Strong line up. 
Wonder how Corus lost Saturday Night Live.  It was a staple for them for years.

Media Nerd wrote:

Strong line up.
Wonder how Corus lost Saturday Night Live. It was a staple for them for years.

My guess would be Bell's massive streaming and marketing advantage.
 

Media Nerd wrote:

Strong line up.
Wonder how Corus lost Saturday Night Live. It was a staple for them for years.

There's some stuff about this in an April 2026 Hollywood Reporter article:

‘Saturday Night Live’ Has New Home in Canada

 

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RadioActive wrote:

Could it be that CTV will just give those stations in the Eastern time zone the night off for news and not have a late cast? .

You seem to forget that CTV cancelled all local weekend newscasts in most of the country a few years ago, so Saturday night at 11:30 won't be a problem. One less rerun of Corner Gas. 

You're right. But there's still the question of what happens in the largest market in the country - Toronto -  where they still do an 11:30 PM newscast seven days a week. Or does it join most of the rest of the nation and just scrap it altogether?

The new fall season is pretty much a non event.  FOX in the US has no new fall shows.  CBS and NBC only a few.  In fact CBS didn't even bother hosting an Upfront presentation this year.  The Upfronts are a gala presentation to advertisers and media promoting the new fall lineup.  CW only has one new show courtesy of Global with the new Private Eyes: West Coast. 

It seems to be that the more interesting new season in television is now in January/February even March.  This is when the networks get another chance to bring in new shows and they do.  Most of these will be shorter series, maybe 10-13 episodes.  CTV and CBC also have a habit of introducing new cancon series during this time frame.  

 

CTV2 seems to be an overflow network for CTV.  But they have vastly better programming than the old A channel and the NewVR, PL, WI etc.  These were more or less the same networks before CTV2.  At times CTV2 IMO actually has better programming than the main network.  They don't do any original programming other than some local newscasts. But they show more movies than CTV in prime time and they have lots of NFL football and some games that are not available for free in the US. Even program some movies from streamers and TV series.