Canada’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel confirms it will carry Star Trek: Prodigy and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Canada’s CTV Sci-Fi to carry Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Prodigy (not pictured). (L-R) Ethan Peck as Spock, Anson Mount as Captain Pike, and Rebecca Romijn as Number One in Star Trek: Discovery
JUNE 6, 2021 - Star Trek fans in Canada got some good news this past week with the announcement that television network CTV has secured the rights to broadcast both Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Prodigy, according to a press release from CTV’s parent company Bell Media. Both shows will be airing on CTV’s specialty Sci-Fi Channel, which is already home to Lower Decks, as well as Star Trek: Picard, which was the network’s “most-watched entertainment specialty program ever”, and Star Trek: Discovery, which was CTV Sci-Fi Channel’s highest rated program of 2021.
The announcement also confirmed that Lower Decks season two will premiere in Canada on the same day as the United States: August 12th. No Canadian release date for the new shows was given, which is no surprise since the premiere dates in the US have also yet to be announced. As noted in a story on TrekCore.com, new series of Star Trek programs have typically been released in Canada “within about a day of the US release on Paramount+,” and are also offered on-demand through Crave, Bell Media’s subscription streaming service.
You can read more about Star Trek and other sci-fi shows on CTV by visiting ctv.ca.
Jack Brown is a contributing writer for Daily Star Trek News on the Roddenberry Podcast Network. Jack teaches at a small film school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and also helps to manage his wife's career as a novelist and speaker. In his spare time he writes fiction, cooks, and watches classic movies.
