From BBM Canada:
Top Programs – Total Canada
#21 Murdoch Mysteries – 1.063 million
#25 Rick Mercer Report – 972,000
Ratings: Week of March 4
Everything about Rick Mercer Report, eh?
Tuesday: Cracked, Rick Mercer Report, 22 Minutes
Rick Mercer Report, CBC
Tonight Rick is at the Labrador Winter Games where he participates in many traditional events involving hunting, trapping, dog-sledding, and snow-shoeing skills.
22 Minutes, CBC
Mark Critch hits it out of the park at the Blue Jays spring training camp, famous Canadian celebrities audition to host The View, world renowned fiddler, Ashley MacIsaac, re-jigs the 22 MInutes theme song.
Cracked, CBC – “Cherry Blossums”
A high school girl’s dramatic and macabre suicide leads the Psych Crimes team into the heartbreaking world of bullying, and the dark and tangled web of teen girl social dynamics.
Tuesday: Mercer, 22 Minutes, Cracked
Rick Mercer Report, CBC
Rick is in Selkirk, Manitoba to check out the ice jam prevention programme on the Red River and then he’s off to the Toronto Rehab hospital to sample their revolutionary research.
22 Minutes, CBC
Murdoch Mysteries’ Yannick Bisson joins the 22 cast as guest host, Mark Critch rrrrrrolls up the rim directly from the Tim Horton’s Ontario coffee roastery, and Shaun Majumder reports from inside the red carpet at the new Canadian Screen Awards.
Cracked, CBC – “The Thump Parade”
A washed-up hockey enforcer’s fragile mental state is called into question when Psych Crimes uses him as an agent in an operation against a cold, manipulative criminal. Meanwhile, psychiatric nurse, Leo, is corralled by Homicide to help with a murder investigation. Guests: Gabriel Hogan, Natalie Brown, Greg Bryk
Rick Mercer Gives Credit To His Winning Writers at the Canadian Screen Awards
Rick Mercer (Rick Mercer Report) on Writers
(Photo by Derek Langer)
The writing team (Rick Currie, Greg Eckler, Chris Finn, Tim Steeves, George Westerholm) from the Rick Mercer Report took home a screen for “Best Writing in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series”. Â I asked Rick about his writers and their jobs, and he paid them high compliments.
“Well, the writers of RMR won the award tonight, and they’re the most tremendous group of guys that I have the privilege to work with. It’s probably the best part of my job – that I get to spend my time with them. They have a very difficult job. For starters, they write about current events and every single week I go to two different places in the country, and they have to prep me for that.”
“It’s like: This week Rick is jumping out of a plane with the Skyhawks, this week Rick is doing the Inuit winter games, this week Rick is visiting seeing eye dogs. These are not subjects which most writers are familiar with. We do 50 separate segments a year, and they have to put their head inside it, research it and come up with material for me, and they do tremendous work. It’s a very unique job as far as writing goes.”
Flashpoint, Mercer, Less Than Kind among early Screenies winners
From the Canadian Press:
Canadian Screen Awards: Flashpoint, Fitz take home trophies
“Flashpoint,†“Call Me Fitz†and “John A: Birth of a Country†head into Sunday’s inaugural Canadian Screen Awards with a leading four trophies apiece after an industry gala Thursday night handed out most of the prizes celebrating homegrown TV. Read more.