Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's TV show canceled (after 1 episode)

[Newsjock]

Source: CNN

The TV show of embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was canceled Tuesday, just one day after it debuted.

He and his brother hosted "Ford Nation" on Canada's Sun News Network.

"It beat our record of 100,000 viewers," but the time and production the show required does not make it a viable option, said Kory Teneycke, vice president of Sun News Network.

The Ford brothers will appear as regular guests on Sun News programming, he said.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/19/world/canada-toronto-mayor/

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Sun News kills Ford Nation TV show after one episode
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/sun-news-kills-ford-nation-tv-show/article15511486/

... While Ford Nation pulled about 155,000 viewers, according to overnight ratings, it is a victim of the brutal economics of cable TV and the Fords’ relative inexperience with the medium: Monday’s episode took five hours to record, and another eight hours to edit, making it an unusually expensive endeavour for a niche network that is in only about 40 per cent of Canadian households.

... The decision to give the Fords their own show was controversial even within Sun Media. “Given all we know about the Fords, I’d suggest that a healthy skepticism is warranted when it comes to whatever they plan to say on their new Sun News talk show,” wrote Lorrie Goldstein, a Sun columnist and former Ford supporter. The Toronto Sun has called repeatedly for the mayor to step down.

At least one marketer distanced themselves from the show. On Tuesday afternoon, the official Canadian Tire feed tweeted: “We've learned that a manufacturer(s) using our logo ran an ad on Ford Nation last night. We did not place the ad or target the show.” Its logo had appeared on ads for Rockwell Tools.

Other advertisers on Ford Nation, which ran during a primetime slot normally occupied by Ezra Levant’s The Source, included the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, CLR cleaner, Puresleep sleep aids, Ooma telephone service, Oreck air purifiers, and Big Boss smart-top cooker.

[rurallib]

1. could drive a man to do drugs

[Bosonic]

2. Insurance costs for show rocketed up?

[davidpdx]

3. The guy is a sinking ship

[CreekDog]

4. Ok, but I'm a fan of the current show, it's on every cable news outlet

[polly7]

5. and they changed the locks and security at his mayor's office building.

Tough day for ol' Rob.