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“Canadian audiences are still going to find a lot of really big shows through the early part of the fall, regardless of when those big scripted Hollywood titles start to make their way back to TV screens,” Reeb said.

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writers walkout and an uncertain return to production for American scripted shows currently without scripts - would see Reeb and his team schedule more reality series, especially competition and game shows, for the fall.Ĭorus will also also look to buy more overseas shows, mainly from Australia and the UK, and allows more of its own homegrown Canadian scripted and unscripted series to flourish in primetime. New scripted fare to possibly anchor the fall 2023 schedule includes Matlock, starring Kathy Bates, and Elsbeth, led by Carrie Preston and based on The Good Wife character.īut Plan B - contingent on a much longer U.S. studio dramas and comedies after the Canadians’ recent annual shopping expedition on studios lots in Hollywood. scripted series should the WGA strike end soon, allowing a fresh schedule filled with buzzy returning U.S.

That has Corus planning for two vastly different programming strategies for the rest of the year and into 2024. Along with rival private broadcasters, Corus faces the possibility of few, if any, new American scripted series in the fall the longer the labor unrest continues.Īnd with their primetime schedules already a mishmash of the ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox network schedules refreshed at the LA Screenings via longstanding output deals, Reeb and his programmers have had to zig as the Americans zag as the summer goes on. Reeb oversees the Global Television network and cable channels like local versions of Food Network and HGTV in Canada. And that certainly added a complexity to what is already a very hectic and busy week for Canadian buyers,” Troy Reeb, executive vp of broadcast networks at Corus Entertainment, told The Hollywood Reporter after returning from the recent Los Angeles Screenings in Hollywood. “We were probably bidding a bit more on unscripted content than we might have in other years. Amid Writers Strike, Pay Up Hollywood Relaunches a Relief Fund for Support Staff

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