From a media release:

OLN Announces 2015 Mid-Season Schedule

Tuesday, Jan. 6:

Close Up Kings: Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings), beginning Tuesday, Jan. 6
**New Series**
**OLN Original**
Close Up Kings brings audiences the adventures of three best friends, who also happen to be America’s top sleight-of-hand artists. Magick Balay, Loki, and Johnny Blaze travel from city to city taking on different challenges and attempting to outperform one another. Viewers will be enthralled by the trio’s carefully orchestrated and artfully executed capers and tricks that become more complex as the stakes get higher. From bringing a bird back to life and teleporting a person 700 yards across the desert, to performing an amazing Houdini-style jail escape in front of a crowd, these magicians will have audiences asking, “how did they do that?!”

The series premiere episode sees the NYC magicians escape a hardcore prison – restrained in strait jackets, padlocks and chains! Magick, Loki and Jonny wow crowds with tricks at Time Square and a disappearing act in Central Park while in the Big Apple.

Thursday, Jan. 8:

Storage Wars Canada: Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings), beginning Thursday, Jan. 8
**Season 2**
**OLN Original**
The stakes are even greater on Season 2 of Storage Wars Canada as tensions amongst the buyers are at an all-time high. In addition to the stress of competition on the auction circuit, the buyers face a lot of major decisions with new business ventures on the horizon. Coming together with different levels of experience and knowledge, these buyers only have one thing in common: they will do anything to get what they want, and what they want is to find the next big deal.

In the Season 2 premiere episode, Roy hires bodyguards to keep the riff raff away at an auction in Brampton. Then, Bogart quits… but just when he thinks he’s out Paul tries to pull him back in. Celebrity guests include Canadian healthy living advocates Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod Body Break), as well as Canadian National Cricket Team player Harvir Baidwan.

Need to catch up? Catch the Storage Wars Canada marathon December 25 from 10 a.m. – 2 a.m. (check local listings) on OLN.

The Liquidator: Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings), beginning Thursday, Jan. 8
**Season 4**
**OLN Original**
Liquidation King Jeff Schwarz is back – haggling, trading, and bulldozing his way through a new season of high-octane buying and selling. This season turns up the heat as Jeff tests the boundaries of his business, going after deals outside his comfort zone that few other liquidators would dare touch.

In the Season 4 premiere episode of The Liquidator Daniel makes deals for a load of LED screens and Chinese merchandise without consulting Jeff. Meanwhile a cattle farmer wants to trade a steer for some furniture, so Jeff goes whole-cow into the beef business – but a mathematical error leaves him red-faced in front of new employee Ian.

Need to catch up? Catch The Liquidator marathon December 24 from 10 a.m. – 2 a.m. (check local listings) on OLN.

From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:

This Hour Has Seven Days was part of Canadian TV’s ‘golden age’
Imagine a TV show that was a mash-up of 60 Minutes and The Daily Show. Fifty years ago, Canada had such a show in This Hour Has Seven Days. An episode of the series, plucked from the CBC archives, was screened recently at the 2nd annual Canadian International Television Festival in Toronto. Combined with a couple of shows from the 1970s — Party Game and The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour — it offered a glimpse at what could be argued was Canada’s “golden age” of television: the mid 1960s through mid-’70s. Continue reading.

From David Berry:

There tends to be a lot of handwringing in this country about producing good television, but Corner Gas managed to do something that is even more rare: It was a Canadian TV show that Canadians actually watched. At the peak of its popularity, it could break even with, or outdraw, the American imports that make up most of our TV watching.

Corner Gas doesn’t present as a particularly prestigious show, one of those things that changes our ideas of what television can do, or even just takes a novel or insightful look at the modern world. Its unabashedly rural setting is reasonably unique among even semi-modern TV comedies, though it does play perfectly into a certain regional, steadfastly quaint Canadiana that runs back to Sunshine Sketches and plays out still in Vinyl Cafes and Kraft Hockeyvilles, one of our main national myths. (The new movie actually revolves around a competition for quaintest Canadian town, but even its point that these ostensibly serene places are populated by free-range loons with good intentions is keeping with tradition.) Continue reading.