From Melissa Girimonte of The Televixen:
Link: The Saviour of Sudbury: On set with ‘What Would Sal Do?’ star Dylan Taylor
“I grew up in the east end of Toronto in a multicultural area, and I knew these guys as well. I didn’t realize how many Sals I knew, the general hard-headedness, the fact that they think they’re right and never wrong, and the arrogance and bravado that comes with it.” Continue reading.
From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail:
Link: Canada: The Story of Us is just pop history for kids
Canada: The Story of Us (Sunday, CBC, 9 p.m.) a peculiar production, laden and fraught. For a start, it all seems very, very official. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opens the show with a cheery little speech about “co-operation and acceptance.†He encourages viewers to be, like him, “inspired†by the great Canadians we will encounter in the 10-part series. A lot of them, oddly enough, are actors, writers, performers and singers. Celebs, in other words. Continue reading.
From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:
Link: Comedy What Would Sal Do? resurrected for CraveTV
What Would Sal Do? didn’t exactly begin with a divine intervention. In some ways, it’s a miracle Canadians will soon be able to see it.
The comedy stars Dylan Taylor (Defying Gravity) as a cranky ne’er-do-well living in Sudbury, Ont., in the house of his mother, Maria (played by Jennifer Dale). On his 30th birthday, his mother tells him some big news: he is the second coming of Jesus Christ. Continue reading.
I have been watching Heartland for the past five years or so and I just LOVE it. It was on every morning on our Up channel, but isn’t on any longer except Sunday morning. It was advertised that new episodes would begin on Sundays, but they are still see of the reruns we’d been watching all this time. I love watching the reruns as much as if they were new episodes. But I would really love to see it every day again, and maybe see the new episodes as well. Is this on a different channel now, or just on Canadian TV? If you can shed a little light on this for me, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for such an inspirational and CLEAN family show. I will be getting the entire series hopefully. I am on disability, so have asked my kids to get me the different series. Still waiting. —Brenda
Sounds like [Season 11 of Murdoch Mysteries will be] a doozy! Can’t wait to see it. On the historical figures: bring back L.M. Montgomery!! Go to P.E.I. this time and have her help with a case. She loved ghost stories and wrote quite a few. In 1905, she finished writing Anne of Green Gables and started trying to get it published. George could help her with that. She won’t meet Ewen (her future husband) for another year. And 2018 will be the 110th anniversary of the publication of AoGG. I like the idea of bringing Helen Keller in. If we have Teddy again, could we please have a young Eleanor Roosevelt, too? They were close cousins. She got married to Franklin in 1905, so we could see him, too. —Hannah
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From Alex Epstein of Complications Ensue: The Crafty TV and Screenwriting Blog
Link: Denis McGrath
We lost one of the best writers I know tonight. A writer, and a firebrand for writers. And a good friend. And a wit, and a style, and a voice. Damn it.
I met Denis McGrath on a plane to South Africa. We were parachuting in on a show where the previous writing team, who were on a plane going the other way, had not got along too well with the showrunner. When we got there, we had to retcon some sort of sense out of the episodes that had been shot, and then rewrite the next script literally over the course of 24 hours. Continue reading.Â
