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Category: Programming Highlights
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| Programming Highlights: CTV Reveals Summer Schedule |
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on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 07:38 AM |
CTV revealed a summer schedule today starring this summer's most buzzed-about new series, High School Musical: Summer Session. The competitive reality series joins a sizzling summer schedule jam-packed with 15 new or returning series, adding up to more than 175 hours of fresh, new content to be seen seven nights a week on CTV. The schedule officially kicks off on Thursday, May 22 with the return of summertime favourite So You Think You Can Dance. Anchoring it all is summer's most-watched series, Canadian Idol, which returns for its sixth unprecedented season on Tuesday, June 3.
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| Programming Highlights: Find Out What Lengths Some Guys Will Go To For That Extra Inch in the CTV Original Documentary S&M: Short and Male |
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on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 04:31 PM |
Do height-challenged men come up short against their counterparts when it comes to love, work and life? In the new CTV Original Documentary S&M: Short and Male, short-statured filmmaker Howard Goldberg travels the world, exposing the trials and tribulations of life as a short man. As Goldberg discovers, many endure painful surgery, growth hormones, discrimination and problems attracting a partner as a result of their height. On the “heels” of its world premiere at the internationally-renowned documentary film festival Hot Docs, S&M: Short and Male will have its television premiere Saturday, May 24 at 7 p.m. on CTV.
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| Programming Highlights: Movie Fans Have Lots to Choose From This May on Teletoon |
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on Thursday, May 01, 2008 - 05:31 PM |
This month TELETOON entertains the whole family with TELETOON Presents, bringing animated movies to television screens each weekend including films starring the crime solving canine, Scooby-Doo as well as the quarrelsome Tom and Jerry.
For teens and adults, The Detour on TELETOON brings choice movies to televisions in The F’n Good Movie with animated-related films throughout the weekend including the revered Akira and cult favourite, The Dark Crystal.
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| Programming Highlights: CTV Announces the Final Three Judges for So You Think You Can Dance Canada |
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on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 05:00 AM |
CTV announced today the additional So You Think You Can Dance Canada judges set to spark dance fever across the country. Making their debut at the Halifax auditions on Monday, May 5 is star choreographer Melissa Williams from Windsor, ON, who has worked with such artists as Prince and Bryan Adams, and special guest judge Dan Karaty from the hit U.S. series So You Think You Can Dance. Calgary native Sean Cheesman, the current host and lead judge of the U.K. dance competition Dirty Dancing: Time of Your Life, will make his debut as a special guest judge in Calgary on Monday, May 12.
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| Programming Highlights: No holds barred with Bell's coverage of the first live Canadian UFC match |
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on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 02:31 PM |
We’re four days away from the big UFC event scheduled for Saturday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal and in an effort to support the ground-swell of Canadian fans, Bell is offering the most complete coverage from coast to coast. The first-ever UFC event to be broadcasted in French (SD), sports fans across the country will be able to catch all the action on Vu! Pay Per View in both SD and HD (English) and access exclusive content leading up to the fight on Canada’s leading internet portal, Sympatico.MSN.ca.
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| Programming Highlights: No One Left Behind: Canadian Idol Announces Innovative Last Chance Audition Stop on the 2008 Tour |
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on Monday, April 14, 2008 - 06:11 PM |
The day after Canadian Idol’s 2008 cross-country audition tour wrapped up in Toronto, CTV announced that the search for Canada’s next Idol is heading into cyberspace, allowing singers in any part of the country with access to a computer to audition for this year’s competition. It’s only the second time in the history of the Idol franchise that competitors have had the opportunity to audition online, marking yet another North American first for Canadian Idol. By extending the breadth of the national search, producers are now offering every eligible Canadian the opportunity for exposure and a chance to start a professional music career, no matter where they live. Beginning today and lasting until Friday, April 25 at 5 p.m. ET, online Idol competitors simply need to upload video tryouts to the Canadian Idol website, idol.CTV.ca.
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| Programming Highlights: CBC News to air more stories from Alberta |
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on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 02:25 PM |
CBC News today announced it will dramatically increase resources devoted to covering local and national news in Alberta generally and Calgary and Edmonton in particular.
Moving to fulfill a commitment to local newsgathering announced nationally last year, CBC News will be doubling the number of newsgathering resources in Alberta by adding approximately 25 new assignments for television journalists based in Calgary and Edmonton to focus on local and national stories originating in Alberta.
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| Programming Highlights: Documentary Signs Exclusive Deal With Sundance Channel |
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on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:04 AM |
CBC announced this week that its new digital channel documentary—formerly The Documentary Channel—has secured an exclusive deal to air a Sundance Channel branded block of programming which will expose Canadian audiences to the world-renowned brand and the programming associated with it. Canada’s new home for provocative and entertaining documentary programming will feature films and series produced by the U.S network as well as titles from other sources that share Sundance Channel’s spirit and vision.
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| Programming Highlights: Duel Returns for Another Battle |
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on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 04:51 PM |
The adrenaline pumping, high-stakes competition game show Duel returns with 10 new episodes airing weekly beginning Friday, April 4 at 9 p.m. ET on CTV (visit CTV.ca to confirm local broadcast times). Hosted by ESPN’s Mike Greenberg, Duel features head-to-head matches of nerve-rattling game play where contestants must use strategy to win a series of duels and collect the $500,000 jackpot. But this time around, there’s a twist.
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