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Crime & Investigation (stylized as Crime + Investigation, and formerly known as Mystery) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. It is a licensed version of A&E Networks' Crime & Investigation, U.S. channel of the same name, and airs true crime programming from the libraries of A&E (TV channel), A&E, and off-network reruns of police procedural and crime Drama (film and television), dramas from the libraries of Global Television Network, Global and Showcase (Canadian TV channel), Showcase.


History

The channel was licensed as ''13th Street'' by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on November 24, 2000, to Canwest (45.05%), Groupe TVA (45.05%) and Rogers Communications (9.9%). Before the channel's launch, both Canwest and Groupe TVA acquired Rogers' shares in the service equally. The channel was described as "''a national English-language Category 1 specialty television service devoted to mystery and suspense programming. The service will nurture and encourage short form Canadian mysteries. It will provide a wide assortment of genre-specific programs including movies, television series, short films and documentaries that will focus exclusively on the delivery of entertaining programming on suspense, espionage and classic mysteries.''" The channel was launched as Mystery on September 7, 2001. TVA, Canwest and Rogers also owned the same shares of its French counterpart, Mystère (TV channel), Mystère, which would become wholly owned by TVA before launch. The channel was rebranded as Mystery TV in 2007, though the channel was still referred to as "Mystery" on-air. On October 27, 2010, Shaw Communications completed its acquisition of Canwest, giving it control of Canwest's 50% interest in Mystery TV. On December 22, 2011, Groupe TVA announced its intentions to sell its share of Mystery TV and History2 (Canadian TV channel), The Cave to Shaw Communications, giving Shaw full control of these two channels. The deal was approved by the CRTC on April 25, 2012. In June 2014, Shaw Media announced that Mystery TV, along with sister network FYI (Canadian TV channel), Twist TV, would be rebranded as Canadian versions of Crime & Investigation and Fyi (TV network), FYI, respectively, under a licensing agreement with A&E Networks. They were the fourth and fifth networks to be rebranded after History (Canadian TV network), History Television, Lifetime (Canadian TV channel), Showcase Diva and H2 (Canada), The Cave were rebranded as Canadian versions of History (American TV network), History, Lifetime (TV channel), Lifetime and H2 (A&E Networks), H2 respectively in 2012. It launched on November 3, 2014.


Noted series

* ''60 Days In'' * ''Beauty and the Beast (2012 TV series), Beauty and the Beast * ''The Blacklist (TV series), The Blacklist'' * ''Bull (2016 TV series), Bull'' * ''Court Cam'' * ''Due South'' * ''Evil (TV series), Evil'' * ''Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series), Hawaii Five-0 (2010)'' * ''Live Rescue, Live Rescue: Emergency Response'' * ''MacGyver (2016 TV series), MacGyver (2016)'' * ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'' * ''NCIS: Los Angeles'' * ''NCIS: New Orleans'' * ''Nightwatch Nation'' * ''The Outer Limits (1995 TV series), The Outer Limits'' * ''SEAL Team (TV series), SEAL Team'' * ''Zoe Busiek: Wild Card'' * ''Note'': series list is current as of April 2022.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crime and Investigation (Canadian TV channel) A&E Networks Television channels and stations established in 2001 2001 establishments in Canada Corus Entertainment networks Digital cable television networks in Canada English-language television stations in Canada