Another big weekend in Canadian TV. The top scorers: Saturday’s Hockey Night in Canada hit 1,964,000–wasn’t 1964 one of the last years the Leafs actually won the Stanley Cup? Start organizing the parade. Leafs won their third of the season, beating traditional Six Team rival Detroit Red Wings in the annual Hall of Fame game.
Joan Rivers has always told it like it is. When I asked her last press tour about Wanda Sykes’ chances of cracking the late night boys club (The Wanda Sykes Show premieres Saturday night at 11 p.m. on Fox), Rivers said, “she’s very rough. She just may do it.”Then Rivers–a late night survivor herself–really put
The Border got very little bump this week from all that press about James McGowan‘s Afghanistan episode, drawing 443,000 viewers across the country according to BBM Canada overnight estimates. This is roughly the number of people who live in Brampton, Ont.The big draws as always on Thursday night were Survivor Samoa on Global (3,048,000) and
Those Dragons continue to roar. The CBC venture capital series Dragon’s Den (featuring Robert Herjavec, right) drew 1,820,000 Wednesday night, with about half that in the valued 25-54-year-old range. Look at how these Dragons have roared after six episodes this season (all figures BBM Canada overnight estimates):Sept. 30 1,320,000Oct. 7 1,479,000Oct. 14 1,678,000Oct. 21 1,717,000Oct.
Thursday’s episode of The Border finds Maj. Mike Kessler (James McGowan) in deep trouble. The head of the Canadian border security unit heads on a hastily-arranged mission to Afghanistan and winds up getting kidnapped by the Taliban. He’s bloodied and seriously wounded and things don’t look good. (See the above photo, where he’s being shown
V stood for victory Tuesday night as CTV rode the Vancouver lensed sci-fi remake to the top of the ratings. The ABC series beamed aboard 2,157,000 viewers, the biggest opening of any new show so far this season (topping CBC’s Battle of the Blades 1.99 million opener). And while Global’s reliable NCIS still won the
A ratings race is a marathon, not a sprint, so a slow start doesn’t mean a poor finish. But after all that money spent on all those ads, CBC sure can’t be too happy with their new news numbers so far.Monday’s audience for The National at 10 was 482,000 viewers across Canada, dropping to 417,000
That phony “Save Local TV” campaign cliché kept clanging around my head in St. John’s last week–especially when the hotel set was tuned in to NTV.The bizarro local “superstation”–Newfoundland’s oldest TV outlet dating back to 1955–is unique in Canada in that it carries a mix of both CTV and Global programming. You can watch Canada