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In production: X-Weighted season 4

From a media release:

X-WEIGHTED TIPS THE SCALES IN FAVOUR OF FAMILIES

  • Gemini-award-winning series begins production on a fourth season with a focus on families getting fit

Thirteen families have begun their battle against the bulge in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver as the fourth season of the hit Slice documentary series X-Weighted gets underway.

Production began in December on X-Weighted: Families and cameras roll through to early May, capturing the toil and temptations as family members work together — and sometimes against each other — on their weight-loss journey.

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Ratings: Being Erica, Sophie, Little Mosque, Corner Gas

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family, includes ratings for hockey, Sophie, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Corner Gas:

  • TSN Shoots, Scores; Being Erica Blanked
    “Being Erica: only 575,000 tuned in and only 201,000 25-54-year-olds, both less than The Border–already done for the season–regularly draws in that timeslot. (All figures BBM NMR overnight estimates.)” Read more.
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In the news: Wild Roses strangely familiar

From Maria Kubacki of Canwest News Service:

  • Wild Roses depicts Alberta as land of oil and seduction
    “There’s something strangely familiar about Wild Roses, the new 13-part series debuting on CBC Jan. 6. It’s set in the heart of oil and cattle country and features a wealthy family, headed by a greedy oil man who’s always scheming against a rival, debt-ridden family. There’s a great, big, over-the-top mansion and lots of hottie ranch hands. Everyone is busy screwing everyone — oh, and there’s plenty of sex, too.” Read more.
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The Week The Women Went returns Jan. 21

From a media release:

THE WEEK THE WOMEN WENT STORMS INTO TATAMAGOUCHE, N.S., PUTTING MARITIME MEN TO THE TEST
HIT REALITY SERIES RETURNS FOR SEASON TWO, JAN. 21 AT 8 P.M.

 
Tatamagouche (Tata-ma-gush), Nova Scotia has survived invasion and its coasts are battered annually by tropical storms. The townspeople are proud, tough and have always found a way to flourish. But can Tatamagouche survive if the women disappear for a week?
 
The Maritime town of 700 waved goodbye to 167 wives, mothers, sisters and daughters as its men prepared for one of the largest social experiments of its kind—on the hit CBC Television series THE WEEK THE WOMEN WENT, returning Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. Popular Canadian actor Art Hindle (Paradise Falls, Offspring) narrates the eight-episode, one-hour series.

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