Author: Rajwinder Kaur

Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television The Best Years was an original drama from Global Television and Aaron Martin (writer/executive producer, Degrassi: The Next Generation), capturing the highs and lows of campus life and growing up through the eyes of six college freshmen as they transitioned from being teenagers to young adults.  Though a Canadian production, the […]

Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television This was a five-episode Canadian version of the U.S. hit TV game show series. More than 5,000 adult contestants applied to be part of the show, willing to test their grade school smarts for a chance to win $1 million dollars.  Each show typically featured just one or two contestants […]

Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television The Jane Show was a 13-episode, half-hour original comedy which kicked off  Global’s Summer ’06 primetime schedule. Teresa Pavlinek (a Second City alumnus, plus History Bites, The Sean Cullen Show) starred as Jane Black, a thirty-something novelist who gave up her dream and joined the normal working […]

Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television his original 18-part documentary series was created to reveal extraordinary and uniquely Canadian perspectives about socially relevant issues affecting Canadians.  With Global National’s news anchor Kevin Newman, the show profiled Canadian stories and personalities that lay behind the everyday headlines.  Each one-hour show was independently produced by some of […]

Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television One of Canada’s most popular television personalities and home decorators with her own long-running television series, Debbie Travis, created a new primetime reality show series, but with a twist.  Travis brought together 12 young Canadians between the ages of 20 and 30 who needed a break or were just […]

Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television This 10-part reality series, which began airing in the summer of 2005, subjected unsuspecting office temporary workers to ridiculous office scenarios.  Each week, newly hired temps showed up for work at various locales, believing they were starting a real job.  But it was all a hoax.  Everyone on staff […]

Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Hosted by Global’s Cheryl Hickey, Last Chance for Romance was a documentary series, produced by Frantic Films, which profiled couples experiencing relationship problems. Filmed at a five-star Sandals resort in the Caribbean, couples worked with one of Canada’s leading therapists, Joe Rich, on dealing with their problems and trying to bring […]

This half-hour show, based on the popular Canadian House & Home magazine, brought a new look to decorating and design shows.  Home design guru and publisher of Canadian House and Home, Lynda Reeves investigated both sides of the most talked about design debates by taking viewers into the best homes in the country, including her own. In […]

Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television In partnership with its popular U.S. counterpart Entertainment Tonight (ET), Entertainment Tonight Canada (ET Canada) was an entertainment newsmagazine show that began on Global Television in fall 2005.  The daily half-hour show was hosted by Global entertainment veteran reporter Cheryl Hickey, along with co-host  Rick Campanelli (former MuchMusic VJ), and […]