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In the news: CBC’s sluggish ratings

October 16, 2007 Diane Wild 6 Comments

Etan Vlessing of the Hollywood Reporter:

CBC plagued by sluggish ratings
“Sluggish ratings continue to dog Canada’s public broadcaster as it walks a fine line between popularizing its program lineup without abandoning its mandate as a pubcaster.” Read more.

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In the news: More on ratings

October 12, 2007 Diane Wild

The Toronto Star

Hot Box: TV to talk about
“Sunday night the heralded debut of Triple Sensation attracted just 264,000 viewers while Monday’s new episode of Dragons’ Den took 461,000 and Intelligence took 221,000 viewers. By contrast the Monday edition of Corner Gas on CTV attracted 1.2 million viewers. However, Wednesday night at 8, CBC’s Little Mosque held firm at 775,000.” Read more.

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In the news: CBC ratings

October 11, 2007 Diane Wild

Mark Dillon of Playback looks at the performance of CBC’s fall season:

The Establishing Shot: Ceeb finds right balance with fall launch
“CBC has had its fall-launch liftoff, offering up a balanced mix of shows of generally strong quality. That much is not surprising. What is especially heartening to Ceeb folks is that a number of these shows are drawing solid ratings, with a couple of excellent tallies.” Read more.

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In the news: Little Mosque’s ‘farm-league Nobel Prize’

October 10, 2007 Diane Wild

Shed your earnestness for this post from Defamer:

Canadian Sitcom Awarded Farm-League Nobel Prize
“With every prestige recognition, there are those bound to feel slighted: In this case, that would fall to Canadian sitcom also-ran Rent-a-Goalie (while chock-full of hockey humor, voters felt it didn’t quite go as far as Mosque in underscoring racial injustices).” Read more.

The cast of LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE
(from left to right) Arlene Duncan (Fatima), Zaib Shaikh (Amaar), Sheila McCarthy (Sarah), Carlo Rota (Yasir), Sitara Hewitt (Rayyan), Manoj Sood (Baber) and Debra McGrath as Mayor Popowicz. Photo credit: Sophie Giraud.

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In the news: Little Mosque honoured

October 9, 2007 Diane Wild

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Little Mosque wins humanitarian award
“Little Mosque on the Prairie, the CBC sitcom which is winning awards around the world for its fond depiction of a Muslim community, has won yet another honour, this one for promoting harmony.” Read more.

Photo credit: Sophie Giraud. Carlo Rota as Yasir.