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Open Mike with Mike Bullard
Open Mike with Mike Bullard was a Canadian late-night talk show which was broadcast live from 1997 to 2003 on CTV and on The Comedy Network in primetime. It was hosted by comedian Mike Bullard and initially taped at a studio at the back of Wayne Gretzky's restaurant in Toronto, Ontario before CTV moved the show to Toronto's historic Masonic Temple. "Open Mike with Mike Bullard" featured two or three panel guests and one musical or comedy performance nightly. The show's bandleader and
, aside from the change of network, theatre, set and name, "The Mike Bullard Show" was nearly identical to the format of the previous season of "Open Mike".
From its debut, the ratings for "The Mike Bullard Show" were very low. The show attracted 96,000 viewers on its first night, but that number declined to 54,000 on its second night.
History December 2003.
The ratings situation hadn't improved, and executive producer David Asper said that he was stumped as to why