3 minutes ago, Errol said:

Just my opinion, and subject to change come this time next year, but I believe they are stretching the show since they ordered 200 episodes for Season 1. Like The Talk did for Season 15, the season will end in December. I would think Season 2 will include the typical 250 episodes and we shouldn't expect to see these long breaks anymore as the show shouldn't have the typical "we're only producing until..." mindset since anything beyond Season 1 wasn't a guarantee when the show was first greenlit.

This sounds like the best case scenario. I can live with that. I hope these pauses are benign situation that will be resolved come next season. 

10 minutes ago, Errol said:

Just my opinion, and subject to change come this time next year, but I believe they are stretching the show since they ordered 200 episodes for Season 1. Like The Talk did for Season 15, the season will end in December. I would think Season 2 will include the typical 250 episodes and we shouldn't expect to see these long breaks anymore as the show shouldn't have the typical "we're only producing until..." mindset since anything beyond Season 1 wasn't a guarantee when the show was first greenlit.

The timing is of interest. We know they plan to celebrate Christmas so they had to align the episode with December 25. I thought BTG production didn't know about the first week of reruns, but they must have been informed this time, or else they would be way off. I wonder if they had to scramble when they found out. Could this explain some of the pacing issues?

12 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

The timing is of interest. We know they plan to celebrate Christmas so they had to align the episode with December 25. I thought BTG production didn't know about the first week of reruns, but they must have been informed this time, or else they would be way off. I wonder if they had to scramble when they found out. Could this explain some of the pacing issues?

Who knows; but considering scripts are written six-months in advance, I doubt it.

3 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

Who knows; but considering scripts are written six-months in advance, I doubt it.

That's precisely my point. If they had certain milestones plotted out to happen around the end of the year, and then suddenly lost two weeks of shows, they may have had to scramble to truncate stories. Unless they knew about the week-long preemptions and took them into account when writing the original scripts, but MJV seemed as confused as the rest of us last time. 

2 hours ago, Maxim said:

I'm not panicking yet... quite the contrary, but if I see these encores start to ruin the momentum and lead to lower ratings in the following weeks after them... then I'll be reacting differently. Right now... I'm just watching it carefully. 

I think this is how I am feeling as well. Unless they planned out what to show (like with the first repeat week being the premiere week), I will grow wary of it. I am thankful we discussed this beforehand last week in these threads so it's not as jarring as the last time. However, we discussed it HERE. It does not seem (like last time) there was no/any notification/warning for it AGAIN on social media in general so the network should be expecting some pushback. AGAIN. 

2 hours ago, Maxim said:

This sounds like the best case scenario. I can live with that. I hope these pauses are benign situation that will be resolved come next season. 

Also how I am feeling.

https://x.com/JeevanBrar/status/1961431232148824300

UPDATE: New episodes to simulcast on CTV Drama Channel weekdays at 2 p.m. ET and then stream on Crave the following day (just like B&B with CTV/Crave). 🇨🇦

Full library beginning Sep. 1. New eps resume the following week.https://t.co/sLt6bmO9X7 #BeyondTheGates #BTG https://t.co/nGtOB2LZk6

— Jeevan Brar (@JeevanBrar) August 29, 2025

https://www.thetvwatercooler.com/2025/08/stream-beyond-the-gates-canada/

"Bell Media has also confirmed to The TV Watercooler that new episodes will be simulcast on CTV Drama Channel at 2 p.m. ET on weekdays and will stream on Crave the following day."

 

 

https://x.com/JeevanBrar/status/1961454974895820820

It’s not in the main network (CTV) because their big daytime talk show (The Social) airs at the same time.

I believe CTV Drama Channel is more widely available than CTV2 (local Barrie channel here in GTA, previously the New VR).

— Jeevan Brar (@JeevanBrar) August 29, 2025

 

Edited August 29Aug 29 by janea4old

CBS broadcast repeats for week of September 1-5, 2025
(this is *only* for the broadcast on CBS-TV)

The repeats on CBS will be the anniversary party reveal week:
episodes #45-49, original airdates May 2-9, 2025

Monday September 1:
Episode #45 - Original airdate Thursday May 1

Tuesday September 2:
Episode #46 - Original airdate Friday May 2

Wednesday September 3:
Episode #47 - Original airdate Monday May 5

Thursday September 4:
Episode #48 - Original airdate Thursday May 8

Friday September 5:
Episode #49 - Original airdate Friday May 9

(BTG did not air on Tues. May 6 and Wed. May 7, due to BTG being preempted nationally for soccer on those dates).

Edited August 29Aug 29 by janea4old

Looking at the details it is clear that this is a better deal if it reaches more viewers across Canada as opposed to just one area. The CHCH deal might have been a quick arrangement to get the show on the air in Canada early on by whatever means were possible.

Edited August 29Aug 29 by ReddFoxx

35 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

Looking at the details it is clear that this is a better deal if it reaches more viewers across Canada as opposed to just one area. The CHCH deal might have been a quick arrangement to get the show on the air in Canada early on by whatever means were possible.

Yeah, I suspect that CTV might've not been able to air it until September (when a new "season" traditionally begins), so the CHCH deal might've always been a temporary thing. It makes more sense for it to air together with B&B either way. 

11 minutes ago, te. said:

Yeah, I suspect that CTV might've not been able to air it until September (when a new "season" traditionally begins), so the CHCH deal might've always been a temporary thing. It makes more sense for it to air together with B&B either way. 

It's not going to be on CTV after Bold, it'll air on a cable channel they own as @janea4old pointed out. CTV airs a cheap Canadian View knockoff after B&B that they'd be loath to get rid of because of CanCon rules (the networks have to air a certain % of Canadian shows per week).

The most likely way it played out was CH gave notice it wasn't picking up its option, then CBS offered better terms to Bell (CTV/Crave, etc. owners) than they offered last year.

16 minutes ago, bongobong said:

It's not going to be on CTV after Bold, it'll air on a cable channel they own as @janea4old pointed out. CTV airs a cheap Canadian View knockoff after B&B that they'd be loath to get rid of because of CanCon rules (the networks have to air a certain % of Canadian shows per week).

The most likely way it played out was CH gave notice it wasn't picking up its option, then CBS offered better terms to Bell (CTV/Crave, etc. owners) than they offered last year.

CTV Drama it says, and is that where they air BOLD? 

2 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

CTV Drama it says, and is that where they air BOLD? 

No, Bold is on regular CTV. The American analogy would be CTV=CBS, CTV Drama=Paramount Network.

According to Mobile Syrup (https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/08/29/new-on-paramount-plus-canada-september-2025/ ) BTG is being added to Paramount Plus Canada on September 26. So either:

1) The Bell Media deal is non-exclusive

2) This was planned before the Bell Media deal and they won't end up adding it

For Americans: Paramount has a number of non-exclusive deals with other streamers/broadcasters. Some CBS shows are on both PP Canada and other streamers like Crave or StackTV. However, neither B&B nor Y&R are on PP Canada.

Six months since its launch, and there's still no news on BTG being made available in the UK, Australia and other markets. What is going on?!