Long day for me. Let’s get right to what you love: highlights.
Murdoch Mysteries; Shaw fun inside
It’s upfront week. The major Canadian media companies want to reveal their new wares, mostly American, to the overfed masses. To that end, most of this article is about The Comedy Network, and unrelated to the fall 2011-12 season. CTV’s unloading its big guns Thursday, but at least one major news story has already been offed.
Major news story after the jump
You saw CTV’s summer schedule. Now here’s Global’s.
Second verse, same as the first.
- Global will debut
Combat Hospital The Hot Zone Combat Hospital Tuesday, June 21 at 10:00 PM ET/PT, in simulcast with ABC.
- Rookie Blue‘s second season will begin Thursday, June 23, at 10:00 PM ET/PT. Rookie Blue is also in simulcast with ABC.
- The Kennedys will make its Global debut Monday, July 4, at 8:00 PM ET/PT, in the form of eight one-hour episodes.
- Canada Sings begins Wednesday, August 10, at 9:00 PM ET/PT.
- NBC Universal, Entertainment One and Global will develop a television adaptation of John Grisham’s The Firm for midseason 2012. The show is executive produced by Grisham and Lukas Reiter.
Other thoughts after the jump
In Short (
Bravo!:
Bravo!FACT/Bell Media, 2011) is an hour-long short-film program. I don’t understand why short films aren’t televised more often. If they are, they’re in shows like
In Short and its spiritual predecessor,
Bravo!FACT Presents. At least Bravo! still
funds new shorts,
something The Comedy Network doesn’t do enough of.
In Short‘s chief weakness reveals itself within the first viewing. In Short mostly shows clips from the shorts themselves, rather than the full shorts. In effect, this is a long-form advertisement for Bravo!FACT.
In Short’s Out Long Review
This is three-day-old news by now, but I haven’t seen much commentary on this story.
The Adventures of Tintin, a co-production between Canada’s Nelvana and France’s Ellipsanime,
will see its 39 episodes released on DVD through Shout! Factory. This “multi-year agreement” will exploit the upcoming 2011 release of
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson/Weta Digital motion-capture film.
This news is notable for the American company attached to the Adventures of Tintin DVD releases. Shout! Factory has released Canadian content before, most notably SCTV,
ReBoot
and Transformers: Beast Wars.
More Tintin after the jump
It’s almost time for summer season, the period in television where reruns abound, and Canadian filler peeks its weird little head. Among the highlights relevant to CTV’s CanCon:
- Flashpoint returns for a fourth season on Friday, June 17, at 8:00 PM ET. CTV claims a date-and-time simulcast with CBS. ”Encore” episodes currently air Fridays at 9:00 PM ET.
- Comedy Now! will begin its thirteenth season Saturday, June 4, at 10:00 PM ET. No further information has been given; I am presently looking into that.
- Dan for Mayor‘s second season premieres Sunday, June 5 at 7:30 PM ET.
- Hiccups‘ second season will have its first three episodes air Monday at 8:00 PM ET, starting May 30. The show will then move to Sundays at 8:30 PM ET, starting June 19.
- The Borgias will make its CTV broadcast debut Tuesday, June 21, at 10:00 PM ET.
- So You Think You Can Dance Canada‘s fourth season returns Monday, June 20 at 8:00 PM ET. The results shows begin Tuesday at 8:00 PM ET, starting July 5.
Other thoughts after the jump
