From Tony Wong of the Toronto Star:
The departure of two well-liked judges from the popular series, which features all-too-hopeful contestants creatively pitching judges to invest in their sometimes quirky inventions, means the CBC has some giant entrepreneurial shoes to fill. Finding telegenic Canadian high rollers who have hundreds of thousands in seed money each season is no easy task. Continue reading.
From Bill Brioux of the Toronto Star:
Sometimes success can get in the way of a passion project. That’s what happened to Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern, co-creators of the new spy drama X Company (premiering Wednesday at 9 p.m. on CBC).
Fourteen years ago, the husband and wife team made a short film about a man with a condition known as synesthesia. “His senses were all fused together,†says Ellis. “He feels shapes with his skin, which would leave a taste in his mouth and gave him a near perfect memory.†Continue reading.
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail:
Here’s bloody good news: The new CBC drama X Company (CBC, 9 p.m.) is vastly entertaining. A Second World War spy drama, on the evidence of the first two episodes it’s brimming with action, tension delivered with appropriate dollops of poignancy and done with slick confidence.
It comes from Flashpoint creators Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern and is based, loosely, on the existence of the real Camp X, a training school for spies and the organization of covert operations, established in the early 1940s by the British Army on Lake Ontario near Oshawa. Continue reading.
This week the team unveils a brand new feature called … Calendar! (We’ll come up with a cooler name.) Also on the docket: our newest poll will snag someone a one-year subscription to Netflix Canada, a discussion regarding Numeris and whether network ratings can be trusted, and we all think Sling TV would be a fantastic choice for Canadians who want to cut the cable cord.
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From Bill Harris of QMI Agency:
There are fivefold reasons Jack Laskey volunteered for X Company.
In the new eight-episode Canadian World War II-set series, which debuts Wednesday, Feb. 18, on CBC, Laskey plays a young rookie spy named Alfred Graves who has a condition called fivefold synesthesia.
“I’d heard of synesthesia before, but I hadn’t understood it in the way I do now, and had to, as a result of being cast in this beautiful role,†said Laskey, who is from England. Continue reading.
