Blood Ties is a Canadian television series based on the Blood Books by Tanya Huff; the show was created by Peter Mohan. It premiered in the United States on March 11, 2007 on Lifetime Television, and during fall of 2007 on Citytv and Space in Canada. It has also been bought by UK channel Living and started there on August 16, 2007. In 2008 the show commenced screening in Australia on the FOX8 channel. In Spain, it is broadcast by Calle 13 and started on November 22, 2007. The show can also be watched for free on Lifetime's website (link below). As of April 2008, it was unknown whether the series was to be cancelled or would return for another season. In May 2008, Lifetime declined to renew the series.
As of November 2008, the Canadian production company, Kaleidoscope Entertainment Inc., was still seeking production partners to bring the show back; however, it is unlikely that the show will return to the air given the length of time since it was originally filmed. It is currently airing in syndication in many other countries. It has since released season two. In Latin America the series has started to run on AXN, but later changed to Animax the anime and SciFi Channel part of Sony Entertainment (as AXN).