The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television CTV and production partners Fox Television Studios and Vancouver’s Omni Film Productions Limited announced on July 3rd 2009 that Defying Gravity, a new CTV drama beings hot in Vancouver, would also air on ABC in the U.S. The series premiered on ABC and CTV on August 2nd 2009. The series continued […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2008 to 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television CTV’s ratings success with the U.S. series So You Think You Can Dance prompted the network to secure the rights to produce a Canadian version, and auditions began in February 2008, ending in Toronto on June 9th. The host for the series was Leah Miller. […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television Piloted in the summer of 2006 as part of CTV’s new program development policy, The Listener received a 13-episode series commitment from the network in February 2008. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that NBC had acquired the U.S. network rights to the series, for broadcast […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2008 to 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television Originally commissioned under the working title Sniper, 13 episodes of a new one-hour drama series titled Flashpoint were commmitted to by CTV in late 2007 for broadcast in the fall of 2008. Then, in January 2008, it was announced that CBS had bought the U.S. […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Whistler used the snowclad slopes of the famous resort area as the backdrop for a one-hour series chronicling the professional and personal interpolitics of residents and visitors in the wake of the death of a high-profile racing skier. The cast of this one-hour series included […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Robson Arms was a half-hour series which, the network said, promised “… to take viewers behind a new door every week at Robson Arms, a once-grand low-rise apartment building in Vancouver’s West End”. John Cassini starred as the Building Superintendent, Yuri, and the various tenants […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Jeff Seymour, who won a Best Actor Gemini Award for his work on CTV’s Eleventh Hour, co-created and starred in Jeff Ltd. as a power-mad marketing guru whose highly unconventional approach to his craft made him nothing but money – but whose ability to relate […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television For six weeks in the summer of 2005, CTV introduced a short half-hour weekly series titled eTalk Playlist, in the eTalk Daily time period. Fronted by MuchMusic alumnus and eTalk Daily host Tanya Kim (while co-host Ben Mulroney was busy with the final weeks of the network’s […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television The Alice of the title of this series was described by her shrink in Susan Juby’s books as “a hypercritical, socially-retarded narcissist with mind-numbingly poor judgment”. Alice McLeod, a very quirky 15-year-old, and her somewhat dysfunctional family, were the core around which this 13 half-hour series revolved. The […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2004 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Accurately described by CTV as “a fictionalized drama series that picks up where its real-life counterpart Canadian Idol leaves off”, CTV used smart scheduling by giving Instant Star its sneak preview debut with two half-hour episodes, 9:00 – 10:00pm, immediately following the performance finale of the […]