TV, eh? interview: Flashpointâ€™s Sergio Di Zio on Spike and Salinger

January 4, 2011 Diane Wild 6 Comments

By Diane Wild

Flashpoint’s Sergio Di Zio on Spike and Salinger

“I was about to say ‘itâ€™s the one with the hostage,'” Sergio Di Zio laughed when recalling which Flashpoint episode airs when the show returns in its new Tuesday timeslot.

It is, in fact, the one with the bereaved father accused of murdering his baby … who takes hostages. It’s also a Spike-light episode, but Di Zio promises there’s more of his character in the next five episodes.

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Flashpoint

New tonight: Flashpoint on CTV – “Collateral Damage”

January 4, 2011 Diane Wild 3 Comments

FLASHPOINT returns with all-new episodes as a man (guest star Jonathan Scarfe, RAISING THE BAR) charged with killing his own baby puts his life on the line to get to the truth.

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InSecurity

InSecurity’s title is its best joke

January 3, 2011 Diane Wild 1 Comment

From Robert Cushman of the national Post:

Having a laugh
InSecurity (CBC), whose title is its best joke, starts with an Ottawa-based team of agents debating whether the code name of their most intrepid member is Goldilocks or Mama Bear, and finally giving up on the idea altogether. That just about sets the tone. They then fail to rescue her from her current daredevil assignment. Read more.

InSecurity

InSecurity pokes fun at spy shows

January 3, 2011 Diane Wild

From Andrea Nemetz of the Chronicle Herald:

On the hunt for laughs
IN THE OPENING CREDITS for InSecurity, Matthew MacFadzean is suspended in mid-air like Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible. “We had to do a bunch of green-screen stuff. Itâ€™s being an action hero, which is every little boyâ€™s dream,” says MacFadzean by phone from his Toronto home. Read more.

InSecurity

InSecurity = The Border as a comedy

January 3, 2011 Diane Wild 1 Comment

From Cassandra Szklarski of The Canadian Press:

Spies get the send-up in CBC-TV farce ‘InSecurity‘
CBC-TV’s defunct security drama “The Border” should have been a comedy, says former “Corner Gas” writer Kevin White. How better to depict the real-life foreign affairs bloopers and espionage outrages that have exploded as embarrassing headlines? Read more.