Hit Series Corner Gas and Degrassi Set to Reach Dramatic Canadian

Hit Series Corner Gas and Degrassi Set to Reach Dramatic Canadian
Television Milestones, March 20

Posted by: RAD on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 03:06 PM

Next Monday, March 20, two of Canada's biggest homegrown hits, Degrassi:
The Next Generation and Corner Gas will broadcast their respective
season finales and in doing so, will reach separate but significant
television milestones. For Degrassi (8:30 p.m. ET), the date not only
marks the conclusion of its fifth and most successful season to date,
but marks the 100th episode of the series, an elusive milestone few
Canadian series reach. Corner Gas (8 p.m. ET) meanwhile is heading into
its Season 3 finale, and while it is ready to notch its 50th episode as
a series, it is also about to record its 50th consecutive million-plus
audience, an otherwise
unprecedented milestone in today's Canadian television landscape. In its
entire three-season run, no original episode of Canada's most-watched
series has ever delivered an audience below one million viewers.

The only Canadian scripted series in the Top 20, Corner Gas remains
television's most-watched comedy while Degrassi is proudly entrenched as

Ryan \(SRC\)...

Corner Gas is awesome. It's the best sitcom since the Andy Griffith Show and
Dog River is the new Mayberry.

Will it ever come to the US?

Canada's most watched homegrown drama series.

"We're so proud of the overwhelming success of our entire Canada program
slate and Monday's milestones are two more reasons to celebrate," said
Susanne Boyce, CTV President of Programming and Chair of the CTV Media
Group. "Congratulations to our independent production partners at
Epitome Pictures, Prairie Pants Productions, Vérité Films and Three
Thirty-Five Productions for reaching new heights. We're with you all the
way."

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