Canadian TV series premiering or continuing this month (let me know if I’ve missed any):
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January premiere schedule
Everything about This Hour Has 22 Minutes, eh?
New Year’s Day brings CBC specials
From a media release:
RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH A FULL SLATE OF HILARIOUS COMEDY SPECIALS ON CBC TELEVISION
- New Year’s Specials include 22 Minutes: Holiday Special, Air Farce Not The New Year’s Eve Special, The Ron James Show: New Year’s Edition and Craig Ferguson’s International House of Comedy
CBC Television kicks-off 2012 to a hilarious start with four all-new comedy specials. Beginning on January 1, 2012, the hilarious New Year’s comedy line-up includes: 22 MINUTES: HOLIDAY SPECIAL, AIR FARCE NOT THE NEW YEAR’S EVE SPECIAL, THE RON JAMES SHOW: NEW YEAR’S EDITION, and CRAIG FERGUSON’S INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF COMEDY.
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Auction: 22 Minutes swatter & scraper set – 2
Bid now in the TV, eh? Midseason Charity Auction, benefiting Kids Help Phone. See all auction items here.
Donated by 22 Minutes.
Note: This auction uses proxy bidding. You place your maximum bid and therefore only have to bid once. Your bid will register as the lowest possible winning bid. When you are outbid by another bidder, the auction will continue to bid on your behalf up to your maximum until the auction closes. Placing your maximum bet eliminates the need to monitor an auction and place increasingly large bids.
The auction closes January 13, 2012.
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Auction: 22 Minutes swatter & scraper set – 1
Bid now in the TV, eh? Midseason Charity Auction, benefiting Kids Help Phone. See all auction items here.
Donated by 22 Minutes.
Note: This auction uses proxy bidding. You place your maximum bid and therefore only have to bid once. Your bid will register as the lowest possible winning bid. When you are outbid by another bidder, the auction will continue to bid on your behalf up to your maximum until the auction closes. Placing your maximum bet eliminates the need to monitor an auction and place increasingly larger bids.
The auction closes January 13, 2012.
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22 Minutes “funny-peculiar”, Flashpoint “superbly made”
From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:
- It was a funny-peculiar year, as seen by 22 Minutes
With so much strangeness unfolding you would think it was a time ripe for glorious comedy. So it is with some puzzlement that I contemplate This Hour Has 22 Minutes (CBC, 8 p.m.), which is a one-hour “holiday special†Tuesday night. I was sent some choice bits and all I can say is that what I’ve seen is funny peculiar, not priceless, rollicking, side-splitting funny. Read more.