Amendment to the above post: and then there were four! The CW has picked up yet another CTV series, The Spencer Sisters with Lea Thompson. That's four Canuck series on the network announced in the past few weeks. 

This one has a built-in advantage. American viewers are familiar with Thompson from Back To The Future and the old NBC show Caroline In The City. 

They'll be holding the "Sisters" series until the fall.  

The CW Acquires Lea Thompson Drama The Spencer Sisters

SPEAKING of the CW, they're going to be losing a LOT of affiliates come the fall; the CBS owned stations that affiliate with the CW will be going independent. Stations in Philly, Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco, Sacramento, Detroit, Seattle and Tampa-St. Petersburg will go this route. 

RadioActive wrote:

 

As for that single show that's not from Canada, "Everyone Else Burns" should be a huge test for an American audience. It's a British show about an ultra-religious family reacting to their kids trying to find their way in a modern world without sinning. Sounds dull in some ways, but British critics have raved over how funny and how stinging its satire really is.

Reading the Wikipedia link, it indicates that Everyone Else Burns, which sounds appealing to me, begins its six episode run in Canada on the W network on the 29th of May.
 

ckg927 wrote:

SPEAKING of the CW, they're going to be losing a LOT of affiliates come the fall; the CBS owned stations that affiliate with the CW will be going independent. Stations in Philly, Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco, Sacramento, Detroit, Seattle and Tampa-St. Petersburg will go this route. 

There’s also a chance of an affiliation change in San Diego. Nexstar just announced the acquisition of independent KUSI, which very well may lead to the CW moving in that market off of a Tegna-owned CBS affiliate’s .2 subchannel. CW has moved that in that market twice already since 2006, from KSWB to XETV, then to KFMB-DT2.

Speaking of Canada and the CW, the U.S. network has now officially become a partner and will help subsidize a second season of CTV's Sullivan's Crossing.

‘Sullivan’s Crossing’ Gets Second Season on The CW Before It Premieres

turkeytop wrote:

One of my favourite Canadian sitcome was Corner Gas. Did any of the US netwarks pick that up?

WGN America, the U.S. cable version of the Chicago independent. WGN owner Nexstar has since morphed it into NewsNation. Canada's received the WGN local feed (presumably with some rights exceptions) since 1991.

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RadioActive wrote:

As for that single show that's not from Canada, "Everyone Else Burns" should be a huge test for an American audience. It's a British show about an ultra-religious family reacting to their kids trying to find their way in a modern world without sinning. Sounds dull in some ways, but British critics have raved over how funny and how stinging its satire really is.  

What a U.S. audience that includes fundamentalist and sometimes extreme religious conservatives make of that may be almost as entertaining as the show itself. This 6-part comedy could be the gem of all the new shows on the network, which is seen here over-the-air on Buffalo's Channel 23.

For those curious about this show, it begins its American run on WNLO in Buffalo at 9:30 PM Thursday. And the brass at the CW must have been impressed by what they saw - they've already bought season 2 for the network, despite the fact not a single episode has aired here yet. 

Everyone Else Burns: The CW Picks Up Season 2 of British Comedy Ahead of U.S. Premiere

Review: ‘Everyone Else Burns’: The CW’s British Comedy Laces Doomsday Cringe With Sweetness as Well as Snark

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