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Awards, Call Me Fitz

Call Me Fitz Creator Sheri Elwood Lands Two “Screenies”

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Sheri Elwood (Call Me Fitz) On The Writing Room and Gucci

(Photo by Derek Langer)

I asked Sheri to talk about the writers on Call Me Fitz.

“I combed the country and I begged the best possible writers that I know to come work on my show, and it’s my main concern that I had the best possible writers to work on this show. It’s the only thing that matters to me, that the writing is excellent.”

“It’s my dream come true show.”

Then I had to ask about her dress.

“This is Gucci, fall 2012. I figure if I amortize it out through about 14 000 events it will make it worth it!”

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Big Brother Canada, Ratings

Big Brother Canada eviction notice earns 608,000 over 2 airings

From a media release:

Big Brother Canada Sets New Audience Record for Slice

Last night Big Brother Canada’s first eviction episode that saw Torontonian, Kat Yee ousted from the house in a vote of 11 to one, blew the roof off Slice. Following Wednesday night’s premiere which aired as a special presentation on Global in addition to Slice, viewers flocked to Big Brother Canada in droves for their second dose of the series. Last night’s eviction episode set a new record high audience with an AMA of 608,000 (A2+, 2 plays) for the channel and took top spot across all specialty channels.

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Big Brother Canada, Ratings

Big Brother Canada earns 1.4 million viewers

From a media release:

Combined across both channels, the premiere episode was the most watched program of the night, second only to Global’s Survivor, for the core demo of A18-49, achieving audiences of 1.4 million (A2+) and 735,000 (A18-49). Amongst adults 18-49, Global won the 9pm hour nationally, solidly beating American Idol. With a record breaking AMA of 340,000 on SliceTM (A2+) alone, Big Brother Canada achieved the highest audience in channel history.

Tonight fans will find out who will be Big Brother Canada’s first ever evicted houseguest during the live eviction episode at 10pm ET/PT on SliceTM. SliceTM is currently available on free preview in nearly 10 million homes across the country.

Big Brother Canada will continue to air on SliceTM three nights a week on Wednesdays at 9pm ET/PT, Thursdays at 10pm ET/PT and Sundays at 9pm ET/PT, with eviction episodes on Thursdays. Big Brother Canada After Dark will air on SliceTM seven days a week from 2am-5am ET/ 11pm-2am PT. Fans can eavesdrop on the houseguests all day via 24 hour live feeds at www.bigbrothercanada.ca.

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Awards, Call Me Fitz, Flashpoint, Less Than Kind, Rick Mercer Report, Uncategorized

Flashpoint, Mercer, Less Than Kind among early Screenies winners

From the Canadian Press:

Canadian Screen Awards: Flashpoint, Fitz take home trophies
“Flashpoint,” “Call Me Fitz” and “John A: Birth of a Country” head into Sunday’s inaugural Canadian Screen Awards with a leading four trophies apiece after an industry gala Thursday night handed out most of the prizes celebrating homegrown TV. Read more.

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Reality, Lifestyle & Documentary

Friday: Marketplace, Fifth Estate, Transporter

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Marketplace, CBC – “Mike Holmes: Home Ripoffs”
Mike Holmes on rip-off renovators, shoddy roofers, and incompetent inspectors.

The Fifth Estate, CBC – “The Vanishing”
A daughter’s twelve-year quest to solve her mother’s mysterious disappearance uncovers the dark secrets of a close-knit family.

Transporter: The Series, HBO Canada – “Switch”
Frank is to pick up a valuable painting from a gallery and bring it to a rich psychopath art collector. There is a wild chase during the transfer and a young woman threatens him with a gun and claims that the painting is hers. Fortunately, at this moment the police appears and Frank seizes the opportunity to wriggle out of the situation. But when he delivers the painting to art collector Max Khyber (Hannes Jaenicke), it turns out that it is a fake. Khyber feels betrayed and suspects Frank of stealing the original. He holds Frank prisoner on his property and sends in a dominatrix, Lara, to get him to talk, but Frank manages to free himself and goes in search of the original with the young woman who claims ownership.

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