Montreal: Tele-Metropole flagship station cftm-tv has consolidated its lead in Quebec primetime television, scoring a 32 share of viewers in the extended Montreal francophone market during the fall Sondages bbm tv sweeps.

The ’94 fall sweeps, one of two major books in the broadcast year, covered the Nov. 3-23 period.

Radio-Canada station cbft-tv took the biggest hit compared to fall 1993, dropping six points to a 25 share in primetime – defined as 7 p.m. and 11 p.m., Monday to Sunday – in the extended Montreal francophone market

Television Quatre Saisons flagship station cfjp-tv scored a 14 share during the sweep period, up a point over the previous fall, while civm-tv, the Radio-Quebec station in Montreal, rose three points to a six share, largely on the strength of the early teen teleroman Zap, and two drama series, Janette Bertrand’s Avec Un Grand A and Mourir d’amour.

On a Quebec-wide network basis for French-speaking adults 18 and over, bbm reports the TVA Television Network had 18 of the top 30 shows and five of the top 10: Les Grands proces, an historical courtroom drama (1.6 million); the Sylvie Payette-penned Chambres en ville, Quebec’s top-rated teleroman (1.57 million); Fort Boyard, a limited edition adventure game show (1.52 million); a tva cinema showcase (1.3 million); and Poule aux Oeufs d’Or, Quebec’s top-rated game show (1.08 million).

Radio-Canada placed 10 shows among the top 30 and scored four of the top-10 rated shows: the number-one rated program in the province, reruns of the zany Claude Meunier-scripted sitcom La Petite Vie (1.92 million); a Daniel Lemire comedy special (1.27 million), A nous deux, a teleroman about yuppy couples (1.23 million); and a Juste pour rire comedy special (1.06 million).

Despite being locked out of sizable audience gains due to its new deal with Brasserie Molson O’Keefe for Montreal Canadiens and Quebec Nordiques hockey, tqs garnered its highest-ever network audience – 1.57 million – for the Fabienne Larouche/Rejean Tremblay miniseries Misericorde. The series ranked fourth overall during the fall sweeps. tqs scored two shows in the network top 30.

And, despite weak numbers for new teleroman fare like l’Arche de Zoe, a Quebecois version of Cheers, and Santa Maria, a sitcom set in a detox center, Radio-Canada says it expects to improve its primetime performance in the second leg of the season with new episodes of the newsroom drama Scoop, rated number one last year on Quebec network tv with an average audience of 2.7 million, and the Guy Fournier-scripted teleroman Les Heritiers Duval.