2024 in Canadian television

The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2024. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

Events

January

Date	Event	Source
11	After over 13 years on the air, Groupe TVA's only children's channel Yoopa ended operations. The channel was replaced with QUB, a TV broadcast version of Groupe TVA's Qub Radio.

February

Date	Event	Source
8	Bell Media announces significant cutbacks at the CTV News division, including the cancellation of all noon-hour and weekend local newscasts outside of a few major metropolitan markets on its CTV owned-and-operated stations, cuts to programming at CTV News Channel and BNN Bloomberg, and the cancellation of its newsmagazine W5 as a regular program.	[1] [2]

April

Date	Event	Source
9	Moi et Cie is rebranded as Témoin.
25	Amazon Prime Video announces it has reached a deal with the National Hockey League and Rogers Communications to exclusively carry national Monday night regular season NHL games (in English) during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons.	[3]

June

Date	Event	Source
6	Eastlink ends their dispute with Corus Entertainment and re-adds their specialty channels back on some new Theme Packs. While TiVo Stream customers would get all of them, TiVo Classic customers will only be able to access HGTV, Food Network, W Network, Showcase and History.
10	Rogers Sports & Media announces a multi-year agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery, under which it will assume rights to many of its factual and lifestyle television brands beginning January 1, 2025, including most prominently Discovery, Food Network, and HGTV among others, ending their long-term associations with Bell Media and Corus Entertainment specialty channels respectively. Rogers also announced an agreement with NBCUniversal to launch Bravo in Canada beginning on September 1, 2024. Corus and Bell stated that other WBD deals (Cartoon Network and Adult Swim for the former and HBO for the latter) are not affected by these changes.	[4]

July

Date	Event	Source
26–August 11	The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France airs on CBC, CBC Gem, Ici Télé, and cable networks TSN, RDS, and Sportsnet.

September

Date	Event	Source
1	After 25 years of operation, the Oprah Winfrey Network was shut down by Corus Entertainment. The channel's broadcast license was surrendered to the CRTC on October 8.
	OLN is rebranded and relaunched as Bravo, under license from NBCUniversal.
7	The Canadian Football League returns to Canadian over-the-air television for the first time in 17 years with a package of Saturday afternoon contests on CTV.	[5] [6]

October

Date	Event	Source
22	The CRTC announces the approval of Uvagut TV, an Inuktitut language television channel previously carried only in Nunavut, for national distribution by all Canadian cable and direct broadcast satellite providers, beginning January 2025.	[7]

December

Date	Event	Source
30	Corus Entertainment rebranded specialty channels HGTV Canada and Food Network Canada as Home Network and Flavour Network, respectively.	[8]
31	MTV Canada was shut down by Bell Media, with the unaired new episodes of its original programming Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, The Challenge and Ridiculousness moving over to sister channel Much.
	The WWE Network was shut down by Rogers Sports & Media, due to Netflix's new deal with the WWE taking place the next day.
	After being comfirmed by multiple TV service providers, Cooking Channel and the original Magnolia Network, both owned by Corus Entertainment, ceased broadcasting. A new version of Magnolia Network was launched under Rogers Sports & Media immediately thereafter the next day.

Programs

Programs debuting in 2024

Start date	Show	Channel	Source
January 8	MasterChef Québec	TVA	[9]
January 9	One More Time	CBC	[10]
January 10	Wild Cards		[10]
January 18	Lakay Nou	Ici TOU.TV	[11]
January 19	Late Bloomer	Crave	[12]
January 21	Sight Unseen	CTV	[13]
January 26	Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan	CBC Gem	[14]
February 5	Timber Titans	Discovery	[15]
February 7	Allegiance	CBC	[10]
February 8	The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down		[16]
February 22	Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent	Citytv	[17]
March 5	Treaty Road	APTN	[18]
March 8	Gangnam Project	CBC Kids	[19]
March 22	The Trades	Crave	[20]
April 1	Dylan's Playtime Adventures	CBC Kids	[21]
May 7	Pow Wow Chow	APTN	[22]
May 8	Hop	CBC Kids	[23]
May 30	Geek Girl	Netflix
July 12	Made for TV with Boman Martinez-Reid	Crave	[24]
August 23	Don't Even	Crave	[25]
September 2	My Haunted Hometown	T+E	[26]
September 5	House of Ali	HGTV	[27]
September 8	Old Enough! Canada	TVO	[28]
September 9	Quel talent!	Noovo	[29]
September 19	The Rebuild: Inside the Montreal Canadiens	Crave
September 20	The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal	Prime Video	[30]
September 24	Murder in a Small Town	Global	[27]
September 27	So Long, Marianne	Crave	[31]
October 2	Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby	CTV	[32]
October 8	Todd Talbot Builds: The Passive House Project	Cottage Life	[33]
October 11	The Office Movers	Crave	[34]
October 14	Barney's World	Treehouse
October 30	Anna Comes Home (Le retour d'Anna Brodeur)	Crave	[35]
December 6	The Sticky	Amazon Prime Video	[36]
December 31	Slaycation	Crave	[37]

Programs ending in 2024

End date	Show	Channel	First aired	Status	Source
January 19	Transplant	CTV	2020	Ended	[38]
March 23	W5		1966		[39]
April 2	Run the Burbs	CBC Television	2022	Canceled	[40]
May 3	CityLine	Citytv	1984	Canceled	[41]
May 8	Big Brother Canada	Global	2013	Canceled

Specials

Start date	Show	Channel	Source
March 24	Juno Awards of 2024	CBC	[42]
May 31	12th Canadian Screen Awards		[43]
September 14	2024 Canadian Country Music Awards	CTV
November 17	111th Grey Cup	CTV, TSN
December 8	26th Quebec Cinema Awards	Noovo

Networks and services

Network launches

Network	Type	Launch date	Notes
QUB	Cable and satellite	January 11
APTN Languages		September 1

Network rebrandings

Old network name	New network name	Type	Conversion date	Notes
Moi et Cie	Temoin	Cable/satellite	April 9
OLN	Bravo (new)	Cable/satellite	September 1	Operated under license from NBCUniversal.
GiNX eSports TV Canada	Super Channel Quest	Cable/satellite	September 4
Club Illico	Illico+	Cable/satellite
HGTV Canada (original)	Home Network	Cable/satellite	December 31	Outgoing rightsholders to this brand; channels operated by Corus Entertainment. New channels under this brand, operated by Rogers Sports & Media, launched on January 1, 2025.
Food Network Canada (original)	Flavour Network

Network closures

Network	Type	Closure date	Notes
Yoopa	Cable/satellite	January 11
MTV2		March 29
TV Japan		March 31	Indirectly replaced by Jme  [ jp ] direct-to-consumer streaming service
OWN Canada		September 1	U.S. programming rights transferred to Citytv+ on January 1, 2025
Vrai		October 23	Closed following integration of content into Illico+
WWE Network		December 31	Most programming rights transferred to Netflix on January 1, 2025
MTV			Most programming rights transferred to Much and/or Paramount+
Cooking Channel			U.S. programming rights transferred to Citytv+ on January 1, 2025
Magnolia Network (original)			Outgoing rightsholder to this brand; channel operated by Corus Entertainment. A new channel under this brand, operated by Rogers Sports & Media, launched on January 1, 2025.

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Sources
April 24	Bob Cole	90	Sportscaster and play-by-play voice for Hockey Night in Canada	[44]
May 15	Darren Dutchyshen	57	Sportscaster and anchor for TSN's SportsCentre	[45]
October 11	Mike Bullard	67	Comedian and host of CTV's Open Mike with Mike Bullard and Global's The Mike Bullard Show	[46]

See also

• List of Canadian films of 2024

References

1. Connie Thiessen, "Most noon, weekend CTV newscasts cancelled as part of cuts at Bell Media". Broadcast Dialogue, May 8, 2024.
2. "Bell Media planning cuts to CTV, BNN Bloomberg following BCE layoffs, sale of 45 radio stations". CTV News. February 8, 2024. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
3. "Prime Video Adds Live NHL Hockey Games in Canada," from The Hollywood Reporter, 4/25/2024
4. Connie Thiessen, "Rogers scoops Warner Bros. Discovery rights from Corus and Bell". Broadcast Dialogue, June 10, 2024.
5. "Star-Studded New Series, Returning Hits, and Live Events to Anchor CTV's 2024/25 Schedule". Bell Media . Retrieved 2024-06-06.
6. "Where to Watch: 2024 CFL Broadcast Information". CFL.ca. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
7. Kira Wronska Dorward, "CRTC approves Uvagut TV as Canada-wide Inuktut channel". Northern News Services , October 24, 2024.
8. "Corus Entertainment introduces 2 new networks, highlighting home and food". Global News, September 18, 2024.
9. Hugo Dumas, "Une recette courte, rapide et figée". La Presse , January 15, 2024.
10. Connie Thiessen, "CBC to launch two new FAST channels as part of 2023-24 programming slate". Broadcast Dialogue, June 1, 2023.
11. Chantal Guy, "Une famille bien de chez nous". La Presse , January 22, 2024.
12. Cassandra Szklarski, "CTV adds homegrown baking contest, quiz show while Crave leans into edgy comedies". Toronto Star , June 9, 2022.
13. Greg David, "Casting details announced for upcoming new CTV original drama series Sight Unseen". TV, eh?, October 12, 2023.
14. Debra Yeo, "Searching for haunted Ontario: Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan go ‘Ghosting’ on CBC Gem". Toronto Star , January 24, 2024.
15. Greg David, "New Canadian original series Timber Titans anchors Discovery’s winter programming lineup". TV, eh?, January 19, 2024.
16. "Seth Rogen, Jennifer Robertson join CBC's 'The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down'". Victoria Times-Colonist , October 30, 2023.
17. Peter White, "‘Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent’ Sets Cast". Deadline Hollywood , October 16, 2023.
18. Greg David, "Treaty Road, the ground-breaking docuseries, premieres March 5 on APTN". TV, eh?, February 1, 2024.
19. "PILLANGO PRODUCTIONS AND AIRCRAFT PICTURES ANNOUNCE K-POP INSPIRED TWEEN DRAMEDY SERIES GANGNAM PROJECT FOR CBC KIDS AND CBBC".
20. Greg David, "From the producers of Trailer Park Boys, the well-oiled and witty new Crave original comedy The Trades premieres March 22". TV, eh?, February 12, 2024.
21. "New to CBC Gem in April 2024," press release from CBC Media Centre, 3/22/2024
22. Jonathan Migneault, "Pow Wow Chow show takes viewers on a culinary tour of Ontario's Powwow Trail". CBC Sudbury, May 6, 2024.
23. "CBC Kids Boards New Preschool Comedy From Arthur Creator".
24. Greg David, "Bomanizer ventures into television with new Crave original series Made For TV with Boman Martinez-Reid, streaming July 12". TV, eh?, May 29, 2024.
25. Greg David, "Indigenous coming-of-age comedy Don’t Even debuts August 23 on Crave". TV, eh?, July 23, 2024.
26. Greg David, "T+E’s new original documentary series, My Haunted Hometown, takes viewers inside North America’s most terrifying locations". TV, eh, August 24, 2024.
27. Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Pamela Anderson, Bryan Baeumler shows among Corus’ fall/winter plans". CityNews , June 5, 2024.
28. Whittock, Jesse (January 29, 2024). "Colin Mochrie To Narrate Canadian Version Of Eye-Opening Japanese Format 'Old Enough!', In Which Toddlers Go It Alone". Deadline Hollywood . Archived from the original on January 29, 2024. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
29. Ariane Auclair-Gendron, "Noovo annonce l'arrivée d'un populaire concours de talent sur ses ondes". Showbizz, March 28, 2024.
30. Rosie Long Decter, "Tragically Hip Docuseries 'No Dress Rehearsal' Will Premiere at TIFF". Billboard , August 9, 2024.
31. Amelia Eqbal, "So Long, Marianne dives into the life of Leonard Cohen's most famous muse". CBC Arts, October 1, 2024.
32. Greg David, "New CTV original comedy Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby premieres October 2". TV, eh?, September 16, 2024.
33. Greg David, "Todd Talbot debuts new series, Todd Talbot Builds: The Passive House Project, premiering October 8 exclusively on Cottage Life". TV, eh?, September 3, 2024.
34. Greg David, "It’s moving day! From Jae and Trey Richards, the new Crave original comedy The Office Movers premieres October 11". TV, eh?, September 3, 2024.
35. J. Kelly Nestruck, "New Crave comedy Anna Comes Home throws cold water on the Emily in Paris fantasy". The Globe and Mail , October 30, 2024.
36. Andreeva, Nellie (March 22, 2023). "'The Sticky': Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos & Guillaume Cyr To Star; EP Jamie Lee Curtis To Guest Star In Amazon Series". Deadline Hollywood.
37. Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Yahoo! News , June 6, 2024.
38. "Transplant scrubs in one last time on CTV". Playback , January 16, 2024.
39. Thiessen, Connie (February 8, 2024). "Most noon, weekend CTV newscasts cancelled as part of cuts at Bell Media". Broadcast Dialogue.
40. Petski, Denise (April 25, 2024). "'Run The Burbs' Canceled After 3 Seasons". Deadline Hollywood .
41. Josh Rubin, "Citytv’s ‘Cityline’ cancelled after 40-year run, Tracy Moore moves to ‘Breakfast Television’". Toronto Star , April 30, 2024.
42. David Friend, "Nelly Furtado promises 'sexy,' 'spicy' show as host of 2024 Juno Awards". Toronto Star , November 7, 2023.
43. Alex Nino Ghechiu, "Organizers say Canadian Screen Awards will again be a pre-taped ceremony". CityNews , February 8, 2024.
44. John Gushue, "Bob Cole, the play-by-play voice of countless NHL games, dies at 90". CBC News, April 25, 2024.
45. "'A larger-than-life personality': TSN broadcaster Darren Dutchyshen dead at 57". The Canadian Press, May 16, 2024.
46. "Mike Bullard, Canadian comedian and broadcaster, dead at 67". CBC News, October 13, 2024.

External links

• List of 2024 Canadian television series at IMDb