Despite its unenviable 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. summer timeslot and a ratings drop between weeks one and two, CTV’s new half-hour comedy series Robson Arms – about the cohabitants of a Vancouver apartment building – is receiving better than respectable viewership.

On its debut night, June 17, the first two back-to-back Robson episodes brought in 672,000 and 704,000 viewers, respectively. When the next two episodes aired, again back-to-back on June 24, the viewer numbers came in at 401,000 and 437,000.

The series is coproduced by Vancouver’s Omni Film and Halifax’s Creative Atlantic Communications.

Meanwhile, Canadian Idol continues to perform well now that the choice of who will advance from the top 32 contestants is in the hands of viewers.

According to data from BBM, 2.3 million viewers tuned in to the 8 p.m. performance show on Tuesday, June 14, and 1.5 million came back for the results on June 15. Roughly two million watched the performances on Tuesday, June 21 at 8 p.m. The June 22 results show brought in 1.5 million viewers.

The beginning of the audience participation neither helped nor hindered the series, which scored 2.3 million, 2.1 million and 1.8 million viewers per night over its three-part premiere May 30 to June 1.

According to CTV, the Canadian Idol audience is up by 9% overall from last year.