After two years of quality television coverage begging, pleading and bribing, this TV Addict’s persistence finally paid off. CTV invited theTVaddict.com to their 2008 UpFront Presentation. So if the site lacks its usual flurry of updates today, please know I have a good excuse. I’ll be ‘stuck’ in beautiful and sunny downtown Toronto hobnobbing with [...]

Chuck Who? The TV Addict is showing off his photo with GOSSIP GIRL’S Leighton Meester from the recent CW UpFront because… a) He likes to perpetuate the idea that he’s best friends with Blair Waldorf! [Umm.. what do you mean she's not real?] b) To remind my fellow Canadians that GOSSIP GIRL returns to CTV [...]

Q: Love the blog.  Love the podcast.  Glad you are back. As a man with an ear to the ground, do you hear anything on where/when CTV will be showing GOSSIP GIRL?  Still not showing up on my TiVo and nothing on their website.  Oh CTV don’t screw me again…. (don’t even get me started on [...]

Now that the American Networks have started to cheap out branch out and look to Canada for affordable quality content, the TV Addict finds himself in a prime position to offer up first looks at some of your future favorite shows. Translation: Watch your back Ausiello! Courtesy of my CTV sources, here’s a first look [...]

Good News: ONE TREE HILL got some serious media exposure in today’s NY Times. Bad News: For glamorizing teen pregnancy and being wildly unrealistic. Ugly News: Thanks to a never-ending WGA Strike, we’re still watching! [see link] Good News: CBS has teamed up with Canada’s CTV to shoot 13 episodes of a cop show titled [...]

theTVaddict.com is declaring today — a cold and dreary Sunday in March — CANADA DAY in the world of television. Now before you run to turn OFF your television in fear of a surprise Celine Dion guest appearance on EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION, let me me take a moment to explain why we’ve declared today [...]

CTV (the Canadian Television Network) has FINALLY jumped into the twenty-first century. For the first time, Canadian television fans have the ability to watch a TV episode prior to its network season premiere. CTV has made the fourth season premiere of THE OC available on their online broadband network. Hop on over to

Last night, CTV (a Canadian Television Network) inadvertently aired the season’s second episode rather then the first episode of GREY’S ANATOMY. A CTV spokesperson said it will broadcast the first episode in its entirety on a special day and time which it will announce later. Yet again, CTV has ruined the television viewing experience for [...]