The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2020 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 11th 2019, CTV and NBC Universal International Studios, together with Montréal-based producer Sphère Média Plus, announced that production had begun on Transplant, a new one-hour Canadian television medical drama series. The series premiered on CTV on February 26, 2020. Transplant told the story of Dr. […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2019 Broadcast Medium: Television Jann was a half-hour Canadian television comedy series that premiered on CTV on March 20, 2019. It starred Canadian singer-songwriter Jann Arden as a fictionalized version of herself and was loosely based on events from her life. The cast also included Zoie Palmer, Patrick Gilmore, Deborah Grover, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2018 Broadcast Medium: Television On April 20th 2017, CTV announced from Canadian Music Week their commitment to a new, six-part music television series, The Launch ,which would premiere in 2018. The new international television format was the first TV project culminating from the partnership announced earlier between Bell Media and world-renowned […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2017 Broadcast Medium: Television On November 15th 2015 CTV announced that it had ordered a serialized, six-part, one-hour drama series titled Cardinal from Toronto-based Sienna Films and Entertainment One (eOne). The murder mystery was based on the John Cardinal Mysteries, a series of six bestselling crime novels written by Ontario native […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2017 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 1st 2016, CTV announced that it had committed to a new six-part series, The Disappearance, from Montreal-based Productions Casablanca. The series would follow the mysterious disappearance of 10-year-old Anthony Wilson, who vanished on his birthday during a treasure hunt. The Disappearance would be produced by […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2015 Broadcast Medium: Television On March 6th 2015, CTV announced the start of production on a new one-hour reality series pilot, Dream Funded: Let the Crowd Decide, to be produced by CTV in association with Entertainment One (eOne), Highway Entertainment, and United Artists Media Group. The pilot was described as the first project from Bell […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2016 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 6th 2016, CTV reaffirmed its commitment to original daytime television with the announcement of a new, daily, morning program, the live, three-hour program Your Morning. The series would premiere at the end of the summer, and would be hosted by news veteran Anne-Marie Mediwake and […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2013 Broadcast Medium: Television On March 25, 2013 CTV announced that it had ordered The Social, a one-hour, daily Canadian talk series from Bell Media In-House Productions, for the 2013/14 broadcast season. CTV said that the talk show would offer “…fresh perspective on pop culture and lifestyle topics through friendly debate and social media, email […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2013 Broadcast Medium: Television In January 10th 2013, CTV President of Programming and Sports, Phil King, announced that the network had ordered thirteen one-hour episodes of a new police drama, with the working title of Played. The premise involved following the work of an undercover police unit to be called the Covert Investigations Unit (CIU), and would feature […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2013 to 2016 Broadcast Medium: Television On May 31, 2012 CTV announced that it had ordered a new procedural drama series titled Motive from Vancouver-based Foundation Features and Lark Productions. Thirteen episodes of the one-hour drama had been ordered. Motive would follow a female Vancouver homicide detective who matched wits with killers in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game. […]