City TV


STV2 launching this month

STV will launch STV2 later this month, after the Scottish broadcaster rebranded its existing local channels and added in licenses for new ones. The commercial broadcaster has rebranded its City TV services in Glasgow and Edinburgh and also has three new licenses – for Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee – all of which will operate under […]

Netflix partners with SVOD rival Shomi for Canadian original

Netflix and its streaming rival Shomi are joining forces to make Between, which will star kids TV favourite Jennette McCurdy (pictured) and was created by Michael McGowan and Resident Evil producer Don Carmody. City TV and Shomi, which are both part of the Rogers group, are partnering Netflix on the series. The move surprised some […]

Canadian channel seeks format Utopia

Canada has become the sixth territory to get a local version of Talpa Media’s buzzy social experiment format Utopia. Rogers Broadcasting-owned City TV scored the deal with distributor Talpa International, and is planning to launch its English-language show this autumn as part of its fall/winter schedule. Utopia launched in the Netherlands on SBS6, which is […]

Breakthrough launches Less Than Kind on iTunes

Breakthrough Entertainment has launched Canadian comedy drama series Less Than Kind on the iTunes store in Canada. The show runs to four seasons and Breakthrough has launched the first three on iTunes. It originally aired on City TV from 2008 before transferring to HBO Canada in 2010. It follows a Sheldon Blecher (Jesse Camacho), an […]