The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 to 2013 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 3rd 2010, CTV announced that in 2011 it would be broadcasting Season 1 of a new international coproduction recounting the history of an infamous European family, The Borgias. The Canada/Hungary/Ireland co-production eventually premiered on April 3rd 2011 on Bravo! in Canada and on Showtime in the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 3rd 2010, the CTV network announced that popular broadcasting personality Marilyn Denis, whose CityLine series had run on City TV and the A Channel for eleven years, and who had previously hosted or co-hosted several radio morning shows, would soon have her own new one-hour celebrity […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television Following the conclusion of his very successful comedy series Corner Gas, writer-comedian Brent Butt was immediately hard at work developing a new series, Hiccups, which would star his wife and fellow Corner Gas star Nancy Robertson. Set in Vancouver, Hiccups had Nancy Robertson playing Millie Upton, a children’s author […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television After finishing the final episode of the famed CTV comedy Corner Gas, Gemini-Award winning actor Fred Ewanuik began rehearsals in the lead role of Dan for Mayor, a new half-hour CTV sitcom which debuted on March 1st 2010. Dan had had the same friends since […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television In November 2008 CTV announced that the network had ordered eleven episodes of a new police action adventure series to be called The Bridge. Bama-Alper Productions, an Entertainment One Company, and Jonsworth Productions produced a two-hour pilot in association with CTV in the summer of 2008, and […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television On March 31st 2009, MTV Canada, CTV and Free Form Productions Inc. announced that production had begun on ten episodes of an unscripted, half-hour original documentary series, to be titled Peak Season. The series would be shot in Whistler, B.C., and would “take a look at the unfiltered lives […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television CTV and production partners Fox Television Studios and Vancouver’s Omni Film Productions Limited announced on July 3rd 2009 that Defying Gravity, a new CTV drama beings hot in Vancouver, would also air on ABC in the U.S. The series premiered on ABC and CTV on August 2nd 2009. The series continued […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2008 to 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television CTV’s ratings success with the U.S. series So You Think You Can Dance prompted the network to secure the rights to produce a Canadian version, and auditions began in February 2008, ending in Toronto on June 9th. The host for the series was Leah Miller. […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television Piloted in the summer of 2006 as part of CTV’s new program development policy, The Listener received a 13-episode series commitment from the network in February 2008. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that NBC had acquired the U.S. network rights to the series, for broadcast […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2008 to 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television Originally commissioned under the working title Sniper, 13 episodes of a new one-hour drama series titled Flashpoint were commmitted to by CTV in late 2007 for broadcast in the fall of 2008. Then, in January 2008, it was announced that CBS had bought the U.S. […]