Monthly Archives: July 2013

Rookie Blue

New Thursday: Rookie Blue

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Rookie Blue, Global – “Poison Pill”
A chaotic drug arrest by Andy and Marlo triggers an all-out crisis when it’s discovered that the drugs are contaminated with deadly bacteria. Swarek leads the squad in the scramble to get the tainted drugs off the streets before an outbreak sweeps the city. Meanwhile, Andy and Marlo are plunged into an intimate decontamination process, forcing Marlo to expose a shocking secret while under quarantine. And Dov and Chloe see their budding romance threatened when Dov suspects Chloe is hiding secrets.

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W Network announces fall season

From a media release:

W Network Announces Return of Home-grown Favourites in Fall 2013 Lineup

  • New episodes of Love It or List It Vancouver featuring Jillian Harris and Todd Talbot, Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan and Candice Olson from Candice Tells All
  • Come Dine With Me Canada has an all-out battle of the best grill gurus with a BBQ Masters block of episodes
  • Final season of Candice Tells All with Candice Olson premieres this fall

Corus Entertainment’s W Network announced today highlights from its 2013 fall schedule, featuring a lineup of entertaining, returning favourites and hit blockbuster movies. Viewers can look forward to new seasons of Property Brothers, Love It or List It Vancouver, Candice Tells All and Come Dine with Me Canada.

W NETWORK PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS:

LOVE IT OR LIST IT VANCOUVER (NEW EPISODES)
New episodes: Monday, September 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (60 minutes)
Love It or List It Vancouver showcases families in B.C.’s largest metropolitan city who are struggling with homes that no longer suit their needs. It’s up to designer Jillian Harris to put a stop to the wandering eyes of our homeowners, armed with their list of “must-haves to love it” and a design she hopes will persuade them to stay. Meanwhile, realtor Todd Talbot is determined to get homeowners to relocate by taking their list of “must-haves to list it” and finding them new digs. Every episode will take viewers on an emotional rollercoaster as Jillian and Todd battle it out for the homeowners’ allegiance. With renovation there are always setbacks and sometimes it means the homeowners must lose one of their “must- haves” on their list to stay. On the realtor’s end, finding everything the homeowners want in their dream home can be more difficult than originally anticipated. The stakes are high as the homeowners weigh in on the financial and emotional decisions of buying a new home or staying in the renovated one. Love It or List It Vancouver is produced by Big Coat Productions in association with W Network.

PROPERTY BROTHERS (NEW SEASON)
New episodes: Tuesday, September 3 at 8 p.m. ET/PT (60 minutes)
The boys are back with all new homes and amazing transformations. Real estate agent Drew Scott and his twin brother, contractor Jonathan Scott return with brand-new episodes of the popular series Property Brothers this fall. This one-hour real estate/home renovation series gets buyers into their dream homes without busting their budget. The series follows Drew and Jonathan as they help couples find, buy and transform extreme fixer-uppers into the ultimate dream home. Each week, with the help of CGI technology, the brothers show buyers the underlying potential in two rundown properties. Once the clients choose the property they like best, Drew begins negotiating the purchase price while Jonathan starts planning the transformation.

CANDICE TELLS ALL (FINAL SEASON)
New episodes: Wednesday, September 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT (30 minutes)
Candice Olson goes all out with the most outstanding makeovers yet in this final fabulous season of Candice Tells All – spectacular kitchen transformations, luxurious romantic bedrooms and the biggest, most challenging, eye-popping basement renovation Candice has ever taken on. Viewers tag along as Candice – armed with her trademark sense of humour and a double latte – meets with her army of talented suppliers, sources unique furnishings and handles unexpected renovation challenges along the way. As one of North America’s top designers, Candice dishes her best trade secrets while juggling clients, multiple job sites and a personal life. From inspiration, to execution, to completion – this half-hour series offers an entertaining glimpse into Candice’s world and her design process, revealing the secrets of timeless design principles and where she finds her inspiration.

UNDERCOVER BOSS CANADA (NEW EPISODES)
New episodes: Thursday, September 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT (60 minutes)
Undercover Boss Canada follows executives as they leave the comfort of their offices to go undercover as frontline employees. The series is based on the format devised by Studio Lambert, part of the ALL3MEDIA group of companies. Each episode of Undercover Boss Canada features an executive who is transformed into a frontline worker with a covert disguise and a convincing back story. Working alongside their employees, each “boss” takes an often emotional journey, discovering the effects their decisions have on others, the perception of the company, and who the unsung heroes of their workforce are. Most importantly, they learn how to apply what they have gained from the experience – both for their company and for themselves. The first episode in September will feature Food Banks Canada which feeds nearly a million struggling Canadians a month. Viewers can tune-in to see how the company will cope with the growing number of families on the breadline. For more information about the series, please click here.

COME DINE WITH ME CANADA (SEASON 4)
New episodes: Monday, September 30 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT (30 minutes)
This fall the international hit series Come Dine with Me Canada kicks off the new season with a week devoted to BBQ Masters. Each night for one week, five strangers take turns cooking up their idea of the perfect evening – that includes the menu, cocktails, wine, entertainment and ambiance. After dinner, each competitor rates the host’s performance and at the end of the week, the host with most votes is crowned the winner and rewarded with the ‘ultimate dinner party host’ title and a cash prize. But the themed blocks don’t end with BBQ – we’ll also see an all Italian challenge, spend a week in Vancouver and honour Bacon like never before. Produced by Proper Television in association with W Network and based on the format created by ITV Studios (UK). For more information about the series, please click here.

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Rookie Blue renewed by both Global and ABC

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From a media release:

#BLUEISBACK! GLOBAL ANNOUNCES EARLY RENEWAL OF HOMEGROWN HIT ROOKIE BLUE

  • New Season to Premiere on Global and ABC in 2014

Global Television, alongside broadcast partner ABC, jointly announced today the renewal of the summer’s popular drama series, Rookie Blue, for a fifth season.

Currently, Rookie Blue is the *most watched program in its timeslot since its return on May 23 – with over 1.5 million loyal fans tuning in for the Season 4 debut episode. South of the border on ABC, Rookie Blue ranks #1 Thursday nights in the 10pm hour in Total Viewers this summer to date. Rookie Blue is also broadcast internationally on Universal Networks International’s pay-TV channels. The drama is growing over its prior summer average by 15% in Total Viewers to deliver its most-watched season in 3 years – since Summer 2010.

The fifth season of the series will start development in the fall and will move into production in January 2014.

Rookie Blue is executive-produced by award-winning Tassie Cameron (Flashpoint), Ilana Frank (The Eleventh Hour, Would Be Kings), David Wellington (The Eleventh Hour, Would Be Kings), Russ Cochrane and John Morayniss (Klondike, Rogue). Rookie Blue is a production of ICF Films and Entertainment One.

A one-hour, original dramatic series that provides a candid look at the personal and professional lives of five rookie cops as they navigate their first years on the beat. Now in their fourth year on the job, these officers continue to face brand-new challenges every week — and they’re trying to roll with the punches without looking like the rookies they still feel themselves to be. Andy McNally and Nick Collins were gone six months for their undercover operation. But while they were gone, everything seems to have changed at 15 Division. Last season, our officers all got what they thought they wanted — and then had to deal with the repercussions. This year, they all have to look change right in the eye and learn to adapt to life’s curveballs — leaving them all with some big, bold choices to make. Learning to adapt to change is a huge part of growing up. And these five new officers are putting that life lesson into practice, every single shift of season four.

Shot entirely on location in Toronto, Rookie Blue stars Missy Peregrym (Heroes, Reaper) as Andy McNally, Gregory Smith (Everwood) as Dov Epstein, Charlotte Sullivan (The Kennedys) as Gail Peck, Enuka Okuma (24) as Traci Nash, Travis Milne (Leslie, My Name is Evil) as Chris Diaz, Peter Mooney (Camelot, Falcon Beach) as Nick Collins, Ben Bass (The Eleventh Hour) as Sam Swarek, and introducing this season Priscilla Faia (Eleventh Victim, Psych) as Chloe Price and Rachael Ancheril (The Listener) as Marlo Cruz. Also starring in the series is Matt Gordon as Oliver Shaw and Lyriq Bent as Frank Best.

Rookie Blue airs Thursdays at 10pm ET/PT on Global. In Thursday’s July 18 episode, “Poison Pill,” a chaotic drug arrest by Andy and Marlo triggers an all-out crisis when it’s discovered that the drugs are contaminated with deadly bacteria. Swarek leads the squad in the scramble to get the tainted drugs off the streets before an outbreak sweeps the city. Meanwhile, Andy and Marlo are plunged into an intimate decontamination process, forcing Marlo to expose a shocking secret while under quarantine. And Dov and Chloe see their budding romance threatened when Dov suspects Chloe is hiding secrets.

Source: BBM Canada PPM Data, Total Canada, Ind 2+ AMA(000), Thursday 10p-11p, May 20 – July 14th 2013

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Can Tatiana Maslany beat the Emmy sci-fi curse?

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From Jaime Weinman of Maclean’s Magazine:

Come on, Tatiana Maslany plays the entire female cast: Can Orphan Black beat the sci-fi curse to win an Emmy?
Can Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany get an Emmy award nomination for Orphan Black? When the first season of the show aired earlier this year, the answer would have seemed to be no: Major awards don’t go to series about women cloned from the same genetic material. “Our show is a little weird and a little bit niche, and that’s what I love about it, but it’s definitely not for everybody,” says Maslany, who has played seven different clones so far and may have more to come. But recently, there’s been what Ivan Schneeberg, co-president of the show’s production company, Toronto-based Temple Street Productions, describes as “a groundswell of support for her.” Maslany won best actress at the recently established Critics’ Choice Awards, beating out better-known actresses such as Claire Danes—and various critics and celebrities, such as comedian Patton Oswalt, are calling for Emmy nominators to recognize her work. “The showrunner of Lost is writing about it,” Maslany says happily. “People with industry cred are backing it. It’s awesome.” Continue reading.

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