Does Global love those new Personal People Meter numbers or what? House returned Monday night with a two hour, sixth season premiere and 4,212,000 Canadians caught it on Global according to BBM Canada’s PPM-powered overnight estimates.Had hoped to post this video review ahead of time, but a rain delay at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport enroute
Now that the Emmys are over (and the same people won again), the fall season lurches into full on mode. Starting tonight, with the season premieres of CSI: Miami and Heroes, no more free ride for Jay Leno.Checked in on a couple of returning cable shows this weekend at the cottage (where that lake side
Here I am, hard at work at The Office. As in the set of The Office, the NBC comedy that returned for a sixth season tonight and heads into a five-nights-a-week syndication launch starting Monday.Critics were invited to visit the set last month during the summer network press tour. We were shuttled from our hotel
CBC threw a fall launch today at their Toronto bunker and damn if it wasn’t a first class operation. The public network and their PR agency, Media Profile, invited press types up to studio 41 on the 10th floor. That’s the home this season of The Ron James Show, which premieres a week from Friday
More Leno chat today with Scott Thompson on Hamilton Talk Radio CHML. You can listen in here.I make the point again that Leno’s new show has a weird daytime vibe about it. That sit down in the Principal’s office with Kanye West Monday didn’t help–it seemed more like an episode of The View.Still, that touchy-feely
Jay Leno killed in Canada, too. Monday’s opener scored 1,469,000 viewers nationally, easily winning its timeslot for the night–and, as a Citytv show, on far fewer stations across the country than the competition. CTV’s CSI: Miami repeat drew 1,018,000 at 10, CBC’s National News snagged 474,000 and a repeat of the premiere of Global’s new
No joke: Jay Leno stormed back last night with a vengeance.An overnight, estimated audience of 17.66 million tuned in to see him chat with Jerry Seinfeld and basically make Kanye West squirm. The comedian’s 10 p.m. premiere smoked the competition, not surprising given he was up against repeats on CBS (although there was a Monday
It all begins tonight: The Jay Leno Show (NBC and Citytv, 10 p.m.).NBC’s 10 p.m. comedy conversion was all the radio guys want to talk about today. Was on with MacArthur in the Morning on London, Ont.’s The Hawk (103.9 FM), my buddy Mike Miller at Lima, Ohio’s News Talk 1150 WIMA and several CBC