Word is leaking out on CBC plans for the 2010-2011 season and budget woes continue to impact series runs. With ad revenues down sharply the year before, the public network nibbled last season, trimming an episode here, an episode there. This fall, without the “fee-for-carriage” bailout offered to Canada’s private networks by the CRTC (albeit
All that pom-pom waving seems to have paid off. Glee returned Tuesday night after a four month hiatus and enjoyed its biggest Canadian audience ever, with 2,120,000 tuning in according to BBM Canada overnight estimates.Wednesday’s Global release claims Glee (featuring Naya Rivera, right) beat CTV’s American Idol in the 18-49-year-old demo nationally 1,268,300 to 1,049,600,
The Big Bang Theory (featuring Johnny Galecki, right) climbed to nearly 2.5 million viewers in Canada Monday, firmly establishing itself as Canada’s most-watched comedy. An overnight, estimated 2,492,000 tuned in to the Chuck Lorre sitcom, its second-biggest audience ever according to a CTV release. That also made it the top show of the night in
As was proclaimed today on the giant wrap-around ads on the front page of the Toronto Star, “the wait is over” for the return of Glee. The high energy Fox high school musical series returns tonight at precisely 9:28 p.m. ET/PT–carefully timed so that Fox can milk every last advantage out of that still-potent-but-slipping American
“A Latino and a redhead–it’s worked before. Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.” In the clip above from Monday night’s George Lopez Show, check out Lopez’s take on Conan O’Brien coming to TBS. The bit–a goof on O’Brien’s lip-synch sketches as a way around NBC’s no talking on TV gag order–features another shot at Jay Leno.
Bill Carter has it today in the New York Times—Conan O’Brien has agreed to a deal which will see him host a late night talk show at U.S. cable network TBS. The show could be on the air as early as November.O’Brien, who left NBC’s The Tonight Show in February, had been in talks to
Had a blast on a recent trip to Los Angeles and to the set of The Big Bang Theory, which has quietly become the No. 1-rated comedy in Canada. It’s poised to overtake Two and a Half Men in the U.S. (especially if Charlie Sheen’s departure reduces that show to One and a Half Men).
I had the opportunity to sit around a table with a small group of international journalists last January and speak with David Simon and Eric Overmyer, the creators of the new HBO series Treme. This was about an hour prior to the main HBO Treme press conference for the Television Critics Association, which was being