Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series that premiered on CTV on January 23,1998, at 10 p m, and ran for seven seasons.
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11 Facts About Cold Squad
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Cold Squad premiered simultaneously in French Canada on Series+ as Brigade speciale.
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Cold Squad is the first prime time national series produced out of Vancouver.
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Cold Squad was originally conceived in 1995 as a one-hour series for the Lifetime channel in the United States.
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At the time Cold Squad was developed, the production of television series in Vancouver was heavily dominated by programs made for the United States.
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When Cold Squad was greenlit it became the first one-hour, prime time dramatic series for Canadian television to be produced out of Vancouver.
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Originally scheduled to start on June 16,1997, filming on Cold Squad began on July 2,1997, and the new series' scheduled premiere was changed from September 1997 to January 1998.
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When Cold Squad went into syndication in the United States the similitude between it and Cold Case raised eyebrows — until American viewers discovered that Cold Squad was the precedent series.
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Cold Squad was seen in off-network syndication intermittently on cable specialty channel Mystery TV, and on Bravo.
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Digital distribution of Cold Squad became available in the U S as instant streaming on Netflix in 2011.
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