The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television CTV announced on November 24th 2013 that the Network would be launching a one-hour Canadian version of the successful US series Masterchef on January 20th 2014, under the title Masterchef Canada. The series would feature distinguished Canadian culinary experts Michael Bonacini, Alvin Leung, and Claudio Aprile as judges, and would […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television On Sunday, December 9th 2012, in an exclusive on-air message to Canadians during an episode of the U.S series The Amazing Race, host Phil Keoghan announced on behalf of CTV that the network had ordered The Amazing Race Canada, a Canadian-produced, complementary version of the hit international series. CTV said […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2012 to 2013 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 29th 2012, CTV announced a pilot order for a new ensemble comedy, titled Satisfaction, from Halifax’s DHX Media, written by Tim McAuliffe and produced by Michael Donovan. The cast would include Luke MacFarlane Stephanie Lemelin , Ryan Belleville, Vic Sahay and Leah Renee. […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television On November 2nd 2011, CTV announced that it had placed an order for Saving Hope, a new, one-hour original drama. The series originated with Gemini award-winning producers Ilana Frank and David Wellington. The series would be set in Toronto’s fictional Hope-Zion Hospital. CTV ordered 12 one-hour episodes in addition to the pilot, which was shot […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 to 2013 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 3rd 2010, CTV announced that in 2011 it would be broadcasting Season 1 of a new international coproduction recounting the history of an infamous European family, The Borgias. The Canada/Hungary/Ireland co-production eventually premiered on April 3rd 2011 on Bravo! in Canada and on Showtime in the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 3rd 2010, the CTV network announced that popular broadcasting personality Marilyn Denis, whose CityLine series had run on City TV and the A Channel for eleven years, and who had previously hosted or co-hosted several radio morning shows, would soon have her own new one-hour celebrity […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television Following the conclusion of his very successful comedy series Corner Gas, writer-comedian Brent Butt was immediately hard at work developing a new series, Hiccups, which would star his wife and fellow Corner Gas star Nancy Robertson. Set in Vancouver, Hiccups had Nancy Robertson playing Millie Upton, a children’s author […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television After finishing the final episode of the famed CTV comedy Corner Gas, Gemini-Award winning actor Fred Ewanuik began rehearsals in the lead role of Dan for Mayor, a new half-hour CTV sitcom which debuted on March 1st 2010. Dan had had the same friends since […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television In November 2008 CTV announced that the network had ordered eleven episodes of a new police action adventure series to be called The Bridge. Bama-Alper Productions, an Entertainment One Company, and Jonsworth Productions produced a two-hour pilot in association with CTV in the summer of 2008, and […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television On March 31st 2009, MTV Canada, CTV and Free Form Productions Inc. announced that production had begun on ten episodes of an unscripted, half-hour original documentary series, to be titled Peak Season. The series would be shot in Whistler, B.C., and would “take a look at the unfiltered lives […]