This just in: Katie Couric is not a rocket scientist.Not big news, true, but nice excuse to throw to this nasty little news clip currently posted on My Damn Channel, a fun little Internet destination from brilliant satirist and versatile Simpsons‘ voice man Harry Shearer. (Thanks to Aaron Barnhart’s TV Barn Ticker for pointing me
We have reached the point in this strike-ravaged TV season which can now be officially declared The Moment of Truth.That’s the title of a new Fox reality game show that EW.com describes as “…one of those is-it-genius-or-is-it-the-end-of-Western-Civilization? masterpieces.” It begins next Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 9 p.m. on Fox. (Show rich CTV has it two
American Idol roared back in Canada last night, drawing 2,926,000 viewers on CTV. While that’s probably good enough to rank as the No. 1 show of the week, it was proportionally off from the estimated 33.2 million viewers who saw it on Fox in the U.S.–where it registered its lowest series debut in four years.The
Diane Keaton drops the F-Bomb, live, on Good Morning America. It happened yesterday. Somewhere, Diane Sawyer’s mom is shocked.
The return of American Idol usually conjures up words like “silly,” “mindless” and “fun.” Last night, for me anyway, the word was “heartbreaking.” TV’s biggest hit was off-putting last night, and maybe this time not just for me–the early, overnight numbers are in, and American Idol came in 15% lower than the debut of the
Over the past five year, I’ve written a billion columns about American Idol. I’ve got nothing left to say about it. It returns tonight at 8 p.m. on Fox and CTV, Another two-hour audition show airs tomorrow. Will it roar back as big as ever? Probably. The other networks are still terrified by it. There
MVP, or as it is being called, “Desperate Hockey Wives,” feels kinda wrong on the staid old Hockey Night in Canada network, which is exactly why CBC should be doing it. Still, for me, the pilot was, to borrow a phrase from west coast critic Dana Gee, “so offside it’s icing.” I may not be
Some observations at the end of what seemed like a long weekend from one bleary-eyed TV critic: Was there a more important takeaway in Canadian programming this season than CTV snatching NFL football from CanWest Global? In a season gutted by the writers strike, football has been the one constant ratings winner. NFL playoff coverage