TV, eh?

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family, with ratings for Mercer, Dragon’s Den, The Border, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Tudors, Heartland, Air Farce, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Sophie, The Guard, So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Corner Gas and Degrassi:

• Last Week: Mercer’s Back On Top
  “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).” Read more.

From Cassandra Szklarski of the Canadian Press:

• Prairie programs shed lighthearted humour on Canada’s heartland
  “It could be all that wheat. Or maybe the flatness of the land garners more giggles. Whatever it is, Prairie humour is big these days with Canadian TV flush with sitcoms set in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Leading the pack are comic favourites Corner Gas and Little Mosque, but this year those established programs are joined by Winnipeg-based shows Less Than Kind, on Citytv, and House Party, on the Comedy Network.” Read more.

From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail on the recent CRTC decision, the Gemini awards’ plot to be as inconsequential as possible, and tonight’s Corner Gas:

• The Canadian TV racket: It’s all about your money
  “Corner Gas (CTV, 9:30 p.m.) is a repeat, but one of the more crazy episodes of the series. See, Hank has an idea to increase tourism to Dog River but this has consequences nobody could have foreseen.” Read more.

From BBM Canada:

• Top Programs - Total Canada
  So You Think You Can Dance Canada at #14 (1.32 million)
  Corner Gas at #18 (1.176 million)
  Air Farce at #29 (859,000)
  Rick Mercer Report at #30 (856,000)

From BBM Canada:

• Top Programs – Total Canada
  • So You Think You Can Dance Canada at #11 and #30 (1.307 million and 816,000)
  • Corner Gas at #14 (1.161 million)

From Brian Gorman of the Sudbury Star:

• Sun Setting on ‘Corner Gas’
  “Brent Butt has always come across as a go-with-the-flow kind of guy, and when “Corner Gas” told him it was time to shut down, he figured the smart thing to do was pay attention.” Read more.

From R.M. Vaughn of the Globe and Mail:

• From Dog River to a Palace all his own
  “After five seasons playing the long-suffering, sarcastic police captain Davis Quinton on the international hit comedy Corner Gas, (Lorne) Cardinal made an abrupt U-turn and starred in the bizarre, hyper-paranoid sci-fi short Palace (making its world premiere at Toronto’s imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival this weekend). So much for type-casting.” Read more.

From Alex Strachan of Canwest News Service:

• New sitcom has an easygoing charm
  “Thanksgiving brings the season debut of two Canadian comedies, one new, one familiar. Both are about family, friendship and the small things in life, appropriate to the occasion.” Read more.

From Alex Strachan of Canwest News Service:

• Last chance for Gas!
  “Brent Butt knew that saying goodbye to Corner Gas would be bittersweet. It didn’t help, though, that the last day of filming in Rouleau, Sask., was the kind of day that evoked feelings of awe and fondness for the Saskatchewan prairie as he drove to work.” Read more.

From Kate Taylor of the Globe and Mail:

• What this country needs is, uh, more Corner Gas
  “It’s Thanksgiving Monday and Corner Gas (CTV, 9:30 p.m.) returns to your hearth for its sixth and final season.” Read more.