Record debut for CBC with Little Mosque

More than two million Canadians tuned in this week to Little Mosque on the Prairie, the new CBC Television comedy about a Muslim community in a rural town that has been the subject of worldwide attention.

The figure -- 2.1 million -- is a huge one for a Canadian television show. Little Mosque drew one million more viewers than Rick Mercer Report, its lead-in. Corner Gas, CTV's big sitcom hit, routinely pulls in about 1.5 million viewers a week.

There's nothing like free publicity from news outlets covering controversy!  Wow!  Congrats, guys.

Story: globeandmail.com: Record debut for CBC with Little Mosque