CSI finale unearths about five million viewers

The two-hour season finale of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation directed by Quentin Tarantino went down in the record books. According to Nielsen Media Research, the show's last half hour peaked at about five million (4.93 M) sets of eyeballs, making it one of the most-watched television events on Canuck TV this year, following February's Oscars. The CSI finale's audience count - at 1.224 million in Toronto/Hamilton - fired The Apprentice's season finale which earned 542,000 on Global. CSI is the leading drama on Canadian TV averaging 3.404 million viewers per episode.
By Staff 
May 24, 2005

The two-hour season finale of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation directed by Quentin Tarantino went down in the record books. According to Nielsen Media Research, the show’s last half hour peaked at about five million (4.93 M) sets of eyeballs, making it one of the most-watched television events on Canuck TV this year, following February’s Oscars. The CSI finale’s audience count – at 1.224 million in Toronto/Hamilton – fired The Apprentice‘s season finale which earned 542,000 on Global. CSI is the leading drama on Canadian TV averaging 3.404 million viewers per episode.