From a media release:

Season One of the Hit Series will be Released on DVD and Blu-ray in Canada on October 13th

Phase 4 Films announced today that it has acquired the English Language DVD rights to the smash hit series FLASHPOINT, starring Hugh Dillon (“Durham County”), Enrico Colantoni (“Just Shoot Me”), Amy Jo Johnson (“Felicity”) and David Paetkau (“Final Destination 2”). Phase 4 will release Season One of the television series on DVD and Blu-ray on October 13, 2009.

Inspired by Toronto’s real life Emergency Task Force, FLASHPOINT is an emotional journey following the lives of an elite police tactical team, the Strategic Response Unit (SRU). The SRU is a team of cops like no other – they’re the elite, the blueblood of the force. High risk is their business, and life-and-death stakes are their world. The action-packed series highlights both the tactical and the psychological aspects of police work and examines the emotional toll of bearing constant witness to the extremes of human distress.

Phase 4 Films will also distribute Season Two, in 2010.

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From Bill Brioux at the Canadian Press:

• Flashpoint tries to prove its worth to CBS at television critics tour
  “Flashpoint may be a victim of the new TV math. A fifth season of “Medium” just has a bigger upside for CBS. They cash in on back-end revenues from future syndication and DVD sales. Flashpoint is three or four years away from cracking the magic 100 episode barrier.” Read more.

And at TV Feeds My Family:

• CBS Has Till Oct. To Re-up Flashpoint
  “The fear, though, is that, as one U.S. critic suggested to me down here, Canada might become a place where networks can import a steady stream of ‘cheap failures.’ Not that anybody sets out to make a flop–not even The CW–but since 80% of new TV shows fail anyway, why not gamble with other people’s money?” Read more.

From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:

• Cool Canadians amid showbiz shenanigans
  “Although Flashpoint was a hit for CBS last summer – and another nine episodes will air later on CBS – the actors and producers have been too busy making the show to do the L.A. party-and-promotion scene. But here they are, at last. Prime-time TV stars, getting the oh-my-gawd-I-love-your-show treatment. It feels slightly ridiculous to be proud of them and pleased for them. It feels geeky. But it also feels okay. In this most American of places and situations, it feels Canadian.” Read more.