The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2014 to 2015 Broadcast Medium: Television On May 29th 2014 the CBC announced that a new western drama series, Strange Empire, would debut on the network on Mondays at 9:00 pm. Set in 1869 Alberta-Montana border country, Strange Empire was a Western whose heroes were women. With most of the men gone, and […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television On February 11th 2014, the CBC and Not A Real Company Productions Inc. announced the planned production of a new “audacious” half-hour comedy series to be titled Schitt’s Creek. The series would star Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Chris Elliott. The series had been created by Eugene Levy […]
Network: Speciality Channel Broadcast Run: 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television On May 31st 2011, The Food Network announced the introduction of a new Canadian prime time series to their Fall 2011 schedule. Recipe to Riches was a new one-hour reality series, in which Canadians with unusual and innovative new recipes competed for the right to have their recipe chosen as a new […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2013 Broadcast Medium: Television As part of the major deal Rogers Media made in November 2013 to acquire all Canadian broadcast rights to NHL Hockey, it was announced on June 3rd 2014 that, in addition to Hockey Night In Canada on Saturdays, to be produced by Rogers but carried by the CBC, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2014 to 2015 Broadcast Medium: Television The CBC fall 2014 schedule announced on May 29th included a new one-hour series, Canada’s Smartest Person, on Sundays at 8:00 pm. The format would provide an opportunity for Canadians from across the country to participate in revealing intelligence challenges that went beyond the average […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television On May 21st 2013, the CBC announced that Terry Fallis’s novel The Best Laid Plans would form the basis of a new CBC one-hour series of the same title, to be broadcast in the 2014 winter season. The Best Laid Plans would be “a humorous and satirical […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Produced by Shaftesbury Films, the Murdoch Mysteries series made its debut on CITY-TV on January 24th 2008, and ran for thirteen episodes through to April 2008. Series Two ran from February through May 2009, Series Three from February through May 2010, and Series Four began on CITY-TV […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television Four Rooms was a new series that joined the CBC Television Network schedule on January 5th 2014 at 8 pm. The premise of the show was simple: members of the public came from across Canada with prized possessions that they thought could be worth a fortune. Waiting in the […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2013 Broadcast Medium: Television On May 21st 2013 the CBC announced that a new one-hour crime drama would be added to the Network schedule in the fall. Crossing Lines would be an action-packed series about a police unit that “specialises in cross-border crimes and brings global criminals to justice”. Casting announced […]
Network: Speciality Channel Broadcast Run: 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television The twelve-part period drama Titanic: Blood and Steel dealt with the story of the design, creation and building of what at the time was the largest vessel ever built, and the peple who gave life to its creation. The series starred Neve Campbell, Kevin Zegers, Chris Noth and Derek Jacobi, […]