RadioActive wrote:

On Thursday, ABC is carrying the new season of "911," immediately followed by the debut of its new spin-off "911: Nashville." Nothing unusual about that - if you want to watch both, they're on the same channel in the U.S.

But that's not the case in Canada. Here, Global has the original "911," but CTV snagged the rights to "911: Nashville." Producers of the shows have confirmed they're actively thinking about doing crossovers between the two shows, once the newcomer gets established. It's always a good thing for ratings. 

But in Canada, that means you'll have to watch one channel to see part one and tune over to a separate station to get part two. Not a big deal, until you realize that, if they do a crossover, one show on one network will effectively be promoting a show an hour later on their direct competition. 

This kind of thing doesn't happen here often. All the Law & Orders and all the Chicago dramas, for example, are on one station - City TV. So two-parters or the continued storylines they frequently do on those shows are seamless for the viewer. Same with the various flavours of NCIS, which all air on Global.

Not so for the 911s. It's a pretty unusual situation and it could only happen in Canada...

The recently cancelled 9-1-1 Lone Star was also on CTV.

Actually, the Dick Wolf dramas used to run into a similar situation in Canada about a decade or so ago. The Chicago shows were on Global at the time and Law & Order: SVU was on CTV, and there were multiple crossovers that involved both franchises.

Also, IIRC, Law & Order: Organized Crime debuted on CityTV when SVU was still on CTV, and CityTV ran the debut episode of Organized Crime against SVU at the exact same time, even though it was supposed to be the second part of the storyline that began on SVU! (Confused yet?)

Interestingly too, 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lone Star only had one true crossover event that took place during season 4 of the original and season 2 of the spinoff.



PJ



 

RadioActive wrote:

The obvious answer is to tune to WKBW when the shows are on and let the cable simsub do the channel changing for you. 

That's exactly what I would have done. 

I just PVR'd them on KOMO. No simsub crap to deal with.