There was no surprise with Numeris’ weekly report of Top-30 TV shows in English Canada for the week of February 7 to 13: The Super Bowl was by far the biggest draw of the week, month and year. CTV drew a total audience of 7.225 million viewers for the telecast, with an additional 1.265 million
CBC’s coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics fell short of the Top-10 podium in English Canada the week the Games began. The public network’s primetime re-broadcast of the opening ceremonies on Friday, Feb. 4 drew an average minute audience of 970,000 total 2+ viewers according to Numeris for a 14th place finish. The next highest
Hey Bills mafia — in case there was ever any doubt, there are a lot of Buffalo football fans in Canada. That heart-stopping finish between the Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, January 23 helped boost CTV’s NFL coverage to the No. 2 spot on the English Canadian Weekly Top-30. According to data
For the second week in a row, mid-season entry 9-1-1-: Lone Star sits atop the Numeris Top-30 of all shows watched in English Canada. Canadians, it seems, can’t get enough Rob Lowe. Here is the English Canada National tally for January 10-16 (all data average-minute-audience, ages 2+, compiled and estimated over seven days): 9-1-1: Lone
Tonight’s fourth episode of Son of a Critch is titled, “Cucumber Slumber.” It could have also have been called “Province in a Pickle.” The episode finds roving reporter Mike Sr. (played by Mark Critch) firmly behind a new provincial government initiative to make Newfoundland the cucumber capital of Canada. His sudden interest is swayed after
As the first full week of the New Year arrived, viewers across Canada welcomed back the mid-season returns of many hour-long imports. 9-1-1: Lone Star topped the English Canada ratings with the Rob Lowe firehouse drama drawing over 1.8 million viewers the week of January 3-9, 2022. Plenty of other usual suspects followed as a
After a challenging fall, CBC needed a little good ratings news heading into the New Year. They got it with the launch of Son of a Critch. The St. John’s based comedy is a major success story to start the year for the public broadcaster. On January 4, it opened to 941,000 total confirmed 2+
Tuesday night brings the second episode of the new CBC sitcom Son of a Critch. Titled, “Lordy, Lordy, Look Who’s Dead,” it opens with a favourite family activity for the Critch clan: attending funerals. That’s where, among other things like paying respects, sandwiches can be obtained and hoarded. “Pops” (Malcolm McDowell), is an old pro