Citytv Mid-Season Schedule

[TVViewer]

Rogers has released Citytv's Jan,Feb,and March schedules.

Jan/Feb

Mondays
8:00PM: The Bachelor (Simulcast ABC)
9:30PM: Less Than Kind
10:00PM: True Beauty (Simulcast ABC)

Tuesdays
8:00PM: Privileged (PRE-Release The CW)
9:00PM: Scrubs (Simulcast ABC)
9:30PM: Scrubs (Simulcast ABC)
10:00PM: Primetime: What Would You Do (Simulcast ABC)

Wednesdays
8:00PM: 13: Fear is For Real (Simulcast The CW)
9:00PM: Everybody Hates Chris (PRE-Release The CW)
9:30PM: Friends reruns
10:00PM: I Love Money

Thursdays
8:00PM: Ugly Betty (Simulcast ABC)
9:00PM: 30 Rock reruns
9:30PM: 30 Rock (Simulcast NBC)
10:00PM: Murdoch Mysteries / Hell's Kitchen (POST-Release FOX) starting Jan 29th

Fridays
8:00PM: Mantracker
9:00PM: Survivorman
10:00PM: Crusoe reruns

Saturdays
7:00PM: Without a Trace reruns
8:00PM: Out There with Melissa DiMarco
8:30PM: Out There with Melissa DiMarco
9:00PM: Movies

Sundays
7:00PM: Two and a Half Men reruns
7:30PM: Two and a Half Men reruns
8:00PM: Chuck (PRE-Release NBC)
9:00PM: Movies

March

Mondays
8:00PM: Chuck (Simulcast NBC)
9:00PM: Movies

Tuesdays
8:00PM: Privileged (PRE-Release The CW)
9:00PM: Scrubs (Simulcast ABC)
9:30PM: Scrubs (Simulcast ABC)
10:00PM: Primetime What Would You Do (Simulcast ABC)

Wednesdays
8:00PM: Everybody Hates Chris (PRE-Release The CW)
8:30PM: Friends reruns
9:00PM: Nip/Tuck
10:00PM: Murdoch Mysteries

Thursdays
8:00PM: Ugly Betty (Simulcast ABC)
9:00PM: 30 Rock reruns
9:30PM: 30 Rock (Simulcast NBC)
10:00PM: Hell's Kitchen (POST-Release FOX)

Fridays
8:00PM: Mantracker
9:00PM: Survivorman
10:00PM: Crusoe reruns

Saturdays
7:00PM: Without a Trace reruns
8:00PM: Out There with Melissa DiMarco
8:30PM: Out There with Melissa DiMarco
9:00PM: Movie

Sundays
7:00PM: Two and a Half Men reruns
7:30PM: Two and a Half Men reruns
8:00PM: Make Me a Supermodel
9:00PM: Friends reruns
9:30PM: Friends reruns
10:00PM: Crusoe reruns


Reruns of Law and Order SVU will continue to air Weeknights at 7:00PM

[TVViewer]

This schedule looks beyond horrible! This makes the weak spots on the schedules of CTV, Global, 'A', and E! look great.

Mondays
True Beauty looks like a mega flop, The Bachelor is still strong (well strong for Citytv anyway) mind you by march they will be back to Chuck and old movies Canwest didn't want.

Tuesdays
Primetime What Would You Do wont be on for very long anyways, so by march we will see some vh1 reality crap in it's spot, CTV dropped Scrubs for a reason, it's ratings suck. and Privileged is not doing good at all, should do even worse vs American Idol in pre-release

Wednesdays
I can't believe they are running a night of the untested 13 Fear is For Real, the extremely low rated Everybody Hates Chris, vh1's I Love Money, and then reruns of Friends? Even if the episodes of Nip/Tuck are new, it still can't save that night.

Thursdays
This really makes no sense to me. Hell's Kitchen is Citytv's #1 Show, so they do what? air it in POST-Release at 10? so they can simulcast a half hour of 30 Rock? atleast they have Ugly Betty although that is hitting series lows.

Fridays
This schedule just looks awful, Crusoe was cancelled, so what do they do? RE-AIR IT? then in March they re-air it TWICE a week? This may be because they may get some Canadian content credit since they paid for a small part of it or something, the other shows on the night do just as bad.

Sundays
More reruns of Friends, a show that ended years ago, and Two and a Half Men, a show that airs on your competition! What is with Citytv airing reruns of programming that aired on CTV! Law and Order SVU every weeknight, Without a Trace on Saturdays, and Two and a Half Men on Sundays.

It looks like The Secret Life of the American Teenager is gone for good from Citytv, which doesn't really make sence since I can't see how it could have done as bad as what they air now.

[1weasel]

Dare I say OMNI.3?

[musimax]

I'm going to assume Less Than Kind at 9:30 will be reruns right?

[Emarsee]

Originally Posted by 1weasel

Dare I say OMNI.3?

Does Citytv air multicultural programming? If yes, hello OMNI.3.

[Everfresh]

Originally Posted by Emarsee

Does Citytv air multicultural programming? If yes, hello OMNI.3.

Citytv Toronto does. Saturday and Sunday mornings.

[SirCalgary]

Hey, no dissing Festival Italiano di Johnny Lombardi

Now...
I'm envisioning even more Friends repeats despite what they've listed.
Maybe Rogers has learned from this year...maybe they'll bid more for the WB and FOX packages next year instead of plunging their cash into the wonderful fare provided by 51 Minds Entertainment, producers of such greats like Flava of Love, Rock of Love, I Love New York, I Love Money...

or we'll be treated to King of Queens repeats Thursday at 9pm against CSI and The Office next year.

I don't think that 30 Rock is going to make it back to City for next season...CTV will more than likely get it's hands back on it for next year's 'A' lineup.

[TVViewer]

Maybe they should just rename it OMNI 3, since they pretty much took everything Citytv was and killed it.

Although Citytv's schedule has never been great, it has never looked so desperate. the fact that they air so many reruns in prime slots make the station just look desperate. and it looks even worse when they are airing reruns of shows that have new episodes airing on their competition. you don't see CTV, Global, 'A', or E! airing syndicated programming in primetime.

There is plently of programming Rogers could provide Citytv with, they are just too cheap to do it. And they need to stop just picking up leftovers, look how well that worked out for them. Out of all the new shows Citytv picked up this year, the only one that didn't get cancelled was Privileged (which is only becasue it's airing on The CW). I wont count The Secret Life of the American Teenager since although it's ABC Family's most watched series ever, Citytv has dropped the rights. That's right they drop the rights to the one new american show that was a hit.

This just proves that Rogers doesn't know what it's doing. when Citytv was with CHUM they may have been weak, but they were not weak AND desperate.