Lost Girl premiered to over 400,000 viewers last Sunday on Showcase, the highest-rated Canadian scripted series premiere ever on the Canwest specialty network. Episode two of the supernatural thriller, which stars New Brunswick native Anna Silk (right), airs Sunday at 9 p.m.Last Sunday saw MuchMusic crack the Canadian weekly Top-30 with 918,000 total viewers watching the MTV Music
Turns out that the constant droning of those stoopid vuvuzelas haven’t driven every soccer fan away from the FIFA World Cup. CBC–fresh off a great Stanley Cup spring–had a very good soccer weekend, with 2,275,000 tuning in Saturday afternoon to watch England and U.S.A. battle to a draw. That’s the largest audience ever in Canadian
According to a CTV release Monday, an average 5,889,000 Canadians watched the 82nd Annual Academy Awards (based on BBM Canada overnight estimates). The enormous leap over last year’s Oscar number–almost a one-third jump–is the latest evidence that the new Portable People Meters are like rocket fuel for live, big event programming in Canada.All those viewers
That’s not an Olympic timer at left. It is a Portable People Meter. About the size of a pack of smokes, it satisfies and tastes best to Canadian networks, especially the CTV-Rogers consortium broadcasting these Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.How much of a role does the new PPM data play in the huge Olympic numbers
NBC, like CTV, struck Olympic Gold with their coverage of Friday’s opening ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Games.According to fast affiliate Nielsen data, NBC scored 34.45 million viewers for their entire prime time coverage from 8 to 11 p.m. The NBC window on the games drew a peak audience of 38.04 million at 9 p.m.
Elvis Costello has said this season of Spectacle will be his last. Too busy, he reports, although CTV is probably OK with that. Friday’s second season premiere, featuring U2, drew just 350,000 viewers.Costello got run over by Santa’s sleigh over at CBC, where 1,351,000 were watching The Santa Clause 2 according to overnight estimates from
You’d think the Jonas Brothers, Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas and all those other A-list acts would have boosted the MuchMusic Video Awards to a record high. But just 368,000 tuned in Sunday night at 9 p.m. on MuchMusic. Maybe they should have worked thagt Perez Hilton clubbing into the show.Three hundred thousand-plus is
Yes, we still do numbers. The CBC is going to miss the Stanley Cup finals and so, incredibly, will NBC. The Peacock network drew 7.51 million for Friday’s seventh and deciding game, with over 9 million tuning into see Sidney Crosby and the Pens hoist the cup. Here are the dying seconds:That is the biggest