From Rob Salem of the Toronto Star:

• Dance show kicks into gear with Top 20 contestants
  “Here is where it starts to get interesting. After touring the country auditioning hundreds of dancers, real and imagined, it all comes down to the Top 20 tonight on a special two-hour So You Think You Can Dance Canada, starting at 8 on CTV (repeating Sunday at 9 on MuchMusic).” Read more.

From a media release:

• “Finals Week” Decides Canada’s First-Ever So You Think You Can Dance Canada Top 20, Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. ET on CTV
• So You Think You Can Dance Canada averages 1.1 million total viewers to date

The cross-country auditions are done. Now, the Top 200 have traded in their flight passes and are ready to “kill it” for So You Think You Can Dance Canada’s first-ever “Finals Week” episode, airing Wednesday, October 1 at 8 p.m. ET on CTV. An encore airs Sunday, October 5 at 9 p.m. ET on MuchMusic (go to ctv.ca and muchmusic.com to confirm local broadcast times). In the two-hour “Finals Week” episode, competitors face four gruelling days of competition, and their toughest challenges yet, as they dance their hearts out for a coveted position in So You Think You Can Dance Canada’s inaugural Top 20.

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From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:

• Could a Canadian version be better? In this case, yes
  “So You Think You Can Dance Canada (CTV, 8 p.m.) arrived last week with considerable hoopla and, by heavens, it did not disappoint. The show is an international franchise, of course, with a set format: judges, dancers, voting. Could a Canadian version be better than the usual thing? Yep. There were some astonishing moves, manoeuvres, turns and locomotions going on at the first audition shows, taped in Toronna, Vancouver and Halifax.” Read more.

From a media release:

CTV Ratings Alert – CTV’s So You Think You Can Dance Canada is No. 1 Sunday With 1.23 Million Viewers

• Wins time-slot over Big Brother and Global’s animated sitcoms
• SYTYCDC viewed in part by 3.7 million Canadians
• Montreal/Calgary audition episode airs Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. ET on CTV

Following on the heels of its impressive, No. 1 debut last Thursday, So You Think You Can Dance Canada once again danced away as the No. 1 show Sunday night, as 1.23 million tuned in at 8 p.m. for the second episode of Canada’s newest homegrown hit.

So You Think You Can Dance Canada continues, with audition highlights from Montreal and Calgary, Wednesday, September 17 at 8 p.m. ET on CTV. Encore presentations of audition episodes air on MuchMusic Sundays at 9 p.m. ET. Highlights from each week’s So You Think You Can Dance Canada episodes are available on demand on the CTV Video Player at CTV.ca.

From a media release:

Sunday, September 14, 8 p.m.
So You Think You Can Dance Canada ALL-NEW TWO-HOUR EPISODE
The cross-country search for Canada’s favourite dancer continues at the Vancouver and Halifax auditions. Permanent judge Jean Marc Genereux, special guest judge Mary Murphy and guest judge Paul Becker, who has choreographed the Jonas Brothers, weigh in on the dancing hopefuls in Vancouver. Tre Armstrong, Melissa Williams – who has choreographed for Prince and Bryan Adams – and judge/choreographer Dan Karaty, from the U.S. series, fill out the panel in Halifax.