CTV boasts a record-setting 4.17 million viewer tally on its first installment of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Canadian Edition, aired Sept. 13.

The program’s final installment the next night drew the second-highest audience to ever watch a Canadian entertainment production on ctv with 3.93 million viewers, making the two-part broadcast the most-watched Canadian entertainment production in ctv’s history.

Falling not too far behind on the ratings scale was the two-part, four-hour miniseries Nuremberg, with 1.93 million Canadian viewers the first night, Sept. 11, and an impressive 2.03 million the next night.

Produced by Alliance Atlantis/Productions La Fete, the miniseries that chronicles the famous Nazi war-crimes trials drew an 11.4 share of Toronto-Hamilton households for part one and a 12 share for part two.

Nuremberg’s high audience draw marks the fifth time in ctv’s history a Canadian dramatic production has cracked the two-million-viewer mark.

According to Nielsen Media Research, the top five most-watched Canadian entertainment productions on ctv are: Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Canadian Edition, 4.17 million (Sept. 13); Due South, 2.1 million (March 30, 1995); Night of the Twisters, 2.07 million (May 4, 1997); Borrowed Hearts, 2.04 million (Nov. 30, 1997); and Nuremberg, 2.03 million (Sept. 12).

ctv says it will bring Millionaire back, and is promising details soon.

The long-awaited ctv premiere of The Sopranos, the first-ever airing of the controversial series on a conventional network, drew a national average minute audience of 2.125 million viewers on Sept. 18. *

-www.ctv.ca