The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television Howie Do It was co-commissioned by Global and NBC in April 2008. Starring Howie Mandel, who was at the time the host of a major US series success Deal Or No Deal, the new one-hour prime time reality program used the hidden camera technique pioneered by Candid Camera to delude unsuspecting guests […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Originally launched on Mystery TV in September 2007, True Pulp Murder debuted on Global on Saturday January 5th 2008 at 10:30pm. This half-hour series, filmed in Vancouver, was billed as one-part documentary, one part graphic novel and one part detective drama. The concept provided for each episode to recreate […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Having sold his Witness to Yesterday series to Global, Patrick Watson cast around early in 1974 for new program ideas to offer to the fledgling Ontario network. The result was a daily half-hour show titled This Program Is About Sex, for which Watson acted as Executive Producer, and […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2008 to 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television Originally titled Search and Rescue, The Guard was a 13-part, one-hour action drama series depicting the lives of four members of the Canadian Coast Guard’s Search and Rescue team, operating in the Pacific Northwest. Shot in Squamish, B.C., the series was created by Raymond Storey and produced […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2008 to 2010 Broadcast Medium: Television Originally produced for The Movie Network and Movie Central in 2007, Durham County was a six-part drama series that had a second window on Global in 2008. It starred Hugh Dillon as homicide detective Mike Sweeney, who looked for a quieter suburban life after his partner had […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2008 to 2016 Broadcast Medium: Television Starting in the 2008-09 season, and renewed in June 2009 for the Fall, 16:9 (the title refers to the ratio of high-definition television pictures) featured host Mary Garafolo leading a team of award-winning reporters in pursuit of the stories behind the headlines, and providing profiles of Canadians […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television This true-crime series exposed some of the most notorious cons on record from across North America, covering a wide assortment of crime: fraud, bigamy, larceny, crimes of passion, and murder. Each episode chronicled their crimes from an assortment of angles, from their methods to the horrendous impact they […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2004 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Billed as a brave youth drama, Renegadepress moved to Global in 2007 for its fourth season after spending the first three on Global’s CH group of stations. Renegadepress.com followed the story of aboriginal teenager Jack Sinclair (Bronson Pelletier) and his best friend Zoey Jones (Ksenia Solo) who were […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Pretty Dangerous was a crime-documentary series that followed the harrowing,true stories of “bad girls” and the seemingly endless parade of male fools they scammed, bilked, and sometimes murdered for money. The series kicked off with the story of a notorious Toronto con artist named Tracy Sargent, a former […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television The first season of this show appeared on Global’s CH group of channels. The second season moved to Global Network in the fall of 2007 . Based upon the PAINKILLER JANE series of comic books by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, the setting was sometime in the near […]