Fascinating how other comedians and late night talk show hosts have closed ranks around David Letterman. Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon ventured mild jokes on Friday but Conan O’Brien steered completely clear of Dave’s dilemma and so did a remarkably restrained Jimmy Kimmel.Monday night was The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart’s first chance to zing Letterman.
So that’s why you never see “Know Your Current Events” on Letterman anymore.Stephanie Birkitt,the 34-year-old former Late Show assistant whose diary entries were allegedly part of 48 Hours producer Robert Halderman’s extortion plot, used to be Letterman’s envelope girl on the Know Your Current Event comedy bits.When Late Show writer Bill Scheft was in Toronto
Just shy of two million Canadians watched Tie Domi and Bob Probert duke it out on Battle of the Blades Sunday night according to BBM Canada overnight estimates.Those 1,959,000 CBC viewers tops even the 1.8 mil I predicted, a great start for the hockey-meets-figure-skating competition. The follow up results show and skate off between the
How many viewers watched CBC’s new Battle of the Blades Sunday night–one million? Two million? Somewhere in between?We’ll have the overnight estimates by late Monday afternoon but it would be surprising if it did not connect in a big way with Canadians, especially in these giddy early days of PPM data and exploding live event
The final two hours of Ken Burns’ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea airs tonight at 8 p.m. on PBS (check local affiliates). Check out this video review, which was not shot in one of America’s national parks, but down around the Beaches area in Toronto’s East end.
Another huge night of numbers in Canada as Hockey Night in Canada body checked its way into the ratings race. Game One between old rivals Toronto and Montreal scored 2,508,000 viewers Thursday according to BBM Canada overnight estimates. That a lot of hockey fans even in a PPM world (where live news and sporting events
Season Two of Star Wars: The Clone Wars premieres tonight at 8:30 p.m. on Teletoon. I posted last week about my trip west to the George Lucas’ spectacular “Big Rock” Ranch where I mingled with the voice stars, directors and producers of this well-animated action spin off. Read more about the actual show itself, as
Well, there go all the Sarah Palin jokes. David Letterman‘s stunning revelation on Thursday night’s show that he had been the victim of an extortion plot is sure to make plenty of Top 10 lists this morning.Many Letterman fans will shrug off news that, over an unspecified time, the 62-year-old host had sex with female