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Ratings: Greatest Tank Battle on History Television

From a media release:

History Television Starts the New Year off with a Bang!

  • Canwest Original Series Greatest Tank Battles Delivers Massive Ratings to the Channel

The series premiere of the cutting-edge series Greatest Tank Battles delivered solid audience numbers with 348,000 viewers (2+) on Monday, January 4. The debut episode, which aired at 8 pm ET/PT, pulled in an impressive 178,000 viewers in the A25-54 demographic and 147,000 viewers in the A18-49 category. Alongside the ongoing audience success of the breakout series Ice Pilots NWT, Greatest Tank Battles further proves that Canadians are addicted to quality, homegrown programming.

Greatest Tank Battles is an action-packed 10-part series that brings to life the most gripping and monumental tank battles ever fought, through stunning CGI animation and eyewitness accounts. Filmed on battlefields across the world, this new Canwest original series puts viewers in the heat of the battles, witnessing historic armoured combats through the eyes of the very men who manned the tanks and fought to the finish.

Greatest Tank Battles airs Mondays at 8 pm ET/PT on History Television.

Source: BBM Canada PPM preliminary overnight data

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In the news: Iceman meets Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

From Bill Harris of QMI Agency:

  • Medical drama slices up dark humour
    “Shawn Ashmore was asked what would happen if Iceman walked into Mercy Hospital. Ashmore naturally would have the best take on that. Not only has he played Iceman in the X-Men movies, but the fictional Toronto Mercy Hospital is the setting for his new TV series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, which debuts Sunday on HBO Canada.” Read more.
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Review: Republic of Doyle pilot

From Myles McNutt of Cultural Learnings:

  • Series Premiere: Republic of Doyle – “Pilot”
    “Doyle is not a terrible show, but what it struggles with is feeling like it actually knows what it is: numerous shots of the St. John’s harbour and the colourful houses of the downtown aren’t enough to give the show any sort of distinctive Newfoundland identity, and the show doesn’t bother to get onto its feet before throwing us into a bland procedural structure in order for us to come to care about these characters in any capacity.” Read more.
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Ratings: Republic of Doyle, 18 to Life, Dragons’ Den, Heartland

From a media release:

CBC TV’S NEW SEASON OF CANADIAN PROGRAMMING DELIVERS PHENOMENAL RATINGS WITH A NEWFOUNDLAND-BASED P.I. SERIES AND A FRESH MONDAY NIGHT FAMILY COMEDY

After a strong fall season, CBC Television’s slate of new and returning Canadian programs for winter 2010 continues to connect with millions of Canadians, garnering blockbuster ratings for the debuts of 18 TO LIFE (779,000 viewers) and REPUBLIC OF DOYLE at just under one million viewers (969,000), plus outstanding showings for HEARTLAND (maintaining more than one million viewers each week) and DRAGONS’ DEN (1.9 million).

Still to come: the highly-anticipated return of THE KIDS IN THE HALL with their mystery comedy miniseries DEATH COMES TO TOWN, premiering January 12 and airing Tuesdays at 9 p.m.

*All numbers based on overnight unconfirmed PPM Data.

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