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Little Mosque on the Prairie, Ratings, This Hour Has 22 Minutes

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Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family has last week’s ratings for many shows (click the links below for more than are mentioned in the blurbs):

  • Global Doesn’t Have a Prairie
    “Wednesday’s CBC numbers: Little Mosque 776,000, new ABC Family pickup Sophie 545,000, fifth estate 671,000.” Read more.
  • MVP Held Off Score Sheet
    “In its new day and date premiere, the sexy prime time soap about the “secret lives of hockey wives” netted only 249,000 viewers. That’s almost exactly what it was getting on Fridays before CBC flipped it with lower rated rookie jPod.” Read more.
  • Cross Border Election Win
    “The bad news for The Border is that it sank to its lowest audience level ever Monday night, an estimated 567,000 viewers–down nearly 200,000 viewers from the Monday before. It was also the week the viewers went away from The Week The Women Went, with the CBC reality series down to 548,000 viewers.” Read more.
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Degrassi, Flashpoint, Heartland, Industry News, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Rick Mercer Report, The Listener

Canadian Television Fund Successfully Supports Industry’s Cultural and Commercial Goals

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From a media release:

The Canadian Television Fund (CTF) today presented an overview of the organization’s successes in funding popular, critically acclaimed television programming in its opening presentation at the CRTC’s public hearing on the future of the Fund.

“Canadians are watching CTF-funded programs,” said Valerie Creighton, President of the CTF. “Shows like The Rick Mercer Report and Little Mosque on the Prairie, regularly attain audiences of over one million. Les Boys, Annie et ses hommes, and Destinées all have drawn from one to one and a half million viewers. New shows, such as The Border, Sophie, Heartland, and The Guard are attracting 500,000 to 800,000 viewers. And a recently launched success story in the French market, Les Lavigueur, la vraie histoire, averaged over two million viewers in its first two episodes.”

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In the news: The Border and The Guard as ‘Jack Bauer knockoffs’

From Robert Cushman of the National Post

  • Bullet-proof vetted
    “The Border, apart from contributing to CBC’s new drama push, is part of a movement to shine a glamorous light on government departments with less than glamorous titles. In The Border it’s Immigration and Customs Security; in Global’s The Guard, it’s the Canadian Coastguard’s Search and Rescue Team. The latter sounds as if it should be more thrilling, but so far it’s The Border that’s hit the ground running.” Read more.
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In the news: What Canadian TV gets wrong

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From Jim Henshaw at the Legion of Decency:

  • The Winning Skid
    “But for some reason, our Canadian nets have ignored the overwhelming creative drift toward changing the paradigms and trotted out a selection of knock-offs of shows everybody’s seen and done before — in some cases, long before — and like those eager kids who put on a show in somebody’s barn over the summer, they seem quite proud of themselves for doing little more than not forgetting their lines or bumping into the furniture.” Read more.
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