New tonight: King, Marketplace, The Fifth Estate

King, Global – Ahmad Khan
Jess tries to solve the bizarre murder of a grad student and ends up matching wits with a brilliant sociopath.

Marketplace, CBC – Snake in the Grass
Tom Harrington puts Canada’s leading lawn care company to the test. He finds hundreds of homeowners who are fighting back at what they say are high-pressure sales tactics, and talks to three Canadians who are refusing to pay for lawn care service they say they never ordered.

The Fifth Estate, CBC – The House of Shafia
The fifth estate investigates the tragic and haunting story of four women found dead inside a submerged car at the bottom of a shallow canal in Kingston, Ontario.

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Marketplace goes after aggressive lawn care companies

From Bill Harris of QMI:

  • ‘Marketplace’ wants ‘Lawn Order
    That old song Green, Green Grass of Home didn’t say anything about aggressive lawn-care companies that just won’t take no for an answer. But as shown in this week’s edition of Marketplace, which airs Fridays on CBC, there is at least one large lawn-care company in Canada that will stop at virtually nothing to get your business, no matter how unwilling a client you are. Read more.
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Copper starts production

From a media release:

CINEFLIX STUDIOS ANNOUNCES PRODUCTION START ON COPPER, SHOWCASE’S ORIGINAL CRIME DRAMA

  • Gripping New Crime Drama, Executive Produced By Award-Winning Team: Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Glen Salzman, Will Rokos and Christina Wayne

Cineflix Studios today announced start of production on COPPER. The (10 x 60) series, created by Tom Fontana and Will Rokos is shooting in studio and on location in Toronto, Ontario through May 2012. Among the executive producers are Fontana, Rokos, Barry Levinson, Cineflix Media Co-CEO Glen Salzman and Cineflix Studios President Christina Wayne.

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New tonight: The Firm, Museum Secrets, Caution: May Contain Nuts

The Firm, Global – “Chapter Seven – Brotherly Love”
Mitch must convince his client (Andrew Jenkins) to go against his own brother who is the co-defendant, and become a witness for the prosecution. Meanwhile, Tammy turns up the heat on a potential ally, Martin Moxon (Stuart Hughes) to help explain his cryptic clue in the Sarah Holt case.

Museum Secrets, History Television – “National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, MEXICO”
This impressive modern museum, visited by 2 million people every year, tells the story of Mexico from before the Aztec civilization to the Spanish conquest. Uncover with MUSEUM SECRETS: A chemical engineer and some Mexican athletes help Museum Secrets discover whether the rubber ball used on the ancient Aztec playing field contained a human skull.

Caution: May Contain Nuts, APTN – “Jesus and the Death of Puffy Greenscale”
Tune in for the Season Finale of CAUTION: May Contain Nuts tonight at 9pm ET/MT. Fan favourites Delmer and Marta (www.delmerandmarta.com), are visited by guest star Adam Beach (Cowboys & Aliens, Arctic Air, Combat Hospital), who gives them a new home as part of “Extreme Reservation Renovation”. The death of one of the last living dragons, Puffy Greenscale is investigated, the distinct difference between Mars Bars and bars on the planet Mars is explained and the legend of San Fran and the Bottle Dance is re-enacted as a musical. Finally we discover not only is Jesus full of the Holy Spirit, but he drinks a hell of a lot of Rouge Cow energy drinks. Also be sure to check out www.nutsonline.tv for some more insightful wisdom from Jesus.

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Sunshine Sketches returns to CBC

From Robert Fulford of the National Post:

  • It’s not always sunny in Mariposa
    This 2012 adaptation of a 1912 comic fantasy celebrates the centennial of Leacock’s most celebrated book and falls on another anniversary: It’s 60 years since the beginning of CBC television, which chose Sunshine Sketches as its first drama, with John Drainie as narrator and Timothy Findley (then a promising actor, not yet an author) as Peter Pupkin, the lovelorn bank teller. Read more.
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