Source: Inside the CBC

Denis McGrath, a Canadian TV writer, says last night's ratings for four Canadian comedies, 18 to Life and Little Mosque on the Prairie on CBC, and Hiccups and Dan for Mayor on CTV proves that, *gasp*, Canadians actually watch Canadian TV:

    Almost two million five hundred thousand Canadians chose to watch Canadian-produced comedies on the TV last night, in the eight o clock hour. If you look at that in terms of Canada's population, that's about 10% of the people who speak English as a first language. 1 in 10…

    Six months from now we're going to have license hearings at the CRTC and the same old people are going to traipse up there and talk about how Canadians don't want to watch Canadian shows.

    It sounds to me like that's just not the case.

Both Dan for Mayor and Hiccups drew 1.9 million viewers, which is big in Canada, 18 to Life and Little Mosque drew 558,000 and 404,000.

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