TV, eh?

Canadian shows currently on iTunes:

6TEEN

Air Farce

Being Erica

The Border

Chilly Beach

Corner Gas

Degrassi: TNG

Dragons’ Den

Flashpoint

Heartland

Instant Star

jPod

The Jon Dore Television Show

Life’s a Zoo

Little Mosque on the Prairie

The Listener

No Opportunity Wasted

Odd Job Jack

Rick Mercer

Robson Arms

Sophie

Stargate Atlantis

Stargate SG-1

Stargate Universe

Stratusphere

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Total Drama Action

Total Drama Island

The Tudors

The Week The Women Went

Wild Roses

This is not likely an exhaustive list so let me know if I’m missing any Canadian shows that are currently on iTunes:

6TEEN

Air Farce

Being Erica

The Border

Chilly Beach

Corner Gas

Degrassi: TNG

Dragon’s Den

Flashpoint

Heartland

Instant Star

jPod

The Jon Dore Television Show

Life’s a Zoo

Little Mosque on the Prairie

The Listener

No Opportunity Wasted

Odd Job Jack

Rick Mercer

Robson Arms

Sophie

Stargate Atlantis

Stargate SG-1

Stargate Universe

Stratusphere

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Total Drama Action

Total Drama Island

The Tudors

The Week The Women Went

Wild Roses

From Bill Brioux of TV Feeds My Family:

• Idol exits and so do CBC viewers
  “an oddly-placed, Wednesday night rerun of This Hour Has 22 Minutes drew 131,000. Overused Just Four Laughs Gags did 120,000.” Read more.

From Dale Smith of Xtra:

• Where are all the gay characters on Canadian television?
  “With the cancellation of CBC’s Sophie, landscape bleak for queer characters on Canadian-made TV.” Read more.

From the Futon Critic:

• ABC FAMILY DROPS “SOPHIE”
  “Scheduling updates released by the network this morning confirm that the Canadian import has been bounced from its lineup effective immediately. The series, which ran for two seasons on the CBC, averaged a 0.15 rating among adults 18-49 for its five-week run on the cable channel.” Read more.

From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:

• Demise of frisky Dallas-in-Calgary tells a tale
  “So farewell then, Sophie Parker, and goodbye to your nitwit friends on Sophie. Farewell to the feuding McGregor and Henry families of Calgary and the CBC series Wild Roses.” Read more.

From the Canadian Press, the news that will shock no one who’s been paying attention to ratings:

• CBC-TV’s single-mom comedy ‘Sophie’ cancelled due to low ratings
  “The CBC’s half-hour comedy “Sophie” is being cancelled due to low ratings, the public broadcaster said Friday while insisting the move had nothing to do with a financial crunch that forced it to reduce episodes of several marquee series.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Mosque, Sophie Down Year to Year
  “All that cliffhanger wedding promotion paid off as Little Mosque enjoyed by far its biggest audience of the season, 830,000 2+ viewers (all numbers BBM Canada). Sophie has no such luck Monday, bowing out with 294,000 viewers.” Read more.

From Jacueline Cutler of The Buffalo News:

• ‘Sophie’ keeps it all together
  “Anyone old enough to pay taxes should know that just when you think life can’t get any worse, the fates scoff at you and boom! Life takes a sharp turn south. So it goes for Sophie Parker (Natalie Brown, I Me Wed) in the engaging premiere of Sophie at 9:30 p.m. Monday on the Family Channel.” Read more.

From Kelly West of Blend Television:

• New ABC Family Series Sophie Airs This Month
  “The premise sounds like kind of a downer but based on the promo below and ABC Family’s reputation for blending heart and comedy in their series (see Greek for a great example of that), I think this could be a really fun show. Sophie stars Natalie Brown, Sebastian Spence, Jeff Geddis, Amy Lalonde, Mimi Kuzyk, Sara Botsford, Chantelle Chung and Catherine Bérubé.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Cinefest is Best
  “CBC Monday comedies Little Mosque (581,000) and stick-a-fork-in-it Sophie (193,000), continue to limp toward the season-ending finish line.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family, who also includes ratings for Little Mosque on the Prairie, Sophie, Degrassi, Corner Gas:

• CBC Throws in Designer Towel on Steven and Chris
  “The fact is, low ratings sunk this show, just as it sinks every show eventually. CBC tried to keep it on the radar, hosting press launches on the set, but journos were as disinterested as viewers.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Canadians Stay Up For Jimmy Fallon
  “Corner Gas’s 100th episode, featuring Michael Buble, rebounded to 1,130,000 viewers on the commercial ratings scale (the final CTV total will be slightly higher). … CBC comedies Little Mosque on the Prairie (642,000) and Sophie (271,000) did a bit better than average this season, with Just For Laughs adding a so-so 382,000.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Ratings: Rick Mercer Gets High With Hazel
  “Hurricane Hazel McCallion helped storm the Rick Mercer Report to a seasonal high, scoring 1,289,000 viewers last night.” Read more.
• House keeps Global Alive on Monday
  “CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie (560,000) and especially Sophie (205,000, with just 93,000 25-54-year-old viewers according to BBM NMR overnight estimates) are down week to week. Just For Laughs (315,000) is pulling half what Being Erica was averaging on Monday night before it was moved–unsuccessfully, so far–to Wednesdays.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Gas Shortage Now Official
  “A new episode scored 782,000 Total CTV viewers this Monday night according to BBM/NMR overnight estimates.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Gas Refill Fuels Little Mosque
  “The good news was that Little Mosque on the Prairie did a bit better than usual, up to 686,000 viewers according to BBM Canada Nielsen Media Research overnight ‘commercial’ estimates. Sophie also ’soared’ to 268,000. The bad news was Being Erica’s replacement at 9, Just For Laughs, which drew just 437,000 viewers, down more than 200,000 from Erica’s score the week before.” Read more

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Move to Wednesdays Should Boost Erica
  “CBC is yanking Being Erica out of Monday nights, and not a moment too soon. The five-week-old fantasy/drama drew a respectable 644,000 Monday at 9, with 285,000 of those viewers being in the 25-54-year-old demo.” Read more.

From Lori Sherman of the Milton Canadian Champion:

• A wild ride for wild rose
  “She had a common dream as a teenaged girl – she wanted to be famous. But living on a farm in Fenwick the chances of her ‘making it’ seemed pretty slim, she says.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux of TV Feeds My Family:

• Being Erica is Being Tested
  “Being Erica is being stubborn about building an audience. The fourth week is usually when you settle into your season average and Erica sank to her lowest outing yet, 564,000 viewers. So far, the CBC fantasy/drama, starring Erin Karpluk, is averaging 607,000 viewers across Canada (all figures BBM/NMR overnight estimates).” Read more.

From Ben Kaplan of the National Post:

• If you wear orange shoes in a forest, will anybody see?
  “Brown is becoming fashion flexible for a good reason. On Feb. 8, she’ll travel with Médecins du Monde and a group of engineers, GPs and nurses to the sugar plantations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Her job there is to help set up and promote self-sustaining AIDS-prevention centres for people living and working without health care.” Read more.

From Marise Strauss of Media in Canada:

• Comedy blocks face off on Mondays
  “CBC’s midseason schedule got off to what looked like a promising start on Monday, with critics united in their praise of Being Erica, the first of two new series set to debut this week amid varied competition from the commercial networks.” Read more.