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The Guard

Friday, November 20 – 8pm ET/PT

“LOVESICK”

The crew is quarantined after responding to a call where all of the occupants on a sailboat are stricken with a mysterious and possibly deadly virus.

From Brian Gorman of the Lindsay Post:

• Bacic looks back at three years on ‘Guard’
  “An agent once told Steve Bacic, ‘The camera loves insanity and vulnerability.’ So, he says, he has more or less dedicated his career to exploring both. ‘Whenever possible, I like to put them both together,’ he says.” Read more.

The Guard

8pm ET/PT

Tina must fight to save the life of the person who just attempted to assault her after their speeding boat hits a log boom in the middle of the ocean.

8pm ET/PT
Laura starts to second-guess her decision to spend the night with an eccentric recluse who lives alone on a remote island when mysterious things begin to happen.

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.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Flash, Dance and Blades Put CanCon on Top
  “The season finale of So You Think You Can Dance Canada waltzed off with 1,689,000 viewers, with Lethbridge, Alta.’s Tara Jean Popowich crowned as the nation’s latest dance queen. Flashpoint led all Canadian scripted shows with 1,560,000 Friday night viewers on CTV. It was also the most-watched show–American or Canadian–on the night.” Read more.

Friday, October 23 – 8pm ET/PT

“BODY PARTS”
Port Hallet is a buzz when an internet porn director shows up with three “actresses” to shoot a Girls Gone into the Wild video. Their filming is interrupted when their boat hits a deadhead and the Coasties are forced to race to their rescue. Meanwhile, Laura is thrown for a curve when David’s ex-wife Jen arrives to investigate a dismembered sneaker-clad foot that washed up on the beach…and then hooks up with Miro.

From Bill Harris of Sun Media:

• Caught with her pants down
  “Zoie Palmer’s ambition as a performer manifested itself early, with a time-honoured childhood ritual. Specifically, impromptu underwear shows when acquaintances of her parents would drop by for a chat.” Read more.

From the Global website:

Season 3: This one-hour drama with all new episodes follows the search and rescue (SAR) team of the Canadian Coast Guard. Canada’s favourite Coast Guard rescue specialists are back to embark on new challenges while continuing to endure the daily dangers of life out on the Pacific Ocean.

Cast: Steve Bacic, Sonya Salomaa, Jeremy Guilbaut and Zoie Palmer.

Friday October 23 at 8 pm PT/ET

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)

• Leo Awards, 2009 Nominees
  Best dramatic series includes Stargate Atlantis
  Best direction includes Stargate Atlantis, Sanctuary
  Best screenwriting includes Stargate Atlantis, Sanctuary, The Guard
  See all nominees here.
  

From Brendan Kelly of Variety:

• U.S. networks nab Canadian shows
  “Canadian TV shows keep creeping across the border to the U.S. networks and that’s clearly good news for the Canuck production biz. But some in the Great White North wonder whether they are giving away too much in terms of coin and creative control.” Read more.

From CBC:

• CBC’s The Border heads for U.S. TV screens
  “Canadian action drama The Border will soon be telecast in the U.S. The drama about an elite Canadian Immigration and Customs Security unit, based in Toronto and working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been sold to ION Television of Florida.” Read more.

Wednesday, January 14 – 8pm ET/PT
“BODY PARTS”

Port Hallet is a buzz when an internet porn director shows up with three “actresses” to shoot a Girls Gone into the Wild video. Their filming is interrupted when their boat hits a deadhead and the Coasties are forced to race to their rescue. Meanwhile, Laura is thrown for a curve when David’s ex-wife Jen arrives to investigate a dismembered sneaker-clad foot that washed up on the beach…and then hooks up with Miro.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family, ratings for Rick Mercer Report, Air Farce, Dragons’ Den, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Border, The Tudors, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Sophie, So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Corner Gas, The Guard, etc.:

• Mercer, Air Farce still flying high
  As expected, Don Cherry helped boost the Rick Mercer Report back on top as CBC’s highest-rated non-hockey broadcast last week, drawing 1,169,000 viewers last Tuesday. In fact, if you add the other 815,000 who checked out Mercer’s Friday rebroadcast, the episode drew close to 2 million Canadians.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux of TV Feeds My Family, ratings for The Border, Dragons’ Den, Air Farce, Rick Mercer Report, Heartland, The Tudors, Little Mosque on the Prairie, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Sophie, So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Corner Gas, The Guard, and Degrassi, among others:

• Grace Park Behind Border Jump
  “Boosted by the series debut of Grace Park as Homeland Security Agent Liz Carver, The Border jumped to 765,000 viewers across Canada Nov. 10. That made it CBC’s highest-rated off-ice series last week.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family, ratings for the below as well as So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Corner Gas, The Guard, Degrassi:

• Weekly Ratings in Jeopardy
  The Rick Mercer Report, opposite U.S. presidential election returns, drew 843,000 last Tuesday night. Air Farce Final Flight, still stubbornly resilient, drew 728,000, The Tudors, 652,000, The Border, 643,000, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, 631,000, Dragon’s Den, 617,000, Doctor Who, 547,000, Doc Zone, 515,000, Little Mosque, 514,000, Nature of Things, 455,000, Heartland, 430,000, fifth estate, 289,000 and dead last–below MVP and jPod numbers–poor Sophie at 251,000 viewers.” Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family, with ratings for Mercer, Dragon’s Den, The Border, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Tudors, Heartland, Air Farce, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Sophie, The Guard, So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Corner Gas and Degrassi:

• Last Week: Mercer’s Back On Top
  “He shoots, he scores: last week’s Rick Mercer Report topped all CBC prime time shows with 1,114,000 viewers, outdrawing even Saturday night staple Hockey Night in Canada (1,021,000).” Read more.

From Marise Strauss of Media in Canada:

• Global scores with SNL election antics
  “Meanwhile, the second season premiere of Global drama series The Guard took a hit in the ratings last Wednesday, when it managed just 384,000 viewers, down from the 813,000 that tuned in for its debut in January. The show averaged roughly 500,000 viewers for its first season. The Guard faces tough competition in its 10 pm timeslot from CSI: NY on CTV.” Read more.

THE GUARD

Wednesday, November 5 – 10pm ET/PT

“ZERO FOOTPRINT”

The crew is called out on an emotionally complicated medical emergency when Ira, an environmentalist hippie living on remote Zetus Island produces a DNR order for his brother, Daniel, who has gone into cardiac arrest. Ira insists Laura not administer any medical intervention, even though, without help, Daniel will die. Carly’s relationship with Wendell becomes strained when Robyn, a woman from his past, shows up in Port Hallet.