Author: Diba Jafarnejad

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 1998 Broadcast Medium: Television The Mighty Jungle told the story of Dan Winfield, a zookeeper who lived with his family in a large enclosed rainforest, and who on taking up his new job was amazed to find that – the animals could talk.  Vinnie, the Brooklyn Sewer Alligator, Jack, the […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television Pamela Wallin hosted this weekly half-hour series, which was in essence a television version of the magazine whose name it bore. It was first launched on CTV’s Newsworld specialty channel, and later moved to the full network.  Each episode was divided into magazine-like segments, Cover […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 1998 Broadcast Medium: Television Based on action director John Woo’s critically successful movie, the one-hour television series continued the story of two young refugees from a criminal empire in Hong Kong, who were played by Ivan Sergei as Mac Ramsey and Sandrine Holt as Li Ann Tsai, with Jennifer […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 1999 Broadcast Medium: Television One of CTV’s early successes with U.S series programming was Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek. It enjoyed far better ratings in Canada than in the U.S., largely because NBC chose to schedule it at 8:30pm for the first two years, and then at 10pm in its […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 1999 Broadcast Medium: Television This series was a television version of Canadian Living Magazine, and its adaptation to a television format was the work of producer Sidney Cohen.  The daily half-hour series featured host Samantha Houston introducing a series of guest experts in fields like food and wine, home improvement, […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1996 to 1997 Broadcast Medium: Television Mark Cullen, whose Weall and Cullen family garden centres were at one time a feature of the Toronto horticultural scene, took his gardening expertise first to CFRB radio in Toronto and then to national radio syndication.  With his easy manner and good looks he was however a […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1996 to 1998 Broadcast Medium: Television This was used as an umbrella title for brief runs of various short animated series that ran in CTV’s Saturday morning block between 1996 and 1998, including For Better or Worse, Nilus the Sandman, Bunch of Munsch and Little Lulu.

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1994 Broadcast Medium: Television This series was a weekly half-hour news digest, in a traditional newsroom setting, which ran on the YTV specialty cable channel from 1994 for several years.  It was produced as a co-production with CTV News, using both YTV and CTV facilities, and was taped at CTV. It appeared […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1995 to 1996 Broadcast Medium: Television Having achieved a high television profile as lawyer Olivia Novak in the CBC series Street Legal, Cynthia Dale jumped at the opportunity to star in her own series as a private detective working in the telegenic setting of Niagara Falls, Ontario, but the comedy-drama series […]