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Corner Gas Breaks Out with Biggest Audience This Season

From CTV:

[Monday] night’s Corner Gas broadcast on CTV was the most-watched episode this season when 1.63 million viewers tuned in, winning the 8-8:30 p.m. timeslot for the second week in a row against an all-new simulcast episode of Prison Break on Fox/Global (1.58 million).

In next week’s all-new episode, airing Monday, Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. ET on CTV, Davis buys a table hockey game for the police station and Brent and Karen show battle it out to see who is the ultimate champion. Meanwhile Lacey decides to nominate Emma as a local Woman of Distinction – provided Emma can prove her worth.

All audience figures are courtesy of BBM Nielsen Media Research and represent a nation-wide picture of television viewing in Canada.

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In the news: Canadian Television Fund defended

From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail, a critique of the cable companies reneging on their obligations to the CTF. Also includes information on the season finale of Intelligence and a documentary by Little Mosque on the Prairie creator Zarqa Nawaz called Me and the Mosque:

  • Cable barbarians at the gate
    “Cable companies in Canada exist in a privileged, protected position that allows them make vast amounts of money, and now some want to renege on their regulatory responsibility and thus crush Canadian-made TV. A vital part of our culture — the telling of Canadian stories to Canadians, including Canadian children — should not exist at the whim of greed-driven, price-gouging cable companies. Everybody loathes cable companies. And nobody with an ounce of common sense or a grasp of fairness supports them on this issue.”
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