The 82nd Annual Academy Awards went on so long, as Steve Martin quipped at the end, that Avatar now takes place in the past.Besides the fact that a bunch of statues were handed out to everybody who was expected to win, there were at least three or four minutes of genuinely memorable moments crammed into
The Oscars are Sunday night and I can’t remember a time when I’ve ever cared less. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will get laughs as they bring this all down to a Saturday Night Live level. I’m jumping on a plane to Halifax to attend a taping Monday night of 22 Minutes–something I last did
Confusious say: man who call himself Coach not really team player.Coach is nuts. A fame-sucking narcissist, he’s all weepy one minute and crowing about being the last of the Mohicans the next. He is either pre-menstrual or post-partum.The two teams fought over stuff from Sears. You ever try to return stuff at Sears? Like being
CTV’s post-Olympic ratings momentum continued without a hiccup Monday. The network’s two new home grown comedies, Hiccups, starring Nancy Robertson and Brent Butt, and Dan For Mayor, starring Mary Ashton, Fred Ewanuick and Paul Bates (above), both premiered to around 1.9 million viewers according to a CTV release Tuesday.According to BBM Canada overnight estimates, Dan
Do you believe in ratings miracles? That Canada-USA Gold Medal hockey final Sunday keeps looking bigger as the numbers come in from the United States. The afternoon tilt drew an average of 27.6 million viewers, the highest-rated U.S. hockey telecast since the “Miracle on Ice” USA upset at the 1980 Olympics. It marks only the
CTV released figures Monday declaring that eleventy trillion zillion Canadians and future Canadians and their pets/unborn babies watched, read, listened to or channeled all or part of almost all or none or every commercial minute of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.The CTV-Rogers broadcast consortium had BBM Canada come up with handy new CUME totals
As predicted, the Big Beaver Balloons at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games closing ceremonies were deflated over at The Colbert Report Monday night.“Being in Vancouver for the past two weeks really helped me get past all the lazy stereotypes of Canadians being beaver-humping moose jockeys,” said Stephen Colbert. “That’s why I was so happy
What a great problem to have–overcoming the success of Corner Gas.It’s never happened before in Canada. Monday night, as you might have learned from the zillion promos during the Olympics, two new comedies are premiering from some of the folks behind Canada’s most successful sitcom. The shows are Hiccups and Dan For Mayor, and they