The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1994 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Cartoonist Ben Wicks created the illustrations for a series of small children’s books about Katie and Orbie, written by his daughter Susan. Katie was a five-year-old, experiencing all kind of things for the first time, and Orbie was her friend from another planet, to whom Katie […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1999 Broadcast Medium: Television Originally announced as in production under the title “Flesh and Blood”, this new one-hour CTV series failed under its new title despite being hailed by the Toronto Star as “gritty and sophisticated”. CTV’s own release talked of “sex and betrayal in the mansions of Rosedale”, and “greed […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1999 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television Birdz, a half-hour animated children’s half-hour series, took viewers into a school attended by pre-teen birds with human foibles and frailties – including the ability to talk! The pun-slanted episode titles included The Agony and the Eggstacy, Let the Chicks Fall Where They May, Gulls and […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television The first attempt at a Canadian drama series about hockey in some years, Power Play centred on a fictitious hockey team, the Hamilton Steelheads. Dubbed a ‘quirky comedy-drama’ by the press, Power Play offered some nifty moves both in the on-ice hockey and with the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1995 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television Producer Greg Popowich created this children’s series, which owed something in style to The Friendly Giant, and was produced in Yorkton at CTV affiliate station CICC-TV. Poetree was a talking, ten-foot tree, and his friends were Birdie, who nested in his branches, and Dan the Storyman, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2004 Broadcast Medium: Television After many years on the road as a stand-up comedian, one-time policeman and Bell Canada employee Mike Bullard was tapped to host his own late-night talk show on the CTV-owned Comedy Network, starting in the fall of 1997. So successful was the show that in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television Produced out of Vancouver, this Gemini-Award-winning daytime series featured journalist Robert Mason Lee as the frank and uncompromising host of a weekly discussion panel that tackled highly controversial subjects, and attracted a diverse range of guests. Lee received the Gemini as Best Host Or Interviewer in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television Lynda Reeves, a leading Canadian expert in style and home matters, hosted this weekday half-hour which had its gestation in Canadian House and Home magazine, and offered viewers a five-days-a-week series of insights into better living. The series premiered in September 1998, weekdays 1:00 – […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television First Story was a half-hour newsmagazine series, focusing on First Nation arts, political, social and culture issues. In addition to playing on CTV affiliates, the series was also seen on the Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN). The producers accurately described the series as “dedicated to telling the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Julie Stewart starred as Sergeant Ali McCormick in this one-hour series dealing with a crime squad that handled murder cases that had gone unsolved, hence ‘cold’, not forgotten. Despite several cast changes over the years, or maybe because of them, the series continued to draw […]