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Ratings: Canada’s Next Top Model finale

From a media release:

1.36 Million Viewers Watch Meaghan Become CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL on CTV

  • Season Finale up 31% compared to season average
  • Full-season marathon airs this Saturday on Star!

Last night, 1.36 million viewers* (*total viewers 2+ at 8:58 p.m., BBM Nielsen Media Research) were watching CTV as Meaghan Waller, 19 from Winnipeg, became the last model standing and took home the title of CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL, preliminary data from BBM Nielsen Media Research confirms. More than two million viewers watched all or part of the broadcast and with an average audience of 957,000 viewers, the season finale was the most-watched episode of the season, up 31% compared to the season-to-date average. Winning its timeslot at 8 p.m. in total viewers and the key A18-34, A18-49 and A25-54 demos, the episode was the most-watched program on Canadian television last night for A25-54 and the key female demos F18-49 and F25-54. Additionally, CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL was also the #1 reality show of the night, delivering more viewers than a simulcast of BIG BROTHER on Global (943,000).

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Meaghan Takes The Title of Canada’s Next Top Model

meaghanFrom a media release:

There wasn’t a dry eye in the house at final judging on CTV’s CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL. After weeks of challenges, trips, and photos shoots, Meaghan, 19 from Winnipeg, outlasted 11 eliminations to become the last model standing and win the title of CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL. Host Jay Manuel and the judges, FASHIONTELEVISION’s Jeanne Beker, supermodel Yasmin Warsame, Montreal native and A-List photographer Mike Ruiz, and photo shoot Creative Director Nolé Marin, all agreed she had what it takes to win the competition and become Canada’s next model sensation. “Every emotion is pouring through my veins right now,” Meaghan said immediately after being named Canada’s Next Top Model. “I want to travel. I want to do as many photo shoots around the world as possible. I want to make it all happen. It is official – Meaghan Waller is a model.”

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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures starts production

From a media release:

Start of Production on Shaftesbury Films’ Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures Starring Shawn Ashmore

  • SHAWN ASHMORE STARS IN THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DRAMA SERIES BLOODLETTING & MIRACULOUS CURES
  • CAMERAS ROLLING ON NEW EIGHT- PART ORIGINAL SERIES FOR THE MOVIE NETWORK AND MOVIE CENTRAL
  • Based on Vincent Lam’s Award-Winning Collection of Linked Short Stories Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
  • Co-starring Mayko Nguyen and Byron Mann

ShawnAshmoreShaftesbury Films (The Listener, ReGenesis) is pleased to announce that production has begun on the highly anticipated eight-part, one-hour drama series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures starring Shawn Ashmore (pictured). Filming began June 29 and runs until September 23, 2009, in and around Toronto and Hamilton. The series is based on the Scotiabank Giller Award-winning set of linked short stories by Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, and will debut on Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada) and Astral Media’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) in early 2010.

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