Canadian Ratings: 8/20 - 8/26/2018

CTV's 'The Amazing Race' took a dominating lead in the Canadian TV ratings for the week ending August 26, 2018. The series averaged 1.94 million viewers across Canada, more than 450K viewers above the second-ranked show on the week, 'America's Got Talent'. 'Race' took the top spot in the Calgary market (85,000), and took the third spot in Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver. Over at City, the Tuesday and Wednesday editions of 'America's Got Talent' averaged 1.49 million and 1.33 million viewers respectively and dominated the major markets, taking the top 2 spots in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, as well as the top spot in Edmonton for the Tuesday episode. On the scripted side, the top (new) airing belonged to Global's 'Elementary' which averaged 884,000 viewers for its episode on Monday. 

NATIONAL:

Show	Viewers (000s)
THE AMAZING RACE CANADA	1942
AMERICA'S GOT TALENT (T)	1487
AMERICA'S GOT TALENT (W)	1334
BIG BROTHER (Su)	1323
BIG BROTHER (Th)	1320
BIG BROTHER (W)	1248
THE BIG BANG THEORY	1106
MASTERCHEF	1071
AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR	1062
ELEMENTARY	884
THE BIG BANG THEORY	745
NCIS	710
THE SINNER	706
NCIS: NEW ORLEANS	685
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS	623
JEOPARDY/20-20	620
WHEEL/60 MIN	618
HEARTRADIO MMVA	618
WHEEL/EMPIRE	592
BACHELOR IN PARADISE	588

MARKET TOP 5:

Montreal	Viewers
America’s Got Talent City Tuesday	74,000
America’s Got Talent City Wednesday	72,000
The Amazing Race Canada CTV Tuesday	56,000
American Ninja Warrior CTV Monday	49,000
Masterchef CTV Wednesday	42,000
Toronto/Hamilton	Viewers
America’s Got Talent City Tuesday	388,000
America’s Got Talent City Wednesday	354,000
The Amazing Race Canada CTV Tuesday	320,000
Masterchef CTV Wednesday	304,000
The Big Bang Theory CTV Thursday	291,000
Edmonton	Viewers
America’s Got Talent City Tuesday	78,000
The Big Bang Theory CTV Thursday	71,000
The Amazing Race Canada CTV Tuesday	68,000
Big Brother Global Wednesday	60,000
Big Brother Global Sunday	55,000
Calgary	Viewers
The Amazing Race Canada CTV Tuesday	85,000
America’s Got Talent City Tuesday	66,000
Masterchef CTV Wednesday	60,000
Elementary Global Monday	53,000
America’s Got Talent City Wednesday	47,000
Vancouver/Victoria	Viewers
America’s Got Talent City Wednesday	205,000
America’s Got Talent City Tuesday	174,000
The Amazing Race Canada CTV Tuesday	143,000
The Big Bang Theory CTV Thursday	123,000
Elementary Global Monday	111,000

Source: Numeris