The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2008 to 2010 Broadcast Medium: Television Debuted: Monday January 7, 2008 at 9PM Billed as “a new hard-driving drama series set against the backdrop of today’s turbulent world”, The Border was the story of a team of elite customs and security agents whose main responsibility was the protection of the Canada-U.S. […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Debut October 11, 2007 at 7:30PM This was a 13 part series about genealogy. It featured profiles of familiar Canadians and the history of their respective family trees. Those who took part included Don Cherry, Margot Kidder, Mary Walsh, Scott Thompson, Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, Steven […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2010 Broadcast Medium: Television Considered an “epic” by the CBC, this dramatic series was inspired by HBO’s “Rome”. It was a melodrama set in the Tudor period of Henry VIII featuring the lives and loves of the rich aristocracy. CBC described it as an “epic soap filled with sex, romance, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2004 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Debut October 3, 2007 at 8:30PM Following the remarkable success of The Amazing Race on CBS, Phil Keoghan, host and creator, developed a new Canadian program designed to breakdown the barriers people impose on themselves. No Opportunity Wasted featured Canadian contestants who were given 72 […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television Debuted January 9, 2007. This half-hour comedy became one of CBC’s biggest hits in its history. It was a very contemporary comedy reflecting the Canadian cultural landscape in a new way. The show was the story of a small Muslim community interacting with the people […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Debuted October 14, 2007 at 7PM Produced in Calgary, this series was based on the successful books about the Fleming family of Hudson, Alberta. Heartland was the name of the place where injured or abused horses went to recover and be re-located. Its slot on Sunday nights continued […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1965 Broadcast Medium: Television Debut October 4, 2007 at 9PM This series, dedicated to documentary filmmakers, maintained a long-standing commitment by CBC to Canadian producers and directors, to broadcast their work. This series provided the same kind of informative and entertaining documentaries reflecting a Canadian point-of-view as such series as Compass in 1965 and […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Air Farce Live was the new title give to Royal Canadian Air Farce (q.v.) at the start of the 2007-2008 broadcast season. (Fridays, 8:00pm) Written by Pip Wedge – October, 2007
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television Launched Tuesdays at 9PM and Wednesdays at 10PM in July 2006. This hour long series was under the banner of “Factual Entertainment”, the new division of CBC Television dedicated to the phenomenon of so-called reality shows. This show, produced by ABC, was simulcast with the American Network. For […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Debuted October 9, 2006 This half-hour comedy was an English version of a French program, popular in Quebec. It was the story of a journalist and a former sports writer who worked for a third-rate Toronto lifestyle magazine. Moses Znaimer and Jocelyn Deschênes created the show, […]