Canada’s No. 1 show: the performance finale of The Voice It was a slow week in television in Canada. Nothing cracked the two million mark and only two shows did better than 1.5 million–Combat Hospital and the performance finale of The Voice. Newscasts got a boost thanks to the visit of the Duke and Duchess
New American Idol winner Scotty McCreery Oprah Winfrey’s grand finale drew an overnight, estimated 1.6 million viewers to CTV Wednesday in Canada, a record for the series according to the network. The daytime talk show drew two and a half times its season average Wednesday and was the second highest non-sports draw night or day on any network
Wednesday numbers (overnight estimates): Dragon’s Den topped 1.5 million, SYTYCDC just under a million, The Tudors 828,000, Shattered 284,000.CTV’s Criminal Minds (over 2.4 million) topped Global’s Survivor Nicaragua (2.25 million) although Survivor won the night in the 18-49-year-old demo. Citytv’s Modern Family (956,000) is sticking close to a million-a-week clip. The Defenders (1,444,000) seems entrenched at 10
Global’s new crazy police drama Shattered, starring Callum Keith Rennie (right), didn’t shatter any ratings records Wednesday night. The first new show of the 2010-11 network season opened to a BBOE (Below Brampton Overnight Estimate) 428,000 viewers Canada wide. Global did much better at 8 with nearly two million tuning in to summer reality hit Big Brother. A rerun of NCIS drew
Was there a big Jimmy Fallon fall off for night two of Late Night? In Toronto, Fallon actually held much of his 2+ premiere audience from the night before. An estimated total of 37,000 tuned in to Fallon at 12:37 a.m. early Wednesday morning on Barrie’s A channel CKVR, down 7,000 from the 44,000 opener
Quite a few people stayed up to see Jimmy Fallon’s late night debut in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. In Toronto on Barrie’s CKVR A channel, Fallon drew 44,000 2+ viewers (BBM Canada overnight estimates). Not bad for a show that began at 12:37 a.m.That put it far ahead of timeslot rival The Late,