Check out a glimpse from the season premiere of FLASHPOINT, Friday, Jan. 9 at 9 pm on CBS and CTV:

By Jim Halterman of the Futon Critic:

• INTERVIEW: HUGH DILLON, ENRICO COLANTONI BRING “FLASHPOINT” BACK TO CBS
  “Staking its claim as the first Canadian police drama on network television since “Due South” went off the air nearly ten years ago, “Flashpoint” returns to the CBS schedule after a successful run this summer. While also airing on the CTV network in Canada, the series focuses on the elite tactical unit known as the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), which is closely modeled after Toronto’s real-life Emergency Task Force (ETF). Series stars Hugh Dillon and Enrico Colantoni, along with executive producers Anne Marie La Traverse and Bill Mustos, spoke about being Canada-based, the show’s new time slot and juggling the tactical and personal stories in each episode.” Read more.

From Troy Rogers of The Deadbolt:

• The Weapons Training of Flashpoint with Enrico Colantoni and Hugh Dillon
  “After a successful first season on CBS, the cops of the SRU task force return for a second run of Flashpoint on CBS, as actors Hugh Dillon and Enrico Colantoni suit up to rescue hostages, take down gangs, dismantle bombs, and scale buildings on the side of elite law enforcement. Premiering January 9 at 9m, Flashpoint will see Dillon and Colantoni step back into their roles as Ed Lane and Sgt. Gregory Parker as the two tactical team members begin another round of negotiating, profiling and applying their psychological strategies to diffuse a new season of hair raising and life threatening situations.” Read more.

From Andrew Ryan of the Globe and Mail:

• Flashpoint set to fan the flames
  “The heroes wear black and gunmetal grey in the high-stakes world of Flashpoint (Friday Dec. 9, CBS and CTV at 9 p.m.). Fashion options are limited when your work ensemble includes a flak jacket, utility belt and sniper rifle. Back from a limited but extremely successful test run last season, Flashpoint follows the life-and-death rescue missions of the Strategic Response Unit, an elite tactical group modelled after Toronto’s own Emergency Task Force.” Read more.

From the Canadian Press:

• ‘Flashpoint’ returns, buoyed by successful summer run on CTV and CBS
  “When Flashpoint premiered last summer on CTV and CBS, a few U.S. critics dismissed the Canadian-produced cop show. The New Jersey Star-Ledger’s Alan Sepinwall wrote it off as ‘one of the lesser pop culture exports from our neighbours to the great white north.’ That was before Sepinwall, looking around for something to screen, popped in a second episode. Then a third, fourth and fifth. He became hooked, embracing the series as an old-fashioned, straight-ahead genre show, ‘hitting its targets as accurately as its sniper here, Ed Lane (Hugh Dillon).'” Read more.