Viewers flocked back to the comfort food of old TV favourites the week of November 9 – 15 as several long-running imports continue to return this month to Canadian TV schedules. Production shut downs and delays due to strict COVID-related safety measures pushed back start dates this fall of old favoruites Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19,
The first week of November saw the US presidential election impact ratings and schedules in Canada, not just for one night, but for an entire week of cliffhanger coverage. Add to that the return of a few US imports delayed due to COVID safety measures and you’ve got seven days worth of upheaval. The week’s
Tuesday night, more Canadians turned to CNN to guide them through a long and tense night of presidential election coverage. Many of us went to bed convinced (or hoping) John King was the new president elect. The Atlanta-based all news network drew an average minute audience of 1,546,000 English Canadian viewers over a six hour
Talk about voter suppression! For some reason, the data service Numeris doesn’t include CNN in its weekly English Canada Top 30 total ratings reports. (Odd, because they track them in their daily overnight estimates.) If they did, the U.S. news network’s coverage of the second (and final) presidential debate Oct. 22 would have shown that
An uneventful week, apart from the political intrigue south of the border, led to a fairly predictable Top 10 in English Canada according to Numeris Live+7 data released Tuesday. Sitting atop the weekly list once again was The Masked Singer, thriving in Canada this fall with usual timeslot rival Survivor shut down for the rest
Some points to ponder as we look at the Numeris’ Top 30 Programs in English Canada for the week of Sept. 14 – 20: Canada loved the Emmys. CTV’s broadcast of the 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards was ranked No. 1 for the week with 1,662,000 total (Live+7) viewers. It was Canada’s Emmys after all,
Brandon Tartikoff — last century’s John Landgraf — once said that TV ratings had become the box score of the ’90s. I’ve made a career buying in to that. There was a time when I tweeted out overnight TV ratings estimates every single day. I also wrote weekly ratings columns for a couple of years
No Schitts, Sherlock: the 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards was a much bigger hit in Canada than in the US. Overnight estimates Sunday show CTV drew 1,584,000 for the three-hour “PandEmmy” broadcast, making it by far the top draw of the night in Canada. On CTV alone, The Emmys drew three times the audience Sunday