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.
Industry News, Reality, Lifestyle & Documentary

Production begins on HGTV’s original Home to Win

From a media release:

  • Bryan Baeumler, Mike Holmes, Scott Macgillivray and Sarah Richardson  Just a Few of the 20 Stars Featured
  • ET Canada’s Sangita Patel to Host the Series
  • Canadians Compete to Win the Ultimate Dream Home
    for First Time in Network History

HGTV Canada and Architect Films announced today that production has broken ground on the new Canadian original series Home to Win (formerly The House That HGTV Built), slated to premiere on HGTV Canada in Spring 2016. Hosted by ET Canada’s Sangita Patel, the impressive cast features an unprecented 20 HGTV Canada all-stars:

· Jo Alcorn (Critical Listing)
· Carson Arthur (Critical Listing)
· Bryan Baeumler (Leave It To Bryan, House of Bryan)
· Sarah Baeumler (House of Bryan)
· Danielle Bryk (Bryk House, Flip Addict)
· Kate Campbell (Disaster Decks, Custom Built)
· Sebastian Clovis (Tackle My Reno)
· Rob Evans (The Expandables)
· Joey Fletcher (Disaster Decks, Custom Built)
· Mike Holmes (Holmes Makes It Right, Mike’s Ultimate Garage)
· Mike Holmes Jr. (Holmes Makes It Right, Mike’s Ultimate Garage)
· Colin Hunter (Summer Home, Open House Overhaul)
· Dave Kenney (Disaster Decks, Custom Built)
· Paul Lafrance (Disaster Decks, Custom Built)
· Scott McGillivray (Income Property)
· Mia Parres (The Expandables)
· Tiffany Pratt (Buy It, Fix It, Sell It)
· Samantha Pynn (Summer Home, Open House Overhaul)
· Sarah Richardson (Real Potential, Sarah’s Rental Cottage)
· Tommy Smythe (Sarah’s House, Sarah’s Rental Cottage)

Home to Win is a colossal, 10-part series where HGTV Canada brings its network celebrities under the same roof to pool their extraordinary expertise, creativity, and reno know-how. Together they will completely remodel an average, run-of-the-mill house into one of the hottest properties in the country. Home to Win will culminate in a one-hour challenge episode where home winning hopefuls will compete for this spectacular house.

From purchase to plan, reno to reveal, fans across the country will be able to follow the incredible journey of the house that HGTV Canada built. When it’s done, one Canadian competitor will be rewarded with the keys to the ultimate dream home. Further series information to follow in the months ahead.

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Industry News

Season 4 of Super Channel’s Tiny Plastic Men starts production

From a media release:

After a big year of Canadian Screen and Canadian Comedy Award nominations, Tiny Plastic Men begins production in Edmonton on a fourth season of the unique comedy series to be broadcast on Super Channel in Canada and Hulu and Hulu Plus in the United States.

Edmonton talents Chris Craddock, Mark Meer, and Matt Alden return as the writers and stars of the series playing three man-boys who test bizarre toy prototypes in their playroom of an office at the eccentric Gottfriend Brothers Toy and Train Company.  Chris Craddock will also be trying his hand at Co-Directing the series this season along with newcomer Mike Peterson.

Guest Stars on the show this season include Colin Mochrie (Whose Line is it Anyway) as fictional Canadian Astronaut Whizz Banger and Joe Flaherty (SCTV, Freaks and Geeks) as Mysterious Package Delivery Man.  Mochrie and Flaherty join a growing list of guest stars over the seasons of Tiny Plastic Men including Alan Thicke (Growing Pains, Unusually Thicke), Kevin McDonald (Kids in the Hall), Georges Laraque (NHL superstar), and the legendary Toxic Avenger creator and President of Troma Entertainment Lloyd Kaufman.  

Season four will premiere three episodes online in February 2016 before airing nationally in Canada on Super Channel and on Hulu in the USA May 2016.

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Saving Hope

Link: Charlotte Sullivan on her emotionally charged Saving Hope role

From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:

Charlotte Sullivan on her emotionally charged Saving Hope role
Actress Charlotte Sullivan is keeping with the trend of Rookie Blue actors who are now playing vastly different characters from the ones they spent six years portraying on the cop drama. Sullivan does this by guest starring on Thursday’s episode of Saving Hope, where she plays social worker Elizabeth Grant, the victim of a horrific acid attack that disfigures her face. Grant’s attack will also cause new Hope Zion resident, Dr. Cassie Williams (Kim Shaw) to question whether or not she can remain objective in an episode that’s also directed by Sullivan’s husband, Peter Stabbings. Continue reading.

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The Romeo Section

Link: Chris Haddock is back from Boardwalk Empire

From Ken MacQueen of Maclean’s:

Chris Haddock is back from Boardwalk Empire
Veteran show-runner Chris Haddock is holding back while holding forth about Romeo Section, his latest series for CBC, which premieres Oct. 14. He’s clearly enjoying the air of mystery he’s spun around his espionage-inspired tale of Romeo and Juliet spies, whose tradecraft includes honeytraps, seduction and betrayal rather than the usual fare of bullets, bombs and bedlam. Continue reading.

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The Romeo Section

Link: Andrew Airlie talks about The Romeo Section

From Heather M. of The Televixen:

Andrew Airlie talks about The Romeo Section
“You’ll see that he has been a past working operative in Canadian intelligence, and now he’s a contractor. He works as a freelance intelligence spymaster, if you will,” he says. “His primary career is as an academic, but he has stayed in the intelligence game because he needs the access to that world to complete his magnum opus in academia. Hopefully that will be clear to everyone. Yes, he’s a professor by day, and not that he’s a spy by night, but yes, he does have a second career that has kept going.” Continue reading.

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