Stars on Ice 2012, CBC
Stars on Ice is choreographed by Four-Time World Champion Kurt Browning with renowned figure skaters Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue, Joannie Rochette, Jeffrey Buttle, Shawn Sawyer, Cynthia Phaneuf and others.

Murdoch Mysteries, CBC – “Murdoch Night in Canada”
Toronto’s hockey championship fortunes rest on Murdoch’s shoulders when he investigates the death of the team captain.

From a media release:

Canadian Shock-Comic Tom Green to Guest Star in Citytv’s Original Comedy Series, Seed

• Canadian-born actor takes on role of renowned psychoanalyst
• Seed currently in-production in Halifax

Citytv and Force Four Entertainment today announced that Canadian-born actor and comedian Tom Green joins the dynamic cast of Citytv’s new original comedy series Seed in a one-time guest appearance. Ottawa-native Green, who is currently on a world-wide comedy tour and recently starred in his own comedy special, is internationally renowned for his irreverent talk show, The Tom Green Show, and roles in cult-comedies Freddy Got Fingered, Road Trip, and Stealing Harvard. In Seed, Green will play an arrogant but insightful psychoanalyst named Dr. Stuart Meinertzhagen that will see him counselling the show’s dysfunctional families. The good doctor’s new-age methods and alternative approach put him in direct rivalry with Anastasia’s mom Janet (Laura de Carteret, The L.A. Complex), who considers Meinertzhagen a total fraud.

Currently in production in Halifax, Seed follows Harry, played by Canadian-born actor Adam Korson (2 Broke Girls) an ill-equipped bachelor bartender who finds his earlier foray into the world of sperm donation has resulted in kids – lots of them. Created by Joseph Raso (Zombies & Cheerleaders), Seed is executive produced by award-winning writer and producer Mark Farrell (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Made in Canada, Corner Gas), and produced by Force Four Entertainment. The series is slated to premiere on Citytv in early 2013. Additional broadcast details to be announced at a later date.

From the National Post:

• Mr. Dressup Ernie Coombs celebrated in Canadian Google doodle
  Ernie Coombs, known to Canada as Mr. Dressup, would have celebrated his 85th birthday today were he still alive. The perennial children’s entertainer was celebrated today in a Google doodle. Read more.

From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:

• CBC movie The Phantoms revisits aftermath of fatal high school van crash
  The film never shows the accident, in which the wife of a coach also died. It’s all about what came next for the surviving players, teachers and others. Improbably, the Bathurst High Phantoms rebounded in 2009 to win the New Brunswick provincial high school varsity basketball title. Read more.

From Karissa Donkin of the Toronto Star:

• The Phantoms movie: Bathurst, N.B. moms criticize basketball movie for exploiting sons’ deaths
  Marcella Kelly doesn’t read newspapers or listen to the radio much these days. When she goes out in the small city of Bathurst, in northern New Brunswick, she does only what she needs to do and comes home again. Tuning out is how she gets through living what has become her nightmare. Kelly lost her 15-year-old son Nikki in a bus crash that’s the basis for a new movie showing Sunday at 8 p.m. on CBC called The Phantoms. Read more.

From CBC:

• Phantoms movie captures ‘courage’ of Bathurst
  People in Bathurst are awaiting the release of a new television movie that chronicles how the Bathurst High School basketball team’s 2009 championship season helped heal a grieving city. Read more.

From Reuben Villagracia of the Chronicle Journal:

• Telling the Phantoms story
  Alex Robichaud is confident the producers of a CBC movie based on a tragedy that he was involved in will be handled with care when it premieres this weekend. The first-year Lakehead Thunderwolves guard was a prominent member of the Bathurst, N.B., Phantoms high school senior boys basketball team that helped a town heal from its grief following a road accident in January 2008. Read more.

From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:

• The Phantoms: A moving tale of healing after tragedy
  When the production was announced, there were concerns expressed that the TV movie was coming too soon after the 2008 tragedy that struck the small New Brunswick community. Some thought that even a reminder of the crash and its impact might be exploitative. It isn’t. The Phantoms (Andrew Wreggitt wrote the script and Sudz Sutherland directed) is a well-crafted family movie, one that’s emphatically about triumphing over adversity. It’s heartwarming without being superficial. Read more.