Sweep! Sportscasters break records with championship matches, Ceeb ends CCA contract on ten-year high

Bold’s got sophisticated drama, music, comedy and some niche sports. Documentary is focusing on, well, docs, as well as some features and series. And there are ad and sponsorship opps on both.

Filling the pubcaster’s Sunday family hour, the Alberta-set drama has received an order for 18 episodes.

Despite tough competition from Oprah’s Big Give, the two-part CBC miniseries held its own, beating recent minis including St. Urbain’s Horseman and CTV’s Would Be Kings.

The Canuck miniseries The Last Templar has a date with NBC after the US network signed on to simulcast with Global in December.

The Week the Women Went is inching closer to the one-million mark after scoring 929,000 viewers last week, putting it among the top-rated of CBC’s new shows this winter.

CTV’s drama about four slain RCMP officers stood up admirably against Global’s broadcast of the biggest night in the music biz.

Looking to regain lost ground with key viewers, CBC has swapped the sporty soap with its oddball office comedy.

Titles including the Oscar-nominated Juno and The Simpsons Movie will be available on the pay-TV upstart following a multi-year deal with Twentieth Century Fox.

The battle of domestic action dramas has, so far, gone to Global and its new series, which debuted ahead of CBC’s counterpart.

The English redo of a popular Quebec sitcom charted in the mid-600s, following the buoyant return of Little Mosque. The adaptation of Douglas Coupland’s novel trailed, but scored CBC’s highest rating ever in 24-54.

The Border drew 710,000 viewers to its Monday night debut – the first of several cards the network is playing this week in a bid to trump its strike-addled competitors.