CTV Sci-Fi

CTV Sci-Fi
Founded	October 17, 1997
President
Company	Bell Media
Notable Series	InnerSPACE
Former Names	Space (1997–2019)

CTV Sci-Fi (stylized in its logo as CTV sci-fi) is a Canadian cable television network launched on October 17, 1997 and specializing in science fiction and other related content. It is roughly equivalent to the American network Syfy.

History

CTV Sci-Fi was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 1996, debuting on October 17, 1997 as Space: The Imagination Station at 6 p.m. EST, while under the ownership of CHUM Limited. Its first on-air showing was the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet, which was then followed by commentary by author Robert J. Sawyer, followed by the movie Mars Attacks!. Sawyer's commentary was the first example of the interstitial materials that became the network's signature: short, snappy, mini-docs on sci-fi and science topics that were shown between programs. Those were known as SPACE Flow. Their daily installments include Space News, which was formerly known as SPIN (Space Information and News).

On June 22, 2007, as a result of CHUM Limited's takeover, CTVglobemedia took over the network. Its ownership changed hands again when, on April 1, 2011, BCE, Inc. gain full control of the assets that CTVglobemedia didn't already own, thus giving ownership to Bell Media.

On September 12, 2019, the channel was rebranded as CTV Sci-Fi from .

In-Depth

• Program Listing: A complete listing of shows that aired new episodes on CTV Sci-Fi.

Current Shows

• Star Trek: Prodigy (Season 1 — October 28, 2021)

• Superman & Lois (Season 2 — January 11, 2022)

• Resident Alien (Season 2 — January 26, 2022)

• DMZ (April 7, 2022)
• Peacemaker (Season 1 — April 26, 2022)

• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 1 — May 5, 2022)

Upcoming Shows

• Star Trek: Lower Decks (Season 3 — Summer 2022)

• Doom Patrol (Season 4 — sometime in 2022)

• Star Trek: Picard (Season 3 — sometime in 2023)

• Doctor Who (Season 40 — sometime in 2023)

Shows in Limbo

• Star Trek: Short Treks (Season 2 — October 5, 2019)

• Monsterland (Season 1 — October 2, 2020)

• Chapelwaite (Season 1 — August 22-October 31, 2021)

• Day of the Dead (Season 1 — October 15, 2021-December 17, 2021)

• Astrid & Lilly Save the World (Season 1 — January 26, 2022-March 30, 2022)

External Sites

• Official website for CTV Sci-Fi