Author: Diba Jafarnejad

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2003 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Developed by CTV in partnership with Canadian Living Magazine, this half-hour daytime series was first seen on the network in February 2003. Designed “to help keep Canadian viewers in working order”, this health and lifestyle show was hosted by Toronto physician Dr. Marla Shapiro, who […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run:  2001 to 2002 Broadcast Medium: Television One of several series produced originally for the Comedy Channel, and which subsequently played on CTV, Sausage Factory was a half-hour animated series produced in Vancouver by Nelvana and Peace Arch Entertainment Group. Promoted as “Dawson’s Creek meets American Pie”, the series showed the trials […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television One of several series that made the jump from CTV’s Comedy Channel to the main CTV network was Just For Laughs Gags, which had two seasons on the cable channel before making the big time. Owing a little to Allan Funt’s Candid Camera concept, the Just for […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 Broadcast Medium: Television Former Second City comedian-actress Jessica Holmes starred in this half-hour series, supported by Roman Danylo and Kurt Smeaton The Holmes Show had its origins in a one-hour Comedy Now! special, Holmes Alone, which won a Platinum Award in 2001 at the Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston. The […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 Broadcast Medium: Television The gestation of this series was a local daily entertainment show, enow, which debuted on CFTO-TV Toronto in the fall of 1996, as a one-hour program on Saturdays at 7:00pm. It was first hosted by Lin Elioff, followed by Carla Collins and Dan Duran.  Owing something in style and […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Another in a long line of Canadian drama series to come to CTV from the creative teams at Alliance Atlantis, who produced the highly successful series E.N.G., The Eleventh Hour also used a television studio as home base. The one-hour program dealt with the lives […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 Broadcast Medium: Television Soon after this new series made a successful debut on the Discovery Channel in the fall of 2002, it became a regular fixture in the CTV daytime schedule. Advertised as a magazine show “that brings you the world like you’ve never seen it before”, and aiming to […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television Hosted by the then rapidly becoming ubiquitous Carla Collins, Sonic Temple was a series of one-hour live performances by groups like Radiohead, Sky, Snow, Econoline Crush and Aerosmith, interspersed with interviews and a Top Twenty album chart.  Comedy was also a feature of the series, with appearances by […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2001 to 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television After two highly successful years on the Discovery Channel, The Sex Files found its way into the CTV Network schedule in the fall of 2001, while continuing to play on Discovery. Produced in a light-hearted yet scientific format, the series showcased the latest scientific findings […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2001 to 2015 Broadcast Medium: Television The popular CBC Degrassi series of the 1980s and 1990s – Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High – enjoyed a surprise rebirth when CTV announced that Degrassi: the Next Generation, with many of the original stars of the popular CBC series, would […]