Totally Buzzworthy Peacock Scripted
Originals Featuring High-Profile Series Casts Premiere Across
Corus' Specialty Drama Networks Including Ted with Seth
MacFarlane Reprising His Iconic Voice Role, Based on a True
Story Starring Kaley Cuoco and
Chris Messina, Apples Never
Fall Featuring Annette Bening, Sam
Neill, Jake Lacy, and Alison
Brie, and The Tattooist of Auschwitz Starring Harvey
Keitel
Corus Boasts A Star-Studded Lineup of Unscripted
and Lifestyle Series, Including Guy Fieri's Best Bite in
Town, Fixer Upper: The Hotel with Chip and Joanna Gaines, The Real Housewives
of New York City, The Real
Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: RHONY Legacy, The
Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd
(wt), Rainn Wilson and the
Geography of Bliss and Beyond Skinwalker Ranch
As the Exclusive Home for Hallmark Channel in Canada, W Network Continues to Deliver
Year-Round Heartwarming Entertainment to Its Massive Fanbase
Through Must-See Seasonal Programming Stunts
Corus' Kids Networks Provide Best-in-Class Family
Entertainment with New Series Tiny Toons Looniversity,
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, and Jessica's Big
Little World
Corus' Full 2023/2024 Offering Will Also be Available to Stream
Live and On-Demand on STACKTV
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TORONTO, June 7, 2023
/CNW/ - Today, Corus Entertainment announced its 2023/24
lineup of premium specialty programming featuring sought-after
scripted series with the biggest stars, rich and riveting
lifestyle content, buzzed-about reality titles, and best-in-class
family-friendly entertainment. Debuting across Corus' powerful
portfolio of networks and streaming platforms, this newly acquired
content complements the previously announced slate of new and
returning Canadian original series for its specialty
networks.
"Through our deep partnerships with the world's biggest networks
and brands, Corus continues to deliver exclusive premium content,
the most anticipated new series, and proven returning hits to our
audiences across our specialty networks and streaming platforms,"
said Troy Reeb, Executive Vice
President, Broadcast Networks, Corus Entertainment. "We're thrilled
to provide even more options to view our massive inventory of
ever-growing blockbuster content, including on our flagship
streaming platform STACKTV. Viewers will never miss a moment
whether watching live TV or through the thousands of hours of
on-demand shows across all genres, including lifestyle, reality,
kids, drama, comedy and news."
Corus Entertainment presents its 2023/24 slate of new and
returning series across its specialty networks below. For more
details on all specialty programming, please click here.
SCRIPTED DRAMA & ADULT
COMEDY
Corus' long-term partnership with NBCUniversal as the exclusive
partner of Peacock Original programming in English Canada will
deliver the strongest year of originals yet, with buzzworthy new
and returning series packed with major star talent. Coming to
Corus' drama networks, W Network or Showcase, the
following much-anticipated series will also be available to stream
live and on-demand on STACKTV with full series and long-term
stacking rights. More information and network details for these
series will be announced as the broadcast season
progresses.
A few of the highly anticipated series that are set to premiere
across Corus' specialty drama networks includes Ted,
the live-action comedy series based on the blockbuster film
franchise, with Seth
MacFarlane set to reprise the voice of the iconic and
lovable foul-mouthed teddy bear. In the series set in 1993, Ted the
bear's moment of fame has passed, leaving him living with his best
friend, 16-year-old John Bennett,
who lives in a working-class Boston home with his parents and cousin.
Based on a True Story, a dark comedic thriller
starring Emmy® Award nominee Kaley
Cuoco and Chris
Messina, follows a realtor, a former tennis star
and a plumber who seize a unique opportunity to capitalize on
America's obsession with true crime. Limited drama series
Apples Never Fall, based on Liane Moriarty's #1 New
York Times bestselling novel, stars four-time Academy
Award® nominee Annette
Bening, Emmy® Award nominee Sam Neill, Emmy® and SAG® Award
nominee Jake Lacy, and SAG®
Award winner and two-time Golden Globe® nominee Alison Brie,
centres on the Delaneys, who from the outside appear to be an
enviably contented family, but after their mother, Joy, disappears,
her children are forced to re-examine their parents' marriage and
their family history with fresh eyes. Academy Award® nominee
Harvey Keitel stars in
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, an adaptation of the
globally best-selling book, it is the remarkable true story of how
two young prisoners fell in love and survived the unimaginable
trauma of Auschwitz and its aftermath.
On Top 10 specialty network* Showcase, a new season of the #1
series on STACKTV**, Dr. Death returns for a second
season starring Edgar
Ramirez, Mandy
Moore, Judy Reyes,
Annika Boras, Jack Davenport, Sandra Andreis and Rita Volk featuring the "Miracle Man"
storyline based on the most recent third season of the hit Wondery
podcast. The reign of Bel-Air, the #1 scripted
program on STACKTV***, continues as the modern-day reimagining of
the iconic culture-defining '90s sitcom, The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air, returns for Season 3. Also, returning for a third
season is the Don Mancini-produced fan-favourite horror
drama Chucky. Plus, new seasons of hit returning
series including Killing It led by comedic legend
Craig Robinson
and action thriller The Lazarus Project return
on Showcase. Over on Top 5 specialty channel* W Network,
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin and critically acclaimed
music-infused comedy series, We Are Lady Parts
returns for an encore second season and Five Bedrooms
is back for Season 4.
Top 10 specialty network against M18-34*, Adult Swim,
caters to its dedicated fanbase by delivering distinctive original
animation. This fall, Rick and Morty fans can look forward
to Rick and Morty: The Anime from director
Takashi Sano based on the
Emmy®-winning series. Also coming this fall, the Venture Bros. are
back in an all-new movie picking up after the events from the
shocking Season 7 finale in The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the
Blood of the Baboon Heart.
HALLMARK CHANNEL ON W NETWORK
Through Corus' longstanding partnership with Hallmark Channel, W
Network is the exclusive Canadian home to Hallmark Channel movies
and seasonal stunts, garnering massive and engaged audiences that
come to celebrate the special times of the year with heartwarming
programming. As Canada's holiday
headquarters, the most anticipated annual seasonal stunt,
Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas, continuously
places W Network as the #1 entertainment specialty station among
A25-54 and F25-54 during the programming event****.
Following its smash debut on W Network last winter, Hallmark
Channel's multigenerational family drama The Way Home
starring Andie MacDowell,
Chyler Leigh and Sadie
Laflamme-Snow will return for Season 2.
UNSCRIPTED AND REALITY
From inspiring food stories to high-stakes culinary
competitions, Top 10 specialty network* Food Network Canada
is the experiential and social epicenter of food entertainment
featuring iconic hosts and industry heavy-hitters. With
mouth-watering new and returning shows this fall, Food Network
Canada feeds fans more of what they love. Guy Fieri delivers Best Bite in
Town, an all-new competition travelogue where Guy will
appoint some of his chef friends to hit the road visiting different
cities each week, competing to find the very best bite in
town. Guy also offers up a new season of Top 10 specialty
entertainment program******* Tournament of Champions
– the sudden-death, bracket-style competition that keeps
competitors on their toes and the audience on the edge of their
seat. Inspired by his Peruvian and Italian roots and his love of
international travel, Franco
Noriega dishes up simple, colourful, crowd-pleasing
plates for everyone to enjoy in Hot Dish with Franco.
Food Network Canada's must-see holiday programming returns with
fan-favourite series including Christmas Cookie
Challenge, Holiday Wars, Holiday Baking
Championship, Beat Bobby
Flay: Holiday Throwdown, and all-new competition
series, The Elf on the Shelf: Sweet Showdown (wt), a
Christmas-themed sweets showdown featuring The Elf on the Shelf's
Scout Elves challenging some of the best sweets makers from across
the country to create the most magical and unexpected holiday
creations ever seen.
Top 5 specialty network* HGTV Canada celebrates
the spirit of home through inspiring design, renovation and real
estate shows. Moving in this fall is a new season of Top 10
specialty entertainment series****** Ugliest House in
America with comedian Retta travelling across the
country to tour properties nominated by their owners as the ugliest
home around and surprising the worst of the worst with a
jaw-dropping $150,000 renovation by
designer Alison Victoria.
Flip the Strip follows the stars of the sizzling
Las Vegas stage show,
Australia's Thunder From Down
Under, who will work with celebrated interior designer
Kelly Stone to make clients'
home design dreams a reality. Plus, a new season of Why The
Heck Did I Buy This House led by Season 24 Survivor
winner Kim Wolfe returns to
the network.
Magnolia Network Canada shares a collection of
inspiring stories featuring some of the most talented makers,
artisans, chefs, designers, and entrepreneurs across home and
design, food and gardening, the arts, and more. This
fall, network stewards Chip and
Joanna Gaines take on their next project in Fixer
Upper: The Hotel with the renovation and transformation of
a historic landmark into a boutique hotel located in Waco, Texas. Design Down Under
follows husband and wife duo, Richie
Morris and Georgia Ezra,
as they create one-of-a-kind, modern designs and bespoke spaces for
their clients in Melbourne,
Australia while juggling their thriving businesses and
family of four.
The HISTORY® Channel, a Top 10 specialty
network* and destination for exploring stories of human endeavour,
achievement and progress through award-winning series,
documentaries, and specials, adds new awe-inspiring series and
returning fan-favourites to its lineup. The Unbelievable with
Dan Aykroyd (wt) hosted
by award-winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer
Dan Aykroyd will reveal the
'who?', 'why?' and 'how?' surrounding some of human history's most
extraordinary and astonishing tales. Beyond Skinwalker
Ranch, a companion series of The Secret of Skinwalker
Ranch, explores other sites of unusual activity and "high
strangeness" phenomena in an effort to discover if the activity
documented on Skinwalker Ranch is not only real, but pervasive.
Plus, top-performing series, The Secret of Skinwalker
Ranch and Alone return for highly-anticipated
new seasons.
Telling compelling stories through smart, innovative,
adventurous and thought-provoking programming, National
Geographic welcomes Rainn
Wilson and the Geography of Bliss, based on
Eric Weiner's New York Times bestselling book, The Geography
of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the
World. In the new series from Peacock, Rainn Wilson will explore some of the
happiest and least happy places on earth from Iceland to Bulgaria to Ghana, and in a profound, humorous, and
experiential way that unpacks the science of happiness.
Slice has reality TV fans covered as the go-to spot for
beloved franchises. Emmy®-nominated Below Deck
Mediterranean makes a splash with Season 8 as the crew
embarks on an exciting new charter season and Top 10
specialty entertainment program****** Below Deck Down
Under sets sail for Season 2. Fans get ready to take a
fresh bite out of the Big Apple with Season 14 of The Real
Housewives of New York
City as Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan, Erin
Lichy, Jenna
Lyons, Jessel
Taank and Brynn
Whitfield take over the city that never sleeps by
storm. Also, a fourth season of The Real Housewives of
Salt Lake City returns, as
the women navigate a society fueled by religion, beauty, wealth and
perfection. Later this year, Slice debuts the fourth season of hit
spinoff series The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip with
the second installment of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls
Trip: Ex-Wives Club, which will take former housewives
Vicki Gunvalson,
Gretchen Rossi, Brandi Glanville,
Camille Grammar Meyer, Alex
McCord, Carolyn
Manzo, Eva Marcille and Phaedra
Parks on an unforgettable trip to Marrakech, Morocco. On a later date, the buzzed-about
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: RHONY Legacy
from Peacock will be the fifth season of the series
which reunites cultural icons Kelly
Killoren Bensimon, Luann de Lesseps,
Dorinda Medley,
Sonja Morgan, Ramona Singer and Kristen Taekman as they jet off to beautiful
Saint Barthélemy for an epic adventure of a lifetime.
KIDS
Corus' Kids Networks own four of the Top five English Kids
specialty stations, accounting for nearly ninety per cent of all
kids specialty viewing*****. Cartoon Network delivers
laugh-out-loud comedy, unexpected surprises and edge-of-your-seat
action through the best in animated series and hit blockbuster
movies. Enrolling this fall, Tiny Toons Looniversity
is an upcoming reboot of the Emmyâ Award-winning Tiny
Toon Adventures that will follow Babs, Buster Bunny and the
rest of the gang and their comedic ambitions all the way to ACME
Looniversity, the esteemed institution of higher hijinks learning,
where young dreamers become professional toons. Also arriving in
time for fall, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake is a
spin-off of Adventure Time which follows Finn and Jake's
gender-swapped versions of their characters, Fionna the Human and
Cake the Cat, who embark on a multiverse-hopping adventure and
journey of self-discovery. Animated movie Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen
Part One, follows Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The
Flash, Cyborg, Green Lantern, and Vixen who are surprised to find
that not only have they materialized on a strange world called
Remnant, but they've also been transformed into teenagers! Also
seasonal feature film, Tom and Jerry in Snowman's
Land, centres on Jerry and his nephew, Tuffy, who make a
snow mouse that miraculously comes to life. Tiny Toons
Looniversity, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, and
Tom and Jerry in Snowman's Land will all be available to
stream on TELETOON+.
This fall, Treehouse, a network devoted to children from
breakfast to bedtime and offering a strong balance of educational,
imaginative and entertaining programs in a safe place trusted by
parents. In Jessica's Big Little World, a spin-off of
the Emmy®, GLAAD, and NAACP Image Award-nominated Cartoon Network
original Craig of the Creek, the Creek's favourite resilient
little sister, Jessica, navigates her way through a world where
everything seems much bigger than she is. With the help of her
friends, imaginary and real, Jessica sets off to take on the world,
even if she still does suck her thumb…sometimes. Rounding out the
schedule, iconic children's entertainment group The Wiggles bring a
fourth season of Ready, Steady, Wiggle! to the
network. Season 4 will be the first to feature the new Yellow
Wiggle, Tsehay, as well as introducing the full newly expanded cast
of eight Wiggles, two for each colour. Hamsters of
Hamsterdale and Jessica's Big Little World will all be
available to stream on TELETOON+.
Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD
provide entertainment for the whole family with exclusive
programming airing day and date with the U.S., including
fan-favourite series Big City Greens coming back to
the network with Season 4. Fans can also watch their favourite
Disney Branded Television characters as they host a showcase to
celebrate their Chibi Tiny Tales adventures in
Chibiverse, Season 2! In addition, Disney
Channel's The Naughty Nine is a holiday heist
original movie which follows fifth grader and troublemaker Andy,
who pulls together a crack team of fellow "naughty listers" to
execute an elaborate heist to get the presents he and the others
feel they deserve.
Sources:
*Numeris PPM Data, Total Canada, Fall'22 (Aug 29/22 – Jan 1/23),
A25-54 unless otherwise noted, AMA(000), CDN SPEC COM ENG, M-Su
2a-2a
**Statement is based on Dr.Death vs. other programs on
STACKTV during Sept 12, 2021 to
Oct. 30, 2021 (Source: Amazon via
Power BI Dashboard)
***Statement is based on Bel-Air vs. other programs on
STACKTV during March 19, 2023 to
May 13, 2023 (Source: Amazon via
Power BI Dashboard)
****Numeris PPM Data, Total Canada, Hallmark Channel's Countdown To
Christmas (10/21/2022 to 1/1/2023),
confirmed data, A25-54/F25-54, AMA(000), CDN SPEC COM ENG excluding
sports, Mo-Su 2a-2a
*****Numeris PPM Data, Aug 29/22 – Apr 30/23, confirmed until
Apr 23, Total Canada, K2-11,
AMA(000), Kids Eng Specialty stations, M-Su 2a-2a//Share based on
Corus Kids Eng % of Total Eng Kids Stations
******Numeris PPM Data, SM'22 (May 30
– Aug 28/22) 3+ airings, A25-54, AMA(000), Total Canada, CDN SPEC
COM ENG excluding sports
*******Numeris PPM Data, SP'23 STD
(Jan 2 – Apr 30/23) confirmed data,
3+ airings, A25-54, AMA(000), Total Canada, CDN SPEC COM ENG
excluding sports
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About Corus Entertainment Inc.
Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX: CJR.B) is a leading media and
content company that develops and delivers high quality brands and
content across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging
audiences since 1999, the company's portfolio of multimedia
offerings encompass 33 specialty television services, 39 radio
stations, 15 conventional television stations, digital and
streaming services, animation software, technology and media
services. Corus is an internationally-renowned content creator and
distributor through Nelvana, a world class animation studio expert
in all formats and Corus Studios, a globally recognized producer of
hit scripted and unscripted content. The company also owns
full-service social digital agency so.da, lifestyle entertainment
company Kin Canada, leading 2D animation software supplier Toon
Boom and children's book publishing house, Kids Can Press. Corus'
roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W Network,
HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, Magnolia Network Canada, The
HISTORY® Channel, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic, Disney
Channel Canada, YTV, Global News, Globalnews.ca, Q107, Country 105,
and CFOX, along with streaming platforms STACKTV, TELETOON+, the
Global TV App and Curiouscast. Corus is the domestic advertising
representative and an original content partner for Pluto TV, a
Paramount Company, which is the leading free ad-supported streaming
television (FAST) service. For more information visit
www.corusent.com.
About STACKTV
STACKTV is Corus Entertainment's premium multi-channel television
streaming service that offers thousands of hours of exclusive hit
content from 13 of Canada's top TV
networks, all on one platform. All series, movies and specials that
air on Global Television, Food Network Canada, HGTV Canada, W
Network, The HISTORY® Channel, Adult Swim, Slice, Showcase,
National Geographic, Lifetime, TELETOON, Treehouse and YTV are
available to stream on STACKTV live and on demand with new content
added daily. STACKTV is available via Amazon Prime Video Channels,
Rogers Ignite TV and Ignite SmartStream. For more information,
visit stacktv.ca.
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