CRIMINAL MINDS and THE DEFENDERS Win Wednesday for CTV

- SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA grows in new timeslot -

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TORONTO, Sept. 23 /CNW/ - On Night 3 of Premiere Week, CTV's CRIMINAL MINDS returned with 2.64 million viewers at 9 p.m. to win the night and conclude last season's cliffhanger. The series provided a winning lead-in to the series premiere of THE DEFENDERS, which debuted #1 at 10 p.m. with 1.9 million viewers. Meanwhile, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA grew by 6% compared to last week in its new, highly-competitive timeslot with 1.11 million viewers at 8 p.m. A ratings snapshot of Wednesday shows that:

At 8 p.m.:

• SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA was the #3 program of the day for F18-34 and grew 9% nationally compared to last week for A18-34.

At 9 p.m.:

• Winning the night, CRIMINAL MINDS more than doubled the audience of its nearest competition (MODERN FAMILY, Citytv/ABC).
  
• CRIMINAL MINDS was the #1 program of the day in Toronto for total viewers, A25-54 (9.5 Rating), A18-49 (9.8 Rating) and A18-34 (9.5 Rating).

At 10 p.m.

• THE DEFENDERS became one of the season's most-watched new programs, overwhelmingly winning its timeslot in total viewers and the key A25-54, A18-49 and A18-34 demos nationally and in Toronto and Vancouver.
• THE DEFENDERS was the #3 program of the day in Canada with total viewers and A18-49.

At 11 p.m.

• CTV NATIONAL NEWS WITH LLOYD ROBERTSON was Canada's most-watched national newscast for the third night in a row with 1.33 million viewers.

All of last night's episodes on CTV and /A\ are available now on demand on the CTV Video Player at CTV.ca.

CTV, Canada's Olympic Network, is also Canada's largest private broadcaster. Featuring a wide range of quality news, sports, information, and entertainment programming, CTV is Canada's most-watched television network. CTV Inc. also owns radio stations across the country and owns or has interests in leading national specialty channels, featuring news, sports, factual, arts, entertainment, music, youth and fashion programming. Official broadcaster of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and London 2012 Games of the Olympiad, CTV Inc. is owned by CTVglobemedia Inc., Canada's premier multi-media company, which also owns Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail. More information about CTV may be found on the network's website at www.ctv.ca.

Source: BBM Canada

    

For further information:

Amanda Rinaldo, CTV Inc., 416-384-5325 or [email protected]