Pip Wedge

Philip Lomas Wedge (2 December 1928 – 15 April 2026) was a British-Canadian television executive and producer who served as Vice-President, Programming, of Canada's CTV Television Network from 1973 to 1993. He was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Broadcast Hall of Fame in 2006.

Early life Wedge was born in Forest Hill, London on 2 December 1928, the son of a clerical family who named him Philip so that he could be called "Pip" in homage to the protagonist of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Among the series, he oversaw in Montreal were the variety programmes B.A. Musical Showcase and Words and Music and the panel game It's Your Move; he also wrote and produced the network special Expo's Almost Here, a curtain-raiser for Expo 67, and was associate producer on ten editions of the public-affairs programme W5 that were recorded at the world's fair.

Wedge died in Toronto on 15 April 2026, at the age of 97.