Jimmy Johnson says Survivor saved his life. The two-time Super Bowl-winning head coach spoke to critics Thursday on a CBS conference call and explained how a routine, pre-show medical turned up evidence of heart disease.Johnson, 67, is the oldest of 16 new participants in the 21st edition of Survivor, which premieres Wednesday (not Thursday), Sept.
David Bianculli over at TV Worth Watching has asked a number of his critic pals (including yours truly) to kick in with our first impressions on the new season. Everything from this week’s premiere of Hellcats to the launch of Law & Order: Los Angeles Sept. 29. Think of the old TV Guide fall preview
Looks like the Jonas Brothers can still rock the ratings. Their Toronto and Muskoka-lensed TV-movie, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, opened large, as they say, drawing 8 million total viewers last Friday night on U.S. cable’s The Disney Channel. The network says it is the year’s No. 1 cable movie and top rated movie
CORE’s Osher & Kent: the Steed & Emma Peel of sales Want to see what $28.5 million will buy in New York City? Check out Selling New York, a high end new real estate reality series launching Wednesday at 9 p.m. on HGTV Canada. Backed by Toronto-based JV Productions, the series allows viewers inside some of Manhattan’s most
Global’s new crazy police drama Shattered, starring Callum Keith Rennie (right), didn’t shatter any ratings records Wednesday night. The first new show of the 2010-11 network season opened to a BBOE (Below Brampton Overnight Estimate) 428,000 viewers Canada wide. Global did much better at 8 with nearly two million tuning in to summer reality hit Big Brother. A rerun of NCIS drew
Shattered (Wednesdays at 10 p.m., Global). The first new show of the season and look—it’s another cop show. Another Canadian cop show. Callum Keith Rennie (left) stars as homicide detective Ben Sullivan. He’s the shattered guy in the title. Sullivan suffers from the same kind of multiple personality disorder that afflicts the title character on The
A still bearded Conan O’Brien seems to be playing down expectations as he finally announces the name of his new late night talk show. Conan–“simple, pure, like the man himself”–will premiere Nov. 8 at 11 p.m. on TBS and way the hell in the middle of the night or something on CTV.The new title fits.
David Letterman gave Michael Douglas a big hug on television Tuesday night and by God he needs one. The star of the upcoming Wall Street sequel Money Never Sleeps revealed to Letterman on CBS’s Late Show that he is battling Stage Four throat cancer and that he has already begun chemotherapy and radiation treatment. The