From Global:

Season Two Premieres Thursday, May 31, 9 p.m.

• Canada’s Most Popular Design Personality Launches ‘Debbie Travis Condos & Homes’ – Searches For a New Chief Designer

This time it’s all about talent…Debbie and Global Television are back for an all-new season of the acclaimed reality series From The Ground Up with Debbie Travis. The stakes are high as Canada’s favourite design star gets set to launch her boldest venture yet, moving into the volatile market of consumer homes…and she’s looking for a Chief Designer to make it happen from the ground up.

The first of 10, one-hour episodes debuts Thursday, May 31 – 9pm ET/PT on Global, as 14 eager protegés are put to the test – all for a chance to land this job of a lifetime. With design backgrounds ranging from interior to industrial, artistic to architectural, talent alone isn’t enough to become Debbie’s Chief Designer. On top of surviving the cut-throat world of design, it will take passion and professionalism to work alongside, and inspire, Debbie.
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From TV Week:

• ‘Inquest’ gets web exposure
  “Dominic Da Vinci is definitely expanding his horizons,” said Josh Raphaelson, co-founder of Program Partners. “He moves into the mayor’s office and goes right on YouTube. Longtime fans and many new ones will be excited to find him there.”

The show premieres April 21 on CH:

From TV with MeeVee:

• MeeVee Exclusive! Interview with Kristanna Loken, Star of Painkiller Jane
  “A former model and kickass leading lady, Loken is a natural for the role, both in front of and behind the camera (she’s the show’s creative producer as well).”

From UGO:

• Painkiller Jane Review
  SCI FI Channel’s Painkiller Jane aims high while offering some great eye candy with the lovely Kristanna Loken.

From IF Magazine:

• TV Review: Painkiller Jane, Season one – “Pilot”
  “It always does my heart good to see comic book adaptations done well. It never hurts when the creator in some fashion or other is involved with the adapting either.”

From Playback:

• Bo on the Go! goes to CBC
  “CBC has picked up a new preschooler series from DHX Media, putting animators and motion-capture techies to work on 26 half-hours of Bo on the Go!, now slated for a fall debut on the net’s kids block of programming.”

From Thunderbird Films:

Production completed on third season of Popular Live-Action/CG Animated YTV series Zixx: Level Three

Thunderbird Films announced that the third season of the half-hour children’s series Zixx has completed live action production in Vancouver. The series will premiere on YTV as Zixx: Level Three in Summer 2008.

“We’ve been deeply involved in Zixx from the earliest stages of development, and are very proud to continue to support this popular and original show”, said Bonita Siegel, Director, Original Productions YTV.

Zixx: Level Three is the third season of the half-hour offering that blends live action with animation following the journey of Zixx Phunkee Zee (Barbara Mamabolo) as she tries to save the universe from evil aliens with the help of her team of human teens.

Season three continues the show’s successful meld of sci-fi thrills traveling through both a real-world setting and an original computer-generated animated world. The stakes are higher this season for the band of young allies – their enemies are stronger, their challenges greater and their quest more dangerous.

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