Yearly Archives: 2015

Orphan Black

Link: The history lurking behind Orphan Black

From Jill Lepore of the New Yorker:

The History Lurking Behind “Orphan Black”
“Orphan Black,” whose third season begins this week, is the only show on television where you’ll hear this line: “Enjoy your oophorectomy!” The science-fiction series, which airs in the United States on BBC America, is filmed in Ontario and set, oh, somewhere nearby, right about now, in a world where doctors surgically remove the eggs from women’s bodies, freeze them, defrost them, and implant them in the uteruses of other women, or, sometimes, of the same women; sometimes they remove whole ovaries. It depends. The thing is: there are a lot of women. The show’s lush with them. It’s shocking. Continue reading.

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Orphan Black

Link: Orphan Black, already Canada’s best show, breaks its own rules for Season 3

From Jon Dekel of the National Post:

Orphan Black, already Canada’s best show, breaks its own rules for Season 3
When she’s on the record, Tatiana Maslany possesses a type of dark magic. Sitting at a table during a break from shooting Orphan Black — the Space/BBC America science fiction series she stars in several times over — the 29-year-old presents tinnier than she appears on television. But by the time the light on my recorder goes dark and we’ve covered everything from her overbearing schedule to the show’s role in representing the LGBT community, Maslany appears gigantic — fuller, if not larger, than life. Continue reading.

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Featured, Mohawk Girls

Mohawk Girls renewed for season 2?

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My Magic 8 Ball and some not very cryptic tweets suggest Mohawk Girls has been renewed for a second season, with shooting in Kahnawake this spring.

APTN is airing a marathon of the first season from April 30-May 2 and describes the series as:

“Four twenty-something Mohawk women are trying to find their place in the world. And, of course, trying to find love. But in a small world where you or your friends have dated everyone on the rez, or the hot new guy turns out to be your cousin, it ain’t that simple. Torn between family pressure, tradition, obligation and the intoxicating freedom of the ‘outside world,’ this fabulous foursome is on a mission to find happiness… and to find themselves.”

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When Calls the Heart returns to Super Channel for second season

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From a media release:

When Calls the Heart, the sweeping frontier drama that captured the hearts of loyal viewers in both Canada and the US (aka “Hearties”), returns toSuper Channel, Canada’s only national English pay television network, on Sunday, May 3 at 7 p.m. ET (SC1). The Hallmark Channel Original series is a Canadian co-production filmed on location in British Columbia and based on the bestselling book series by acclaimed Canadian author Janette Oke.

Series stars Lori Loughlin (Full House, 90210), Erin Krakow (Army Wives) and Daniel Lissing (Last Resort) all return for season two and are joined by Jack Wagner (The Bold and the Beautiful) who returns as a series regular. Kristina Wagner (General Hospital) also joins the cast in the third episode of the season.

Season two will follow the residents of Coal Valley, as they navigate matters of the heart during uncertain times in the wake of the mine disaster investigation. As the season begins, young schoolteacher Elizabeth Thatcher (Krakow) and Mountie Jack Thornton (Lissing) are just starting to build on their relationship. But when Elizabeth gets bad news from home, she must return to the wealthy, high-society life she left behind, where her feelings for Jack will be put to the test. The hard-working and kind-hearted citizens of Coal Valley are facing turmoil as they await justice for the coal mining tragedy, just as new romance heats up on the frontier. In Coal Valley, café owner and widow Abigail Stanton (Loughlin) nervously awaits the trial that she hopes will clear her late husband’s name in the fault of the mine explosion that took his life. Emotions run high and long-kept secrets will be revealed as she works with a surprising new prosecutor, and with forensic investigator, Mountie Bill Avery (Wagner), who is hiding something from his past that could jeopardize their own romantic future.

The series is produced by Canadians Vicki Sotheran and Greg Malcolm, and executive produced by Brad Krevoy, Brian Bird, Michael Landon Jr., Michael Shepard, and Eric Jarboe. Second Season writers include Tony Blake (co-showrunner), Robin Bernheim (co-showrunner), Neal Dobrofsky, Tippi Dobrofsky, Andrea Stevens, and Derek Thompson. Directors are Emmy-nominee Neill Fearnley (also co-executive producer), Michael Rohl, and Martin Wood.

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Vikings

Tonight: Emergency, Vikings

Emergency, Slice
A father and son fishing trip is reeled in by excruciating back pain. A mom convinces her young construction worker son to get treatment for a boil under his arm. A grandmother forgets to take her medication and requires a jolt to slow her racing heart.

Vikings, History – “Breaking Point”
The Vikings goes out for a second assault on Paris. Recognizing the desperate state of affairs. Emperor Charles must make a difficult desicion. In Wessex, Judith is compelled to make a difficult desicion of her own.

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