TV, eh?

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

• Grace Park Behind Border Jump
  “Boosted by the series debut of Grace Park as Homeland Security Agent Liz Carver, The Border jumped to 765,000 viewers across Canada Nov. 10. That made it CBC’s highest-rated off-ice series last week.” Read more.

From AfterElton.com:

• “Sophie” and her gay BFF are coming to ABC Family
  “ABC Family (who brought us Greek) is set to bring more gay representation to U.S. television when it premieres dramedy import Sophie in early 2009.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family, ratings for the below as well as So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Corner Gas, The Guard, Degrassi:

• Weekly Ratings in Jeopardy
  The Rick Mercer Report, opposite U.S. presidential election returns, drew 843,000 last Tuesday night. Air Farce Final Flight, still stubbornly resilient, drew 728,000, The Tudors, 652,000, The Border, 643,000, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, 631,000, Dragon’s Den, 617,000, Doctor Who, 547,000, Doc Zone, 515,000, Little Mosque, 514,000, Nature of Things, 455,000, Heartland, 430,000, fifth estate, 289,000 and dead last–below MVP and jPod numbers–poor Sophie at 251,000 viewers.” Read more.

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 Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Sophie: Viewers Wanted
  “Sophie was up slightly in Week Two, to 395,000 CBC viewers. … Little Mosque on the Prairie 684,000, CTV’s So You Think You Can Dance Canada 1,430,000 (a new high for the series).” Read more.

From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:

• Natalie Brown says she gets mixed up in crazy situations, like character Sophie
  “Most actresses starring in a sitcom can’t wait to tell you all about their favourite subject: themselves. Not Natalie Brown. The vivacious star of “Sophie” seems as oblivious to her career as her character is at times on her CBC comedy, which is back for a second season on Wednesday nights (check local listings).” Read more.

From Joel Rubinoff of the Toronto Star:

• Little Mosque, Sophie fine tune their humour
  “Neither show, frankly, seemed poised for a long run – Sophie because it was silly and had no rooting in reality, Mosque because it was more Corner Gas than Borat, its mild-mannered cultural barbs never intended as the scathing political A-bombs hyperventilating correspondents from CNN made them out to be.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Very Little Mosque Battered By Bones
  “Little Mosque on the Prairie’s third season debut opened to 603,000, one of its lowest ratings ever. … Sophie returned for a second season of 20 new episodes with just 352,000 viewers.” Read more.

From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:

• So, the right was wrong. But you’ll never hear about it on your TV
  “In tonight’s season premiere, we find out whether Rayyan (Sitara Hewitt) accepted J.J.’s (Stephen Lobo) marriage proposal, and what Amaar (Zaib Shaikh) does about it. Apparently, if I say anything more, CBC will be extremely annoyed. Probably cost me money.” Read more.

From Bill Harris of the Toronto Sun:

• Sophie out of the box
  “Natalie Brown did some unconventional things over the summer to prepare for the second season of Sophie. ‘I went with a group of friends and we did a yoga retreat in Italy with Russian instructors, very bizarre,’ Brown said. ‘I also squeezed in a quick trip to New York where the only class available was a mime workshop.’” Read more.