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Bid now: Pick a writer’s brain plus Canadian Screenwriter magazine

Bid on this rare opportunity to get one-on-one advice from a film and television writer/executive producer. You’ll get a half hour phone call for career or craft advice from inkcanada founder Karen Walton (Ginger Snaps, Queer As Folk USA, Flashpoint, The Listener). Plus, you get a one year subscription to the Writers Guild of Canada’s Canadian Screenwriter magazine.

All proceeds from the TV, eh? charity auction go to Kids Help Phone — a free, anonymous and confidential phone and on-line professional counselling service for youth.

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TV, eh? podcast episode 187 – Androgynous Puppets Notwithstanding

This time around, Diane, Anthony and Greg break down some of the items available in TV, eh?’s charity auction benefitting Kids Help Phone, including Bitten scripts and a set visit, drinks with Canadian TV writers, notes on your TV script, Rookie Blue swag and a set visit and walk-on role on Murdoch Mysteries.

Speaking of Murdoch Mysteries, Greg described his recent Fan Day experience, where thousands were given access to the show’s Toronto headquarters.

Finally, the trio reflected on the news that Mr. Dressup‘s co-stars, Casey and Finnegan, have been found alive(?) and well off the coast of British Columbia.

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Spun Out lands high card with Jennifer Tilly

It takes a lot to get Jennifer Tilly away from the poker table. A love for the game turned into a full-on obsession after meeting her boyfriend—professional poker player Phil Laak—and tournaments fill her calendar, leaving little time to act.

Unless an old friend like Dave Foley comes calling.

“I have a lot of things going on in my life and my agents asked about this, assuming I’d say no, and I went, ‘Dave Foley! I want to see him again!'” Tilly appears in Tuesday’s new episode of Spun Out—”The Secret of My Ex-Wife’s Success”—as Maggie Felgate, one of Dave Lyons’ exes. As Tilly tells it, Maggie and Dave are still carrying a bit of a torch for each other … until Maggie poaches one of Dave’s clients to start her own PR firm.

Tilly says the allure of reuniting with Foley and the chance to visit her sister, Meg, in Toronto were both big reasons for her to agree to the role, as well as the writing. At this point in her career, she reveals, a role has to be interesting, fun, creatively fulfilling or all three to grab her attention.

“If someone had told me back when I was obsessed with acting that I’d be obsessed with poker, I have thought they were crazy,” she says with a laugh. Tilly has made a career out of signing on to interesting projects, whether it be voice work on Family Guy and The Simpsons, crime thriller Bound, cop drama Hill Street Blues or playing the girlfriend to a murderous doll in Bride of Chucky. But the malevolent child’s toy is no match for the truly scary stuff Tilly sees in Hollywood.

“A lot of Hollywood people are trying to play younger and get all shot up with Botox and have this and that done,” she says with a twinge of sadness. “I don’t want to be one of those people with the huge Botox vein.”

“I was watching a movie recently and this woman looked like she hadn’t aged in 20 years. And she started to cry. I could tell she was crying because the tears were rolling down her face, but her hairline was just twitching a little bit. It was the most horrifying thing I ever saw.”

Spun Out airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CTV.

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Bid now: Bitten set visit and DVDs

Want to howl on the pack’s turf? You can win a visit to the set of Bitten. Plus, you get seasons 1 and 2 on DVD. The producers will coordinate with the winner on scheduling the visit between mid-September to mid-November. Winner will be responsible for travel and accommodation in the Toronto area. Courtesy Daegan Fryklind and the producers of Bitten.

All proceeds from the TV, eh? charity auction go to Kids Help Phone — a free, anonymous and confidential phone and on-line professional counselling service for youth.

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