High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States. The series has been broadcast on the Canadian French-language network V (formerly known as TQS) in Quebec since March 9, 2009. The show was created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern and stars Hugh Dillon, Amy Jo Johnson, David Paetkau and Enrico Colantoni. It was announced January 25, 2011 that Ion Television had acquired all rights to the show and to continue production in-house.