The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1960 to 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television Having won a Canadian Film Award in 1960 in syndication, this series later moved to the CBC, where it aired Saturdays at noon from October 5, 1963 to March 28, 1964. Hammy Hamster was one of the country’s most beloved rodents on national television. He made his […]
Network: Broadcast Run: 2020 This documentary series debuted on CBC on Sunday January 5th at 8pm. The one-hour programs offered a look at Canada’s resilient, vibrant northern communities and the determined men and women who helped provide their lifeline to the outside world. These groups were linked together by the summer sealift, when ships loaded […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2019 Broadcast Medium: Television A new half-hour sketch comedy series, Tallboy premiered on CBC September 17th 2019. It starred the four members of acclaimed Toronto-based sketch comedy troupe TallBoyz II Men – Vance Banzo, Guled Abdi, Franco Nguyen, and Tim Blair, who alternated between playing heightened versions of themselves and sliding […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2019 Broadcast Medium: Television Coroner was a one-hour drama about Jenny Cooper, a coroner who investigated unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny was a newly-widowed single mother, and was played by Serinda Swan, with Roger Cross in a co-starring role. The one-hour series premiered […]
Network: Broadcast Run: 2019 In The Making was created and hosted by Sean O’Neill, who “took Canadians around the world for an intimate and story-driven journey inside the creative process of Canada’s leading artists.” The eight-half-hour series premiered on Friday, September 21, 2018, with individual episodes broadcasting weekly each Friday at 8:30 p.m on CBC. […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2017 Broadcast Medium: Television The Great Canadian Baking Show was CBC’s homegrown take on the hit UK format The Great British Bake Off. The series premiered November 1, 2017 on CBC, and brought together 10 amateur bakers from across the country to compete in a series of themed culinary challenges that celebrated their diverse backgrounds, families […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2017 Broadcast Medium: Television On January 16th 2016 the CBC announced the impending production of a new series to be based on the classic Anne of Green Gables. A female-led team of award-winning producers had signed on to create a new version of the Lucy Maud Montgomery classic simply entitled Anne, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2017 Broadcast Medium: Television Starring Lauren Lee Smith, the CBC’s eleven one-hour series of Frankie Drake Mysteries followed a Toronto female private detective in the 1920s as she took on a series of difficult cases the police had problems handling. She proved skillful at solving cases, but her brand of justice […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2016 to 2021 Broadcast Medium: Television On March 4th 2015, the CBC announced that they had committed to Thunderbird Films and Soulpepper Theatre for the production of a series of thirteen half-hour comedies adapted from the award-wining play Kim’s Convenience, co written by Ins Choi and Kevin White. The story featured […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2016 Broadcast Medium: Television After the cancellation of the Gill Deacon Show in 2007, CBC programmers still wanted to feature a daytime lifestyle program targeted at women. The new show would feature two familiar faces, Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman from The Designer Guys, a daytime show that had been popular on HGTV […]