The Listener is a Canadian science fiction drama set in Toronto about a young paramedic named Toby Logan (Craig Olejnik) with the ability to hear people's most intimate thoughts. The series was created by Michael Amo and is produced by Shaftesbury Films for CTV and Fox International Channels. The pilot episode was directed by Clement Virgo. NBC aired the program as a Summer series in 2009 but was dissatisfied with its ratings.
It was announced on November 17, 2009 that The Listener had been renewed for a 13 episode second season. Production for the second season began almost a year after the announcement of the renewal, in September 2010, and was scheduled to end February 2011. The second season premiered February 8, 2011 on CTV and after 10 episodes CTV began broadcasting the entire show from the beginning. The remaining three episodes were eventually shown in August 2011. In the UK, all thirteen episodes ran from March 1, 2011 to May 24, 2011. It was announced on June 1, 2011 that The Listener had been renewed for a 13-episode third season. On October 4, 2011, it was announced that production on season three was under-way and was to conclude in February 2012 and that ION Television had acquired rights to the first two seasons for broadcast in the U.S. in 2012. After such success with the first two seasons, ION Television began to air Seasons 3, 4 and 5. The program was popular enough on ION that the network broadcast all available episodes and became partners with Shaftesbury, CTV, and Fox International in the production of the series. According to an ION press release, the program has averaged over 1 million viewers per episode in the USA since the network began broadcasting it. Although the shows ratings in Canada were higher in 2014 than in previous years, on August 6, 2014 CTV announced that The Listener would conclude on August 18, 2014 with its final 65th episode.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
Season 2 (2011)
Season 3 (2012)
Season 4 (2013)
Season 5 (2014)
Canadian / U.S. ratings
Season 1: 2009 # Title Canada United States Viewers(millions) WeeklyRank Note Air date Rating/Share(households) Rating/Share(18–49) Viewers(millions) Note 1 "I'm an Adult" 1.074 10 June 4, 2009 3.7/6 N/A 5.315 2 "Emotional Rescue" 1.000 14 3 "A Voice in the Dark" 0.983 15 June 11, 2009 3.0/5 N/A 4.443 4 "Some Kind of Love" 1.079 6 June 18, 2009 2.7/5 0.9/3 3.832 5 "Lisa Says" 0.798 16 July 2, 2009 2.2/4 0.9/3 3.30 6 "Foggy Notion" 0.793 23 July 9, 2009 2.2/4 0.7/2 3.24 7 "Iris" 0.871 19 July 16, 2009 2.3/4 1.1/4 3.87 8 "One Way or Another" 0.937 12 July 23, 2009 2.4/4 0.9/3 3.44 9 "Inside the Man" N/A N/AN/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 10 "Missing" 0.875 15N/A N/A N/A N/A 11 "Beginning to See the Light" 0.894 9N/A N/A N/A N/A 12 "The 13th Juror" 0.739 19N/A N/A N/A N/A 13 "The Journey" 0.843 19N/A N/A N/A N/A
Season 2: 2011 # Title Canada Viewers(millions) WeeklyRank Note 14 "Lady in the Lake" 0.812 N/A 15 "Crime Seen" 0.884 N/A 16 "In His Sights" 0.861 N/A 17 "The Brothers Volkov" "close to1.1" N/A 18 "Inner Circle" "close to1" N/A 19 "The Magician" 0.996 N/A 20 "Ace in the Hole" 0.851 N/A 21 "Vanished" 0.996 N/A 22 "Jericho" 0.940 N/A 23 "Desperate Hours" 0.873 N/A 24 "To Die For" 0.595 N/A 25 "Eye of the Storm" 0.876 28 26 "Reckoning" 0.940 22
Season 3: 2012 # Title Canada Viewers(millions) WeeklyRank Note 27 "The Bank Job" 1.090 12 28 "Cold Case Blues" 1.018 16 29 "Curtain Call" 0.988 18 30 "The Taking" 1.149 11 31 "Rogues' Gallery" 0.864 25 32 "She Sells Sanctuary" 0.971 15 33 "Poisoned Minds" 0.812 29 34 "Now You See Him" 0.882 28 35 "Crossed" 1.099 18 36 "Lockdown" 1.042 19 37 "Captain Nightfall" 1.073 18 38 "The Bro Code" 0.948 20 39 "The Shooting" 1.076 16
Season 4: 2013 # Title Canada Viewers(millions) WeeklyRank Note 40 "Blast from the Past" 0.951 17 41 "The Blue Line" 0.845 19 42 "Early Checkout" 0.936 19 43 "Cold Storage" 0.929 20 44 "Buckle Up" 0.708 26 45 "Witness for the Prosecution" 0.947 17 46 "Caged In" 0.841 25 47 "The Illustrated Woman" 0.925 20 48 "Love's a Bitch" 0.977 18 49 "The Long Con" 1.172 11 50 "House of Horror" 1.090 16 51 "False I.D." 1.163 12 52 "Fatal Vision" 1.050 14
Season 5: 2014 # Title Canada Viewers(millions) WeeklyRank Note 53 "The Wrong Man" 0.957 18 54 "The Lockup" 0.928 18 55 "Dancing With The Enemy" 0.961 17 56 "Smoke and Mirrors" 1.075 11 57 "Game Over" 1.163 12 58 "Man in the Mirror" 1.097 13 59 "Amuse Bouche" 1.114 15 60 "White Whale" 1.055 17 61 "The Fugitive" 1.139 15
References
External links at ctv.ca