Lucifer

Cannot confirm if it airs in Canada a day early I don't know what agreements FOX has with (I would assume) Global. You are correct though that per the data policies, it's a US show so US dates are used.

For what it's worth, I downloaded the latest episode from Usenet Sunday evening. It has a CTV logo in the corner. The same thing happened last week.

Someone posted in last week's episode thread about how it should show Sunday's date. I pointed out in that thread that we go by the production company's country of origin. However, at the time I wasn't sure if that was a one-time thing. It looks like now it's a regular thing at least through the rest of season 2.

CTV's official page for Lucifer states: SUNDAYS at 7/10C on CTV. Looks like they've changed the schedule after the hiatus.

So Canada is airing it a day early, but it's still an American show and should get the American air date/premiere.

Gadfly wrote:
So Canada is airing it a day early, but it's still an American show and should get the American air date/premiere.

Are you asking or confirming? Yes, we should be using the US schedule.

Anyone know how Canada is making these deals with various productions to air ahead of the "home" country? They've done this with a few BBC programs as well. Seems strange for a syndication deal to allow it.

Canadian here! and yes I watched it on Sunday night. We get a lot of shows early. From US as well as UK. Don't know the why or how of it but it's a common thing.

LadyShelley wrote:

Are you asking or confirming? Yes, we should be using the US schedule.
Anyone know how Canada is making these deals with various productions to air ahead of the "home" country? They've done this with a few BBC programs as well. Seems strange for a syndication deal to allow it.

A lot of it has to do with less Canadian networks buying shows from more American networks. If for example CTV buys 10 shows from CBS and 4 shows from NBC, they have to fit those shows into prime time somehow to make the most from the ad revenue. It'll just be part of the deal when the Canadian network buys the American show.

I imagine production factors may come into it as well, a lot of American produced drama series are filmed in Canada.

Also worth noting is that American shows from years and years ago, are still sometimes brought by a Canadian networks and aired as a new series years after their original American airing.

LadyShelley wrote:

Are you asking or confirming? Yes, we should be using the US schedule.

Summing up. :)

Just for reference for any casual readers, the policy on this is at http://www.tvmaze.com/faq/15/episodes under "Airdate Owner".

Canadian stations I think try to match up with their American stations as much as possible because of the CRTC mandated simsub rule ... all Canadian cable/satellite operators MUST substitute the Canadian channel signal over the American channel when shows are broadcast simultaneously. It's not too common but sometimes a network has too many shows bought to fit in or they are trying to fill a hole caused by a cancellation of another show. I'm sure there are examples of show airing later but almost always from my memory they go earlier in an effort to try to protect ad revenue as much as possible.

As an aside it gets real fun when shows run long (the 30+ min extended episodes) and you are on, for example, NBC but seeing a CTV signal that jumps back to NBC at the xx:30 mark only to jump to CITYTV airing the last of it's xx:00 ABC show then flipping on to it's xx:30 CBS show ... all the space of 15 seconds or less ... and we miss the extended part of the show we were trying to watch in the first place.