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Property Brothers premieres September 14

From a media release:

Property Brothers Season 5 premieres September 14 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on W Network

  • Property Brothers Handbook iPad app launches September 8 and will be free to download until September 22. Get the app here
  • Win a one-on-one design consultation with Drew and Jonathan. Enter at wnetwork.com

W Network’s popular, Emmy®-nominated series Property Brothers returns for a brand new season Monday, September 14 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, as real estate agent Drew Scott and his twin brother, contractor Jonathan Scott transform all new homes. This season also marks the 100th episode of the hit series, airing November 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. New this fall, fans can now have Jonathan and Drew at their fingertips with the launch of Property Brothers Handbook iPad app available in the App Store today, providing insider tips and exclusive content in a fun and entertaining extension of the show. Check out a demo video of the iPad app here.

On the series, Drew and Jonathan are determined to help couples find, buy and transform extreme fixer-uppers into incredible homes on time and without busting their budget. Each week, Drew and Jonathan show buyers the untapped potential in several rundown properties. But convincing homebuyers to take on a renovation is the first challenge. Once the clients choose the property they like best, Drew negotiates the purchase price and clinches the deal, while Jonathan plans and carries out the ambitious transformation.

Property Brothers Handbook app is a guide to renovating and designing the home of your dreams. The app combines all the great things the fans love most about the show in one convenient place – tips from the Brothers, room reveals, product information and inspirational photos. Produced by Cineflix in association with Corus Entertainment, Secret Location, Jonathan and Drew Scott, and with the participation of the Bell Fund, the Property Brothers Handbook app will be continually updated with the most current Property Brothers show content. Visit itunes.com/propertybrothers for more information.

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Industry News

DHX Media licenses two series to U.S., Asia and Latin America

From a media release:

DHX Media (“DHX” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: DHXM; TSX: DHX.A, DHX.B), a key player internationally in the creation of content for families and children, has signed broadcast deals with Disney XD channels for two series recently commissioned by DHX TV to air originally on its Family CHRGD channel. DHX Media licensed the new 50×11′ animated fantasy series, Fangbone! to Disney XD channels in the US, Latin America, South East Asia and Taiwan. In a further deal, it also licensed the innovative original series Gaming Show (In My Parents’ Garage) to Disney XD in the US where it will premiere Wednesday, September 9 (9:30 p.m., ET/PT).

Fangbone! is a Radical Sheep Production. DHX Television commissioned the series for Canada where it will air on the wacky, wild and energy-filled Family CHRGD network, entering the market in early 2016. The series is aimed at 8–12 year olds and follows the quest of the titular character, a young barbarian from Skullbania, as he travels through a magical portal into the suburbs of our world with a most dangerous burden. His mission is to protect the blackened and slightly jam-smelling big toe of Venomous Drool from being reunited with its master – the evilest sorcerer in all the planes of existence! Fangbone becomes the best friend of Bill – a kid whose weirdness is his ultimate weapon – and who helps Fangbone survive in a world of spelling tests and waffles.

Together, Fangbone and Bill battle Drool’s monsterish creations, along with fat-fingered foot finders, independent magical contractors, and even the thieving Shadowsteppers – keeping the toe safe from any who would use its evil powers. Fangbone! is a tale of epic comedy, epic action and epic epicness! The series is based on the books by New York Times bestselling author Michael Rex.

Gaming Show is an innovative TV show that takes kids and tweens into the world of gaming in a new and exciting way. It’s a fun, authentic, comedic, and informative, semi-scripted gamer magazine series, “un-hosted” by three original, young and passionate gamers. The series is produced by Banger Films’ kids division, B-Minors and created by Jesse Shamata. Twenty-five new 30-minute episodes of the Canadian Screen Award-nominated, live-action show are in production for DHX Television’s Family Channel and Family CHRGD.

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Children's Programming, Featured

Nick Cannon’s Make It Pop dances onto YTV

K-pop is invading Canada. The South Korean musical genre that celebrates a riot of visuals set to an addictive beat grabs the spotlight in YTV’s Make It Pop.

Debuting Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET/PT with two back-to-back episodes, DHX Media’s fast-paced tween series follows four freshman at Mackendrick Preparatory who are determined to win spots in the art school’s musical. There’s Sun Hi (Megan Lee), a sometimes overconfident gal who records every move she makes for her fans; Jodi (Louriza Tronco), a gifted choreographer; Corki (Erika Tham) a home-schooled bookworm who values her privacy; and Caleb (Dale Whibley), a clumsy but lovable dude and brilliant musician. Co-created by Nick Cannon and Thomas Lynch, Make It Pop already launched in the U.S. in Nickelodeon last summer; the sophomore go-round of the Canadian-American co-production is filming now.

“I’ve had the opportunity to work with some K-pop artists in the past in Korea and that’s how I was introduced to the world,” Cannon tells us from the Degrassi set where Make It Pop is filmed. “I’ve been working in youth television for awhile and said, ‘This would make interesting television.’ I got with my mentor, my guide, Tommy Lynch who has been doing this for many moons and we started to discuss this.”

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Wednesday’s debut is jammed with dance and musical performances—during the opening assembly for the new school year and when Sun Hi goes back to the dorm room to retrieve her cell phone—and laughs, from Caleb’s blissfully bombastic creation of beats to Mr. Stark, Mackendrick’s over-the-top theatre teacher played by Matt Baram, from Sun’s unbreakable positivity to Jodi’s biting sarcasm.

“Everyone is wild around me and then I have the one sarcastic line that brings everything to a halt,” Vancouver’s Tronco says with a laugh.

But make no mistake, Make It Pop has a message for its young viewers: follow your dreams. A veteran of kid’s programming via such projects as The Nick Cannon Show, All That, Star Camp and Incredible Crew, Cannon may have a laid-back air about him while slouching in a chair and sporting sunglasses, but he’s dead serious about his responsibilities to young TV viewers.

“We grow up on shows like Degrassi or my stuff from my Nickelodeon days, that’s when content and entertainment mean the most,” he says. “That’s when you’re the most inspired and informed by things. It more important to you because that’s all you have. Adults use entertainment to escape, but when you’re a teen or tween it’s helping shape you.”

Make It Pop airs Wednesdays at 7 p.m. ET/PT on YTV.

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Lost Girl

Link: ‘Lost Girl’ Talk: Michael Grassi on “44 Minutes to Save the World”

From Emily Gagne of Cinefilles:

‘Lost Girl’ Talk: Michael Grassi on “44 Minutes to Save the World”
“Interesting you bring this up because it was a big conversation in our story room. Hades is many things, but we don’t think he’s a liar. Of course, everything he says can be open to interpretation. His idea of “make things better” might be different than yours or mine.” Continue reading.

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