Lorre (left) with Sheen at a past TCA session Sure he’s super rich, but you’ve got to feel for Chuck Lorre. He is this generation’s Norman Lear, the current King of TV comedy, the writer/producer behind The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men and Mike & Molly, but at what price? As a writer/showrunner on Cybill,
Chuck: saved by Sepinwall? Interesting story in Salon this week suggesting fellow TV critic Alan Sepinwall and others are changing the conversation when it comes to TV criticism. Sepinwall, formerly at the New Jersey Leader-Post and now at HitFix.com, has for years issued lightening fast analysis of weekly episodes of everything from The Sopranos to How I
Tonight begins the first of three Jeopardy! episodes where two human contestants battle a blank, passionless machine. It’s sort of like a preview to the upcoming Canadian federal election leader’s debate, except that would be three blanks and a Bloc.Ken Jennings, who had that 74-game winning streak six seasons ago, and all-time Jeopardy! champ Brad
22 Minutes. The show’s back, but look for cast changes Shh–it’s Friday, a good day to slip the following release into mailboxes: “CBC Television announced 17 returning shows for the 2011-2012 season.” Some are no brainers–Dragon’s Den, Battle of the Blades and The Rick Mercer Report are all hits, as is Sunday drama Heartland and Wednesday’s Republic
Boyce (right) with Dan for Mayor’s Ewanuick As predicted here last December, CTV programming boss Susanne Boyce will follow CEO Ivan Fecan out the door as Bell completes its housecleaning prior to the takeover of the network in March. Boyce’s departure and several other top executive moves were announced to the troops Tuesday in Toronto.
CTV scored a touchdown with Sunday`s Super Bowl XLV, scoring an overnight, estimated audience of 6,537,000 viewers. That`s up from last year`s record overnight tally of 6,025,000, also on CTV.The pre-and post- Super Bowl spots were also huge for CTV, with 4,377,000 and 4,517,000 tuning in to each (although the post show trophy presentation, which CTV barely
Did you watch the Super Bowl on CTV Sunday night? The Canadian network blocked the much-hyped U.S. commercials and punted away the second the Vince Lombardi trophy was placed in the hands of the owner of the Green Bay Packers. CTV was probably fed up running Fox promos for that Glee after show carried in
Smooch stars Martin (left) and Shipka The Hallmark Channel is famous at press tour for bringing critics face to face with some of the stars of the past. Those of us who grew up watching Ernest Borgnine as the skipper of McHale’s Navy or the great Dick Van Dyke can’t get enough of these Hallmark moments. We