NBC’s Saturday Night Live reached top overall Canadian demand for a TV show in mid-May as the series wrapped its 50th season.

The sketch comedy series, available in Canada through Global, aired its season finale on May 17, and featured host Scarlett Johansson and musical guest Bad Bunny. The result: Saturday Night Live was 50.1 times more in demand than the average TV show in Canada during the week of May 12 to 18. Its season finale also featured an appearance by Scarborough, Ont.-born comedian, actor and former cast member Mike Myers.

HBO’s The Last of Us, available in Canada through Crave, followed the Lorne Michaels-created series on the overall TV show chart. The post-apocalyptic drama, based on the video game series of the same name, had a demand average of 48.9. Its second season premiered on April 13.

Disney+’s Andor rounded out the overall top three. The series, which was the most in-demand digital original, had a demand average of 48.5. Andor released the last three episodes of its second and final season on May 13.

On the digital originals chart, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, available in Canada through Crave, Prime Video and illico+, landed behind the Star Wars series with a demand average of 39.2. The show based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel premiered its sixth and final season April 8.

In the No. 3 spot behind the dystopian drama was Prime Video’s adult animated comedy Hazbin Hotel with a demand average of 34.3. Netflix’s You, which released its fifth and final season April 24, and Crave’s Letterkenny rounded out the top five with respective demand averages of 29.9 and 28.3.

Top 10 Digital Originals: Canada

1. Andor (Disney+): 48.5
2. The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu): 39.2
3. Hazbin Hotel (Prime Video): 34.3
4. You (Netflix): 29.9
5. Letterkenny (Crave): 28.3
6. Black Mirror (Netflix): 27.2
7. Stranger Things (Netflix): 26.1
8. Invincible (Prime Video): 24.4
9. Bridgerton (Netflix): 23.8
10. Reacher (Prime Video): 21.4

Top 10 Overall TV Shows: Canada

1. Saturday Night Live: 50.1
2. The Last of Us: 48.9
3. Andor: 48.5
4. The Daily Show: 48.5
5. The Handmaid’s Tale: 39.2
6. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 39
7. Sesame Street: 38.6
8. The Voice (U.S.): 34.8
9. Grey’s Anatomy: 34.8
10. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: 34.4

Parrot Analytics calculates its Top 10 lists using Demand Expressions, which are shown by using a metric that demonstrates how much more in-demand the top series are than the average TV show (linear, pay TV, SVOD and AVOD) in Canada. For example, a difference of 1x represents the market average and 10x means a series is 10 times more in demand than the average TV show in this market. Demand is defined as the total audience demand being expressed for a title within a market. Audience demand reflects the desire, engagement and viewership, weighted by importance; thus, a stream or download is a higher expression of demand than a “like” or comment.

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