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Battle Castle airs Thursdays on History Television

From a media release:

“Battle Castle” Lays Siege On-Air and Online

Vancouver’s Parallax Film Productions has done everything in its considerable power to push the boundaries of Real TV with their series “Battle Castle”, the new featuresque documentary airing on History Television. The show is an interactive, trans-medieval journey into castle engineering, bloody siegecraft, and epic clashes that transform mortals into legends. Hosted by UK celebrity Dan Snow, the show takes its viewers over six one-hour timeslots to Syria, France, Spain, Wales, Poland and England delving into the stories of six fascinating castles: Crac des Chevaliers, Chateau Gâillard, Dover, Conwy, Malbork, and Malaga.

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TV, eh? podcast episode 85 – “That Sinking Feeling”

Anthony and Diane go over the TV Ehward categories one more time, asking for your recommendations before we announce the big winners. Then we chat about the Canadian TV news of the week:

Episode 85: Listen or download here or subscribe via iTunes or with any other program via the TV, Eh? feed

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Buy Herself premieres April 16 on HGTV Canada

From a media release:

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Brand New Series Buy Herself Features Famed Real Estate Expert Sandra Rinomato

  • Premieres Monday April 16 at 10pm ET/PT on HGTV Canada

Buying a new home on your own is no easy task, but popular host and successful realtor Sandra Rinomato (Property Virgins) is helping women hunt for the perfect place in the brand new series Buy Herself. From house hunting to hand holding, Sandra lends her expertise and guidance to single women preparing for one of the most emotional, exciting and challenging purchases of their lives. Buy Herself premieres Monday April 16 at 10pm ET/PT on HGTV Canada.

Single women have quietly shifted from being a niche segment to busting out as major players in the real estate market, and are now responsible for an estimated 20% of home purchases*. In each episode of Buy Herself Sandra introduces one woman, looking to buy a home on her own, to her top options in the world of real estate. Offering a big dose of knowledge and a little girlfriend-style advice, Sandra tries to find the key that meets the buyer’s desires, her needs and her budget. Joining each woman on her journey are a couple of her closest confidantes, ready to offer words of wisdom with the loving touch of brutal honesty that only comes from knowing a person intimately.

Sandra Rinomato is well-known to television audiences having hosted 130 episodes of the popular HGTV series Property Virgins, a show that underscored Sandra’s natural ability as both a TV presenter and someone with a straight forward approach to real estate. She has built on that success by becoming a certified real estate broker, an author (Realty Check: The Real Scoop on Real Estate), an award-winning Canadian entrepreneur (Stevie Award for Women in Business), and a much sought-after international television interview subject with a penchant for very worthwhile charitable causes.

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New tonight: Arctic Air finale, Saw Dogs

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Arctic Air, CBC – Season finale “Drop in For Lunch”
A routine flight from Watson Lake to Yellowknife turns deadly.

Saw Dogs, OLN – “Gone Fishing”
Chester jumps at the challenge of carving a voluptuous mermaid, using his wife Anastacia as a model. Mark, Pete and Steve carve marine elements of the massive communal table, including a cod, crab, octopus and heron. Steve is unhappy with Pete’s work, and the crew runs into troubled waters as they struggle to finish and deliver the project in time.

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Doc Zone presents The Age of Anxiety on March 15

From a media release:

CBC TELEVISION DOC ZONE PRESENTS THE AGE OF ANXIETY

  • Premiering Thursday March 15th at 9PM (9:30 NT)

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Anxiety is being called the disease of the 21st century. Everybody seems to be either afflicted – or knows someone who is. According to the World Health Organization, disorders related to “dread” are the most prevalent mental illness on the globe at the moment.

THE AGE OF ANXIETY, a new film from Emmy Award-winning producer Ric Esther Bienstock and Associated Producers, looks at the explosive growth in the diagnosis and treatment of this affliction. Its World Premiere will be on CBC Television’s Doc Zone on Thursday, March 15 at 9 pm (9:30 NT).

Some of us shriek at spiders, others have panic attacks that flare up out of nowhere and mimic the symptoms of heart failure. Still others worry excessively about everything and nothing – violent crime, cancer, terrorism, black bears, tornadoes. For some, that anxiety is just a mild unease; for others, it’s a paralyzing fear.

Is anxiety a disease of modernity, or is our highly competitive and material culture itself undermining our nerves? THE AGE OF ANXIETY examines this phenomenon, and how anxiety is being re-defined by the medical community and the pharmaceutical industry.

The publication of the next Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) – the diagnostic “bible” for psychiatrists – is anticipated for early 2013. This is the first revision in over a decade. Already a year behind schedule, the highly criticized DSM-V is about to set new definitions for anxiety disorders. Will the broadened criteria for anxiety, prescription happy GPs and a hectic society turn us all into mental health patients? THE AGE OF ANXIETY features interviews with both the former and current chairmen of the DSM addressing these issues.

Says Bienstock, “The medical definition of what constitutes an anxiety disorder is expanding to include so many aspects of normal human behaviour that we’re in danger of turning half the population into psychiatric patients. The way things are headed, getting an anti-anxiety prescription will be easier than getting a driver’s license. You want to talk crazy – THAT’S crazy! I’m getting anxious just thinking about it. Doesn’t mean I should get a prescription.”

Featuring interviews with leading experts in the field of psychiatry, THE AGE OF ANXIETY investigates the role that pharmaceutical companies, and even the psychiatric profession, play in this phenomenon. Is our anxiety fueling an industry that in turn is profiting from and exploiting our dread in a vicious and self-perpetuating cycle?

THE AGE OF ANXIETY is produced by Ric Esther Bienstock (Sex Slaves, Penn & Teller’s Magic and Mystery Tour) and written and directed by Scott Harper (Lost Adventures of Childhood). Executive producer is Simcha Jacobovici (The Lost Tomb of Jesus). The film is narrated by Ann-Marie MacDonald. For CBC’s Independent Documentary Unit: Linda Laughlin and Leora Eisen, Senior Producers; Michael Claydon, Area Executive Producer. Mark Starowicz is Executive Director, Documentary Programming.

Inspired by Patricia Pearson’s book “A Brief History of Anxiety…Yours and Mine”.

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