ET AND ET CANADA DELIVER UNMATCHED AWARD SEASON COVERAGE
Canada’s Most Watched Entertainment News Hour Hits Every Red Carpet from the People’s Choice Awards to the OscarsRoll out the red carpet…Global’s Entertainment Tonight and Entertainment Tonight Canada are kicking off the New Year with wall-to-wall coverage from the most coveted award shows. On location in Hollywood, the people’s most trusted entertainment news source brings fans those special moments they won't want to miss.
“As a universally recognized and respected entertainment brand, Entertainment Tonight and Entertainment Tonight Canada are granted access to Hollywood’s biggest events,” said Senior Executive Producer, ET Canada, Tamara Simoneau. “From the People’s Choice Awards to the Golden Globes to the Grammys, ET Canada is dedicated to bringing Canadians the most exclusive and entertaining awards season coverage.”
This coverage comes on the heels of an amazing fall season where the two series maintained their crown as Canada’s most watched hour of entertainment news, beating CTV’s combination of eTalk and Access Hollywood by 18% (2+ national) and 30% (Adults 18-49). The hour’s viewership also increased by 37% (2+) vs. Fall ’08.
Here's what fans can expect in the coming months:
Getting Hollywood’s awards season off to a glamorous start is the 35th Annual People's Choice Awards tomorrow, Wednesday, January 6 - 9:00pm ET/PT on Global. ET Canada has the exclusive Canadian access to all the fan favourite talents in music, movies and television including Host, Queen Latifah, Eva Longoria, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Walsh, Howie Mandel, Miley Cyrus and so much more.
Then, ET and ET Canada are onsite at the 67th Annual Golden Globes on Sunday, January 17th. Known for its informal, freewheeling style, the Golden Globes red carpet is consistently filled with the brightest stars as they step out in their finest for award season’s biggest dinner party. This year’s carpet will feature an array of celebrities including 2010 nominees Emily Blunt, Sandra Bullock, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman and Tobey Maguire.
A rising star in the award show game, the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards will take place on Saturday, January 23 - 8:00pm ET/PT. Making its broadcast debut on Global, the SAG Awards are one of the industry’s most prized honours as nominees are selected by fellow actors and award recipients are pegged as Oscar hopefuls. With behind-the-scenes access and interviews with all the high-wattage stars, Global’s entertainment news duo has the intimate details.
Music’s biggest night, the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards gets underway on Sunday, January 31 - 8:00pm ET/PT on Global with the red carpet pre-show, The Grammy Awards: ET Canada Live, kicking things off at 7:00pm ET/PT. Scandalous outfits, jaw-dropping interviews and everything in between, ET Canada’s Cheryl Hickey, Rick Campanelli and Kim D’Eon will have the exclusive scoop live from the top of the carpet. Unique to this year’s ET Canada pre-show is the addition of supermodel Coco Rocha who will be stationed alongside the reporting crew as the special guest fashion commentator. Coco will use her extensive professional experience from the catwalk to assess the night’s best and most interesting designer threads.
Finally, ET and ET Canada bring colourful and comprehensive coverage from Hollywood’s Night of Nights: the 82nd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 7th. Up-and-comers and seasoned stars alike will walk Oscar’s famous red carpet for a remarkable evening of honouring the year's best in cinema. With the preceding award galas serving as a strong indicator, the roster of A-listers expected to attend will surely not disappoint.
ET Canada airs weeknights at 7:00pm ET/7:30pm PT on Global, at 11:00pm ET on Slice, and at 11:30pm ET/PT on TVtropolis. Entertainment Tonight airs weeknights at 7:30pm ET/7:00pm PT on Global. To catch up on special episodes and all the latest in entertainment news, please visit: www.ETCanada.com.
Source: BBM Canada PPM Fall 2009/Fall 2008 BBM Canada Mark II
About Entertainment Tonight Canada
Entertainment Tonight Canada is the country’s most trusted entertainment newsmagazine, delivering in depth and breaking up-to-the minute celebrity, film, television and music news. Together with trusted global powerhouse, Entertainment Tonight, ET Canada delivers the Most Watched Hour of Entertainment News to Canadians every night, every week, coast to coast. Hosted by Cheryl Hickey, ET Canada is produced by Canwest for Global Television in association with Paramount Domestic Television. Tamara Simoneau serves as Senior Executive Producer.
About Global Television:
The Global Television network broadcasts via 11 television stations, reaching 98.9% of English-speaking Canada. Global offers a programming mix of entertainment programs, news and sports aimed primarily at viewers aged 18 to 49, a strategy that has proven to be extremely successful. Global consistently scores many of the Top 10 programs in Canada, has successful local news programs in every market and is the dominant local news organization in British Columbia.
About TVtropolis
TVtropolis is the home of back-to-back, recent iconic TV series celebrating the shows and stars that have defined pop culture. Favourites including Seinfeld, That '70s Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, and Three's Company make TVtropolis a TV lover’s destination. TVtropolis original series include Whatever Happened To?, Killer Comebacks, Reality Obsessed, Tube Tales, and Inside The Box. TVtropolis- Hit TV lives here!
About Slice:
With highly addictive, must-see entertainment, Slice™ is the juicy channel women have been waiting for. Targeting viewers with an attitude found nowhere else in the lifestyle television landscape, Slice™ brings an unapologetic attitude to topics that matter to women – family, fashion, relationships, celebrity, finances and gossip – to name just a few. Slice™ offers viewers the very best in lifestyle television, with high stakes and larger than life characters sure to keep viewers addicted. With guilty pleasure viewing, Slice™ will become every woman's vice.
About Canwest Originals
Canwest is the proud home of the most diverse slate of Canadian Original programs across the Dramatic, Lifestyle and Entertainment genres. As a steadfast supporter of the Canadian production community, Canwest is dedicated to bringing the best of the country to audiences nationwide - including shows such as; Copper, Howie Do It, Da Kink in My Hair, The Guard, Project Runway Canada, Family Restaurant, Holmes Inspection, Ice Pilots: NWT, 16:9, Re-Vamped, Whatever Happened To, Restaurant Makeover, Colin and Justin's Home Heist, and the nation’s number one entertainment newsmagazine Entertainment Tonight Canada.
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