TV, eh?

From Movieweb:

Amanda Tapping:

Ryan Robbins:

Damian Kindler:

From the DGC website – nominations include Being Erica, Flashpoint, Sanctuary, The Bridge, Death Comes to Town, G-Spot, Less Than Kind, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Degrassi, Heartland, How to be Indie, Overruled:

• The Directors Guild of Canada Announces the 2010 DGC Awards Nominees “The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) announces the 2010 DGC Awards nominations. Comedian Dave Foley will host the annual gala on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. The Guild will celebrate the career of acclaimed director Sidney Furie (The Ipcress File, Lady Sings the Blues) and the extraordinary contributions of Don McCutcheon and Paul Bronfman to the DGC and the Canadian film and television industry.” Read more.

From Bryan Reesman of TV Squad:

• Amanda Tapping Reveals ‘Sanctuary’ Season 3
  “One of Syfy’s top-rated series, ‘Sanctuary’ released its season 2 DVD recently and this fall, the third season will expand to 20 episodes. That’s good news for fans of the Amanda Tapping show. TV Squad got the scoop from the actress about what’s coming up for this intense adventure series.” Read more.

From Katherine Monk of the Vancouver Sun:

• Sci-fi show finds Sanctuary in Vancouver
  “Sanctuary producer/cocreator Damian Kindler said Vancouver is a friendly place to produce fantasy-oriented content thanks to the city’s deep reservoir of digital facilities and code-savvy talent, but setting up camp on the wet coast does have its downsides. ‘We don’t exist to Toronto,’ said Kindler, taking time out of his crazy schedule to explain the strange game of Canadian cultural hide and seek.” Read more.

From Craig Takeuchi of the Georgia Straight:

• Sanctuary: Season Two 2 DVD release coincides with multiple wins at Leo Awards
  “The DVD/Blu-ray release of Sanctuary: Season Two on Tuesday (June 15) arrives hot on the heels of the show scooping up seven Leo Awards at the Westin Bayshore on June 4 and 5.” Read more.

From Warren Clements of the Globe and Mail:

• Return to Sanctuary, B.C.
  “Why can’t humans and mutants with supernatural powers just learn to get along? Didn’t X-Men teach us anything?” Read more.

From Craig Takeuchi of the Georgia Straight:

• Leo Awards 2010 final winners: Alice, Sanctuary, Excited on top
  “As the second evening of Leo Awards concluded tonight at the Westin Bayshore, the TV miniseries Alice , a new take on the Alice in Wonderland story, led the winners of the Leo Awards, picking up a total of eight awards in a range of technical categories.” Read more.

From Craig Takeuchi of the Georgia Straight:

• Leo Awards 2010: Alice, Sanctuary, The Gray Matter lead technical winners
  “Who won the most awards at the Leo Celebration Awards at the Westin Bayshore tonight? Go ask Alice. The TV mini-series, which ran in the feature-length drama category, won five awards this evening. (Tonight’s gala consisted of technical categories in the first of two nights of Leo Award ceremonies.)” Read more.

From a media release:

This June, return to the fantastical world of Sanctuary, the trailblazing series following Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping, Stargate SG-1) on her quest to study and protect the extraordinary and legendary creatures that secretly live among us. Sanctuary: The Complete Second Season” which earned a 2009 Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, will make its DVD and Blu-Ray debut as loaded 4-Disc Collector´s Sets.

New faces, amazing places, bigger myths and greater surprises abound in the new DVD installment of this top-rated, fan favorite series. And, as befitting one of TV’s most innovative programs–a show filmed almost entirely on green screen, shot with RED Camera Digital Technology that records at 4x the resolution of standard HD–Sanctuary: The Complete Second Season includes an arsenal of exclusive extras including: audio commentaries on all 13 episodes with cast and crew including Amanda Tapping, creator Damian Kindler, director Martin Wood and more; multiple making-of featurettes; a Robin Dunne Video Diary; an outtakes/bloopers reel; international promos/trailers and a Blu-ray exclusive – an interactive green screen on select episodes. Run-time is 585 minutes plus extras.

From Craig Takeuchi of the Georgia Straight:

• Stargate, Sanctuary lead 2010 Leo Awards nominees
  “Sci-fi series Sanctuary and Stargate Universe dominated the dramatic series categories with an amazing 17 nominations each and outpaced their contenders. Smallville followed with six, and Heartland and V each received two.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• CBC Battles on Without Blades
  “FRIDAY saw 1,575,000 show for the season finale of Flashpoint (with Hugh Dillon and Michael Cram, left), which tried to steal a little Blade glory by training its sights on Maple Leaf Gardens.” Read more.

9 p.m. ET/PT
The Sanctuary Network charges Dr. Helen Magnus with murder. Will tries to prove her innocence. Amanda Tapping, who plays Dr. Helen Magnus, directs.

9 p.m. ET/PT
Dr. Helen Magnus fights to save one of the Sanctuary’s research scientists who was uncharacteristically attacked by an Abnormal.

From Mary Francis of The Vancouver Sun:

• Sci-fi series navigate the dangerous waters between the web and TV
  “‘I would definitely recommend going online with a series, but not the way we did it,’ says Amanda Tapping, the lead actor and executive producer of the multiple-Gemini-nominated Sanctuary, which debuted its second season last month.” Read more.

From Alex Strachan of Canwest:

• Great Canadian TV: What you might have missed
  “Canadians love Canadians. Canadians love television. But Canadians don’t always love Canadian television. There is, however, some great TV being created north of the 49th parallel, despite our national boob-tube inferiority complex.” Read more.

From a media release:

New Not-for-Profit Foundation, SANCTUARY FOR KIDS, launched by TV Actor / Executive Producer Amanda Tapping

• Foundation will raise funds for children in crisis by auctioning rare props, set visits and ‘priceless’ items from sci-fi TV series Sanctuary

Television Actor and Executive Producer Amanda Tapping announced the launch of a new not-for-profit foundation, Sanctuary for Kids (S4K) that will support local and international charities providing vital aid to children and youth in crisis.

Sanctuary for Kids was inspired by the sci-fi TV series Sanctuary, for which Amanda Tapping is Executive Producer and the series lead actor. The foundation will harness the tremendous and supportive sci-fi community and provide access to rare and experience-based online auction items from Sanctuary to raise funds for children’s charities. The first auction will take place November 12 – 22, 2009.

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From Bill Brioux of TV Feeds My Family:

• Hull of a Weekend for Canadian TV
  “Friday’s Flashpoint picked off 1,816,000 commercial on CTV (all figures BBM Canada overnight estimates). CBC’s Battle of the Blades was right behind Sunday night with 1,810,000 tuning in to see the final three skate off. Then, lookit this–CBC’s pony drama Heartland quietly rode off with 1,282,000 Sunday evening.” Read more.

9 p.m. ET/PT
Dr. Helen Magnus wakes up to find the Sanctuary in ruins and the entire city decimated with no memory of how the devastation occurred.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Blades, Flash, Blades Top Weekend Draws
  “CTV’s Friday night winner Flashpoint picked off another 1,870,000 according to BBM Canada overnight estimates (“commercial” data). Battle of the Blades landed 1,618,000 Sunday night for CBC. CBC’s Sunday night family drama Heartland, featuring Amber Marshall and Spartan, left, had another near million night, drawing 932,000.” Read more.

9 pm – Magnus traps a superhero (Christopher Gauthier) whose lack of finesse affects the team’s work. Elsewhere, the discovery of an eggshell remnant puts Will and Declan (Robert Lawrenson) on the hunt for a creature that’s loose in the city.