You know that guy Mr. Chow from The Hangover? Maybe you recognize Ken Jeong from his role as the Spanish teacher on NBC’s Community. Jeong put on a show for critics Friday on Day One of the January TCA press tour in Los Angeles. Critics were shuttled down from the host hotel in Pasadena to
CBC’s new drama Republic of Doyle premiered to an overnight estimated 969,000 Wednesday night, a strong start for the Newfoundland-based detective series.It had some help getting there. It’s lead in, Dragon’s Den, started the new year off with its second-biggest audience ever, 1,959,000, with 904,000 of those in the 25-54-year old range.CBC’s Wednesday night started
The CBC did something smart with Republic of Doyle. They didn’t over sell it.There are no full page ads in the dailies today declaring Doyle the show everyone is talking about, as there were for Being Erica. It isn’t being hyped this morning as a game changer, as the recent news makeover ads implied.Instead, today
CBC’s new comedy 18 to Life premiered to 779,000 viewers Monday, topping schedule mate Little Mosque on the Prairie, which managed 605,000 (all figures BBM Canada overnight estimates). The two sitcoms managed to hold their own against Law & Order on CTV (1,118,000) and Heroes on Global (599,000) as well as a strong season premiere
I wasn’t crazy about Monday’s first episode of 18 to Life (starring Stacey Farber and Michael Seater, right) and said so here. A “scribbler” associated with the show took exception to some of my cheap, smarmy remarks and, in the interest of fair play and in the spirit of the New Year, I’m moving his
Canadians overwhelmingly chose to ring in the new year with the Canadian Junior men’s hockey team.TSN scored a whopping 3,271,000 viewers with their broadcast of the Canada/USA New Year’s Eve nail biter, double the audience the show pulled last year on the pre-PPM scale (1,673,000).The international hockey summit swamped everything else on the tube Dec.
There was an old story, perhaps apocryphal, about the famed New York theatre critic Clive Barnes. Someone asked why he always was kind to the first play he reviewed at the start of every season, to which Barnes supposedly replied, “Who am I to stone the first cast.”Which brings us to tonight’s debut of the
What better way to start off a new year at TV Feeds My Family than with a recipe, right?Get out your pots and pans because that’s what’s on this week’s menu thanks to the folks behind the new CBC daytime series Best Recipes Ever.The new daily Canadian cooking series kicks off Monday, Jan. 4 at