Day Three of Fall Launch Week brings a den full of returning shows, including the incredibly popular Dragon’s Den (CBC at 8), The Tudors (CBC at 9), Hell’s Kitchen (Fox at 9; Sept. 24 on City at 8), Criminal Minds (CBS at 9), The Middle (ABC at 8; CTV at 9), Emmy-winning comedy Modern Family
BBM book ’em, Danno. Global rode a wave of old and new premieres to take the first night of the new season in overnight ratings.House returned strong with nearly 2.7 million viewers across Canada according to overnight estimates. Second on the night was CTV’s two-hour Dancing with the Stars, which waltzed off with an estimated
Good news, Gleeks. The second season premiere of last year’s breakout series Glee is a satisfying return to form. Don’t miss the first five minutes, where creator Ryan Murphy gives a big F-U to all of us who thought the musical descended into gay karaoke the last half of last season. Josh Sussman, hilarious as Jew-fro-ed blogger
Tuesday of Fall Launch week brings the return of several shows, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CTV at 10; tomorrow night at 9 on NBC), the Rick Mercer Report (CBC at 8), This Hour has 22 Minutes (CBC at 8:30), Being Erica (CBC at 9), Dancing with the Stars (results, ABC and CTV
If you have a thing for Lisa Edelstein (and you should), don’t miss tonight’s seventh season debut of House. You get to see way more of her tonight. The episode, entitled “Now What?”, finds House (Hugh Laurie) and Cuddy (Edelstein) finally doing the deed. Getting their groove on. Banging the living snot out of each other.
Canwest has papered the town with billboards and bus shelter ads proclaiming a new Dawna on Global National. “Welcome Home, Dawna Friesen,” the ads declare. There’s a full colour, full page shout out in today’s Toronto Star. Still, it’s not like she’s Kiefer Sutherland, Wayne Gretzky or even Steve Nash. I don’t recall a big campaign
Monday night marks the official launch of the 2010-11 television season. Besides season premieres for several returning shows, like House, Chuck, Castle, How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement and Two and a Half Men, five brand new prime time network shows make their series debuts tonight, including the highly anticipated remake Hawaii FIVE-0. Battery
This past summer in Los Angeles I was sitting down to lunch with several other critics at press tour when the subject of Boardwalk Empire came up. “Oh, I hated that show,” this one lady said. “All that boring music and stuff from the ’20s.”Yikes, I thought. The 1920s were probably the greatest decade ever