From a media release:

FRESH TV INC. AND BLUEPRINT ENTERTAINMENT DEVELOPING NEW LIVE ACTION SERIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Fresh TV Inc. and BLUEPRINT ENTERTAINMENT have teamed up to co-produce a new live-action series with animated elements about the hilarious ups and challenging downs of being a teenager. In Maya’s Opinion centers on the life of an overly-imaginative teenaged girl and is the first time Fresh TV and BLUEPRINT have collaborated. The show is currently in development with Corus Entertainment’s YTV.

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From a media release:

Sinking Ship Entertainment is pleased to announce that TVO, ACCESS Alberta and The Knowledge Network have picked-up the second season of the reality pre-school series “The Jungle Room” with a title change to “The Ocean Room” to reflect the theme of season two. Produced by Sinking Ship Entertainment, the series tracks the day-to-day lives of several preschoolers to reveal the true world of childhood. Season two – with 26 eleven-minute episodes – will begin production in spring 2009 for a fall 2009 premiere.

“Our goal at Sinking Ship has always been to reflect authentically the fascinating inner world of kids” says J.J. Johnson, Co-Creator and Producer, “The Ocean Room”. “This program is our closest yet to reveal the true highs and lows, laughs and tears of what it’s like to be a preschooler.”

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Stratusphere, the new exotic adventure series featuring former seven-time WWE champion Trish Stratus, airs on CTV in a travel + escape programmed time slot beginning Saturday, Oct. 4 at 1 p.m. ET/PT, following the successful series premiere on travel + escape. A selection of five episodes from the 10-part series will air on CTV.

In search of the most amazing locations and most daring physical challenges, join Stratus as she travels the globe tackling new challenges from glima wrestling in Iceland to muay thai boxing in Thailand. The series currently airs on travel + escape Monday’s at 9 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT. Episodes are also available to watch online at www.travelandescape.ca.

From Alex Strachan of Canwest News Service:

• Defying death with a laugh, comedian faces cancer
  “Irwin Barker was given 12 months to live, he tells his standup audience at the beginning of the heartfelt and heartwarming W-Five Presents documentary That’s My Time: A Comedian’s Stand-Up to Cancer. ‘But my lawyer says he can get it down to eight.'” Read more.

From Garnet Fraser of the Toronto Star:

• Laughter’s the cure for comic with cancer
  “Comedy may be tragedy plus time, but ‘I need the `plus time’ part,’ Barker says in an interview from his CBC office, where he writes for Rick Mercer Report. The fiftysomething funnyman – a five-time Gemini nominee for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and a respected standup performer nationwide – still has terminal cancer. It’s enough to make him wonder aloud onstage: ‘Why didn’t this happen to a hack?'” Read more.

From Kathy Rumleski of the London Free Press:

• There’s no time like the present to catch Liley’s That’s My Time
  “When London filmmaker Adamm Liley found out his CBC colleague Irwin Barker had terminal cancer, the news hit him hard.” Read more.