Watching This Week #112
Listings for May 29 to June 4, 2023; Corus channels appear set to leave Eastlink.
News from early September 2022 including a Disney+ sale and items about "High School", the "Star Trek" series, A24 films, and more.
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Welcome to the September 12, 2022, edition of Watching This Week, the weekly newsletter from Where Can I Watch – covering the latest news on where TV shows and movies will be available in Canada.
This week, updates on Tegan and Sara's High School series, where you can find the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films, and a new sign-up offer for Disney+. But first, here's what's coming up on TV and streaming this week.
Compiled from our monthly listings and/or any subsequent updates we've come across. Some series/seasons may have weekly rollouts; we won't list new episodes every week (though we may note significant episodes such as series finales). The most notable premiere for each service (in our rough estimation) is bolded.
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ this past Thursday, some scheduling on linear TV channels may remain in flux. The funeral will take place in the early morning (Canada time) next Monday, September 19, but there may be other commemorative events in the coming days that may impact these listings.
*Canadian broadcast/streaming rights to the new season of The Handmaid's Tale are now shared between Amazon and Bell Media; episodes will premiere each week on all three outlets indicated.
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Here's some of the reader questions we've received recently by email (hello@wherecaniwatch.ca) or Twitter (@wherewatchtv). We welcome questions of general interest, and publish a few of them (and our answers) from time to time; messages may be edited for brevity and clarity.
Christine: Any idea about the new season of The Great British Bake Off streaming in Canada in a timely way? (To be extra extra clear, not the Canadian version.)
WCIW: We posted an article about GBBO – better known in North America as The Great British Baking Show – a couple of years ago, which we’ve updated a few times since (and probably will be updated again very soon).
But, in short, we have not seen any sign of the situation changing. As far as we know, the CBC still has the Canadian rights, and will continue to wait until the following summer before airing the new seasons that air each fall on Channel 4 UK and Netflix in the United States. That will probably remain the case as long as the CBC is willing to pay for those Canadian rights.
So the season currently scheduled to premiere in the coming week in the UK and U.S. will likely air on CBC in summer 2023.
As we mentioned in the post, it’s seemed to work well enough for the CBC in past years – GBBO showed up a couple of times this summer in the top-rated programs on traditional Canadian TV despite the delay – so unfortunately it’s unlikely it’ll change anytime soon.
Jim: Does Crave automatically give the viewer access to all of HBO Max’s streaming shows? There are a few shows that aren’t showing up — Pennyworth especially. Or am I just missing something obvious.
WCIW: Bell Media / Crave’s deal with Warner Bros. Discovery includes Canadian rights to programs airing on the HBO pay TV service, and new scripted “HBO Max Original” programs that were originally ordered by the streaming service. A few HBO Max programs, mostly animated or produced by studios outside of Warner Bros., are covered by other deals and are not available on Crave, as we’ve tried to explain in this post (and that page, as well, is due for an update).
Pennyworth is specifically excluded because it was originally ordered by the Epix channel in the U.S., and at that time the Canadian rights were picked up by Corus Entertainment’s Showcase channel. Even though it’s since moved to HBO Max in the U.S., Showcase still has first right of refusal on new seasons, and they’ve already said they’ll carry the upcoming third season. We imagine the streaming rights to past seasons might be up for grabs separately, but Crave probably wouldn’t want them as long as new episodes are airing, since it’d mostly serve to promote a competitor.
We've made some minor updates to our posts about Days of Our Lives and The Good Fight, and added a post about the Primetime Emmy Awards, which takes place tonight.
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