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 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 Marise Strauss of Media in Canada:

• Global scores with SNL election antics
  “Meanwhile, the second season premiere of Global drama series The Guard took a hit in the ratings last Wednesday, when it managed just 384,000 viewers, down from the 813,000 that tuned in for its debut in January. The show averaged roughly 500,000 viewers for its first season. The Guard faces tough competition in its 10 pm timeslot from CSI: NY on CTV.” Read more.

THE GUARD

Wednesday, November 5 – 10pm ET/PT

“ZERO FOOTPRINT”

The crew is called out on an emotionally complicated medical emergency when Ira, an environmentalist hippie living on remote Zetus Island produces a DNR order for his brother, Daniel, who has gone into cardiac arrest. Ira insists Laura not administer any medical intervention, even though, without help, Daniel will die. Carly’s relationship with Wendell becomes strained when Robyn, a woman from his past, shows up in Port Hallet.

From Brian Gorman of the Brantford Expositor:

• ‘Guard’ star had to conquer real-life fear of water
  “On “The Guard,” Zoie Palmer plays a character who tries to drown her demons. To play the role, the actress had to face demons that threatened to drown her.” Read more.

From Alex Strachan of Canwest News Service:

• The Guard is about what happens when the heroes get home
  “The Guard’s new season opens with a Coast Guard cutter happening on a seemingly abandoned fishing sloop in a coastal B.C. cove. The plot is something about a human trafficking operation and a leaky rust bucket that may have guns aboard — and quickly delves into the usual TV backstories of romantic entanglements and marriages on the rocks.” Read more.

From Randy Shore of Canada.com:

• The Guard returns with ’sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll’
  “It’s just a few miles from 21 Jump Street to Port Hallet, the fictional B.C. town at the centre of the action in the Canadian TV drama The Guard. But it took Steve Bacic 17 years to get from his guest-star role on the Vancouver set of the teen cop drama to Port Hallet, better known as Squamish, B.C.” Read more.

From a media release:

THE GUARD **SEASON PREMIERE**
Wednesday, October 29 – 10pm
“THE HOLD”

Following an extremely successful first season, this Canadian drama is set on the stunning backdrop of Port Hallet, B.C., and follows the lives of the Canadian Coast Guard team – both on the job and in their personal lives. In this premiere episode, Miro breaks the rules when he takes the MLB on a chase of a battered trawler that may have guns aboard and the crew ends up rescuing the victims of a human trafficking operation. Meanwhile, Andrew’s marriage is threatened when he comes clean to Amy about kissing Carly. Starring Steve Bacic, Jeremy Guilbaut, Zoie Palmer and Sonya Salomaa.

From Bill Harris of Sun Media:

• Get caught on Guard
  “The introduction page at Canadian actor Steve Bacic’s official website features the following description: ‘Killer. Lover. Father. Husband. Criminal. Hero. Human. Bug. Vampire. Soldier. Civilian. Past. Future. Serious. Funny.’” Read more.