The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Whistler used the snowclad slopes of the famous resort area as the backdrop for a one-hour series chronicling the professional and personal interpolitics of residents and visitors in the wake of the death of a high-profile racing skier. The cast of this one-hour series included […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Robson Arms was a half-hour series which, the network said, promised “… to take viewers behind a new door every week at Robson Arms, a once-grand low-rise apartment building in Vancouver’s West End”. John Cassini starred as the Building Superintendent, Yuri, and the various tenants […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Jeff Seymour, who won a Best Actor Gemini Award for his work on CTV’s Eleventh Hour, co-created and starred in Jeff Ltd. as a power-mad marketing guru whose highly unconventional approach to his craft made him nothing but money – but whose ability to relate […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television For six weeks in the summer of 2005, CTV introduced a short half-hour weekly series titled eTalk Playlist, in the eTalk Daily time period. Fronted by MuchMusic alumnus and eTalk Daily host Tanya Kim (while co-host Ben Mulroney was busy with the final weeks of the network’s […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television The Alice of the title of this series was described by her shrink in Susan Juby’s books as “a hypercritical, socially-retarded narcissist with mind-numbingly poor judgment”. Alice McLeod, a very quirky 15-year-old, and her somewhat dysfunctional family, were the core around which this 13 half-hour series revolved. The […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2004 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Accurately described by CTV as “a fictionalized drama series that picks up where its real-life counterpart Canadian Idol leaves off”, CTV used smart scheduling by giving Instant Star its sneak preview debut with two half-hour episodes, 9:00 – 10:00pm, immediately following the performance finale of the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2004 to 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television Described by the Network as a “narrative comedy”, the half-hour series Corner Gas made its debut on CTV in January 2004, and immediately scored viewing figures of well over a million. Set in Dog River, a fictional Prairie town, the series unfolded around a gas station and […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Inspired by the true story of Ohio native Sue Thomas, this groundbreaking series followed the career of a woman, deaf since birth, who moved from analyzing fingerprints for the FBI to using her lip-reading skills to earn her a place on the Bureau’s elite surveillance […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2003 Broadcast Medium: Television With the exception of Corner Gas, which made an impressive debut in the 2003-2004 season, CTV’s history of situation comedies had been less than spectacular. Yet where the network began to scored significantly was in the field of stand-up comedy and sketches. An example of this came with the debut in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2003 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television While British television series have had limited success in North America outside public broadcasting systems like TVO and PBS, many British program formats have proved eminently adaptable to North American tastes. All In The Family was an early example. After the turn of the century, […]