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Tonight: Survivorman Finding Bigfoot, Big Brother Canada, Bahama Blue

Survivorman: Finding Bigfoot, OLN – “Survivorman Bigfoot: Texas/Utah”
Les begins his search in East Texas, invited onto private land by a local who claims to have experienced the Bigfoot phenomenon for over 35 years. Locals’ stories lead him to the remote mountain terrain of rural Utah, where ungodly screams and tales of haunted hollows find Les camped out in a canyon way off the beaten path, firmly planted between skepticism and acceptance. Lacking irrefutable evidence, Bigfoot is just a contradiction – a 10-foot monster that he can’t find.

Big Brother Canada, Global
It’s Eviction night in the Big Brother Canada house. Who will be sent packing? Who will become HOH?

Bahama Blue, Love Nature – “Mangroves”
More than a tangle of roots growing out of swampy muck, the Mangroves are nurseries for the marine life of the Bahamas. More than 90% of the species of the Bahamas spend some part of their lives here. This is where baby sharks learn to hunt and young lobsters learn how to hide. The roots of these salt-water tolerant shrubs are also home for some remarkable creatures: from the tiny seahorse to the resilient tree crab. Even the iconic Flamingo gathers here to feed on the crustaceans that give them their pinkish hue.

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Link: Samantha Bee gets back behind the desk for YTV

From Cassandra Szklarski of the Canadian Press:

Samantha Bee gets back behind the desk for YTV
Outgoing Daily Show with Jon Stewart correspondent Samantha Bee says she welcomed the chance to get behind a desk again for the Montreal-shot teen show Game On. It helped that she’d be working with another comic named Jon — this time Mr. D and Trailer Park Boys regular Jonathan Torrens. They appear as a pair of play-by-play announcers providing running commentary for the awkward foibles of a 14-year-old boy. Continue reading.

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Link: How Canada’s Heritage Minutes got their swagger back

From Josh O’Kane of the Globe and Mail:

How Canada’s Heritage Minutes got their swagger back
In the beginning, there was Valour Road, Jacques Plante and the Underground Railroad. Then Nellie McClung, Superman and the Halifax Explosion. Soon, dozens more. By 1995, four years after their launch, Heritage Minutes were a Canadian institution: 60-second snapshots of cultural history thrust into TV screens from coast to coast to coast, injecting education into entertainment. Continue reading.

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Tonight: Illusions of Grandeur, Escape or Die

Illusions of Grandeur, OLN – “Detroit”
Zack heads to Detroit to perform some mind-boggling tricks, but after getting rained out, heads to the “world’s largest gathering of magicians” in Colon, Michigan. Inspired by the magic lovers there, Zack returns to Detroit to attempt his most dangerous stunt yet.

Escape or Die, OLN – “Death Tank”
Dean has been invited to attempt an escape in front of professional executives in sunny Miami, Florida. There he will unveil a brand new escape apparatus the world hasn’t seen in 60 years – the Death Tank. Used as a torture chamber in WWII, it resurfaced when a Russian magician attempted to escape the tank… and died. Will Dean be the first person to ever escape the Death Tank?

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