From Bill Brioux in the Toronto Star:
Paul Gross and Gordon Pinsent join Republic of Doyle season finale
They saw early on in Hawco a kindred spirit capable of taking on, as Gross calls it, that same “idiotic burden.†Cranking out a weekly series as both star and showrunner — which Gross did with Due South — is not something he ever wants to embrace again, he says, although he’s been a triple threat and more in subsequent films such as Passchendaele. “I think it’s bone crushing.†Read more.