TV, eh?

From GeekMonthly.com – the show is airing in the US now but premieres on CHUM in the fall:

• Creating Blood Ties: An Interview with Tanya Huff
  “Peter Mohan, who adapted the first two episodes right off of Blood Price, had me watching dailies and we reached one point where we couldn’t figure out which one of us had written the line. That’s how close he is to the heart of what I did. So I was totally blown away by it.”

From Firefox News (show airing in US now, expected to air on CHUM in fall):

• Review of Blood Ties
  “The pilot of Blood Ties resonates with the feel of vampire shows already turned to dust, with a few unique touches that may yet give the show its own voice.”

From AfterEllen.com (the show will apparently air in the fall on CHUM):

• Christina Cox sweetens the small screen
  “It’s not often in the entertainment business that the author of a book singles out an actor to play a character, and years later she actually ends up on-screen in the role. But that’s exactly what happened to actor Christina Cox (Better Than Chocolate), star of Lifetime’s new series Blood Ties, based upon the novels of Tanya Huff.”

From TV Guide – the show debuts in the US this weekend, on CHUM in fall 2007:

• Christina Cox is out for Blood as TV’s sexy new slayer
  “A show like Blood Ties crosses genres; it’s action-packed; there’s a great, sexy, unrequited-love element to it; and there are ass-kicking demons, an ass-kicking vampire and a gun-wielding chick. Really, it has all the components.”

From AfterEllen.com, and interview with author Tanya Huff, whose books are the basis for the CHUM/Lifetime series Blood Ties:

• Behind the scenes of Blood Ties
  “How does she feel about the de-queering of Blood Ties? ‘I think it’s unfortunate,’ she said, ‘but I also think that, you know, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. It’s kind of what happens now. It’s a compromise you have to make when you get onto television at all. The fact that they’re doing adult heterosexuality is actually fairly amazing, given the general consensus that adult heterosexuality is defined as Desperate Housewives.’ “

From Dead Things on Sticks (aka Denis McGrath, one of the show’s writers), some behind the scenes information. The show will apparently air on CHUM in fall 2007:

• Lifetime’s Blood Ties Behind the Scenes
  “As for you long suffering Canadian fans, yes I know it’s filmed here. Yes, I know it seems unfair. But at least there’s this ray of hope: the content on the website is not geo-locked — so you can go and view it all you want.”

From GeekMonthly.com:

• The Making of Blood Ties, Part 2 (Part one is here)
  “Guiding the television adaptation of Tanya Huff’s vampire novels is executive producer Peter Mohan. In the second part of Geekmonthly.com’s interview with him, we look at the challenges of creating an ambitious series on a limited budget and how the show has evolved from the beginning to the point where the first season is wrapping production.”

From C21 Media:

• Living buys undead crime drama
  “Virgin Media TV’s Living channel has acquired a new supernatural crime thriller from ContentFilm distributor Fireworks International for launch in summer 2007 in primetime.”

From GeekMonthly.com, an interview with creator Peter Mohan, about a Canadian show that will premiere in March on Lifetime in the US and in the fall on CHUM in Canada:

• The Making of Blood Ties, Part 1
  “Anyone still mourning the passing of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, may get a shot in the jugular with Lifetime television’s new vampire series, Blood Ties.”