From CBC:

• New $10M teen sitcom to film in Ottawa
  “Montreal-based independent production house Muse Entertainment announced Thursday evening its plans to film the new family series Dad’s in the Attic at a defunct Ottawa high school. ‘This is what we call, by Canadian terms, a premiere series,’ Jesse Prupas, Muse’s vice-president of development and distribution, told CBC News.” Read more.

From a media release:

The search to find Canada’s Maria von Trapp starts January 25, 2008 with a seven-city cross-country audition tour that will culminate in the eight-week CBC Television series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? produced by Temple Street Productions in association with CBC Television. On this television show the Canadian public will choose who will play the most famous role in musical theatre in a brand new production of the beloved musical THE SOUND OF MUSIC (produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian and David Mirvish) that will open in October 2008 at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre.

Continue reading How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? auditions →

From Bill Harris of Sun Media:

• Early forensics in ‘Murdoch Mysteries’
  “‘I always have held shows like the Sherlock Holmes stuff and Poirot and things like that in high esteem, but I always imagined it was reserved for established British actors,’ Bisson said. ‘This is unique in that it’s set in Canada.'” Read more.

My review at Blogcritics:

• TV Review: Murdoch Mysteries Puts CSI Techniques in a Time Machine
  “What would CSI‘s Gil Grissom, Horatio Crane, or Stella Bonasera do without their DNA evidence or computer analyses? Requisition a time machine and consult Detective William Murdoch, of course.” Read more.

From CityNews:

• How A Victorian Era Detective Solves Crimes
  “Forensics. Blood traces. DNA. They’re all investigative tools detectives take for granted. Now imagine having to process a crime scene without any of them. Or any modern devices at all. That’s the idea behind “The Murdoch Mysteries”, a new show that takes crime solving a step backwards. That’s because it takes place in the late 1890’s when all the old Sherlock Holmes-types had to rely on was logic, intuition and their own intelligence.” Read more.