Just 1,042,000 watched CTV’s Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning Sunday, a new low for Kevin Sullivan’s played out Gables’ franchise. Worse, just 306,000 kindred spirits in the 25-54-year-old demo tuned in, according to overnight estimates from BBM/NMR.That placed the poorly reviewed prequel/sequel a distant third nationally behind the finale of Global’s Survivor: Gabon
Tonight’s Anne of Green Gables” A New Beginning could almost be called Anne of Green Gables: If I Did It.The “I” being writer/producer/director Kevin Sullivan, who has concocted tonight’s three hour “prequel/sequel” to his hallowed and Hallmark-y Green Gables trilogy.In the extensive press notes to the TV-movie, which included a lavish, full colour, 64-page press
Learned a lot last night at the annual Media Profile holiday party in Toronto. The semi-formal bash, held this year at The Brant House on King Street, was packed with many of the usual suspects. I got talking to a couple of CBC producers who told me some astounding stuff that I have to sit
I probably shouldn’t be using phrases like “crooks,” “weasels” and “less legitimate than the Gemini Awards” to describe The Golden Globes, but that’s what I’ve been doing this afternoon in a series of syndicated CBC radio interviews. I’m scheduled to be on with Matt Galloway at CBC Toronto’s Here and Now at 4:50.TV critics in
Looking for an xcellent xmas time killer? Check out Betamaxmas, a crazy little YuleTube Internet creation. Go there and you’ll see an old TV screen crammed full of ’70s and ’80s Christmas TV nostalgia.You’ll see clips from a 1987 Julie Andrews holiday special (oops–they called them “Christmas specials” back then) with guests Placidio Domingo and
This is either brilliant or the end of network television as we know it: Nikki Finke and several others are reporting that, in an effort to keep Jay Leno at their network after he hands over The Tonight Show to Conan O’Brien, NBC will offer the talk show host his own Monday to Friday prime
Air Farce: Final Flight signed off as a series Friday night with a season high 913,000 viewers, which will rank it as CBC’s third-highest rated series this fall.Air Farce (featuring Roger Abbott, right, as CBC news anchor Peter Mansbridge) finishes with a strong 770,000 per week viewer average (all figures total 2+ audience, Nielsen/BBM overnights).