In Week Two, Boston Rob was near death after eating a bad burrito or something. Jeff Probst gave him a foot massage and that seemed to help, except then Rob started hallucinating. “I respect it too much not to play,” he babbled, red eyes blazing, before pointing at the sky and shouting, “Da planes! Da
Mixed reviews are coming in on Friday night’s three-plus hours Vancouver Olympic Games opening ceremonies. The Toronto Star had their theatre guy Richard Ouzounian review it and he ripped it like a bad opening on Broadway. “They eyes of the world were on us and we put them to sleep” was his lede. Then he
Tonight’s the night, Canada. CTV, Rogers and other members of the broadcast consortium will deliver the first made-in-Canada broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games, live from Vancouver.When I spoke with prime time host Brian Williams earlier this week, he said the facilities at the International Broadcast Centre are “jaw-dropping.” This from
I’ve been tricked into filing a weekly recap of the new Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains which will appear here each Friday morning. I’m the “Rudy” of a panel of experts who will also weigh in each week: Amber Dowling, editor of TV Guide Canada, Michael Bolen, who blogs about Survivor for The National Post at
CTV could score 10 million viewers Friday night with its coverage of the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Winter Games. Thanks to the new ratings ‘roids, these sports-mad Portable People Meters, and Sundays’ four hour Olympic Informercial-slash-Super Bowl broadcast–not to mention CTV’s nightly evening Olympic infomercials-slash-suppertime news hours, the Games are set to blow everything
CTV’s four hour Olympic Infomercial Sunday night was the most-watched Olympic infomercial ever. The network issued a release Monday stating it was also Canada’s most-watched Super Bowl broadcast.Goosed to crazy new heights thanks to those ratings ‘roids, the new BBM Canada Portable People Meter data, CTV says an overnight, estimated 6,025,000 Canadians watched the network
When 18 to Life first premiered in January, it just didn’t grab me. It seemed too forced, in the writing and the acting. There was some charm in young leads Stacey Farber and Michael Seater–they play 18-year-old neighbours who run off and get married–but their parents seemed to come out of some seen-it-before sitcom factory.I’d
Good news, Canada. In case you were stuck Sunday night watching that four hour Olympic infomercial on CTV, you can still check out all the U.S. network Super Bowl ads you missed. Just head over here to cbssports.com, where you`ll find all the ads broken down by quarter. (And, thanks, CBS, for not geo-blocking them