CANADIAN TELEVISION IS ABOUT TO GET TWISTED
Newly Branded Channel Twist TV Launches November 1
With Packed Schedule of Exclusive Series
Twist TV will be Available in Over 5.7 Million Homes
During the Month of November
Toronto. October 12, 2010 – Television is about to get twisted. November 1 marks the launch of
Twist TV, the newly branded channel all about real life with a twist; capturing the experiences of everyday people facing extraordinary situations. From out of control kids to pageant moms, dads gone wild and life altering health situations,
Twist TV’s inaugural schedule is packed with the hottest, most talked about new exclusive programming.
At launch,
Twist TV will be available in over 2.1 million homes. For the month of November the channel will be offered in an additional 3.6 million homes, bringing over 5.7 million Canadians a taste of its offerings.
The channel’s diverse cast of characters and their colourful stories – from unique personal situations to difficult family issues - are always relatable and often outrageous. Highlights from
Twist TV’s powerful programming slate spotlighting real people living extraordinary lives include:
World’s Strictest Parents UK and US (Canadian Broadcast Premiere)
World’s Strictest Parents follows unruly teens as they get a taste of adolescent life from around the world. In each self-contained episode, two rebellious teens leave their own family lives to spend 10 days living under the rules and roofs of some of the world’s strictest parents
Little Miss Perfect (Canadian Broadcast Premiere)
Little Miss contests are a storm of hope and anxiety, of dreams and despair, as young families buy thousand dollar dresses and dentures for children barely out of diapers.
Dad Camp (Canadian Broadcast Premiere)
Dad Camp features six irresponsible fathers-to-be and their pregnant girlfriends working together to prepare for their future as parents.
Back On Campus (Canadian Broadcast Premiere)
In
Back On Campus, parents experience university life… along with their teenage kids! The series follows three fun-loving, regular, first-year university students and their even more colourful parents in the adventure of a lifetime.
Daddy’s Spoiled Little Girl (Canadian Broadcast Premiere)
Rich or poor, most dads love to spoil their daughters. But what if it gets out of hand? Meet the dads who indulge even the most outrageous requests, including: ‘faux mitzvah’ parties, $200,000 Bentleys, private jets to Rome and even shopping sprees in Paris. Can money buy love? Lucky for dad it seems it can for these spoiled brats!
Raising Sextuplets (Canadian Broadcast Premiere)
After a three-year struggle to conceive, Jenny and Bryan Masche find their wishes have multiplied when the news that they’re expecting six babies rocks their world.
Raising Sextuplets follows them as their lives expand by six.
8 Boys and Wanting a Girl (Canadian Broadcast Premiere)
8 Boys and Wanting a Girl features forty three year old Wendy Bowen who has eight boys and is desperate for her dream girl and her ticking biological clock has turned it into an obsession.
On October 31, Canadian viewers can catch a preview of the new channel and two of its brand new series
Little Miss Perfect and
Raising Sextuplets from 6:00pm ET – 8:00pm ET on Slice