TV, eh?

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.

From Eva Friede of the Montreal Gazette:

• Sophie’s style
  “Natalie Brown goes shopping for a red carpet gown. The challenge is to find one that suits her real self and the ‘flirty, frazzled, flawed’ Sophie character she plays on TV.” Read more.

From Tim Arsenault of the Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald:

• CBC’s got 22 Minutes and more this week
  “This is a big week for your public television network as it welcomes back a slate of its most popular programming. Halifax-produced current affairs satire This Hour Has 22 Minutes made headlines of its own earlier this month when Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s security force clamped down on faux reporter Geri Hall at a Halifax news conference.” Read more.

From Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette:

• Things are looking up for Natalie Brown
  “She’s now a bona fide Canadian star, thanks to the CBC sitcom Sophie, which debuted last season to strong ratings, is set to be launched in the U.S. early next year on ABC Family Channel and landed Brown a Gemini nomination.” Read more.

From Etan Vlessing of the Hollywood Reporter:

• Local hits power CBC fall lineup
  “Next week, the public broadcaster will bow the sophomore season of “The Border,” a drama about customs officials battling the bad guys on the Canada-U.S. border, and the third season of “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” whose U.S. format rights were recently picked up by 20th Century Fox.” Read more.