The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2004 to 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television Described by the Network as a “narrative comedy”, the half-hour series Corner Gas made its debut on CTV in January 2004, and immediately scored viewing figures of well over a million. Set in Dog River, a fictional Prairie town, the series unfolded around a gas station and […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Inspired by the true story of Ohio native Sue Thomas, this groundbreaking series followed the career of a woman, deaf since birth, who moved from analyzing fingerprints for the FBI to using her lip-reading skills to earn her a place on the Bureau’s elite surveillance […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2003 Broadcast Medium: Television With the exception of Corner Gas, which made an impressive debut in the 2003-2004 season, CTV’s history of situation comedies had been less than spectacular. Yet where the network began to scored significantly was in the field of stand-up comedy and sketches. An example of this came with the debut in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2003 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television While British television series have had limited success in North America outside public broadcasting systems like TVO and PBS, many British program formats have proved eminently adaptable to North American tastes. All In The Family was an early example. After the turn of the century, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2003 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Developed by CTV in partnership with Canadian Living Magazine, this half-hour daytime series was first seen on the network in February 2003. Designed “to help keep Canadian viewers in working order”, this health and lifestyle show was hosted by Toronto physician Dr. Marla Shapiro, who […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2001 to 2002 Broadcast Medium: Television One of several series produced originally for the Comedy Channel, and which subsequently played on CTV, Sausage Factory was a half-hour animated series produced in Vancouver by Nelvana and Peace Arch Entertainment Group. Promoted as “Dawson’s Creek meets American Pie”, the series showed the trials […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television One of several series that made the jump from CTV’s Comedy Channel to the main CTV network was Just For Laughs Gags, which had two seasons on the cable channel before making the big time. Owing a little to Allan Funt’s Candid Camera concept, the Just for […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 Broadcast Medium: Television Former Second City comedian-actress Jessica Holmes starred in this half-hour series, supported by Roman Danylo and Kurt Smeaton The Holmes Show had its origins in a one-hour Comedy Now! special, Holmes Alone, which won a Platinum Award in 2001 at the Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston. The […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 Broadcast Medium: Television The gestation of this series was a local daily entertainment show, enow, which debuted on CFTO-TV Toronto in the fall of 1996, as a one-hour program on Saturdays at 7:00pm. It was first hosted by Lin Elioff, followed by Carla Collins and Dan Duran. Owing something in style and […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Another in a long line of Canadian drama series to come to CTV from the creative teams at Alliance Atlantis, who produced the highly successful series E.N.G., The Eleventh Hour also used a television studio as home base. The one-hour program dealt with the lives […]