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1990 In Canadian Television
This is a list of Television in Canada, Canadian television related events from 1990. Events Debuts Ending this year Changes of network affiliation Television shows 1950s *''CBC News: Country Canada, Country Canada'' (1954–2007) *''Hockey Night in Canada'' (1952–present) *''CBC News: The National, The National'' (1954–present) *''Front Page Challenge'' (1957–1995) 1960s *''CTV National News'' (1961–present) *''Land and Sea'' (1964–present) *''Man Alive (Canadian TV series), Man Alive'' (1967–2000) *''Mr. Dressup'' (1967–1996) *''The Nature of Things'' (1960–present, scientific documentary series) *''Question Period (TV series), Question Period'' (1967–present, news program) *''Tommy Hunter, The Tommy Hunter Show'' (1965–1992) *''W-FIVE'' (1966–present, newsmagazine program) 1970s *''Canada AM'' (1972–present, news program) *''The Fifth Estate (TV), the fifth estate'' (1975–present, newsmagazine program) *''Marketplace (Canadian T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 5th Gemini Awards were held on December 4, 1990 to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was broadcast on CBC Television. Best Dramatic Series *''E.N.G.'' - Atlantis Communications. Producers: Jennifer Black, Jeff King, Robert Lantos, R.B. Carney *''Danger Bay'' - Sunrise Films, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Disney Channel, Telefilm Canada. Producers: Harold Lee Tichenor, Paul Saltzman, Paul Quigley *''Road to Avonlea'' - Sullivan Entertainment. Producers: Trudy Grant, Kevin Sullivan *'' Street Legal'' - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Producers: Brenda Greenberg, David Pears, Duncan Lamb Best Short Dramatic Program *'' Saying Goodbye - The First Snowfall'' - TVOntario. Producers: John Brunton, Linda Rainsberry *'' Pray for Me, Paul Henderson'' - Atlantis Films. Producers: Kim Todd, Michael MacMillan, Seaton McLean, Peter Sussman *''The Ray Bradbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Television Network
The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English language, English-language terrestrial television, terrestrial television network. It is currently Canada's second most-watched private terrestrial television network after CTV Television Network, CTV, and has fifteen owned-and-operated stations throughout the country. Global is owned by Corus Entertainment — the media holdings of JR Shaw and other members of his family. Global has its origins in a CIII-DT, regional television station of the same name, serving Southern Ontario, which launched in 1974. The Ontario station was soon purchased by the now-defunct Canwest, CanWest Global Communications, and that company gradually expanded its national reach in the subsequent decades through both acquisitions and new station launches, building up a quasi-network of independent stations, known as the CanWest Global System, until the stations were unifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackpot (game Show)
''Jackpot'' (also referred to as ''Jackpot!'') is an American and Canadian television game show produced by Bob Stewart which saw contestants attempting to solve riddles in order to win cash and prizes. ''Jackpot'' made its debut on the NBC television network on January 7, 1974 as part of their daytime schedule and ran until September 26, 1975. The show was videotaped in New York City, where Stewart was based at the time, and was hosted by Geoff Edwards. In 1985, Stewart teamed up with USA Network and Global Television Network for a revival that aired in both the United States and Canada. This edition of ''Jackpot'' aired on USA and Global from September 30, 1985 until December 30, 1988 and was produced in Toronto, Ontario, with Mike Darow as host. After the Canadian-produced ''Jackpot'' ended, Stewart developed another series for American syndication, this time based in the Los Angeles area of Glendale, California (Stewart moved there in the early 1980s). That series (the on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow Business
''Snow Business'' is a 1953 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on January 17, 1953, and stars Tweety and Sylvester. Plot A security guard refuses to let Granny drive her car back into the mountain cabin because the roads are blocked due to a bad heavy snowstorm, but Granny pleads to be let through because her bird and cat are trapped inside the cabin and would fatally starve. Meanwhile, Sylvester and Tweety Tweety is an animated character, a yellow canary bird in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' series of animated cartoons. His characteristics are based on Red Skelton's famous "Junior the Mean Widdle Kid". He appeared in ... are alone in Granny's mountain cabin. The radio reports that the roads will be blocked for six weeks. Hearing this and knowing that he'll starve, Sylvester nervously checks the cabin for food, finding nothing but bird seed. While Sylvester and Tweety are initially friends i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Raggy Dolls
''The Raggy Dolls'' is a 1986–1994 British cartoon series which originally aired on ITV. The series is set in Mr Grimes' Toy Factory, where imperfect dolls are thrown into a reject bin. While unobserved by human eyes, the dolls come to life and climb out of the reject bin to have adventures. The series was designed to encourage children to think positively about physical disabilities. 112 episodes were produced. Production history The series was produced for Yorkshire Television and ran from 3 April 1986 to 20 December 1994. It was created by Melvyn Jacobson, with scripts, narration, and music by Neil Innes. Yorkshire Television produced the first two series of ''The Raggy Dolls'' before production shifted to Orchid Productions Limited in 1987. This was the first programme Yorkshire Television commissioned from an independent production company. Orchid Productions went on to produce over 100 more episodes of the series. The initial animator for Yorkshire Television was Roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Glick
''Max Glick'' is a Canadian television comedy-drama series, which aired on CBC Television from 1990 to 1991. Based on the Morley Torgov novel '' The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick'' and its 1988 film adaptation, the series centred on Maximilian Glick, a young Jewish boy coming-of-age in Beausejour, Manitoba in the 1960s. Though set in Beausejour, the series was filmed on location in Vancouver and Agassiz, British Columbia. Synopsis The series starred Josh Garbe as Max, Alec Willows and Linda Kash as his parents Henry and Sarah, Jan Rubeš and Susan Douglas Rubeš as his grandparents Augustus and Bryna, Melyssa Ade as his classmate and love interest Celia, and Jason Blicker as Rabbi Teitelman. Jan and Susan Rubeš were the only cast members to reprise their roles from the film; Noam Zylberman, who had played Max in the film, was also originally slated to star in the series, but had undergone puberty and grown too tall to believably play a 13-year-old by the time the series e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands (Torstar), Daily News Brands division. The newspaper was established in 1892 as the ''Evening Star'' and was later renamed the ''Toronto Daily Star'' in 1900, under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson was a major influence in shaping the editorial stance of the paper, with the paper reflecting his principles until his death in 1948. His son-in-law, Harry C. Hindmarsh, shared those principles as the paper's longtime managing editor while also helping to build circulation with sensational stories, bold headlines and dramatic photos. The paper was renamed the ''Toronto Star'' in 1971 and introduced a Sunday edition in 1977. History The ''Star'' was created in 1892 by striking ''Toronto News'' printers and writers, led by future mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarence Hocke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonia Zerbisias
Antonia Zerbisias is a Canadian journalist associated with the ''Toronto Star'' from 1989 until she took early retirement from the paper on 31 October 2014. She has been a reporter and TV host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as the Montreal correspondent for the trade paper, '' Variety''. She was nominated for ACTRA awards for her documentary writing in 1980 and 1981, and won the 1996 National Newspaper Award for critical writing for her columns about magazines. Currently a freelancer, she regularly writes opinion columns for Al Jazeera English and the Toronto alternative weekly, Now. Early life Petros Zerbisias immigrated from Greece to Canada arriving in Halifax in 1928. He settled in Montreal where he met his wife, Loula, where they owned and operated the Deli-Q restaurant. Zerbisias attended Wagar High School in the suburb of Cote-St-Luc. She was married to the late Mark Blandford, a prominent Quebec television producer, director and screenwriter. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVOntario
TVO (stylized in all lowercase as tvo), formerly known as TVOntario, is a Canadian Public broadcasting, publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario. It operates flagship station CICA-DT (channel 19) in Toronto, which also relays programming across portions of Ontario through eight Broadcast relay station#Satellite stations, rebroadcast stations. All pay television (cable television, cable, satellite television, satellite, IPTV) providers throughout Ontario are required to carry TVO on their basic tier, and programming can be streaming video, streamed for free online within Canada. TVO is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA), a Crown corporations of Canada, Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario, which since 2022 has trade name, done business as the TVO Media Education Group (or TVO.me). TVO.me also operates TVO Today, Independent Learning Centre, TVO I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saying Goodbye (TV Series)
''Saying Goodbye'' is a Canadian television drama anthology series, which aired on TVOntario in 1990.John Haslett Cuff, "Intimate, focussed drama: Saying Goodbye, a Canadian series about death and grieving, confirms that Canadians can produce polished drama that doesn't ape American TV". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 23, 1990. The series consisted of five half-hour short drama films about people grappling with death, either dealing with grief after the death of a loved one or confronting their own mortality. Each episode was paired with a half-hour studio panel discussion on bereavement moderated by Roy Bonisteel. The series was also sold on videotape for use in palliative care and grief counselling education programs.Ted Shaw, "Five-part series deals with death". ''Windsor Star'', October 23, 1990. Episodes Critical response John Haslett Cuff of ''The Globe and Mail'' praised the series as evidence that Canadians "can produce powerful, polished drama that doesn't ape American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mom P
A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of gestational surrogacy. A biological mother is the female genetic contributor to the creation of the infant, through sexual intercourse or egg donation. A biological mother may have legal obligations to a child not raised by her, such as an obligation of monetary support. An adoptive mother is a female who has become the child's parent through the legal process of adoption. A putative mother is a female whose biological relationship to a child is alleged but has not been established. A stepmother is a non-biological female parent married to a child's preexisting parent, and may form a family unit but generally does not have the legal rights and responsibilities of a parent in relation to the child. A father is the male counterpart of a mother. Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
