From Jim Bawden:

I made a silly resolution not to watch Corner Gas: The Movie because I really liked the TV series.

For a few bright seasons it seemed as if Canadian TV comedy was about to sparkle. Then came the duds Hiccups and Dan For Mayor and Canadian TV was back again to square one. Eventually I relented and plopped in my DVD preview and I could not stop watching.

The problem is a successful half hour TV comedy series does not easily translate into a successful 90-minute motion picture. Continue reading.

From Bill Harris:

Nothing says Christmas like, um, The Liquidator?

“I turn s— into roses,” said Jeff Schwarz, a.k.a. The Liquidator, describing his business.

Well, turn those roses into mistletoe and we all can have a happy holiday. Continue reading.

From Stephanie Dubois:

SCTV statues mounted in Edmonton are getting closer to become a reality as volunteers spearheading the public art project are just waiting for charitable status.

While the community members are remaining tight-lipped on the design and precise location of the statues, the project is currently waiting on approval from Revenue Canada to become a society before it can build the statues of the popular sketch comedy television show that was filmed in Edmonton from 1980-1982. Continue reading.

From The TV Junkies:

It’s been a big year in Canadian television. With budget cuts at the public broadcaster, reality shows taking over the summer schedules, new shows emerging and established shows coming to an end, it was no easy feat to narrow down the best in show. Let alone the Top 10 Canadian Shows of 2014.

But that’s exactly what we did, with the help of 19 esteemed television critics and writers from across Canada. They were tasked with coming up with their own individual Top 10 lists (located below), which were then ranked according to a points system: 10 points for No. 1, 9 points for No. 2, 8 points for No. 3 and so on. Continue reading.

From The Chronicle Herald:

Stories based on Fauset collection in production now, to be shown on CBC-TV

A new series on CBC-TV aims to “reveal, revise and reinterpret important forgotten stories” from African-Nova Scotian folklore.

Picture Plant Ltd. of Lunenburg began production on the four-part series Studio Black! at CBC’s Bell Road location in Halifax on Dec. 8.

The series is based on a collection of stories by Arthur Fauset, “who in 1923 travelled to Nova Scotia from Philadelphia, visiting many black communities, much like Dr. Helen Creighton,” a news release says. “He documented these stories and assembled them into a book published by the American Folklore Society in 1931.” Continue reading.