CBC heads into the holidays with some nice audiences for the usual suspects, but sophomore Sophie is down 50% from its first season average, and will pack its bags along with Mosque to try a new night.

Global adds a new half-hour magazine series to its winter roster.

Meanwhile, TSN market penetration crawls behind over-the-air competitor CBC, but is up 23% from last year in NFL viewership.

The A network will be down three dramas in primetime as lukewarm ratings for visions, greed and revivification don’t warrant a callback from ABC.

Schizophrenic spy drama eliminated by NBC, along with Lipstick Jungle, after four episodes and a ratings loss to CSI: Miami.

Ratings are way up over last year, thanks to McCain and Palin, though the Republican nominee was upstaged by his would-be VP.

Layfield moves Sophie and Mosque to Mondays, building CBC’s comedy block with new arrival Being Erica.

Urban viewers largely ignored the premiere of Citytv’s Winnipeg-set sitcom about a dysfunctional family. It needs time to grow, says exec.

The sports cabler sends more than half of its 48 Raptors games to TSN2, putting added pressure on Rogers Cable.

Arrivals of Life on Mars, Ex List and others fall short of the bar set by 90210 and Knight Rider. And Degrassi numbers take a hit on CTV.

CHUM vet began his quarter-century in music television as an editor on The New Music.

Hugh Laurie revives teen soap, though vitals for both are still down. And in a move that bypasses second ep letdown, the latest Survivor franchise is poised for a unprecedented two-hour premiere.