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Battle of the Blades

Battle of the Blades renewed for second season

From a media release:

CBC-TV’S BATTLE OF THE BLADES RENEWED FOR SECOND SEASON

  • Groundbreaking Canadian series a ratings and advertising success story

CBC Television announced today that its hit series BATTLE OF THE BLADES, featuring world-class figure skaters and former NHL’ers, will return next fall for a second season. The 14-episode series sold out to live audiences every week, and wrapped up on Monday, Nov. 16 with an unconfirmed television audience of 1.736 million tuning in for the one-hour results finale.

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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures to premiere January 2010 on HBO Canada

From a media release:

HBO Canada presents the Canadian original series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, a television adaption of Vincent Lam’s award-winning book

  • New Canadian original series from The Movie Network and Movie Central premieres Sunday, January 10, 2010, at 8 p.m. ET / MT on HBO Canada
  • Starring Shawn Ashmore, Mayko Nguyen and Byron Mann

HBO Canada, a multiplex channel of Astral Media’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada), presents the intertwining journeys of three young medical professionals as they navigate school, residency and their first years as doctors in the new Canadian original series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures. Based on the critically acclaimed, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning book by Vincent Lam, the eight-part drama will premiere on HBO Canada on Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 8 p.m. ET / MT.

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Being Erica

Review: Being Erica – “A River Runs Through It … It Being Egypt”

erica209_2From Myles McNutt at Cultural Learnings:

  • Being Erica – “A River Runs Through It…It Being Egypt”
    “‘A River Runs Through It…’ continues a storyline (Kai and Sam’s relationship) that is really frakked up when you really think about it, but it doesn’t really want to talk about the metaphysical ramifications so much as it does the personal ones. And, so long as it keeps telling strong stories within this structure, that’s fine, but I do sort of want the show to look beyond interpersonal relations to the overall premise being peddled here.” Read more.
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New tonight: Ice Pilots NWT on History Television – series premiere

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small.image_arnie_schreder_chief_pilot_buffalo_airways_lighterWorld Broadcast Premiere
Wednesdays at 10 pm ET/PT beginning November 18

Renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways defies the freezing cold and the competition by using resilient WWII-era propeller planes to fly vital fuel, supplies and passengers to remote outposts all over the Canadian North. Rookie pilots with nerves of steel come from across the country to Yellowknife to receive training from the very best and for the chance to earn their wings flying powerful vintage planes originally built for war. From landing essential cargo onto airstrips at mine sites to carving out runways on frozen lakes and rocky tundra, the Ice Pilots do it all, despite frequent blizzards and breakdowns.

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New tonight: Cra$h & Burn on Showcase – series premiere

crashburnWednesdays at 9pm ET/PT beginning November 18
Encore presentations: Fridays at 11pm ET/PT and 5pm ET/PT, Sundays at 7pm ET/PT and Wednesdays at 5pm ET/PT

Described as a cross between The Office and The Sopranos by the show’s creator, Cra$h & Burn follows Jimmy Burn, a cocky yet charming claims adjuster for a cut-throat, bottom-line insurance corporation. Jimmy maneuvers his way around insurance scams and the criminal underworld as he tries to escape his past and make a better life on the gritty post-industrial streets of Hamilton. Executive produced by Paul Gross, Frank Siracusa, and Malcolm MacRury (ZOS: Zone of Separation, Deadwood), Cra$h & Burn stars Luke Kirby (Tell Me You Love Me, Slings and Arrows) as Jimmy Burn. Casting also features Leela Savasta (Battlestar Galactica, Intelligence) as Lucia Silva, Jimmy’s live-in girlfriend; Caroline Cave (The L Word, This Beautiful City) as Catherine Scott, a shrewd yet practical in-house insurance lawyer; Clark Johnson (The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street, also an Emmy-nominated director on The Shield) as Walker Hearn, a veteran insurance investigator and Steve Bacic (The Guard, Andromeda) as Korkov, a conman and Mafioso hustling to scam the system.

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