Category: CBC Television Network

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired weekly from October 12, 2006 to November 30, 2006 This eight-part mini series dramatized one of the most important events in Canada’s history. It was the story of what was popularly known as the October Crisis. In 1970, a French Canadian group known as the Front […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday nights from July 24 to August 28, 2006. This half-hour comedy/drama took place in Canada’s North, specifically in the town of Henderson, Yukon.  One night, a meteorite fell across the sky and lands in a frozen lake just outside town.  Brian, a local resident, aw it […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired July 4 to July 13, 2006 Over the years, CBC has often dipped its programming foot into the warm waters of Daytime television. This new half-hour program debuted at 2:30 in the afternoon on the network. It was self described as “the sexy, fast-paced, daytime drama series […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesday nights at 9PM; Friday nights at 11PM. This hour-long drama was created by Chris Haddock who was also responsible for Da Vinci’s Inquest, one of the most successful and critically acclaimed dramas on CBC Television. When Da Vinci’s City Hall, the sequel to […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television The Hour, a one-hour late evening show with host George Stroumboulopoulos, debuted on CBC Newsworld in September 2005, moving to the main network in 2006.  In September 2010 it was reduced to a half-hour program, and retitled George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (q.v.). Written by Pip Wedge – March, 2011

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired weekly, on Sunday nights from September 17, 2006 to October 15, 2006.[Ten episodes; two parts each week] This documentary series was 3 years in the making by creators of Canada: A People’s History, one of the most successful and important programs on CBC television. This series […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 to 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television When the pilot for this series aired on CBC in January 2005, the results were so satisfactory that the Corporation commissioned a first series of six episodes, which debuted on the network in January 2006.   Mary Walsh (CODCO, This Hour has 22 Minutes)created, co-wrote and […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired daily, Monday through Friday, at various times. This hour-long daytime show was targeted at women and was the first such show in many years for the CBC to produce, since Take 30 left the schedule in 1982. The host was Gill Deacon, a familiar […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television A one hour pilot of Getting Along Famously aired on CBC in January 2005, and ratings were sufficiently impressive for the CBC to commission a six-half hour series to debut in January 2006. Starring in the pilot and the series were comedian Colin Mochrie and his actress […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television Debuted January 17, 2005 on CBC Newsworld, as The Hour.  Aired weeknights at 11PM. on the CBC Network, beginning in September 2006. First broadcast on Newsworld in primetime, The Hour was moved to the network after a successful run on CBC’s news channel. The program […]