Canadian Idol’s audience just keeps growing – its third-season, three-night premiere on CTV bested last year’s by approximately 26%, for a combined total average audience of two million viewers per episode. The shows ran May 30 to June 1. According to data from BBM Canada, 2.3 million viewers tuned in on May 30, 2.1 million on May 31 and 1.8 million on June 1.

Meanwhile, Global’s reality show My Fabulous Gay Wedding with Scott Thompson premiered May 25 to an average audience of 360,000 viewers, marking a 4% audience increase over spring averages for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, previously aired in the same timeslot. Gay Wedding makes its American debut on the U.S. gay-aimed LOGO channel during the first week of July.

‘We’re tickled by the response it’s gotten, both in ratings and interviews. We’ve never had a show reviewed so much and so positively as Gay Wedding,’ says producer David Paperny of Vancouver-based Paperny Films. ‘The response has been phenomenal, and it’s great to have an entertaining show that’s also such a current Canadian topic.’

Paperny says he’s waiting to hear if Global will be commissioning more episodes.