The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television At its June 2011 Upfront presentation, Global announced that Global News was working on a new live current affairs and political program, The West Block, which would be launched in September 2011. On September 7th, Global announced that the new one-hour series, The West Block would debut on Sunday […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television In May 2011 Global announced that in the Fall they would be revamping their morning programming with the introduction of a new three-hour news and information program, to be hosted by Liza Fromer. The Morning Show on-air team would also include Dave Gerry, Kris Reyes and Daru Dhillon. Bud […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television In July 2010 CanWest Global announced a slate of new programming in development. One of these programs was Combat Hospital, which would bea one-hour Canada/UK co-production set in a military hospital in Afghanistan. The drama would focus on the doctors and nurses who often had to put their own […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 to 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television In July 2010, CanWest announced that a new series, to be titled Canada Sings, was in pre-production. For broadcast in 2011, the series would invite businesses and companies to form glee clubs from their staff, and enter them in competition befopre panels of celebrity judges. The first […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 1st 2010 Canwest Broadcasting announced that the Global Network’s fall schedule would include a new Canadian drama series starring Callum Keith Rennie. In the new series, to be titled Shattered, Rennie would play the role of Ben Sullivan, an unconventional homicide detective harbouring the secret of his battle with […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2015 Broadcast Medium: Television Broadcast Medium: Television In the spring of 2009, with a commitment from Canwest Global already in hand, Toronto producer writer Tassie Cameron secured a thirteen episode order from the U.S. ABC Network for a new one-hour police series,to be titled Copper. Cameron had already made her mark as Executive Producer […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television Ice Pilots NWT was a thirteen-part reality documentary series that debuted on the History Channel in 2009, and was then scheduled on the full Global network starting on September 24th. The series followed a group of elite pilots in Yellowknife and the extraordinary adventures of the most unorthodox […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television This Canadian version of the US syndicated series Project Runway made its debut on the Slice specialty channel in October 2007, and was moved to the parent Global network in January 2009. The reality series focused on fashion design, pitting contestants against one another to design clothes from […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television Howie Do It was co-commissioned by Global and NBC in April 2008. Starring Howie Mandel, who was at the time the host of a major US series success Deal Or No Deal, the new one-hour prime time reality program used the hidden camera technique pioneered by Candid Camera to delude unsuspecting guests […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Originally launched on Mystery TV in September 2007, True Pulp Murder debuted on Global on Saturday January 5th 2008 at 10:30pm. This half-hour series, filmed in Vancouver, was billed as one-part documentary, one part graphic novel and one part detective drama. The concept provided for each episode to recreate […]