean Pierce in the series.

It was way back in the ’80s when the original Beauty and the Beast crawled out of the sewers and into viewer’s living rooms.Tonight at 9 p.m. on The CW and Showcase, a new version of the series emerges. The sewers seem too good for this howlingly bad update, which is shot in Toronto, not for

BEVERLY HILLS, CA–The president of The CW has no idea why The L.A. Complex is not drawing more viewers.Mark Pedowitz says he loves the Toronto-produced serial and plans to air all 13 season two episodes, even though last Tuesdays hit a new low of 390,000 overnight, estimated viewers in the United States. The same episode

The cast of The L.A. Complex. Smile, kids! Martin Gero, the showrunner for The L.A. Complex, has an interesting theory as to why his series stumbled so badly out of the gate last winter.“The problem with the show is that the log line doesn’t make it sound like a good show,” he suggests. “‘It’s a

Beauty and the Beast‘s Kristin Kreuk and Jay Ryan UPDATED WITH CLIP LINKS: The L.A. Complex failed to make the cut as The CW announced its 2012-13 schedule Thursday in New York. Despite underwhelming ratings on MuchMusic in January, there were high hopes for the mid-season replacement series, which depicted young Canadian hopefuls in Hollywood.

Here’s a switch—an American network importing content from Canada. Officials at The CW have high hopes for The L.A. Complex, a makin’-it-in-Hollywood drama from the producers of Degrassi. It makes its U.S. premiere tonight at 9 p.m. on The CW. “We loved it,” says Thom Sherman, Head of Development at The CW. “It’s an authentic look

News that The L.A. Complex has been picked up for an additional 13 episodes did not come as a total surprise today–even though the series was not exactly a ratings smash.The drama, about young Canadian wannabes struggling to make it in Hollywood, premiered  Jan. 10. It drew 351,000 viewers on CTV in overnight estimates. An