Hats off to CBS and the Late Show gang for sneaking this surprise, 15-second spot onto the Super Bowl broadcast. The ad–apparently all David Letterman‘s idea–was shot last Tuesday afternoon in New York, with Jay Leno and Oprah Winfrey joining Letterman in his office at the Ed Sullivan Theater. As usual, Bill Carter at the
The big game is this weekend, which can mean only one thing–more hue and cry from Canadians about not being able to watch the Super Bowl ads.The ads are more hyped than the game, with 50-60 spots pitching soft drinks, cell phones and, of course, beer crammed into four hours of stop-and-start football. The game
As Rogers’ Sportsnet reports today, the new look Leafs’ Tuesday night win over the New Jersey Devils drew 866,000 viewers on Sportsnet Ontario, the second-highest regional broadcast in the network’s history. Only Phil Kessel’s debut as a Bud back in November outdrew that Sportsnet score with 893,000 tuning in. (All figures BBM Canada PPM 2+).
Murtz Jaffer (above right) is Reality Obsessed. So much so that he has his own show about his obsession. It’s in its second season and airs tonight at 7 p.m. ET on TVtropolis.The half hour series follows Jaffer as he attempts to face the same sorts of challenges that reality show contestants put themselves through–learning
The Jay Leno bashing continues, this time in a cross border swipe from the folks at 22 Minutes. That’s Mark Critch behind the chin; he’s got Leno right down to his blue denim shirts. Stick around for the “Headlines” gags, they are pretty close to the bone. Catch the whole show tonight at 8:30 on
Big confession: I never got Lost.I know that makes me a TVFMF fraud but, thing is, I simply never bought into the premise. When that Oceanic Flight 815 went down in the pilot, I went down with it. Six years of how do they get off the island just was not a trip I was
Human Target has been on the air a few weeks now and is hitting the mark in Canada. The comic-book action hour airs Monday nights at 8 p.m. on CTV, where it is drawing around 1.3 million viewers per episode. On Fox, it moves up an hour to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays this week, away
There was a time when Martin Short (above right) and Catherine O’Hara used to mock comedians in dramatic roles. They’d appear on those old SCTV “Days of the Week” episodes and take the mickey out of melodrama.It is a measure of just how talented these actors are that they can slip into some intensely dramatic