The Ron James Show

The Ron James Show
Set during season 3 of the show.
StarringRon James
Country of originCanada
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes53 (+ 4 New years specials)
Production
Running time22–23 minutes
Original release
NetworkCBC
ReleaseSeptember 25, 2009 (2009-09-25) –
April 14, 2014 (2014-04-14)

The Ron James Show is a Canadian television comedy show, which debuted on CBC Television on September 25, 2009.[1]

Ron James on set in 2011

Starring comedian Ron James, the show intersperses filmed and stage sketches with clips of James performing his stand-up routine. One of the show's more noted features is L'il Ronnie James, an animated recurring sketch which depicts James as a young child growing up in Cape Breton in the vein of Terry Gilliam's animation style.

On March 11, 2014, Ron James announced online that the show had been cancelled.[2][3]

Voice Actors L'il Ronnie

Seasons 1-5

L'il Ronnie James: Ron James
Pa James Mark Day
Ma James Linda Kash

Ratings

Season One

Episode Aired Audience
Episode 1 September 25, 2009 803,000
Episode 2 October 2, 2009 709,000
Episode 3 October 9, 2009 656,000
Episode 4 October 16, 2009 739,000
Episode 5 October 23, 2009 584,000
Episode 6 October 30, 2009 554,000
Episode 7 November 6, 2009 811,000
Episode 8 November 13, 2009 698,000
Episode 9 November 20, 2009 570,000
Episode 10 November 27, 2009 663,000
New Year's Eve Special December 31, 2009 828,000

Season Two

Episode Aired Audience
Episode 1 September 24, 2010 406,000
Episode 2 October 1, 2010 500,000
Episode 3 October 8, 2010 629,000
Episode 4 October 15, 2010 559,000
Episode 5 October 22, 2010 678,000
Episode 6 October 29, 2010 661,000
Episode 7 November 5, 2010 546,000
Episode 8 November 12, 2010 648,000
Episode 9 November 19, 2010 766,000
Episode 10 November 26, 2010 595,000
Episode 11 December 3, 2010 610,000
New Year's Eve Special December 31, 2010 923,000

Season Three

Episode Aired Audience
Episode 1 September 16, 2011 510,000
Episode 2 September 23, 2011 442,000
Episode 3 September 30, 2011 442,000
Episode 4 October 14, 2011 501,000
Episode 5 October 21, 2011 512,000
Episode 6 October 28, 2011 482,000
Episode 7 November 4, 2011 460,000
Episode 8 November 18, 2011 485,000
Episode 9 November 25, 2011 487,000
Episode 10 December 2, 2011 585,000
Episode 11 December 9, 2011 500,000
New Year's Eve Special January 1, 2012 883,000

Season Four

Episode Aired Audience
New Year's Eve Special December 31, 2012 939,000
Episode 1 January 7, 2013
Episode 2 January 14, 2013
Episode 3 January 21, 2013
Episode 4 January 30, 2013
Episode 5 February 6, 2013
Episode 6 February 13, 2013
Episode 7 February 27, 2013
Episode 8 March 6, 2013
Episode 9 March 20, 2013
Episode 10 March 27, 2013
Episode 11 April 3, 2013
Episode 12 April 10, 2013
Episode 13 April 17, 2013

Season Five

Episode Aired Audience
Episode 1 February 24, 2014
Episode 2 March 2, 2014
Episode 3 March 10, 2014
Episode 4 March 17, 2014
Episode 5 March 24, 2014
Episode 6 March 31, 2014
Episode 7 April 7, 2014
Episode 8 April 14, 2014

References

  1. ^ "James CBC's Air apparent". Toronto Sun, September 25, 2009.
  2. ^ Ron James [@TheRonJamesShow] (March 14, 2014). "Thnx 2 the team who 'sailed my ship' these past 5 years but there's no port in the storm 2day. We're cancelled. It's been a blast!#keepgoing" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ "Ron James on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on 2022-04-30.[user-generated source]


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