CTV Winter 2020 schedule

[mtlguy]

Transplant goes to Wednesday at 9pm, February 26th. Also in French on VRAK at 10pm.

https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/transplant-premiere-feb-26/

[lostjon]

Transplant goes to Wednesday at 9pm, February 26th. Also in French on VRAK at 10pm.
https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/transplant-premiere-feb-26/

So Transplant replaces Criminal Minds on the schedule and with its run of 13 episodes, should take it right through to the end of the regular season in May.

With Magnum, P.I. on hiatus, that opens up a regular slot for Ellen's Game of Games, beginning Friday, Februrary 7 at 9:00pm. Aside from one episode that aired back on Tuesday, January 7 in simulcast, there are four episodes on the shelf (including a bonus episode from that evening). They had plans to air episodes on Sunday nights but that got scrapped with all the playoff football games taking over. CTV will be airing a new episode on Tuesday, February 4 at 8:00pm in simulcast with NBC, as The Resident is pre-empted for that evening only.

American Housewife is off the schedule for the month of February ahead of its move to Wednesdays, so CTV is moving Outmatched (post-FOX) to Fridays at 8:00pm and pairing it with what else...a Big Bang rerun. Mind you, that's not going to last long since Shark Tank moves back there starting Friday, February 28.

My intial thought was that CTV would keep Wednesday 9:00pm as a sitcom block to pair it maybe with Jann, but with Transplant now there, it probably ends up going back to CTV2 for simulcast.

There are holes to be filled on Tuesday at 9:00pm and Monday 10:00pm once This Is Us and The Good Doctor wrap up their runs on March 24 and March 30 respectively.

Finally, Stumptown has 20 episodes - 14 of them have already aired with pre-emptions on January 29 and March 11. ABC has the season finale tentatively scheduled for April 1. Starting April 8, it will be replaced with the revival of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, featuring celebrity contestants playing for their charities and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

[mtlguy]

Cardinal will probably then take the Monday 10pm as it is only 6 episodes and with The Good Doctor ending later than This is Us, would make sense, scheduling wise. But that is alos depending on what Fox plans to air Wednesday at 9pm when Lego ends (this could be 4-6 epsiodes if matchingn the UK version), most likely one of the 2 shoes CTV also has, Filthy Rich or neXt, and that could move Transplant to 10pm or also Monday 10pm.

[InMontreal]

Fox scheduled a Resident rerun on tue Feb 11, while ABC has a Conners live (ET) episode that night, so, obviously for CTV... but what about 8:30pm? Nope, not a TBBT rerun (ouf!), but a pre-release of Goldbergs, which allows them to simsub TBBT rerun strip at 7:30pm on wednesday.

Speak of the devil, guess what CTV scheduled on tuesday Feb 4th while all 4 US networks are stuck with State of the Union starting at 9pm ET? Nope, not a Star Wars movie (Global's got it!)...

[mtlguy]

Advanced listing has American Idol back on CTV2 on Feb 16th.

[InMontreal]

On web Feb 19, CBS has the 2-hours Criminal Minds series finale, therefor ABC's Stumptown will air in pre-release at 7pm on CTV (and Goldbergs is nowhere to be found). Rogers' Citytv programmers haven't figured out yet NBC pre-empts the Chicago lineup for a Democratic Debate that same night.

As expected on sat Feb 22, Fox is burning off the last 2 episodes of Almost Family which will be simsubbed by CTV2, while CTV has cancon-filler Carter at 8pm and simsubs a AGT rerun with NBC.

[mtlguy]

Citytv will probably show repeats of the Chicagos, that is why they are still scheduled I presume. It does very well for them, showing repeat would probably do betterr than anything else they have.

[InMontreal]

CTV is moving Outmatched (post-FOX) to Fridays at 8:00pm and pairing it with what else...a Big Bang rerun. Mind you, that's not going to last long since Shark Tank moves back there starting Friday, February 28.

And... 5 weeks in, the sitcom dumped in a friday night death slot hasn't scored anywhere in BBM's Top 30, so it ends up as the only 1st run program on CTV2 that night, in simulcast, starting this week.
American Housewife returns March 18 on ABC... and most likely CTV2.

March 6th update: American Housewife is indeed in simulcast on CTV2 starting March 18 :
8pm: Goldbergs (s-ABC)
8:30: TBBT
9pm: Seinfeld
9:30 American Housewife (s-ABC)
10pm: CM

ABC shelved Single Parents which returns Apr 15, the week after Modern Family's 1-hour series finale on Apr 8th. Global scheduled Schooled at 9:30pm in post-release, but they'll obviously simsub CBS's Seal Team from there and shelf Schooled again.

[InMontreal]

That's odd. On March 9, CTV will simsub Fox's "9-1-1 Lone Star" 2-hours season finale, but as of writing this, instead of simsubbing a new episode of ABC's "Good Doctor", they scheduled CBS's "All Rise" in post-release at 10pm. Bob Hearts in pre-release at 7:30pm, and CTV2 has the usual CM filler. Look at that, on Wed Mar 11, ABC has a Modern Family marathon therefor the 10pm slot has TBBT reruns on CTV. On March 16, Good Doctor is a rerun on ABC, which CTV will simsub according to Zap2It.

On the latest Numéris/BBM Top 30 Ratings (week of Feb 10-16, 2020), Good Doctor is #1 show, while All Rise is #19. I think the only smart scheduling Bell Media employee is on vacation somewhere and the rest of the team has no idea what to do...

5pm Edit: Good Doctor back in simsub, and an unspecified All Rise episode scheduled wednesday 10pm. Yay! Two less TBBT fillers on CTV this week! :p

[InMontreal]

CARDINAL Soars Higher Than Ever With Icy-Hot Season 4, Mondays at 10 p.m. ET Starting April 6 on CTV
https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pr...pril-6-on-ctv/

It's taking over the Good Doctor timeslot, whose season finale is set for March 30th. ABC scheduled "Baked & the Beauty" in there, picked up by Citytv right after NBC's Manifest ends.

Wait, whose canadian broadcaster picked up NBC's Songland again?

[InMontreal]

Lester Holt to Anchor a Live Primetime Broadcast, "NBC News Special Report: Coronavirus Pandemic"
The one-hour special will air in place of "Law & Order: SVU" on Thursday, March 19 at 10:00/9:00c.
http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2020/...20200316nbc02/

CTV might go with either 2xTBBT reruns, a Criminal Minds rerun, or a CTV News Coronavirus special.

Thu update: And the winner is... 2xTBBT. Thanks for participating! (...and more primetime TBBT fillers in the week of March 30th).

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CTV Delivers One-Hour Special CTV NEWS: 20 QUESTIONS ON COVID-19, Airing Monday, March 23 at 9pm.
https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pr...nday-march-23/

... in lieu of an All Rise rerun simsub. Similarly, Global has a 1-hour special at 10pm in lieu of a Bull rerun simsub.

[mtlguy]

CTV picked up the revival of Who Wnats to Be A Millionnaire. Wednesdays at 10pm, April 8th.

https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pr...ering-april-8/

Looks like they are skipping the preview premiere next Monday at 10pm on ABC. Probably will be shown elsewhere at some point.

[CDN Viewer]

CTV picked up the revival of Who Wnats to Be A Millionnaire. Wednesdays at 10pm, April 8th.

https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pr...ering-april-8/

Looks like they are skipping the preview premiere next Monday at 10pm on ABC. Probably will be shown elsewhere at some point.

Monday is not the premiere, its a 1hr special retrospective on the show.

The new 8-episode revival begins on Wednesday so they will be airing it from the start.

[InMontreal]

CBS cancelled God Friended Me. TVLine said filming in NY was hatled due to coronavirus, but they somehow managed to wrap eps 21 & 22 which will both air Apr 26 on CBS at 8pm & 9pm respectively.

That night, CTV simsubs GFM at 8pm, NBC's Zoey at 9pm and ABC's Rookie at 10pm. Considering GFM ain't a BBM Top 30 show (but neither is freshman Zoey), and Bell dumped January 5th episode 11 to CTV2, I presume CTV is gonna hold on to Ep22 and burn it on sunday May 3rd. Get ready for more TBBT marathon fillers in may.

Apr 21st EDIT : GFM finale will air sunday May 3rd on CTV, leading to NBC's Zoey's season finale in simsub and ABC's Rookie simsub at 10pm.

Apr 22nd EDIT : CTV's official website now lists 2-hours series finale of GFM Apr 26, and 2-hours season finale of Zoey May 3rd.

[mtlguy]

Transplant is moving to 10pm starting next week, April 29th, as The Masked Singer is now 2 hours with it's aftershow.

[InMontreal]

Speaking of Transplant, series regular Laurence Leboeuf shared a scene with Catherine Bérubé, and through dialogue somehow recognize her from "Station 19". This has nothing to do with Grey's Anatomy spinoff, but with police series "19-2". Both played the role of Audrey Pouliot, Bérubé in the original version and Leboeuf in the english version.

[mtlguy]

The final episodes of American Idol are going to be on both CTV and CTV2 starting this Sunday.

[InMontreal]

Speaking of Transplant

Transplant: NBC Acquires Season 1 of Canadian Medical Drama
https://tvline.com/2020/05/14/transp...n-1-order-nbc/