Another day, another package from Fox. It is that time of year again, when courier drivers, publicists and TV beat writers surge into high gear. Fall Preview 2009-10 has arrived.Fox celebrates by sending swag along with their screeners. This type of ballyhoo has tailed off in recent years–even before the recession hit–but Fox finds a
A good sign for Ron James heading into his series debut: a rerun of one of his stand up comedy specials scored 919,000 viewers last Friday on CBC (according to BBM Canada overnight estimates).That’s in the same slot where The Ron James Show will premiere Sept. 25.The number, tops in its timeslot, was gathered under
This past week I got to test out an advance copy of The Beatles Rock Band, Xbox version, which hits stores Wednesday (“09-09-09”). The test took place at the home of the Toronto Star’s expert game guy, Marc Saltzman. Our reviews ran in the Saturday Star; you can read them here.Saturday Star entertainment editor Adam
Meant to post up here a few times this weekend, but, damn, summer finally snuck in under the wire at the completely unplugged cottage by the lake. The view west Sunday night toward Huron Fishing Islands’ Whitefish, Cigar and Lonely from Rutherford’s Point. Simply incredible.
There’s glee at Global as the rebroadcast of last spring’s Glee pilot played to 1,040,000 Canadians according to overnight BBM estimates.And while the usual crime shows on CTV topped it nationally in households (Criminal Minds drew 1,399,000), Glee won the hour among viewers 18-49, 585,000 to 560,000.The second helping of Glee did not do as
Ever get a premonition that somebody’s going to die?I honestly felt that way last month at press tour listening to Adam Goldstein, a.k.a. DJ AM, the top club spinner who was found dead last Friday morning at his New York City apartment, the apparent victim of a drug overdose.Goldstein nearly died a year ago. Last
Scott Thompson was off on holiday with his wife last week and didn’t they just go out and enjoy a Mad Men Season One DVD marathon. We talk about how great that series is (and how it is driving new business in Canada to iTunes) on today’s CHML Talk Radio TV chat, you can listen
Paradise Falls–you can’t kill it with a stick.The steamy Canadian prime time soap returns for a third season tonight, but few shows have had such an on-again, off-again production schedule. Set in Ontario’s cottage country, Paradise Falls began in mid-2001 and lurches into this season with 26 new episodes that were shot two years ago