The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 Broadcast Medium: Television Soon after this new series made a successful debut on the Discovery Channel in the fall of 2002, it became a regular fixture in the CTV daytime schedule. Advertised as a magazine show “that brings you the world like you’ve never seen it before”, and aiming to […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television Hosted by the then rapidly becoming ubiquitous Carla Collins, Sonic Temple was a series of one-hour live performances by groups like Radiohead, Sky, Snow, Econoline Crush and Aerosmith, interspersed with interviews and a Top Twenty album chart. Comedy was also a feature of the series, with appearances by […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2001 to 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television After two highly successful years on the Discovery Channel, The Sex Files found its way into the CTV Network schedule in the fall of 2001, while continuing to play on Discovery. Produced in a light-hearted yet scientific format, the series showcased the latest scientific findings […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2001 to 2015 Broadcast Medium: Television The popular CBC Degrassi series of the 1980s and 1990s – Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High – enjoyed a surprise rebirth when CTV announced that Degrassi: the Next Generation, with many of the original stars of the popular CBC series, would […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television Cartoonist Michael Fry created the comic strip Committed for the alternative weekly The Houston Press in 1991, and since the strip began being syndicated in 1994 it has been seen in over 100 newspapers in North America. The television rights were secured by Canada’s Nelvana and Philippine […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2000 to 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television Described by CTV as a ‘roving weekend news magazine and lifestyle show’, Good Morning Canada was a new entry to the CTV weekend schedule in September 2000. The ‘roving’ part involved the series originating from cities other than Toronto, and was produced in the studios […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 Broadcast Medium: Television A classic example of the value of cross-ownership of both a television station/network and a cable channel is demonstrated by the history of this series. Comedy Now began on the Comedy Channel on July 6th 1997. The concept was a simple one: to provide an opportunity for […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1999 to 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television Al Waxman starred in this one-hour series, and had just completed the second season’s final episode when he went into hospital for heart bypass surgery. Complications followed, and the Canadian acting community lost one of its brightest stars. Waxman played hundreds of roles in both […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 1999 Broadcast Medium: Television Louisa May Alcott’s late nineteenth-century novel, Little Women, was a best seller well into the 20th Century . She wrote several sequels, among which was Little Men, which formed the basis for this television series. Alcott’s heroine, Jo (for Josephine) March, married Professor Bhaer in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1999 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Beginning as a series of illustrated shorts for the Comedy Network’s inaugural season in 1998, this animated cartoon series starred Kevin Spencer as a “chainsmoking, alcoholic sociopath”, and its early billing was as “Canada’s answer to South Park”. The Comedy Network later ordered thirteen half-hours, […]