When was the last time you heard anyone you know say, “Hey, did you catch The Rookie last night?” “Oh, sure — the No. 1 show in Canada,” answered no one ever. Yet it was the week of April 26 – May 2 in English Canada, according to the latest Numeris Top-30. The entire Top-10
Canadian coverage of the 93rd Annual Academy Awards bombed ratings-wise about as badly as it did in the U.S. while still clinging to the most-watched spot for the week. That’s according to Numeris’ Top-30 tally for April 19-25. The Oscars in Canada drew 2,258,000 total 2+, Live+7 viewers April 25, almost twice the audience, proportionally,
The usual imported drama hours featuring cops and docs sit atop the Top-30 network TV shows watched in English Canada the week of April 12 to 18. The Rookie, a procedural import starring Nathan Fillion, was the only show of the week to crack the two million viewer mark. It was followed by the Friday
It’s been a while since I was this bang-on in an Oscar pool: Sunday’s 93rd annual Academy Awards sunk to an all time low of 9.85 million viewers on ABC according to Nielsen fast national results. In a poll of TV prognosticators conducted a week ago by the Programming Insider’s Douglas Pucci, I had the
Who do you have in the Oscar pool? No — not who do you think will win Best Actress or what will win Best Picture — how far down do you think the audience tally will drop? Twenty twenty-one has pulled the red carpet out from under the usual award show season. The Golden Globes
With The Good Doctor sitting out the week, the firehouse drama Station 19 is the new No. 1 series in Canada. At less than two million viewers, however, it leads with the lowest total in quite a while. As the graphic above indicated, the series also scores well with Parrot Analytics, drawing 11 times the
There are many different ways to measure success in television these days. At brioux.tv, we take a weekly look at the Numeris Top 30 which looks at broadcast and specialty. Left out of the conversation is streaming and digital subscription-based services. Viewership numbers are not shared by Netflix, Disney+ and others, but there are ways
Medical/Cop first responder drama imports — aka “same old crap” — continue to dominate the English Canadian Top-30 TV shows list according to ratings gatherer Numeris. Here are the March 29 to April 4 Top 10, with a tie in the 10th spot: The Good Doctor (CTV) Mon 2,138,000 Grey’s Anatomy (CTV) Thurs 1,969,000 The