Motive, CTV – “Creeping Tom”
Detective Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) is introduced as a street-smart, intuitive homicide detective whose teenaged son, Manny (Cameron Bright), looks out for her as much as she takes care of him. MOTIVE’s first victim is a well-liked, karaoke-singing, high school science teacher (Joey McIntyre, DANCING WITH THE STARS) who is found murdered in his bedroom. A home invasion gone wrong seems too perfect for Detective Flynn and her partner, Detective Oscar Vega (Louis Ferreira). They follow a plausible lead to an adulterous wife and the motive of a crime of passion, but Angie’s second sense points her in the direction of one of the dead teacher’s students, a serial thief known only as “The Creeperâ€.
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Cameron Bright brings son-mother drama to Motive
From Mark Leiren-Young of the Vancouver Sun:
- Hollywood North: Bright acts and Brave acts
Bright plays Manny Flynn, the son of Detective Angie Flynn, played by series star Kristin Lehman (The Killing). “I pop in every once in a while to lighten the show up with some son-mother drama, just like any son would do.†Read more.
The reality behind the Real Housewives of Vancouver
From Marsha Lederman of the Globe and Mail:
- Vancouver’s Real Housewives: rich, mean, nosy – and profitable
She may have stopped drinking – for the most part – but Ronnie Negus, the wealthy, puffy-lipped Real Housewife of Vancouver with the oceanfront estate and the California vineyard, says the show’s portrayal of her as a sloppy, sometimes hostile alcoholic is not, in fact, real. Read more.
Saturday: W5
W5, CTV – “The Survivor”
A story of heroism and courage. Lisa LaFlamme with THE SURVIVOR. How the shooting at Toronto’s Eaton Centre changed one family’s lives forever. And the first responders who charged to the rescue. The broad strokes of Connor Stevenson’s story about his near-death experience in the Eaton Centre are well known, but the fine points have only emerged over six months of rare access Connor’s family gave to CTV’s W5 to document their journey back to life.
Friday: Transporter, Marketplace, Fifth Estate
Transporter: The Series, HBO Canada – “Hot Ice”
In Toronto, Frank is asked to pick up a package containing a data stick holding sensitive content implicating a senior industrialist in the African blood diamond trade from a high-security bank vault and bring it to a specific address. Immediately upon leaving the hall he is attacked by a hit squad posing as security guards and finds himself locked inside the building. To make matters worse, an attractive woman security officer (Katheryn Winnick) falsely accuses him of being responsible for the death of her colleague, who was caught in the firefight and in order to prevent Frank’s escape, she handcuffs him to herself – difficult conditions when you have a hit squad on your tail…
Marketplace, CBC – “Back on the Case”
Inside a water filtration company we busted once before–how it’s still using dirty tricks. Plus, our hospital cleaning test IS BACK.
The Fifth Estate, CBC – “Target bin Laden”
The true story of how the CIA tracked the world’s most wanted terrorist.