All posts by Greg David

Prior to becoming a television critic and owner of TV, Eh?, Greg David was a critic for TV Guide Canada, the country's most trusted source for TV news. He has interviewed television actors, actresses and behind-the-scenes folks from hundreds of television series from Canada, the U.S. and internationally. He is a podcaster, public speaker, weekly radio guest and educator, and past member of the Television Critics Association.
Kim's Convenience

Link: In Kim’s Convenience, Canada’s first Asian sitcom family finds voice

From Grace Lee of NBC News:

Link: In Kim’s Convenience, Canada’s first Asian sitcom family finds voice
When Ins Choi found himself playwriting for an Asian-Canadian theater company, he didn’t have to look far for source material. For “Kim’s Convenience,” Choi found inspiration in his experiences growing up in Canada. The play was adapted into a television show and became a breakthrough for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — the country’s national public broadcaster — premiering Canada’s first Asian leads in a TV sitcom in October. Continue reading.

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Reality, Lifestyle & Documentary

Link: Vital Bonds will challenge you

From Jim Bawden:

Link: Vital Bonds will challenge you
I had just about determined I would not watch Vital Bonds, CBC-TV’s new documentary on organ donors.

That’s because I had a dear friend who did not long survive his heart transplant and after a decade ago  memory is still painful to me. Then curiosity got the best of me and I thought I’d watch the first 10 minutes.

Well, the next thing I realized was I’d watched the entire hour –it’s that well made, an often brilliant pastiche of interviews with survivors and donors’ families stitched in with mini-profiles of the doctors and nurses who seem to toil around the clock. Continue reading.

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Featured, Pure

Photo gallery: First look at CBC’s Pure

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CBC has unveiled its winter schedule (see our calendars for days and dates), outlining the return of X Company, Schitt’s Creek and Michael: Every Day and the debut of Workin’ Moms, Bellevue and—a show we’re particularly excited about—Pure.

Created by Michael Amo (The Listener)—and based on real events—Pure tells the story of Noah Funk (Ryan Robbins, Continuum), a Mennonite pastor whose life is upset when he attempts to drive drug dealing out of his community … and finds himself drawn into it. Along for the dramatics in the six-episode first season are Alex Paxton-Beesley (Murdoch Mysteries) as Noah’s wife, Anna; AJ Buckley (Justified) as cop Bronco Novak; Peter Outerbridge (ReGenesis) as Eli Voss; Jessica Clement as Noah and Anna’s daughter, Tina; Gord Rand (Orphan Black) as Noah’s brother, Abel; and Rosie Perez (Fearless) as DEA Agent Phoebe O’Reilly.

We were lucky enough to score a set visit to Halifax to chat with everyone involved in Pure—look for stories closer to broadcast—but in the meantime, here are a few photos to get you prepped for the series debut.

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Pure debuts Monday, Jan. 9, at 9 p.m. on CBC.

Images courtesy of CBC.

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The Romeo Section, Travelers

Link: Ian Tracey talks The Romeo Section, Travelers and Incorporated

From Heather M. of The Televixen:

Link: Ian Tracey talks The Romeo Section, Travelers and Incorporated
“[Fergie] is not a man to be trifled with. He’s a street cop, hard as nails. He’s seen it all and done it all, dealt with everybody, every kind of hard-ass criminal there is. Rufus…might get the idea he can use his alpha dog attitude to push back, and [Wolfgang warns him] that dealing with a cop of this caliber, you don’t want to mess around. You can be leaned on very hard. [Rufus] comes up with a couple of details to brush them back.” Continue reading.

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Industry News

Link: CRTC chairman knocks Rogers, Shaw for axing video streaming service Shomi

From Emily Jackson of the Financial Post:

Link: CRTC chairman knocks Rogers, Shaw for axing video streaming service Shomi
Jean-Pierre Blais, the head of Canada’s telecom regulator, took a swipe at two telecommunications giants for killing their nascent video streaming service in an age in which the Internet has disrupted traditional platforms and the “viewer is emperor.”

In a speech in Ottawa Wednesday, Blais revealed he was shocked at the September news that Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. planned to shutter Shomi, a joint venture in which the cable companies had sunk hundreds of millions of dollars. Continue reading. 

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