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Diane is the founder of TV, eh? She loves books, movies, TV, science, space, traveling, theatre, art, cats, and drinking multiple beverages at the same time.
Degrassi

Link: Degrassi graduates

From Anne T. Donohue in the Globe and Mail:

Degrassi graduates: after 14 seasons the series comes to an end
With news this week that MTV is pulling the plug on the television series after 14 seasons, an important chapter of original Canadian programming has closed. Considering the Degrassi franchise began in the 1980s with a show starring a boy named Joey Jeremiah and his collection of hats, it’s a miracle that any franchise (let alone one born and bred in Canada) managed to sustain a reboot that was a mix of pure soap and increasingly dark teen melodrama, and populated by a revolving door of characters who became more compelling (and sometimes even unbelievable) than the last. Continue reading.

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Between, Rookie Blue

Tonight: Rookie Blue, Between, The Liquidator

From network episode descriptions:

Rookie Blue, Global – “Uprising”
A riot breaks out at a women’s correctional institute while Andy, Juliet, Nick, and Gail are there to transfer prisoners. They end up separated and in a lock-down situation that finds Andy and Juliet trapped with a woman desperate to prove her innocence.

Between, City – “Crossing Lines”
Tensions escalate in Pretty Lake when the power goes out, cutting off all communication to the outside world. Plus, Wiley (Jennette McCurdy) has a plan to escape and enlists Adam’s (Jesse Carere) help, but when they stumble into a trap, their relationship starts to crumble under the weight of Wiley’s secrets.

The Liquidator, OLN – “Floor Your Friends”
Jeff hopes to get a great deal on a huge load of seized hardwood flooring from his old pal Sheldon, but Sheldon knows all of Jeff’s tricks and isn’t falling for any of them.

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Featured, Masterchef Canada, Saving Hope

Saving Hope returns to CTV this fall

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This morning, CTV was the last of the major Canadian networks to announce a 2015/16 schedule after the annual Hollywood buying spree.

CBC this fall has a predominantly Canadian lineup with some UK and Australian acquisitions, City has more Sunnyside plus CBC’s Mr. D crossing networks, and Global has … nothing. While  boasting “17 hours of simulcast, more than any other Canadian network,” CTV has made room in their fall schedule for a new season of Saving Hope in a plum Thursday 9 pm timeslot, as well as their Saturday stalwart newsmagazine W5 celebrating 50 years on air.

Continuing Canadian daytime shows include The Marilyn Denis Show and The Social, and CTV will host The 2016 Juno Awards as well.

MasterChef Canada and Motive will return midseason in 2016, making CTV the home to the most Cancon of the major private networks this coming year (thanks at least in part to their required benefits spending after the Astral acquisition).

Saturday on baby sister network CTV TWO is repurposed Cancon night, with reruns of The Listener, Flashpoint, Motive and W5.

Look for the full 2015/16 schedule announcement here.

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Dark Matter

Link: Dark Matter shines a light on humanity

From Michael Idato of the Sydney Morning Herald:

‘Dark Matter’ shines a light on humanity
As the science fiction genre has become more earthbound, with shows such as Defiance and The 100 taking the traditional space opera framework and crashing it into the ground, the new series Dark Matter attempts, somewhat ambitiously, to relaunch the genre into orbit. The series, created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, explores the story of six individuals who wake up on a spacecraft with no memory of their past. Continue reading.

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