For decades, if you wrote a letter to Starweek magazine, asking for an address to write to a star, or to get information on your favorite TV show, the guy who answered your letter was Eirik Knutzen. So it was with sadness to read in the TCA newsletter sent to critics today that Knutzen passed
In the biggest response yet to a TVFMF Poll, Rex Murphy was chosen as the CBC personality most in need of a Don Cherry makeover. The results speak for themselves; Murphy looks frighteningly at home in zebra print. With apologies to the folks at the Rick Mercer Report, where this madness all began. Runners up
What supper hour show scored over one million viewers twice last week? That would be CBC’s Jeopardy!, Alex, which drew 1,076,000 Wednesday and another 1,018,000 Friday for the conclusion of its Teen Tournament.That was won by 16-year-old San Diego high school student Anurag Kashyap, who, beat out 14 other smartypants contestants. This was no fluke
As expected, Don Cherry helped boost the Rick Mercer Report back on top as CBC’s highest-rated non-hockey broadcast last week, drawing 1,169,000 viewers last Tuesday. In fact, if you add the other 815,000 who checked out Mercer’s Friday rebroadcast, the episode drew close to 2 million Canadians. A strong second at CBC was the surprisingly
Jack Bauer may be an international super agent, fearlessly throwing himself into any situation, but the guy telling him what to do wears a Toronto Maple Leaf cap.Jon Cassar, a native of Malta who grew up in Ottawa and is a graduate of that city’s Algonquin College, has directed “24” since it blasted its way
A visit from notorious clothes horse Don Cherry powered the Rick Mercer Report back over a million viewers Tuesday night. The Hockey Night in Canada icon took Mercer to his tailor and nearly doubled the comedian’s ratings from a repeat episode airing the week before, collaring 1,169,000 viewers according to BBM NMR overnight estimates. That’s
Boosted by the series debut of Grace Park as Homeland Security Agent Liz Carver, The Border jumped to 765,000 viewers across Canada Nov. 10. That made it CBC’s highest-rated off-ice series last week.Hockey Night in Canada, as usual, led all CBC programs with 1,366,000 viewers according to BBM NMR data. Following HNiC and The Border
A sobering chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson on the radio this week includes musings on the meltdown at Canwest Global (good thing CHML’s a Corus station), fear and panic overall in the television industry and–to change the subject–my new weekly radio spot across the border on Ohio’s WIMA. You can listen in here.Meanwhile, it sounds