E! Canada’s Kourtney & Kim Take New York debut was the highest-rated premiere for the Canadian cable channel since parent-CTV brought E! Entertainment Television back to Canada last fall.

The premiere drew 147,000 viewers Sunday night at 10 p.m., emerging first overall in the 18-49 demo among English-language cable channels nationwide, according to BBM Canada data.

CTV in a deal with Comcast International Media Group recently brought the E! Entertainment Television brand to Canada after a year-long absence.

The multi-platform deal saw CTV rebrand its former Star! specialty channel as a new Canadian E! channel, a move that got the specialty into 6.2 million homes from December 2010.

After Kourtney and Kim Take New York, E! will next air another spin-off Kardashian reality series, Khloe & Lamar, after CTV acquired the newlywed-style series from Ryan Seacrest Productions and Bunim-Murray Productions.