Once again, CHUM Thinks We’re Chumps
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CHUM Television has unveiled a prosaic (which is to say, a rather ho-hum) fall television schedule, heavy on reality programming (The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, both ABC shows) and returning U.S.-purchased family dramas, such as Everwood and 7th Heaven (both WB shows).
CHUM will continue to broadcast their usual amalgam of in-house programmes, covering a broad range of topics, from music, fashion, media, cinema and the arts, to sex and sexuality, new media, science fiction and beyond, as well as a glut of movies you’ve seen at the cinema or on video.
The most anticipated new in-house programme is the made-in-Vancouver The Collector, featuring Chris Kramer as a modern-day agent of the devil sent to collect lost souls; the programme has been playing this summer on CHUM’s specialty channel, Space: The Imagination Station. The programme will début on Citytv, and other CHUM stations, early this autumn.
Returning series include the widely-acclaimed Monk, the filmed in Vancouver Smallville, and Enterprise (new day and time, Fridays at 9). Talks shows returning range from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, to the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live.
CHUM’s new programmes for Citytv include And Go!, a 13-week guerrilla-style improv series hosted by comedian Bruce Hunter, an alumnus of Second City, Puppets Who Kill and The Red Green Show.
Other new series, purchased from networks below the 49th parallel:
- Battlestar Galactica, made in Vancouver and starring Edward James Olmos.
- Jack and Bobby.
- Life As We Know It.
All and all, CHUM’s fall television schedule lacks anything approaching creative vision, and comes across more like a cynical grab for advertising dollars. Who’da thought we’d miss Moses Znaimer, missing since 2003?
As for the remaining Canadian television network schedules: here’s a peek at CBC’s fall television schedule, as well as a glimpse of CTV’s fall schedule.
For the major U.S. networks fall television schedules, click on the following direct VanRamblings’ links: ABC, NBC, the WB, Fox and UPN, and CBS.
