TV, eh?

From a media release:

Friday

• 8pm The Guard (Season 3)

Saturday

• 7pm Renegade Press (Season 5)
• 7:30pm The Jane Show (Season 1)
• 10pm Project Runway Canada (Season 2)

From a media release (I’m including Canadian series only):

Key returning 2008 Canadian highlights include the #1 new drama series* THE GUARD; and #1 new Canadian comedy series ’DA KINK IN MY HAIR. (BBM-NMR National Meter Data, Adults 18-49, Sept 10/07-May 25/08)

GLOBAL PRIMETIME 2008 – DAY-AT-A-GLANCE
All times EST. SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

Wednesday
10pm The Guard (Season 2)

Saturday
7pm Global Currents (Season 3)
10pm Renagadepress.com
10:30pm Renagadepress.com

MID-SEASON: ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING (Global)

• THE ANIMATED ADVENTURES OF BOB AND DOUG MACKENZIE (30 minutes; animated)
• COLD BLOOD (10 x 1 hour; documentary)
• HOWIE DO IT (30 minutes; comedy)
• XIII (2 x 2 hour; drama)
• THE LAST TEMPLAR (2 x 2 hour; drama)
• PROJECT RUNWAY CANADA Season 2 (1 hour; reality)

MID-SEASON ORIGINAL SERIES (E!)

• PRODUCING PARKER (animation)

From Media in Canada:

• APTN forced to delay expansion
  “APTN’s spring schedule includes Warriors: TKO, which follows four fighters from rival boxing clubs as they train together; the fifth and final season of renegadepress.com; and a new season of Rez Rides, charting the adventures of Mohawk entrepreneur and “king of car customizing” Brian White.” Read more.

From Tim Arsenault of the Halifax Chronicle Herald:

• Dealing with issues naturally: Series about youth delivers messages without amping up the drama
  “For families that might be in the market for something slightly less salacious, there’s been renegadepress.com. In addition to being a youth-friendly web portal, the name is also the title of a half-hour scripted show that’s been available to most viewers on APTN. That’s a little under-the-radar for some viewers, but renegadepress.com is premiering on Global tonight at 7 p.m. with the first of 52 episodes comprising four seasons’ worth of shows.” Read more.

MIXED BLESSINGS / Tuesdays at 9 pm repeating Wednesdays at 2:30 am, Fridays at 8:30 pm and Sundays at 8 pm ET/PT

World Premiere

Mixed Blessings is a dramatic comedy series that explores the lives of a blended family in small town Canada. Hank, a third generation Ukrainian with two teenagers, and Ruby, a Cree woman with four kids, ages 6 to 16, set up house together in a northern Alberta community. As they fumble to fuse their lives together, will the kids and the town rip them apart?

CLOSER TO HOME / Tuesdays at 9:30pm repeating Wednesdays at 3 am and Saturdays at 2:30 pm and 9 pm ET/PT

World Premiere

This television series takes us onto reserves across Canada to experience housing from a First Nations point of view. Hosted by acclaimed First Nations actor and home builder, Wayne Baker, six new half-hour episodes deliver relevant “how-to” advice on a range of housing issues catered to Aboriginal people living on-reserve.

RABBIT FALL / Fridays at 7:30 pm repeating Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 1 am and 8:30 pm ET/PT

World Premiere

Tara Wheaton (Andrea Menard) is assigned the town of Rabbit Fall’s most benign cases – from noise violations to neighborhood pranks – but instinct tells her that the bizarre lurks in the everyday. Her nagging intuition leads her from ordinary crimes into the darkest corners of Rabbit Fall, where she uncovers the town’s gravest secrets and begins to suspect there is an underlying mystery at work.

renegadepress.com / Wednesdays at 5 pm, Fridays at 5 pm and Sundays at 6:30 pm ET/PT

2006 Gemini Award winner and 2007 ACT Award of Excellence winner!

renegadepress.com follows the story of Aboriginal teenager Jack Sinclair (Bronson Pelletier) and his best friend Zoey Jones (Ksenia Solo) who are determined to expose what’s really going on in the lives of today’s youth by using their teen-generated e-zine ‘renegadepress.com’ as their platform.

Stefan Schussler of the Regina Leader-Post

• ‘Renegadepress.com’ about pushing limits
  “A Saskatchewan television production is being honoured today as one of the top 10 groundbreaking Canadian new media productions by the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund.” Read more.

From a media release (TV nominees only):

The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) announces the 2007 DGC Awards nominations. Funnyman Peter Keleghan returns as host of the event on Saturday, September 29, 2007 at the Carlu event theatre in Toronto.

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From the Canadian Press:

• Renegade in the raw
• Lorne Cardinal turns a new corner (about his roles in Renegadepress.com and Corner Gas)