From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:
Link: Wynonna Earp: 7 Reasons we need Season 2
It all begins and ends with Melanie Scrofano’s Wynonna. She’s the best hero to come across our screens this television season and the fact that she just happens to be a sharp-tongued, intelligent, badass woman makes us love the show even more. Continue reading.Â
From Joel Rubinoff of Torstar News Service:
Link: A lament for the days of bad Canadian TV
All I hear about these days is the Golden Age of Television.
Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad — shows that set a new standard for quality on the small screen the same way auteuristic films by Coppola and Scorsese did on the big one four decades ago.
But there’s another golden age, long lamented, fondly remembered, sporadically revisited, that also deserves attention: the Golden Age of Bad Canadian Television. Continue reading.
From a media release:
Haddock Entertainment announced today that production has commenced on Season 2 of the critically-acclaimed espionage crime drama series, The Romeo Section. Created by renowned showrunner Chris Haddock (Intelligence, Da Vinci’s Inquest), the second season will consist of 10 new one-hour episodes in which the players get played, the powerful stumble, and the meek rise to power. As with Season 1, the second season will be filmed entirely in Vancouver, both on location and in studio. Season 2 will premiere this fall on CBC.
The second season of The Romeo Section finds Wolfgang McGee (Andrew Airlie) tasked with a covert investigation into an alleged terrorist incident, leading him into the dark side of intelligence. He calls upon an old acquaintance to assist, a blackballed spy named Norman, , and together they sift through inconsistencies that seem too convenient to be coincidence.
Meanwhile, Wolfgang’s former asset Rufus (Juan Riedinger) uses his new connection with the Red Mountain Triad to become the newest player in Vancouver’s competitive heroin market – the profits from which are being used to finance the latest movie starring Mae Mae (Fei Ren), the wife of the Triad leader, Wing Lei. Elsewhere Lily (Leeah Wong), now a recruit for the Intelligence Service, plays Al (Eugene Lipinski) against another agent to climb the chain of command and prevent her discovery as a double agent.
Returning cast members include Andrew Airlie as Wolfgang (50 Shades of Grey, Cedar Cove); Juan Riedinger as Rufus (Narcos, RL Stine’s The Haunting Hour); Leeah Wong as Lily; Eugene Lipinski as Al (Fringe, Intelligence); and Fei Ren as Mae Mae (Lucifer; Supernatural). Joining the cast this season is Brian Markinson (Mad Men, Charlie Wilson’s War) as Norman, the unapologetic and blackballed former spy.
The first episode of Season 2 is directed by David Frazee while Chris Haddock continues as the series’ showrunner and executive producer. Laura Lightbown, Stephen Surjik, and David Frazee also serve as executive producers, Jesse McKeown is co-executive producer and Arvi Liimatainen is producer.
From a media release:
CBC’s documentary Channel announced today, the latest season of the compelling docu-series Intervention Canada will premiere on Monday, July 25 at 9 p.m. ET. This [10×1] series takes viewers deep inside the life of an addict, and provides a glimpse of their reality and the gut wrenching toll it takes on family and friends. CBC has exclusive rights to air the first five episodes, which will air on Mondays, from July 25 to August 22. The airdates of the final five episodes are still to be confirmed.
This season on Intervention Canada, addicts and their families from coast-to-coast-to-coast bravely share their stories and shine a light on the issue of addiction. Episodes touch on a variety of dependencies including alcohol, crystal meth, cocaine, fentanyl, and eating disorders. In addition to seeing life through the eyes of the addict, each episode has the family meet with certified Interventionists Andrew Galloway and Maureen Brine to help them through the process of an intervention, where the addict must choose whether or not to accept professional help with their addiction.
Intervention Canada, now in its first season on documentary Channel, is a one-hour docu-series that takes the viewer inside the roller coaster of addiction. From a Winnipeg family determined to rescue their talented musician son from a deadly crystal meth addiction, to a Hamilton family’s struggle to save their daughter from the grips of an addiction to computer keyboard duster, the series provides an uncompromising glimpse at the horrifying reality of the life of an addict, as well as the incredible toll their addiction takes on their family and friends. With the help of returning Interventionists Andrew Galloway and Maureen Brine, each episode culminates in a dramatic intervention where the subject must make a life-and-death decision –- continue their descent to rock bottom alone, or accept the offer of a clear path to recovery in one of Canada’s top addiction treatment facilities.
Intervention Canada is produced by Open Door Co. and Insight Productions, in association with CBC’s documentary Channel. Executive Producers are Tom Powers for Open Door Co. and John Brunton and Barbara Bowlby for Insight Productions. Insight’s John Murray serves as Supervising Producer. The Series Producer is Thomas Chenoweth. Bruce Cowley is CBC documentary Channel’s Senior Director and Commissioning Editor, Sue Baker is the Manager, Business Rights and Content Management.
From Heather M. of The Televixen:
Link: Dennis Heaton Talks Motive Season 4
“One of the most fun parts of doing a TV season is that first week in the writer’s room where it’s just me and my staff of writers and we’ve got the season ahead of us, and we can spitball all the crazy ideas that come out there.” Continue reading.
