After six months of tough negotiations, the writers’ and actors’ strikes are over. How will these new labor agreements affect the future of television? Who better to ask than Mister John Doyle?It has been a full year since the distinguished Globe and Mail TV columnist retired. I spoke to him about six months ago for
Let’s get this out of the way “up front”: CTV won the overall TV season ratings race in Canada for the 21st year in a row. That message was hammered home again and again Thursday in Toronto at the Meridian Centre qt Bell Media’s live and in-person Upfront pep rally for advertisers. Just the day
Fire up the Tiki torch and pass the Doritos: Survivor, after 22 years and in its 42nd edition, is the most-watched show in Canada the week of March 28 to April 3. Global went one-two for the week with 9-1-1 in second spot overall. They also got a lift from NCIS and NCIS International crossover
There were three questions heading into the week of March 21-27 in terms of the Numeris’s tally of the Canadian Top-30 total results: how would the Oscars do? Where would the debut of Canada’s Got Talent land? Will Big Brother Canada chart? The answers are all positive for the 94th Annual Academy Awards. The three-hour,
More of the same as the usual imported and simulcast procedurals topped the March 14-20 list of most-watched shows across English Canada as tracked by Numeris. Last season’s No. 1 drama The Good Doctor bobbed back to the top of the list, edging out a strong showing by Survivor, No. 2 nationally but No. 1
It is tempting to simply list, every week, ten guesses as to what will be the most-watched shows in English Canada. It is a very predictable, and older-skewing list of American simulcasts and one news program.. The shows listed are almost all devoid of any buzz. This is a mom and pop list for people
The Rob Lowe firefighter drama 9-1-1: Lone Star continued to perform well across Canada this winter, topping all shows in terms of total audience ages 2+. Several other imported procedural dramas followed as schedules got more or less back to normal post-Olympics. Seven of the Top-10 were CTV shows, with Global claiming the other three
The closing week of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games impacted broadcast television viewership across English Canada. Not so much because Games coverage took over but because so many US procedural simulcasts were sidelined. Here is how the Top-10 TV shows performed the week of February 14 to 20 according to Numeris (average-minute-audience, 2+ totals): 9-1-1