Over 1.3 million Canadians bought into the CBC venture capitalist reality series Dragon’s Den Wednesday night. The fourth season premiere was the highest-rated episode in the series history.Dragon’s Den reruns have been breathing fire for weeks leading into the series return. While interest in the series was already keen, it probably doesn’t hurt that BBM
In case you missed it last night, here’s Madonna‘s visit with David Letterman. She was carried into the Ed Sullivan Theater by ten members of the New York Rangers (including Elisha Cuthbert cad Sean Avery), who had read the night’s Top Ten List. “Have you ever ridden hockey players before?” Dave had to ask.Madge and
The last CHML TV Talk Radio Chat of the month focuses in on a TV event completely overlooked here up until now: Ken Burns’ documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The six-part, 12-hour series resumes tonight at 8/7c on your local PBS affiliate with “Going Home” (1920-33). The series runs until Oct. 2.Burns
Rick Mercer roared back with 1,295,000 CBC viewers last night, the best start-of-season numbers for the topical comedy series to date.The seventh season opener, featuring a B.C. bungee jump with Man in Motion Rick Hansen, was well over last season’s average of about a million viewers a week according to BBM Canada overnight estimates. The
Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane–it’s more sky high Personal People Meter numbers.Are Canadians really this hungry for House? The new season‘s second episode drew 3,440,000 Global viewers Monday night according to overnight estimates from BBM Canada. As tabulated under the new PPM methods–introduced one month ago–that makes it more
Hey–who wouldn’t want to go for a skate at Maple Leaf Gardens? Press were invited to bring their skates today as CBC held an open house at what was once known as the Carleton Street Cash Box. The arena, built during the Great Depression, has been shut down for a decade, used only occasionally as
Will the new Personal People Meter data further boost CBC’s No. 1 entertainment show? Tuesday night at 8 p.m. marks the seventh season premiere of the Rick Mercer Report, which averaged a shade under one million viewers a week last season. “I’m the one guy in Canada who wants an election,” Mercer joked two weeks
More evidence that the new PPMs are big event friendly: CTV`s The Amazing Race (hosted by Phil Keoghan, left) drew 2,861,000 viewers Sunday night according to BBM Canada overnight estimates.Race has always been a winner in Canada but Sunday`s season premiere was proportionally twice as successful in Canada as it was in the U.S. Not