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Canada's CTV has ordered a comedy from Modern Family and How I Met Your Mother exec producer Chuck Tatham and Schitt's Creek writer Kurt Smeaton. The broadcaster has commissioned Children Ruin Everything from Letterkenny producer New Metric Media. The series has been in development since 2016 and is set to start…

EXCLUSIVE: David Foster, the 16-time Grammy Award-winning producer, songwriter and composer, is set to be the subject of a feature documentary, David Foster: Off the Record. Barry Avrich (The Last Mogul, Prosecuting Evil) is directing the pic, which is now in postproduction from Canada’s Bell Media Studios and Melbar…

Stumptown, 9-1-1: Lone Star and Emergence are heading to Canada after CTV revealed its fall slate following the LA Screenings. The broadcaster has also bought Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson-exec produced For Life, Bob ❤ Abishola, Not Just Me, Filthy Rich, legal drama All Rise, John Slattery's thriller NExT, family comedy Out…

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian broadcaster CTV has partnered with NBCUniversal International Studios on primetime medical procedural The Transplant. The series is produced by 19-2 producer SphèreMédia Plus and NBCUniversal will hold international rights outside of Canada with a particular eye on a U.S. sale. The show will be…

CTV has acquired the new Roseanne spinoff comedy The Connors, which will anchor its Tuesday night lineup. The Conners will air on CTV at 8 PM ET/9 PM MT. "Were excited to deliver this exceptional spin-off to Canadians who made an appointment with the Conners family in record numbers earlier this year," said Mike…

Canadian broadcaster CTV has become the first international network to open the contents of its LA Screenings’ shopping spree, picking up U.S. series including The Rookie, Magnum P.I., and Grand Hotel. The broadcaster has picked seven new dramas, two dramedies, one comedy and a talk show from the Hollywood studios…

British production company Electric Ray is developing a UK version of Canadian talent contest The Launch after Bell Media and record label Big Machine struck a wide-ranging distribution deal with Sony Pictures Television. The international sales arm of the Hollywood studio will sell the format internationally, the…

CTV has acquired the new season of American Idol from FremantleMedia International for a midseason premiere. The new iteration of the singing competition with host Ryan Seacrest and judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry, and Luke Bryan will anchor CTV Two’s schedule Sundays and Mondays at 8 PM ET/ 9 PM MT, beginning March…

The same night Young Sheldon premiered on CBS as the most watched comedy series debut in 6 years, The Big Bang Theory spinoff also had a big opening in Canada where posted the biggest debut for a new comedy in ten years with an average of 3.6 million viewers, 1.5 million of them in the adults 25-54 demographic. And…

Canadian broadcast network CTV has picked up four new U.S. comedies and nine dramas from this year’s Los Angeles Screenings for the 2017-18 season. They are comedies The Big Bang Theory spinoff Young Sheldon, Me, Myself & I from CBS and Roseanne revival and The Mayor from ABC. Dramas include Shondaland’s untitled Grey…

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Campbell (The Killing) and Revenge alum Karine Vanasse have been cast as leads in CTV’s six-part one-hour drama series Cardinal (working title). The cinematic murder mystery, adapted from Giles Blunt’s novel Forty Words For Sorrow, the first of the John Cardinal Mysteries series, stars Campbell as the…

3.7 Million Portuguese Welcome Their Version Of ‘Rising Star’ With about a month and a half to go before ABC debuts its version of interactive singing competition format Rising Star, the international rollout continues. The Israeli show was a massive hit for Keshet last year, and its Brazilian iteration (Superstar)…