The fire under Flashpoint just keeps building. The homegrown cop drama won this past Friday night for CTV with 1.74 million viewers, up sharply from a week-earlier second-season premiere of 1.27 million, according to BBM Nielsen Media Research.

That makes Flashpoint the most-watched Canadian show in more than a decade, excluding news and sports programming, the broadcaster said Monday.

Friday night’s audience topped a previous high for Flashpoint of 1.52 million set in September.

And Flashpoint, which launched simultaneously on CTV and CBS last summer, continues to build an audience stateside.

The Canadian export drew 10.38 million viewers for CBS on Friday night in reverse simulcast, up from a week-earlier 10.1 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Flashpoint lost a sliver of the 10.5 million audience that tuned in to lead-in Ghost Whisperer at 8 p.m., but more importantly went up in the core 18-49 demo in its second week. And that helps the Canadian drama solidify its position as part of CBS’ crime series offerings this TV season alongside CSI and NCIS.

Also Friday night, Global Television’s hidden-camera prank show, Howie Do It, slipped 14% to 626,000 in the 8 p.m. slot, from a week-earlier 770,000 viewers, before it drew 658,000 in its second half-hour at 8:30 p.m.

Tracking almost in lock-step on NBC stateside, the Howie Mandel-hosted series also slipped 14% to 6.06 million viewers, from a debut on the peacock channel at 7.7 million viewers on Jan. 9.

In the 18-49 demo this past Friday, Howie Do It won the 8 p.m. slot on Global Television with 103,000 viewers in Toronto and another 42,000 viewers in Vancouver, both against Ghost Whisperer on CTV.

The continuing stateside ratings surge for Pink Sky Entertainment/Avamar Entertainment’s Flashpoint — which is shot in Toronto with Canadian actors — is helping fellow Canadian producers shop additional domestic dramas in Los Angeles as CBS and rival networks take a close look at the latest in Canadian TV.

‘That’s important for producers that have Canadian shows that are well-financed, and they’re trying to make those sales in Canada and the U.S.,’ John Morayniss, president of Entertainment One Television, said Monday.