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Comments and queries for the week of July 24

Help from the Backroad Bounty boys

I hope you can help me. I just saw Canadian Pickers have stopped. I have a family member who has very old items from 1800 (an army saddle for example). Do you know any one who would be interested in coming to look and purchase these items? There are a lot more items for sale. —Cheryl

I know a couple of guys. Marty Gebel and Peter “Bam Bam” Bamford star in a series called Backroad Bounty on Cottage Life, where they go to people’s houses and look to buy items. Here’s the link to their Facebook page, where you can contact the show (and Marty and Bam Bam) with your question. As for the show, the boys are almost done filming Season 2 and I got the chance to watch Marty and Bam Bam pick through and purchase some cool items from a hardware store in Ingersoll, Ont. Look for my story in the coming weeks.

CraveTV to go direct to consumers on Jan. 1

I’ll definitely subscribe, but I don’t think we’ll drop my satellite TV service. We share it with my my mother and father-in-law and my brother-in-law so we split the bill three ways because it makes it more affordable ($127 is too expensive for any of us to pay on our own and it allows us to get all the channels rather than just a basic package). Our household is in a rural area without access to cheaper cable options so my in-laws subscribe to satellite to help us out even though they have cheaper options where they live near Edmonton. Truthfully, Crave TV and Netflix combined have more than enough shows to keep me with enough stuff to watch but my Internet (satellite Internet, again, our only option) gets to slow to stream 50 per cent of the time so until our Internet improves, I can’t cut Bell satellite.

Another big concern of mine is sports. Until Bell and Rogers launch good sports streaming apps that don’t require a cable/satellite subscription, I won’t consider throwing out my satellite. I would miss Jets games, Roughriders games and the Olympics way too much. —Alicia

Preview: Six pictures previewing tonight’s Rookie Blue

Lotta kissing going on. :) Guess Nick gets over Juliette’s I.A. gig. Maybe he ends up going with her to Vancouver instead of Andy? Because I totally called it that Swarek would win Andy over by getting her Boo Radley! —Kathryn

 

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TV Eh B Cs podcast 27 – The Erin Karpluk Chronicle

Erin_KarplukBetween 2000 and 2005, Erin Karpluk began her acting career by appearing in more than a dozen television movies and series before landing the role of Kate in Godiva’s. Karpluk earned a Leo nomination for her first season of Godiva’s and a 2006 Gemini nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role.

Since Godiva’s, Karpluk has continued to work in television and short films. In 2007 she appeared in Bionic Woman, Flash Gordon and The L Word with a leading role in the 2008 television movie, Smokejumpers.

She’s probably best known, however, as Erica Strange on the CBC television series Being Erica. In 2009, she won the Gemini award for her role in Being Erica.

She’s currently starring alongside Tahmoh Penikett in a new web series called Riftworld Chronicles while having the recurring role of Juliet on Rookie Blue.

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Link: Rookie Blue writer addresses controversy & future

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From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:

Rookie Blue writer addresses controversy & future
“It seemed to me that the corruption story was a great way to show the audience who Gail has become over the past 6 seasons. If this had happened in earlier seasons, Gail would’ve protected her brother and her own self interest (i.e. adopting Sophie) at all costs. So we really felt that this was the perfect story, and Sophie was the perfect sacrifice, to show how much Gail has grown and what an extraordinary woman and police officer she’s become, as heartbreaking as the outcome was for her–and us. And Charlotte did an exceptional job showing us what an excruciating decision it was for Gail.” Continue reading.

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Preview: Six pictures teasing tonight’s Rookie Blue

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It’s the penultimate episode of Rookie Blue, and here’s what Global’s official episode synopsis says:

“Now that Sam and Marlo’s baby girl has arrived, it’s clear nothing could have prepared Andy for this moment. So when Juliet offers Andy an opportunity to leave town for four months on an undercover project, Andy starts to consider it. Meanwhile, Jarvis reveals the shocking news that 15 Division will be restructured following the corruption scandal.”

We can sum up tonight’s drama is six images. Hold on tight, fans!

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Rookie Blue‘s season finale airs next Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Global.

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Link: Rookie Blue’s Erin Karpluk eyes a happy ending

From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:

Rookie Blue’s Erin Karpluk eyes a happy ending
Being the new kid on the block is not something Erin Karpluk was used to during her four seasons starring on Being Erica. However, this season she’s had to jump on board the well-oiled machine that is Rookie Blue as Officer Juliet Ward, 15 Division’s newest cop who also had a pretty big secret that she was keeping. While such a situation may lend itself to some pitfalls, in reality “it was one of the easiest transitions into a show I’ve ever had,” Karpluk tells The TV Junkies. Continue reading.

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