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Link: Canadian TV, as we know it, is screwed. For now

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From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail:

Canadian TV, as we know it, is screwed. For now
The old advertising model has been shattered and nobody knows what the looming pick-and-pay change is going to do to the specialty channel menu. Nothing will ever be the same. Profits can be achieved but nothing like the vast, vast amounts that have been made in the past.

Fact is, the Canadian TV business has been smug about its business operations for years and that smugness has meant that the viewer shift toward digital and streaming services is far more of a calamity than it should be. It’s a truism that complacency sets in when a business is making a lot of money with little effort. It’s just that Canadian TV is a particularly startling example of that truism. Continue reading.

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19-2

Link: TIFF salute to 19-2 reveals S3 will begin with a bang

From Bill Brioux:

TIFF salute to 19-2 reveals S3 will begin with a bang
Season 2’s opener, screened last year at the Canadian International Television Festival, began with a harrowing episode covering a mass shooting at a high school. Season 3 also starts with a jolt. I don’t want to spoil it here, but I was astounded when Smith told me they were able to shoot it in just one day. Continue reading.

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Canada's Smartest Person

Katy Warren wins Canada’s Smartest Person

From a media release:

CBC’s CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON has crowned Katy Warren of St. John’s, NL with the coveted title of Canada’s Smartest Person. Katy emerged victorious after beating out the seven remaining finalists in a series of new and exciting challenges that tested six areas of intelligence in the epic two-hour finale on Sunday night. The 21-year-old is an engineering student at Memorial University in St. John’s, NL.

Katy competed in the fourth episode of the season where she consistently finished in the top two in every challenge she faced. Katy is an engineering student who was awarded an entry scholarship at the largest university in Atlantic Canada. Her resume boasts a wide array of accomplishments including receiving the prestigious Chief Commissioner’s Gold Award from the Girl Guides of Canada, where she is a life-long member, and being the 2006 Provincial Spelling Bee champion. In her free time Katy rides the unicycle, plays the piccolo and ukulele, participates in roller derby and has a passion for improv and performing.

Hosted by Jessi Cruickshank, CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON is an innovative, original competition series that redefines what it means to be smart. Based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, the program tests participants in six different categories of smarts: Visual, Musical, Logical, Linguistic, Physical and Social. Each week, viewers can play along in real-time with the ground-breaking CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON app, available for iOS and Android devices. The app syncs to every broadcast allowing viewers to participate with each challenge in the show in real time and receive their own intelligence profile. During the week, viewers can try their hand at a series of bonus challenges and new this season, is Head2Head, which allows players to dual against their family and friends.

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This Life

Link: This Life writer says the Lawsons must carry on

From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:

This Life writer says the Lawsons must carry on
“You end up living with a character that you know and love and putting a pin in the cancer because it’s the only way you can really deal with it. The fact that life just has to carry on for all these characters, all the time, you have to do what they do, which is just only think of it when you have the capacity to think about it and put it aside when you need to.” Continue reading.

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