Big Brother Canada returned to an average audience of over one million (2+) overnight viewers on Monday night.

The third season of the Insight Productions series premiered on Slice as well as Global at 8 p.m. In total, 2.6 million viewers watched at least part of the season three premiere over the two channels, Shaw Media reports.

Global had about 843,000 viewers and Slice around 207,000 average viewers watching the premiere, according to the media co.

On the digital side, Big Brother Canada‘s website saw over 100,000 unique visitors on Monday, a 45% increase over season two’s premiere day.

Global TV also bowed season two of original medical drama Remedy on Monday at 9 p.m. immediately following Big Brother Canada, attracting an audience of 538,000 (2+) overnight. 

Remedy is produced by Toronto’s Indian Grove Productions. Season one of Remedy garnered an average of one million viewer per week, and season two includes 10 episodes.

 – with files from Julianna Cummins, Playback