Canada’s Got Talent judges Whatshisname, Measha Foursylables, Martin Short A repeat of The Big Bang Theory still managed to top the Canadian ratings in a week that saw several premieres. City’s new, homegrown, star search showcase, Canada’s Got Talent, got off to a strong start Sunday. Less auspicious was the second season debut of Kingon Showcase
The Super Bowl audience keeps getting bigger each year in Canada. CTV scored 7,280,000 overnight, estimated viewers for Sunday’s big game, well up from the 6,537,000 counted in the overnights the year before. The combined CTV/RDS audience in Canada was tallied at 8.15 million, up from 7.3 million in 2011 and 6.9 million in 2010.CTV
Canada’s most-watched show remains The Big Bang Theory, with House (right) jumping back up to take the No. 2 spot. Survivor, The Mentalist and Hockey Night in Canada all also cracked the two million mark. Other highlights the week of Nov. 14 to 20: CTV drew 1.9 million with the American Music Awards and saw big returns for the last of Regis Philbin on daytime’s Live! plus the annual
Glee seems to be dancing in two different directions depending on where you watch it.In Canada Tuesday night, the high school musical returned strong with a third season debut of 2,022,000 overnight, estimated Global viewers. That should translate into 20 million American, but instead the total on Fox was less than half of that–8.9 million
Charlie Sheen (middle) makes an ash of himself on Two and a Half Men Continuing the dick jokes from last night’s Two and a Half Men, knew it would be huge, but that big? CTV scored an overnight, estimated audience of 4,906,000 viewers across Canada for the ninth season premiere of Two and a Half
Jordan Clark is the fourth and final SYTYCDC champ Why did So You Think You Should Dance Canada get cancelled? Numbers never lie. While still pulling in the high 800,000s, the Toronto-based reality show was slipping year-to-year, even week-to-week this summer.Sunday’s fourth season finale drew an overnight, estimated 903,000 viewers. Murdoch Mysteries or Being Erica should
All that hot weather across Canada last week has cooled TV ratings. The only show that didn’t cool down was City’s sizzlin’ Hell’s Kitchen (featuring chef Gordon Ramsay, right).Numbers were down almost everywhere else. Big Brother hung in as Canada’s No. 1 summertime distraction but it was a tough week for the launch of Global’s
How did Dan for Mayor, Hiccups, Almost Heroes, hockey and Endgame do last week? All the prime time network numbers for the week of May 30 to June 5–including those 5.6 million viewers hockey scores on CBC–are posted over at Toronto.com. Check out the weekly Brioux Report here.