The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2021 Broadcast Medium: Television On February 27th 2010 Global announced today principal photography and casting for a new legal drama, Family Law, would begin With filming beginning March 2 in Vancouver, Family Law would be produced by Seven24 Films and Lark Productions, created by Canadian award-winning author Susin Nielsen, with Jordan […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2020 Broadcast Medium: Television On November 12, Global announced that their new original 10 – 1-hour medical dramaNurses would premiere on the network on Monday, January 6 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. From Entertainment One (eOne) and ICF Films, the coming-of-age series followed five young nurses working on the frontlines of a busy downtown Toronto hospital, […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2017 Broadcast Medium: Television The one-hour Ransom series, starring Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor, Brandon Jay McLaren and Sarah Greene, premiered on Global on January 1st 2017 and the first season ran for thirteen episodes, concluding on April 13th 2017. It was inspired by the exploits of top crisis negotiator Laurent Combalbert, […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2016 Broadcast Medium: Television Inspired by the novel “The Code” by GB Joyce, Global’s new series Private Eyes debuted on the network on May 26th 2016, and ran to July 28th. The 10-episode procedural drama was filmed and set in Toronto, and followed ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade, played by Jason […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2017 to 2019 Broadcast Medium: Television Entertainment One, Cameron Pictures Inc. and Corus Entertainment announced on July 13th 2016 that principal photography had begun on Mary Kills People, a new Global original series starring Caroline Dhavernas, Jay Ryan, Richard Short, Lyriq Bent, Greg Bryk, Abigail Winters and Charlotte Sullivan. Mary Kills People was created by Tara […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television On May 30, 2012, Shaw Media announced that they had concluded a deal to produce a Canadian version of the popular US Big Brother series, and would team up with Canada’s Insight Productions on the production of the series. Big Brother Canada would be scheduled on the Shaw Media Slice specialty […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2014 to 2015 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 4th 2013 Global announced that a new drama series had been commissioned for the network, under the working title of Remedy. From creator and executive producer Greg Spottiswood, Remedy was described as a unique, high-stakes medical drama that would go beyond the operating room and the […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 4th 2013 Global announced that a new comedy, Working the Engels would be scheduled during mid-season. Working the Engels would come from writers Jane and Katie Ford. In this comedy, a family of ne’er-do-wells would band together to keep their heads above water when their father and breadwinner passed […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television At its Upfront presentation on May 31st, 2011, Global announced with pride that it had fifteen new scripted dramas planned for the 2011-2012 season, some of which would be on the Global Network, and others on Showcase. Among the former was The Firm, a series of 22 […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2012 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television Set in 1940s Toronto, Bomb Girls was originally a six x 1-hour miniseries that explored the lives of five different women who found themselves thrust into new worlds making bombs (or, for the most part, shells) on a wartime assembly line. The series premiered on Global on Wednesday January 4th 2012, and […]