From Jay Bobbin of Zap2It:

• Flashpoint’s’ Amy Jo Johnson having ‘awesome’ time as actress and mom
  In continuing her role as hostage negotiation team member Julianna “Jules” Callaghan, the Cape Cod, Mass.-born Johnson has relocated with husband Olivier Giner and their almost-3-year-old daughter Francesca. They now live full-time in Toronto, where “Flashpoint” is filmed (and shown on its producing network, CTV). Read more.

Now airing in a new Tuesday night timeslot, FLASHPOINT‘s Team One tracks a masked gunman terrorizing a group of teenagers and discovers troubling connections between an outspoken gay student, a manipulative therapist, and a young man desperate to win back his parents.

By Diane Wild of TV, eh?:

In a series of online polls conducted by TV, eh?, viewers picked Flashpoint as the Best Canadian Scripted Show Ever That’s Been On For More Than a Season.

The initial field of 32 shows was narrowed down to 16, then 8, then 4, until last week it was down to current drama Flashpoint versus comedy classic SCTV.

In this highly scientific* online survey, an average of nearly 200 Canadians+ each week voted on their favourite scripted series. The original 32 series were: Durham County, Mr. Dressup, Danger Bay, Bizarre, Littlest Hobo, Corner Gas, Heartland, Rick Mercer Report, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Being Erica, ReBoot, Slings & Arrows, SCTV, Smith & Smith, Road to Avonlea, Due South, Da Vinci’s Inquest, Sanctuary, Flashpoint, Friendly Giant, Degrassi Jr. High, Intelligence, Hilarious House of Frightenstein, Royal Canadian Air Farce, Night Heat, Kids in the Hall, King of Kensington, Wayne & Shuster, Street Legal, Beachcombers, Trailer Park Boys and This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

A new round of voting will begin in the next few weeks as the 16 shows with the most write-in votes plus 16 non-scripted series will be narrowed down to one and, finally, pitted against today’s champion Flashpoint.

* This is a bold lie.
+ This works out to approximately 200%* of the Canadian TV-watching public.

From TV Series Finale:

• Flashpoint: Not Returning to CBS But…
  On the downside, season four of Flashpoint averaged a 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 6.25 million viewers on CBS. That made it the weakest original programming on the network. It won’t be back. On the positive side of things, the ION cable channel has licensed the first four seasons of Flashpoint and is ready to start airing them. That’s 62 episodes, including 11 installments that CBS didn’t purchase the rights to run. They begin airing on Tuesday, October 18th. Read more.

Team One is called when a group of armed hijackers force a passenger jet plane to land. As Parker tries to negotiate with the increasingly desperate criminals, the rest of Team One faces an almost impossible task – how to storm the plane without someone getting killed. With the help of brave passenger Holly McCord (Melanie Scrofano), the team races to find a solution, before hijacker Sandra Moore (Joanne Boland) carries out her deadly threats.