 The "Toronto Star" described it as one of CBC's "prime-time dogs" with an audience of 78,000 people.The executive Richard Stursberg was blamed for cancelling the more popular "Da Vinci's City Hall" and "This Is Wonderland" to make room for this and other shows, and in general for being a "one-man wrecking ball" for the CBC (the series "" had also flopped on CBC in 2006).On 18 September, the series finale had only 163,000 viewers, part of the perceived "shocking" low ratings CBC received that year, along with the low ratings of the documentary series "" and a mini-series about former-Quebec premier "René Lévesque".