Exclusive: Maybe there’s a Canadian quota at CNN. Just days after longtime business correspondent Ali Velshi exited for Al Jazeera America, the cable news network has brought the CBC’s George Stroumboulopoulos on board to host a weekly interview show. In the latest CNN 2.0 move by the Jeff Zucker-run network, the new 10-episode hourlong show is set to air Fridays in primetime starting early in the summer. This is the second recent addition to CNN’s summer lineup. As I reported this weekend, the network is bringing back its political debate show Crossfire in June. The new and as-yet unnamed Stroumboulopoulos-hosted show will film in La in front of a live audience. Similar to the Canadian’s long-running talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight in Canada, the CNN series will feature in-depth interviews along with musical performances. Sony Pictures TV’s Embassy Row will produce the series. This isn’t the first time U.
- 4/9/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
TORONTO -- Pointing to its growing momentum in primetime, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said Thursday it is on the rebound both in ratings and relevance in the emerging digital age.
Kirstine Layfield, the public broadcaster's new executive director of network programming, pointed to two new series -- Vancouver-based crime drama Intelligence and reality series Dragon's Den -- driving a ratings rebound as the CBC continues to revamp its programming and promotion strategy.
"I wouldn't say we're halfway, but we're very much in transition given what we were able to do in the fall to improving our scheduling, (commercial) break structure and our promotional opportunities," Layfield said of the new-look CBC.
Like private Canadian conventional networks Global Television and CTV, which rolled out a number of new U.S. dramas and comedies this fall, the CBC had its share of ratings duds including a documentary series on hockey and animated series What It's Like Being Alone.
The CBC also aired the ill-fated ABC star search series The One, which only lasted two episodes, as a prelude to launching a homegrown Canadian version.
Kirstine Layfield, the public broadcaster's new executive director of network programming, pointed to two new series -- Vancouver-based crime drama Intelligence and reality series Dragon's Den -- driving a ratings rebound as the CBC continues to revamp its programming and promotion strategy.
"I wouldn't say we're halfway, but we're very much in transition given what we were able to do in the fall to improving our scheduling, (commercial) break structure and our promotional opportunities," Layfield said of the new-look CBC.
Like private Canadian conventional networks Global Television and CTV, which rolled out a number of new U.S. dramas and comedies this fall, the CBC had its share of ratings duds including a documentary series on hockey and animated series What It's Like Being Alone.
The CBC also aired the ill-fated ABC star search series The One, which only lasted two episodes, as a prelude to launching a homegrown Canadian version.
- 12/22/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After just two episodes, ABC has cancelled yet another of its summer reality series with the number "one" in the title. As you might recall, The One: Making A Music Star bit the dust after four episodes just two weeks ago.
One Ocean View aired Monday nights and followed a group of young, attractive New York professionals who spend summer weekends together at a Fire Island beach house. Executive produced by Real World veterans Jonathan Murray and Joey Carson, the castmembers were not only young and attractive but also very successful in the professional world -- with jobs like business owner, stockbroker, designer and lawyer. With this carefully-picked cast, it looked like certain romantic relationships were as sure to happen as some of the personality clashes. But, it looks like we'll never know.
One Ocean View premiered to luke-warm reviews and only 3.6 million viewers when it debuted on July 31st at 10pm.
One Ocean View aired Monday nights and followed a group of young, attractive New York professionals who spend summer weekends together at a Fire Island beach house. Executive produced by Real World veterans Jonathan Murray and Joey Carson, the castmembers were not only young and attractive but also very successful in the professional world -- with jobs like business owner, stockbroker, designer and lawyer. With this carefully-picked cast, it looked like certain romantic relationships were as sure to happen as some of the personality clashes. But, it looks like we'll never know.
One Ocean View premiered to luke-warm reviews and only 3.6 million viewers when it debuted on July 31st at 10pm.
- 8/10/2006
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
After just a few airings, ABC has pulled host George Stroumboulopoulos and The One: Making a Music Star from their schedule. The reality show was looking to find the next hot singer in a similar vein as Fox's American Idol. Unfortunately, the show didn't find ratings and viewers.
The singing-competition show debuted to some of the lowest-rated ratings in reality-television history, garnering just over three million viewers. That's the smallest audience for a series premiere on one of the four major networks since 1990. In addition, the show's 1.1 rating with the all-important 18-49 demographic group of viewers was the lowest in ABC's history. ABC aired three episodes in total and repeated the two-hour debut, doubtless in an attempt to try to build viewer interest. It didn't work.
ABC is expected to settle with the production company of The One for the unaired episodes since ABC is said to have been contracted...
The singing-competition show debuted to some of the lowest-rated ratings in reality-television history, garnering just over three million viewers. That's the smallest audience for a series premiere on one of the four major networks since 1990. In addition, the show's 1.1 rating with the all-important 18-49 demographic group of viewers was the lowest in ABC's history. ABC aired three episodes in total and repeated the two-hour debut, doubtless in an attempt to try to build viewer interest. It didn't work.
ABC is expected to settle with the production company of The One for the unaired episodes since ABC is said to have been contracted...
- 7/31/2006
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
NEW YORK -- Sci Fi Channel kicked off its new scripted series Eureka in fine form Tuesday, grabbing more than 4 million viewers. Eureka, an hourlong dramedy about a mysterious small town, did well enough to top some broadcast competition, besting the premiere of the new ABC reality series The One: Making of a Music Star by 32%. Eureka was the highest-rated series telecast ever on Sci Fi, exceeding veterans Battlestar Galactica and Stargate SG-1. Eureka also brought in 1.7 million in the 18-49 demo. The series is produced by Sci Fi in association with NBC Universal Television Studio.
- 7/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Another Wednesday that featured a reality smackdown between NBC and Fox ended with Fox on top, but the biggest loser was ABC, which matched historic lows for the night with more abysmal ratings for The One. Following up on Tuesday's rock-bottom ratings for the two-hour premiere, "One" did even worse Wednesday night. ABC ended up in UPN-WB Network territory in viewership and the demo and was beaten in the demo in primetime by Disney Channel, USA Network, TNT, TBS and Bravo, according to Nielsen Media Research. ABC's 0.7 rating Wednesday night -- for a repeat of the "One" premiere and then an hourlong results show -- tied for the network's lowest-ever delivery in the demo since 1991. The other 0.7 rating came on July 4, 2004, with a Sunday night repeat of the movie The Music Man. ABC's average viewership of 2.2 million wasn't the lowest ever; that distinction went to a hockey game in May 2004.
- 7/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
VANCOUVER -- Former Canadian Broadcasting Corp. news anchor Knowlton Nash on Thursday joined the chorus of disapproval against Canada's public broadcaster for bumping its flagship newscast to make way for an ABC reality show. Nash, a Canadian icon who anchored the CBC's The National newscast for 10 years through 1992, slammed the CBC for moving its 10 p.m. The National telecast to 11 p.m. in Ontario and Quebec this summer to simulcast ABC's The One: Making a Music Star on Tuesday nights beginning July 18. "If the CBC really wants reality TV, let people get the reality of what's happening in the world by turning on 'The National' at 10 p.m. every night," Nash, who has Parkinson's disease, said during a Toronto speech to the Canadian Journalism Federation read by his wife, Lorraine Thomson.
- 6/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday announced it will take on rival CTV's popular Canadian Idol series with a Canadian version of ABC's The One: Making a Music Star. Canada's public broadcaster said it will air The Canadian One, acquired as a format from Endemol USA, after it simulcasts ABC's version of the music competition series this summer. Rival CTV similarly simulcasts Fox's American Idol before airing its popular Canadian Idol series after the finale of the U.S. show, while Chum Ltd., another private Canadian broadcaster, follows up its airing of Paramount's America's Next Top Model with its own version, Canada's Next Top Model.
- 6/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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