TORONTO – Bell Media-owned CTV promised new series on six out of seven nights starting this fall, including five new dramas, one dramedy and three comedies.
The broadcaster said Wednesday that 10 of the top 20 hit shows will return to the network, including The Big Bang Theory, Designated Survivor, This Is Us and Lucifer. Many of the new shows include the nine dramas and four comedies that it picked up at this year’s Los Angeles Screenings.
Also new this year is the addition of NFL games to CTV Two, which will air simulcasts of Sunday Night Football and Thursday Night Football. CTV continues to serve up NFL Sunday programming at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., all playoff games, and the Super Bowl.
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In addition, Bell Media's new independent and in-house production arm Bell Media Studios confirmed its slate of new and returning, English-language, original entertainment programming. Nineteen new original programs will be produced in partnership with independent production companies or autonomously, and the company said it will spend nearly $900M overall on French and English programming in 2017/18.
New titles earmarked for CTV include police drama The Detail; six-part mystery series The Disappearance; dramedy The Indian Detective; new original music series and format The Launch (pictured) and the new Tragically Hip documentary chronicling the band's cross-Canada 'Man Machine Poem' tour last year.
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