CTV’s Degrassi: The Next Generation and Corner Gas scored big on Tuesday, (October 12) garnering large Canadian audiences and improved ratings nationally. In audience data supplied by BBM, Degrassi: The Next Generation proved its talent for capturing teenage angst with 930,000 viewers nationally, an overall audience surge of 52%, and a 66% spike in the adults 18-49 demographic. While Corner Gas surpassed the one-million viewer mark as 1.4 million tuned in to watch the homegrown series.
Together, the combination of Corner Gas and Degrassi: The Next Generation gave CTV an average audience of more than one million viewers winning the 8-9 p.m. timeslot in Canada. Overall rating showed that Corner Gas and Degrassi more than doubled Making the Cut (CBC, 566,000. 2+); back-to-back episodes of Father of the Pride (Global, 384,000, 2+) and Degrassi nearly doubled the season premiere of DaVinci’s Inquest (CBC, 640,000, 2+) at 9 p.m.
