2018 in Canadian television

The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2018. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

Events

Notable events

January

Date	Event
3	CBC Television broadcasts Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen, a tribute concert to Canadian musician Leonard Cohen which took place in November 2017.
23	Bell Media announces a branding and content agreement with the American television channel Starz, which will see The Movie Network Encore rebrand as a Canadian Starz channel.[1]

March

Date	Event
TBA	Vassy Kapelos, formerly the host of Global's political news series The West Block, moves to CBC News Network as the host of Power & Politics.[2]
11	The 6th Canadian Screen Awards air on CBC.
31	Viceland ceases television distribution, after majority owner Rogers Media drops out of the venture. Branding partner Vice Media will take over the channel's Canadian assets, which will be used to produce content for the main vice.com Web site.[3]

April

Date	Event
11	After emerging from creditor protection, Canadian pay television multiplex provider Super Channel announces the rebranding of its channels as Super Channel Fuse and Super Channel Heart & Home.[4]

June

Date	Event
7	Bell Media announces its intent to launch free VOD services CTV Vault and CTV Movies on the CTV app and website in the Fall, as well as the intent to rebrand The Comedy Network, Space, the original Bravo, and Gusto, respectively, as CTV Comedy, CTV Sci-Fi, CTV Drama, and CTV Life, to align them with the branding of the CTV Television Network.[5]

August

Date

Event

27

Corus Entertainment's three stations in Southeastern Ontario, CKWS-DT in Kingston, CHEX-DT in Peterborough, and CHEX-TV-2 in Oshawa, end their program supply agreement with the CTV Television Network after 3 years and become full-time owned-and-operated stations of the Corus-owned Global Television Network. (The three stations, which had been three of the CBC's last private affiliates prior to 2015, had been airing Global's nightly newscast Global National and local variations of its Morning Show since September 2016, following Corus' acquisition of Global's former parent company Shaw Media in April 2016.)[6][7][8]

November

Date	Event
1	Bell Media rebrands the pay TV service The Movie Network as Crave, aligning it with the branding of its television streaming service Crave.[9]

December

Date	Event
31	After 17 years, Knowledge Network officially signs BBC Kids off the air.

Television programs

Programs debuting in 2018

Series currently listed here have been announced by their respective networks as scheduled to premiere in 2018. Note that shows may be delayed or cancelled by the network between now and their scheduled air dates.

Start date	Show	Channel	Source
January 10	Burden of Truth	CBC
	The Launch	CTV
January 14	The Weekly with Wendy Mesley	CBC
February 2	Crawford	CBC
February 13	Skindigenous	APTN	[10]
February 15 (digital)	This Blows	CBC
February 26	Caught	CBC	[11]
March 1	Little Dog	CBC	[12]
March 25	The Detail	CTV
April 2	Corner Gas Animated	The Comedy Network
May 12	Anaana's Tent	APTN	[13]
May 15	Carter	Bravo (original)
May 17	Where to I Do?	Gusto
June 4	ReBoot: The Guardian Code	YTV
September 10	Discussions avec mes parents	Ici Radio-Canada Télé	[14]
September 11	First Contact	APTN	[15]
September 21	In the Making	CBC	[16]
November 13	Future History	APTN
November 15	From the Vaults	CBC	[16]
Unknown date	Miss Persona	YouTube, Treehouse TV	[17]

Programs ending in 2018

Start date	Show	Channel	Source
January 30	Hard Rock Medical	TVOntario

Television films

Start date	Show	Channel	Source
September 30	Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey	Showcase
October 21	Etthén Heldeli: Caribou Eaters	Citytv	[18]

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability	Source
January 8	Donnelly Rhodes	80	Character actor best known for appearances in Soap, Battlestar Galactica, and Da Vinci's Inquest.	[19]
January 26	Jacques Languirand	86	Radio host, writer and actor (Le Colombier, Le Rebut Global).	[20]
January 29	Jay Switzer	61	Television executive for Citytv.	[21]
January 31	Alf Humphreys	64	Actor (The X Files, The Twilight Zone (the 1985 and 2002 revivals), Smallville, Outer Limits and Da Vinci's Inquest).	[22]
	Leah LaBelle	31	Canadian-born singer who competed on Season 3 of American Idol.	[23]
February 5	Manfred Joehnck	64	News anchor for CTV News Regina.	[24]
February 10	Tina Louise Bomberry	52	Mohawk actress best known for her role as Rosie Deela in North of 60 and its three follow-up films.	[25]
May 13	Margot Kidder	69	Canadian-born actress who was active in Canadian television from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s	[26]
November 11	Wayne Maunder	80	Canadian-born actor (Custer, Lancer, Chase)	[27]

Television stations

Network launches

Network	Type	Launch date	Notes
Natyf TV	Cable	June 14	French language multicultural channel

Network affiliation changes

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Previous affiliation	New affiliation	Notes/References
August 27	Kingston, Ontario	CKWS-DT	11.1	CTV	Global	[28]
	Oshawa, Ontario	CHEX-TV-2	22 (analog)
	Peterborough, Ontario	CHEX-DT	12.1

Network conversions and rebrandings

Old network name	New network name	Type	Conversion date	Notes
The Movie Network	Crave		November 1

Network closures

Network	Type	Closure date	Notes
Sundance Channel		March 1
Viceland		March 31
BBC Kids		December 31

See also

• 2018 in Canada
• List of Canadian films of 2018

References

1. "Bell Media signs deal with Starz to bring content to Canada". Canadian Press via CTV News, January 23, 2018.
2. "Vassy Kapelos to host CBC's 'Power and Politics'". Canadian Press, February 15, 2018.
3. Vlessing, Etan (January 22, 2018). "Viceland to Go Off the Air on Canada's Rogers Communications". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
4. "Allarco exits creditor protection, rebrands Super Channel". RealScreen, April 11, 2018.
5. "Bell Media Unveils CTV-branded Portfolio of Channels, Creates Next-Generation Digital Destination, and Launches New CTV Movies Service". June 7, 2018.
6. "CKWS will be a fully global station this fall". Global News. Corus Entertainment. Retrieved September 23, 2018.
7. "CHEX-TV newscasts rebranding as CHEX News on Global Peterborough". Peterborough Examiner. August 14, 2018. Retrieved September 23, 2018.
8. "'Global National,' 'The Morning Show' expanding into new areas". Global News. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
9. "CraveTV to be included in 'TMN + HBO' packages at no additional cost later this year". MobileSyrup. 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
10. Daniel J. Rowe, "Skindigenous takes tour of global ink world". Eastern Door, February 20, 2018.
11. "Here's your first look at the CBC adaptation of Lisa Moore's Caught". CBC Books, January 16, 2018.
12. "Little Dog on the little screen: New TV show set to film in St. John's". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, June 14, 2017.
13. "New Inuktitut show for preschoolers to premiere on APTN | CBC News".
14. Sandra Godin, "Québec en vedette dans la série télévisée Discussion avec mes parents". Le Journal de Québec, September 6, 2018.
15. "‘First Contact’: TV docuseries seeks to shatter Indigenous Canadian stereotypes". Global News, September 12, 2018.
16. "Upfronts ’18: CBC debuts 17 new series". Playback, May 24, 2018.
17. Mike Devlin, "Victoria native's Miss Persona hits the TV big time; Preschool program will be broadcast on Treehouse". Victoria Times-Colonist, January 12, 2019.
18. Jason Kerr, "The hunt is on in the north". Prince Albert Daily Herald, October 11, 2018.
19. "Canadian television actor Donnelly Rhodes dies at age 80". Archived from the original on 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
20. Author, radio host and philosopher Jacques Languirand dies at 86
21. Veteran Canadian TV Programmer Jay Switzer Dies at 61
22. "Actor Alf Humphreys dead at 64". Archived from the original on 2018-02-07. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
23. Former NBA Player Rasual Butler and Wife Leah LaBelle Killed In Car Crash
24. Long-time broadcaster, Manfred Joehnck, passes away
25. Tina Louise Bomberry, 'North of 60' Star, Dies at 52
26. Gittens, Hasani (May 14, 2018). "Margot Kidder, actress best known for 'Superman' movies, dead at 69". NBC News. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
27. "Wayne Maunder, Star of the 1960s Western 'Lancer,' Dies at 80". The Hollywood Reporter. 21 November 2018.
28. “CKWS-TV will be a fully Global station starting this fall”. Global News. Corus Entertainment. April 19, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2019.

External links

• List of 2018 Canadian television series at IMDb