From Hermoine Wilson of The TV Junkies:
Link: Kim’s Convenience brings much-needed diversity to Canadian TV
Personally, I enjoy comedies that have a bit of depth to them, and Kim’s Convenience definitely checks that box. When you’re not laughing at the antics of Mr. and Mrs. Kim, and their sometimes awkward but loving relationship with their adult children, you’ll be drawn into the emotional side of their story. Continue reading.
From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:
Link: This Life: Lauren Lee Smith discusses Maggie’s unexpected nature
“As this season progresses we see that the decision they made perhaps was not the smartest choice, and the repercussions emotionally for Maggie are definitely more than she bargained for and more than she anticipated. It turns out to be not what she thought it would be at all. At all. Like AT ALL!” Continue reading.
From Ian Bailey of The Globe and Mail:
Link: New funding rules for Canadian television draw ire
If new funding rules for the production of Canadian television were in place years ago, Simon Barry fears he wouldn’t have kept his job as executive producer on his made-in-Vancouver TV series Continuum, which ran for four seasons before ending last year.
“I would have been replaced immediately,†said Mr. Barry, now working in Vancouver on the series Van Helsing. “They would have said, ‘We’re going to spend all this money on a big sci-fi show with a big cast and it’s ambitious. We shouldn’t trust this to the guy who created it just because he’s Canadian.’†Continue reading.
From Victoria Ahearn of The Canadian Press:
Link: 10th season for Murdoch Mysteries “a huge milestone”
Ten seasons into “Murdoch Mysteries,” star Yannick Bisson is feeling sentimental about his time with his character, a super sleuth probing crimes at the turn of 20th-century Toronto.
“It’s a huge milestone for any show anywhere, especially here in Canada,” he said ahead of Monday’s season 10 debut on CBC-TV.
“We’re really proud and it just seems to never stop being good.” Continue reading.
From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:
Link: Wynonna Earp’s Dominique Provost-Chalkley on her very different Murdoch Mysteries role
“We center around the Fire of Toronto in 1904 and open with a huge debutante ball. I’m one of the debutantes trying to win Mr. Rodney Strong’s hand in marriage. Of course it doesn’t run as smoothly as that and one of the debutantes is killed, so amongst all the drama Murdoch has to work out who is murdering them and why.” Continue reading.
