This week on 22 MinutesÃ¢â‚¬Â¦

Shaun Majumder catches up with hockey star Sidney Crosby, during his participation in the Olympic Torch Relay in Halifax, NS.

And an episode of Ã¢â‚¬ËœWife Swap’ Ã¢â‚¬â€œ the Foleys and the Karzais.

22 Minutes with audience favorites Mark Critch, Gavin Crawford, Geri Hall, Cathy Jones, and Shaun Majumder airs Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 8:30 pm on CBC Television.

Unfair and unbalanced. The news will never look the same. Armed with political satire, sketch comedy and parody in this 17th season beloved characters return and new characters emerge to share the spotlight.

Degrassi, Flashpoint, Heartland, Sanctuary

Weekend ratings: Flashpoint, Ron James, Heartland, Degrassi, Sanctuary, SGU

November 23, 2009 Diane Wild

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

CBC Battles on Without Blades
“FRIDAY saw 1,575,000 show for the season finale of Flashpoint (with Hugh Dillon and Michael Cram, left), which tried to steal a little Blade glory by training its sights on Maple Leaf Gardens.” Read more.

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Ratings: Ice Pilots NWT beats Jay Leno

November 23, 2009 Diane Wild

From Alex Strachan of Canwest:

Hoser flyboys beat Leno in Great White North: A headline you won’t see on The Jay Leno Show.
“Ice Pilots NWT, History Television’s bracing docu-reality series about a renegade airline that links remote communities across Canada’s north using vintage Second World War-era transport planes, roared to a ratings record last week, with 459,000 viewers. So what, you say. Well, to put that figure in perspective, that’s more than 100,000 Canadians than watched The Jay leno Show in the same time period.” Read more.

Little Mosque on the Prairie

New tonight: Little Mosque on the Prairie on CBC – “Saving Sarah Hamoudi”

November 23, 2009 Diane Wild

When Sarah agrees to help Thorne with raising the church’s profile, Amaar recruits Nate to help boost the Mosque’s PR.

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In the news: Cra$h & Burn’s insurance world doesn’t translate to BC

November 22, 2009 Diane Wild

From Canwest:

Painting insurance biz a comic black; Adjusters duke it out in a legal world far-removed from ICBC
“The private insurance companies lobbying for work, these big advertising billboards up all over southern Ontario Ã¢â‚¬â€ when I first moved here I thought it was totally bizarre, how commercial it is,” says Cave, who nonetheless got some input from her dad on the legal world. “There’s stuff I don’t understand that he’s been able to answer. I grew up meeting female lawyers, watching them. I’ve seen how they had to operate Ã¢â‚¬â€ it’s a male-dominated world, they have to be tough.” Read more.