Would you watch the Canadian debate or the U.S. debate? That was the big question facing Canadians last night. The assumption was that Sarah Palin’s car wreck south of the border would prove irresistible to Canadians and that our group of five leaders would bore the crap out of anybody under 50. How surprising, then
Night Three of CBC’s new season roll out and Allah was not pleased. Little Mosque on the Prairie‘s third season debut opened to 603,000, one of its lowest ratings ever. This despite all those faux Beatle posters and other ad incentives. Sophie returned for a second season of 20 new episodes with just 352,000 viewers.
Will Pushing Daisies soon be pushing daisies?This whole Do-Over things isn’t going that well for last September’s rookies. While audiences on both sides of the border are flocking back for old favorites like CSI Miami, Grey’s Anatomy, House and Desperate Housewives, it is a different story for shows launched last fall. Many promising Fall 2007
House remains strong medicine in Canada, scoring 2,307,000 viewers last night, 860,000 more viewers than CTV’s Criminal Minds (1,447,000).That’s almost twice what it pulls, proportionally, in the U.S., where it drew 12.66 million last night on Fox, losing in the timeslot to CBS’s older-skewing NCIS (17.24 million viewers).House‘s Canadian haul makes Tuesdays a tough night
The next two nights could bring the comedy highlights of the new TV season. No, not the return of Little Mosque on the Prairie and Sophie on CBC (starting tonight at 8 p.m.). I’m talking the federal leaders debate in French (8 p.m., Radio Canada) and, tomorrow night, in English (CBC, CTV–AND on Global, despite
CBC has to be quietly pleased with last night’s numbers for The Border: 560,000 total viewers across Canada. (Overnight estimated based on average minute audience, BBM Canada/Nielsen data.) That’s down slightly from last season’s average but better than many predicted up against first run episodes of U.S. hits on a very competitive Monday night.Consider what
Both the Rick Mercer Report and This Hour Has 22 Minutes return tonight–and not a moment too soon.These elections play straight into the hands of both shows, although more for 22 Minutes (8:30, CBC) than Mercer (8 p.m.). At least according to Rick Mercer himself, who I chatted with at last week’s CBC season launch.