He shoots, he scores: last week’s Rick Mercer Report topped all CBC prime time shows with 1,114,000 viewers, outdrawing even Saturday night staple Hockey Night in Canada (1,021,000).Other Oct. 27-Nov. 2 winners (according to BBM NMR overnight estimates): Dragon’s Den was up week-to-week (805,000), as was The Border (677,000), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (807,000),

These are good times to have a topical TV show. Election fever helped boost this season’s second episode of The Rick Mercer Report to 1,155,000 CBC viewers–a mighty leap from the week before.Ratings for the half-hour right after it–This Hour Has 22 Minutes–also shot up in Week Two, with 787,000 viewers tuning in. They caught