The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2012 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television On April 21st 2011, the CBC announced the commission of a new dramatic series for the winter 2012 season, to be titled Arctic Air. The series would be produced by Vancouver-based production company Omni Film. Omni had previously produced several series for the CBC, among them The […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television On January 6th 2010 the CBC launched a one-hour ‘comedic drama’, Republic of Doyle, about a private investigation father-and-son team in St. John’s Newfoundland. The series was shot in Newfoundland, and was created by Allan Hawco, Perry Chafe and Malcolm MacRury. The writers included Perry Chafe, Allan Hawco and Kerri MacDonald. […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television In February 2010, the CBC announced that it had picked up from E1 Television and Serendipity Point Films a new series of half-hour sitcoms based on the sucessful Paul Gross curling movie Men With Brooms, about a group of men in a small-town curling club. Executive […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television In March 2010 it was announced that the CBC had committed to a new half hour situation comedy series to be titled InSecurity. InSecurity made its debut on the Network on January 4th, 2011. InSecurity, shot in Regina by the same crew as Corner Gas and […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 Broadcast Medium: Television Fifteen years after The Kids in the Hall aired on CBC Television, the five original members of the Canadian sketch comedy team reassembled in North Bay, Ont. in 2009, to shoot a new eight-part TV series. Death Comes to Town premiered on CBC on January 12th 2010, and […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television CBC Television and Canadian Living teamed up to create “the ultimate cooking series”, which promised to be “the definitive source for quick and easy food ideas that are tested, tried-and-true winners.” The series made its debut on CBC on Monday January 4th 2010 at 3pm, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 Broadcast Medium: Television Abroad was a pilot written by Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren, based on her experiences as a London-based reporter. The storyline had Amy Pearce, a Canadian reporter, trying to understand English men while working in a junior position in a London newspaper. The lead role was […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television The new half-hour series 18 to Life debuted on the CBC on January 4th 2010. Set in Montreal, the domestic comedy depicted the trials and tribulations of Jessie and Tim, a couple that got married at the tender age of 18. Their respective parents, who were next-door neighbours and […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television This weekly drama was set in contemporary Alberta featuring two fictional families that battled for land, oil and cattle, the Henrys and the McGregors. Billed as “a tale of family loyalties, love, betrayal and alliances”, Wild Roses was also about the geography of Southern Alberta and what […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television In April 2009 the CBC announced that its fall schedule would include a half-hour 12-episode series starring comedian Ron James, and featuring sketches, animation and stand-up comedy from the star . The series debuted on CBC at 8:30pm on Friday September 25th 2009, in the time period […]