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Big Brother Canada

Big Brother Canada announces casting call

From a media release:

CALLING ALL FANS: BIG BROTHER CANADA SEASON TWO NATIONAL CASTING CALL NOW OPEN

  • Returns Winter 2014 on Slice

Hot on the heels of the epic first season of Big Brother Canada, the country’s biggest specialty reality series of the year, Shaw Media and Insight Productions announced today that the national casting call for season two is now open. Canadians 19 years and older are invited to apply online at www.bigbrothercanada.ca and this fall in person at open casting calls in select cities across Canada. The submission deadline is October 25, 2013.

Big Brother Canada is looking for all interested Canadians – strategists, wall flowers, drama queens, nerds and dreamers and schemers alike are all encouraged to apply. For all those keen to live in a house stacked with big personalities, big competition and hundreds of cameras and microphones catching your every move, Big Brother Canada wants to hear from you.

Applicants can either apply online at www.bigbrothercanada.ca with the option to include a short video expressing why they should be chosen to live in the Big Brother Canada house, in person at open casting calls throughout September and October, or can opt to do both. Additional information about the casting calls in select cities will be released in the coming months.

Open casting calls will be held in the following cities:

Vancouver, British Columbia – September 8 at Metropolis at Metrotown

Edmonton, Alberta – September 14 at West Edmonton Mall

Halifax, Nova Scotia – September 20 at Halifax Shopping Centre

St. John’s, Newfoundland – September 21 at Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland

Montreal, Quebec – September 27 at Le Centre Montreal Sheraton

Toronto, Ontario – October 19 at John Bassett Theatre

Coming exclusively to Slice in winter 2014, Big Brother Canada Season Two will hand pick a diverse group of houseguests to live in the Big Brother Canada house outfitted wall to wall with cameras and microphones to capture all the action. Each week the houseguests will compete in a series of challenges and vote each other out until one claims victory and takes home the grand prize.

Fans can catch Big Brother 15 Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on Global and Big Brother After Dark seven days a week from 4-6am ET on Slice.

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Rookie Blue

New Thursday: Rookie Blue

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Rookie Blue, Global – “Friday the 13th”
It’s Friday the 13th and everyone at 15 Division is prepared for a night of pranks and superstition. However, when Marlo and Gail are called to a downtown ravine, it’s no laughing matter when they discover human bones. As the sun goes down and the bones are identified, Swarek makes a connection to a 15-year-old missing persons case he worked on with his old Training Officer, Charlie Fitzgerald.

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Amazing Race Canada, Ratings

Amazing Race Canada emerges as biggest series debut ever

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From a media release:

Final Data Pushes THE AMAZING RACE CANADA Debut into the Record Books

  • Series premiere delivers a cumulative average audience of 4.7 million across Bell Media channels
  • Final Data pushes premiere ratings up 17% to 3.5 million
  • Last night’s episode delivers 2.91 million viewers

 

It’s the biggest premiere ever. After three weeks, THE AMAZING RACE CANADA continues its reign as the #1 program this summer. In fact, newly released final data for the series premiere (July 15) now reveals a 17% surge in audience to 3.5 million viewers making THE AMAZING RACE CANADA the biggest series debut ever in Canada, surpassing previous record holder CSI: NY (3.2 million) in 2004.

With 13 airings, original episodes and repeats, across CTV, TSN, and TSN2, THE AMAZING RACE CANADA has a cumulative reach of 10.6 million total viewers for a cumulative reach of 37.9% of English Canadians. Series premiere alone delivers a cumulative average audience of 4.7 million across these channels.

Last night’s non-elimination episode drew 2.91 million (2+), up from a week ago. Overall, 4.7 million unique viewers watched the third episode with the audience growing throughout the broadcast to peak at 3.5 million viewers when host Jon Montgomery revealed to Tim Sr. and Tim Jr., the final team at the Pit Stop, that they were safe from elimination. The episode is available now on demand across CTV’s digital platforms, including CTV.ca, the CTV App, the CTV Mobile channel on Bell Mobile TV, and through video on demand partners such as Bell Fibe TV, and tonight on TSN at 12 midnight ET/PT.

For the third week in a row, the episode overwhelmingly won Monday night nationally with total viewers and all key demos. In Ontario alone, THE AMAZING RACE CANADA grew 8% compared to last week climbing to a season high of 1.19 million viewers. In Calgary, the city featured prominently in last night’s episode, THE AMAZING RACE CANADA saw at least double digit growth delivering a series high with all key demos 12.3 (A18-34), 9.4 (A18-49), and 10.2 (A25-54).

Next week on THE AMAZING RACE CANADA (airing Monday, Aug. 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CTV and live on CTV Mobile), the racers embark on an epic trek across the mighty Canadian north, where things get icy both in the water and on land. And in the Yukon, a Speed Bump trips up the Tims. Here are this week’s results:

  1. HAL and JOANNE #bodybreak – Married “BodyBreak” Fitness Icons
  2. KRISTEN and DARREN #kristenanddarren – Dating Couple
  3. JET and DAVE #jetanddave – Best Friends
  4. VANESSA and CELINA #vanessaandcelina – Sisters
  5. JODY and CORY #jodyandcory – Brothers
  6. HOLLY and BRETT #hollyandbrett – Married Doctors
  7. TIM SR. and TIM JR. #timetimeARC – Father and Son

Fans of the series can also catch additional Race action online with the digital companion series INSIDE THE RACE WITH BLACKBERRY. Hosted by Danielle McGimsie (@MissDMcG) and Teddy Wilson (@TeddyWilson), married “BodyBreak” fitness icons Hal and Joanne join the co-hosts for an exclusive BBM video chat interview, discussing the night’s episode.

Anchoring CTV’s Summer 2013 schedule, THE AMAZING RACE CANADA airs Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CTV and live on CTV Mobile (visit CTV.ca to confirm local broadcast times), as well as on demand across CTV’s digital platforms: including CTV.ca, the CTV App, the CTV Mobile channel on Bell Mobile TV, and through video on demand partners such as Bell Fibe TV following the broadcast.

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