The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television At its Upfront presentation on May 31st, 2011, Global announced with pride that it had fifteen new scripted dramas planned for the 2011-2012 season, some of which would be on the Global Network, and others on Showcase. Among the former was The Firm, a series of 22 […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2012 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television Set in 1940s Toronto, Bomb Girls was originally a six x 1-hour miniseries that explored the lives of five different women who found themselves thrust into new worlds making bombs (or, for the most part, shells) on a wartime assembly line. The series premiered on Global on Wednesday January 4th 2012, and […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television At its June 2011 Upfront presentation, Global announced that Global News was working on a new live current affairs and political program, The West Block, which would be launched in September 2011. On September 7th, Global announced that the new one-hour series, The West Block would debut on Sunday […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television In May 2011 Global announced that in the Fall they would be revamping their morning programming with the introduction of a new three-hour news and information program, to be hosted by Liza Fromer. The Morning Show on-air team would also include Dave Gerry, Kris Reyes and Daru Dhillon. Bud […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 Broadcast Medium: Television In July 2010 CanWest Global announced a slate of new programming in development. One of these programs was Combat Hospital, which would bea one-hour Canada/UK co-production set in a military hospital in Afghanistan. The drama would focus on the doctors and nurses who often had to put their own […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2011 to 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television In July 2010, CanWest announced that a new series, to be titled Canada Sings, was in pre-production. For broadcast in 2011, the series would invite businesses and companies to form glee clubs from their staff, and enter them in competition befopre panels of celebrity judges. The first […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 1st 2010 Canwest Broadcasting announced that the Global Network’s fall schedule would include a new Canadian drama series starring Callum Keith Rennie. In the new series, to be titled Shattered, Rennie would play the role of Ben Sullivan, an unconventional homicide detective harbouring the secret of his battle with […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2015 Broadcast Medium: Television Broadcast Medium: Television In the spring of 2009, with a commitment from Canwest Global already in hand, Toronto producer writer Tassie Cameron secured a thirteen episode order from the U.S. ABC Network for a new one-hour police series,to be titled Copper. Cameron had already made her mark as Executive Producer […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television Ice Pilots NWT was a thirteen-part reality documentary series that debuted on the History Channel in 2009, and was then scheduled on the full Global network starting on September 24th. The series followed a group of elite pilots in Yellowknife and the extraordinary adventures of the most unorthodox […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television This Canadian version of the US syndicated series Project Runway made its debut on the Slice specialty channel in October 2007, and was moved to the parent Global network in January 2009. The reality series focused on fashion design, pitting contestants against one another to design clothes from […]