From Bill Harris of the Toronto Sun:
Big Brother Canada, Trailer Park Boys and more must-see TV this week
Includes 19-2, Vietnam: Canada’s Shadow War, and Spirit Bear Family among others. Continue reading.
From Robin Levinson King of the Toronto Star:
Inside Toronto’s shared history with Fraggle Rock
Lawrence Mirkin, producer of the beloved children’s TV show, offers a look at what it was like working on Fraggle Rock: “As much fun as you would think it was doing the show, it was more fun,” he says. Continue reading.
Motive, CTV – “Oblivion”
When Robin Gould (Alexis Bledel, GILMORE GIRLS), an ambitious architect, goes missing, Detectives Brian Lucas (Brendan Penny), Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman), and Oscar Vega (Louis Ferreira) find evidence that her case may be tied to a seemingly unrelated murder. Vision troubles prompt Vega to turn to Dr. Rogers (Lauren Holly) for advice as his weapons recertification test looms.
Masterchef Canada, CTV – “One Potato, Two Potato”
The home cooks’ second Team Challenge takes place on the University of Guelph campus, home to the school’s ground-breaking food research department which has developed numerous food products, including the Yukon Gold potato. After being divided into teams, the home cooks test their culinary and entrepreneurial skills by creating crowd-pleasing poutine dishes to sell to hundreds of hungry students. Back in the MASTERCHEF CANADA kitchen, the members of the losing team must master a difficult stuffed pasta dish or face elimination.
Heartland, CBC – “All I Need Is You”
Lou spearheads preparations for the big day while Amy throws herself into gentling a rescue horse in order to avoid all the craziness.
From Anne Brodie of Monsters & Critics:
Enrico Colantoni on Remedy’s Season 2 Premiere March 23 on Global
Remedy premiered to a lot of buzz, has it lived up to your expectations?
This season last season was difficult. Greg set out to make some art; he wasn’t interested in making run of the mill procedural. It’s a family drama that takes place in a hospital. Its dialogue and character-driven. It was difficult in the first season to jump where Greg wanted to go. That’s what rehearsal is about, so you can jump as high as the writer expects us to jump. It talks time to know when you’re jumping. It didn’t happen for me till last season last episode. Continue reading.
From Tony Wong of the Toronto Star:
Dillon Casey on being Griffin Conner in Remedy
How tough is to play someone that conflicted every season?
Being Griffin sometimes gets to be overwhelming. It’s 12 hours a day being this sort of dark guy. And it does bleed into your thoughts. You’re a different person, you start to internalize it after awhile. This happened to me the first season especially.
The biggest challenge in Season 2 was to keep pushing myself. You try not to get too comfortable. There is a real danger to that because if the character becomes safe and boring then the audience will get bored. You cease to become authentic. So you’re always pushing. Continue reading.
