Two All-New, Canadian-Owned Lifestyle Brands to Launch in
Canada on December 30, 2024
More Than 460 Hours of Premieres for Winter/Spring 2025 and 110
Hours of Canadian Originals for 2025/2026 Confirmed Across Both
Channels
Jessica Alba, Joanna Teplin, Clea
Shearer, Bryan and Sarah
Baeumler, Scott McGillivray,
Kortney Wilson, Kenny Brain, Pamela
Anderson, Andrew Phung,
Gordon Ramsay, Carla Hall, Eden
Grinshpan and More Join the Networks' All-Star Host
Lineup
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TORONTO, Sept. 18, 2024 /CNW/ - Today, Corus
Entertainment announces two brand-new lifestyle networks
launching in Canada on
December 30, 2024. Flavour
Network and Home Network will offer unique and fresh
destinations for lifestyle content, specifically designed and
programmed for Canadian audiences. Launching with more than 460
premiere hours in Winter/Spring 2025, the Corus-owned networks
will feature a mix of Canadian original programming, as well as
international acquisitions through new and expanded license deals.
The broad slate of exclusive content delivers new voices and
formats, familiar faces from proven hits, and global
representation. While Home Network promises to deliver the feeling
of "home" beyond four walls with inspiring storytelling, Flavour
Network will expand viewers' palates with a fresh take on all
things food – both delivering a hand-picked, content-first strategy
and curated brand experience.
"As Canada's largest
independent broadcaster and leader in lifestyle content, we will
continue to operate the country's biggest and most widely
distributed lifestyle channels with the same expertise that built
the foundation of the previous foreign brands in our market," said
Troy Reeb, Co-CEO, Corus Entertainment. "Both Flavour Network and
Home Network are thoughtfully curated new brands, built
specifically for Canadian audiences. With robust, original
programming and expanded licensing from the world's biggest
lifestyle studios, these networks will deliver big audiences and
unique opportunities for advertisers."
Canadian content drives the programming strategy across
both networks, with 110.5 hours of premium originals commissioned
by Corus confirmed for 2025/2026, including six titles currently in
production and more in development. Corus Studios titles originally
slated for Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada will air on the new
lifestyle networks, including new seasons of Scott's Vacation
House Rules and Pamela's Garden of Eden and Top 20 specialty
entertainment series Renovation Resort.* Ahead
of its Season 11 premiere this fall, Top 10 specialty entertainment
program Top Chef Canada has been greenlit for Season 12 to
air exclusively on Flavour Network.* New seasons of The Great
Chocolate Showdown and Carnival Eats also
join the 2025 lineup, along with Season 1 of Pamela Anderson's Pamela's Cooking with
Love. Brand-new greenlights from a mix of new voices and
proven stars include Building Baeumler with
Bryan and Sarah Baeumler,
Rentovation with Natalie
Chong, Beer Budget Reno with Kristen Coutts, Life is Messy with
Kortney Wilson and Kenny Brain, The Big Burger Battle
with Andrew Phung, and a yet to be
titled cross-country travelogue series focusing on beverages. Corus
is also in development on new seasons of Rock Solid
Builds, House of Ali, and a series with
Sebastian Clovis' production company
Shoots 'N Leaves.
Expanding the Flavour Network menu with boundary-pushing leaders
from the food space are Chasing Flavor with Carla Hall, Adam Richman
Eats Britain, and Andi
Oliver's Fabulous Feasts. Chef icon Gordon Ramsay finds a new seat at the table in
Canada with Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars and
Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen
Nightmares, airing exclusively on Flavour Network.
Great British Menu, The Great American
Recipe, Morimoto's Sushi
Master, Celebrity Family Food
Battle, Dinner Budget Showdown,
and Andrew Zimmern's Wild
Game Kitchen also join the network. Special presentations
of Chopped, Beat
Bobby Flay, Alex Vs.
America, Kids Baking
Championship, and Diners, Drive-ins,
and Dives will continue on Flavour Network into Spring
2025.
The Home Network family grows further with a diverse roster of
acquired programming from around the world. The Home Edit
experts, Joanna Teplin and
Clea Shearer, take on big challenges
in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and Jessica Alba and Lizzy
Mathis team up in Honest
Renovations. Additional acquired programming
includes Empty Nest Refresh,
George Clarke's Amazing
Spaces, Outrageous Homes with Laurence Llewelyn Bowen,
Key to a Fortune, A Place in the
Sun, Your Home Made Perfect,
Selling Houses Australia, Dream
Home, Interior Design Masters, and
Grand Designs the Street. Home Network will feature
encore presentations of some 2024 series into Spring 2025,
including Home Town, House
Hunters, Good Bones, My
Lottery Dream Home, 100 Day Hotel, and
Celebrity IOU.
Additional programming details and greenlights will be announced
later this year, as well as the official launch of HomeNetwork.ca
and FlavourNetwork.ca and supporting social channels. Flavour
Network and Home Network will replace the current channel position
of Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada in 2025. Customers can
contact their service provider for more details. Flavour Network
and Home Network will be available for free preview for two months,
from January 3-February 28, 2025.
Viewers will also be able to stream full episodes from both
networks on STACKTV.
Sources:
*Numeris PPM Data, Total Canada, A25-54, AMA(000), CDN SPEC COM
ENG excluding sports, 3+ airings//Top Chef Canada: Fall'22 (Aug
29/22- Jan 1/23)//Renovation Resort: Spring'23 (Jan 2 – May 28/23)
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About Corus Entertainment Inc.
Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX: CJR.B) is a leading media and
content company that develops and delivers high quality brands and
content across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging
audiences since 1999, the company's portfolio of multimedia
offerings encompass 32 specialty television services, 38 radio
stations, 15 conventional television stations, digital and
streaming platforms, and social digital agency and media services.
Corus' roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W
Network, Flavour Network and Home Network (launching soon), The
HISTORY® Channel, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic and
Global News, along with streaming platforms STACKTV, TELETOON+, the
Global TV App and Curiouscast. Corus is also the domestic
advertising representative and an original content partner for
Pluto TV, a Paramount Company, which is the leading free
ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. Corus is an
internationally-renowned content creator, producer and distributor
through Corus Studios and Nelvana. For more information
visit www.corusent.com.
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