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Gemini Awards, round two: The judges totally like Degrassi
“Kung-fu kicking chickens, teen melodrama and renovations gone wrong were among the victors as the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced the second batch of winners of the 2008 Gemini Awards yesterday in the children’s, youth and lifestyle categories.” Read more.
Diet shows that are hard to swallow
“X-Weighted (Slice; 8 p.m.) is the veteran here, wrapping up its third season tonight with an episode devoted to Tammy, a former model and athlete turned home-daycare provider and mother of two who started to put on weight after she was sidelined by a bad car accident. In six months time, she wants to have lost 50 pounds and run a half-marathon. … It’s this kind of thing that makes newcomer Stuck(W, 9:30) stick out. The show has taken a refreshingly different approach - no competitions, no dramatic weigh-ins, just a group of seven women who feel stuck in their lives and who get together to enjoy supportive friendship and encourage each other to work out, try new sports and maybe eat better too.” Read more.
Chris was an active, athletic guy until the high-pressure office job hit. Thus began his rapid decline into a sedentary life of take out meals and an expanding waistline. Now his body is “revolting” – in more ways than one. He has overcome cancer but still relies heavily on over-the-counter medications to make it through the day. Chris knows that while his body is failing him, he is failing his wife and daughter.
X-Weighted Participant Sheds Self-Doubt Along With Pounds
“‘My weight loss journey had a lot of emotional weight attached to it as well as the physical weight,’ she explained when I confirmed the tear quotient to her - she hadn’t yet seen the completed episode. ‘I knew that if I didn’t address the emotional issues, the weight loss was something that wouldn’t last. If I didn’t change the fundamental reasons that I got fat in the first place, then I felt like I was setting myself up for failure. So I tried to take the journey from the inside out.’” Read more.
Debbi is a young mother of three who used to be hot stuff. Even now she pictures herself as a pretty young thing – until she catches her reflection and is shocked by her own bulging body. Debbi knows her husband Chris is no longer attracted to her and she yearns to be the “trophy wife” on his arm. It is only once the pounds begin to melt away that Debbi realizes she is losing weight for the wrong person.
At the top of the show: X-Weighted contestant Gaia joined us to talk about her experience on the Slice network’s weight-loss reality show.
15 minutes past the hour: Christopher Bolton, creator and star of Showcase’s Rent-a-Goalie, talked about the show and the season one DVD release in conversation with Denis McGrath.
50 minutes past the hour: Accessibility advocate Joe Clark chatted about his recently launched website, CaptioningSUCKS.com, which takes aim at crappy closed captioning.
The new version of the TV, eh? podcast - the live Internet radio version - airs Sunday at 11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern. If you can’t listen live, tune in later for the archive. (Note: The player embedded in the right sidebar on this blog will still play last week’s show on Robson Arms/TV on the web/Bill C-10 until this week’s show is complete and archived.)
This Sunday, April 27, the guest lineup will be:
At the top of the show: X-Weighted contestant Gaia joins us to talk about her experience on the Slice network’s weight-loss reality show.
Around 15 minutes past the hour: Christopher Bolton, creator and star of Showcase’s Rent-a-Goalie, will talk about the upcoming season and the season one DVD release in conversation with Denis McGrath.
Around 45 minutes past the hour: Accessibility advocate Joe Clark joins us to chat about his recently launched website, CaptioningSUCKS.com, which takes aim at crappy closed captioning.
Call in to join the conversation at 646-200-4063, or leave a question for our guests in the comments and I may ask it on the show.
X-Weighted joined an elite group of 100 international television programs nominated for a Banff World Television Rockie Award last Thursday. The series, which runs on Slice, features 13 one-hour documentaries chronicling the lives of ordinary people waging a war on fat. Over a period of six months participant push their minds and bodies to new limits in the pursuit of physical and emotional health.
A record-setting 809 lbs. came off the scales in Season III of X-Weighted, Slice™’s hit weight-loss documentary series which starts airing 13 brand new episodes starting Wednesday May 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. This year’s record is also being celebrated as a personal success for one participant who, by losing 113 lbs in six months, set the all-time weight-loss record for X-Weighted and its predecessor Taking it Off.
X-Weighted is a series of 13 one-hour documentaries chronicling the lives of ordinary people waging a war on fat. Over a period of six months they push their minds and bodies to new limits in the pursuit of physical and emotional health. X-Weighted exposes the naked truth about losing weight – the plans and pitfalls, gripes and grit that go hand-in-hand with achieving this often exasperating goal. Each episode delves deep to expose the underlying causes of weight gain and its affect on self-image, relationships and everyday life. X-Weighted provides a window into journeys of self-discovery as individuals struggle to drop their extra weight and excess baggage.
Episode 13 – “Female Warrior”
JEN’s story (Calgary)
Airdate: Thursday, October 11, 2007 8 p.m. ET
Repeats:
Thursday, October 11, 2007, 11 p.m. ET
Saturday, October 13, 2007, 11 a.m. ET
Sunday, October 14, 2007, 7 p.m. ET
Monday, October 15, 2007, 9 a.m. ET
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 3 p.m. ET
A ‘Female Warrior’ in her own mind, Jen’s daily life is so chaotic and stressful she’s on medication for depression. A mother of three young boys from two previous relationships, Jen is also in a new marriage that’s quickly unravelling. Paul is highly sceptical when Jen hands him her cigarettes and agrees to give up smoking, drinking, chocolate and her favourite junk foods all at the same time. Jen doggedly hits the gym and tries Capoeira, even as her marriage explodes with accusations of infidelity.
X-Weighted Participant Sheds Self-Doubt Along With Pounds
X-Weighted joined an elite group of 100 international television programs nominated for a Banff World Television Rockie Award last Thursday. The series, which runs on Slice, features 13 one-hour documentaries chronicling the lives of ordinary people waging a war on fat. Over a period of six months participant push their minds and bodies to new limits in the pursuit of physical and emotional health.
A record-setting 809 lbs. came off the scales in Season III of X-Weighted, Slice™’s hit weight-loss documentary series which starts airing 13 brand new episodes starting Wednesday May 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. This year’s record is also being celebrated as a personal success for one participant who, by losing 113 lbs in six months, set the all-time weight-loss record for X-Weighted and its predecessor Taking it Off.
Airdate: Thursday, October 11, 2007 8 p.m. ET
A ‘Female Warrior’ in her own mind, Jen’s daily life is so chaotic and stressful she’s on medication for depression. A mother of three young boys from two previous relationships, Jen is also in a new marriage that’s quickly unravelling. Paul is highly sceptical when Jen hands him her cigarettes and agrees to give up smoking, drinking, chocolate and her favourite junk foods all at the same time. Jen doggedly hits the gym and tries Capoeira, even as her marriage explodes with accusations of infidelity.
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