From ET Canada:
Why ‘Remedy’ Star Niall Matter Is A Canadian To Watch
You know him from the 90210 reboot and Primeval: New World, but trust us, you’re going to want to see Niall Matter in his new role as Dr. Peter Cutler in Season 2 of Global’s Remedy, which is why Niall is one of our 2015 “Canadians To Watchâ€. Continue reading.
From a media release:
Toronto Screenwriting Conference announces new Writer’s Room Intensive with 19-2’s Bruce Smith
The Toronto Screenwriting Conference (TSC) has announced a new Writer’s Room Intensive program with Bruce Smith, executive producer and creator of the serialized police drama 19-2. Six participants will work with Smith to create a ‘tent pole’ episode that involves the full squad in a single police action while maintaining the show’s focus on the emotional lives of the police officers. They will join Smith on stage during the TSC to present their ideas. The sixth annual Toronto Screenwriting Conference takes place on April 11 and 12, at its new location, the Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park.
“We strive to provide writers the opportunity to not only learn from the most-successful working showrunners and executive producers today, but also how to apply these advanced tools in a practical manner. Bruce’s new intensive program does just that,†said Kent Robinson, Toronto Screenwriting Conference producer. Adding, “In addition the Writer’s Room Intensive, we’ve developed other new craft sessions that will fully engage screenwriters including the business of showrunning, creating a successful series engine, and how and why a project gets from pitch to screen.â€
Bruce Smith is a three-time WGC award winner. Prior to 19-2, he was the showrunner on Cracked, and worked as a writer/producer on numerous dramas including Durham County. Smith has also penned multiple award-winning MOWs and mini-series including Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story, and John A: Birth of a County, which he won a Canadian Screen Award.
Joining Smith on the speaker roster are Master Class speaker, David S. Goyer (Man of Steel, Batman Begins, the Blade Trilogy, creator and showrunner Da Vinci’s Demons); Emmy, Golden Globe and Television Critics Association Award-winning executive producer, Jeff Melvoin (Army Wives, Alias, Picket Fences, Northern Exposure); Head of the WGAs Showrunner training program & CBS Diversity Writers Mentoring Program, Carole Kirschner; and award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Corey Mandell.
The Writer’s Room Intensive is for registered delegates with experience in television with two positions available for recent post-secondary graduates. The selection process will be juried. Deadline to apply is Monday March 5, 5pm ET. For complete details, please visit torontoscreenwritingconference.com
From a media release:
Acclaimed Canadian comedy series, Tiny Plastic Men, returns to Super Channel for third season
Tiny Plastic Men, the acclaimed, original comedy series from Edmonton based Mosaic Entertainment, returns to Super Channel, Canada’s only national English pay television network, for the season three premiere on Monday, March 2 at 9:30 p.m. ET (SC2).
Tiny Plastic Men follows a trio of nerdy misfit toy testers and their absurd antics at the fictional Gottfried Brothers Toy and Train Company. Testing these weird and often dangerous toys is the easy part. It’s the eccentric bosses, hostile co-workers, and oddball guests that make the job…interesting.
Created by, and starring, comedy veterans Chris Craddock, Matt Alden and Mark Meer, the episodes are filled with rapid-fire jokes, delightfully twisted situations and hilarious sketches, all coloured by the creators’ oddball sense of nerdy humour. The success of the second season saw the series nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards including Best Comedy Series, Best Writing in a Comedy Program or Series (Chris Craddock) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Comedic Role (Mark Meer).
In the season three premiere episode entitled, “Crad Van Winkle,†Crad awakens to discover that he’s lost a year of his life and nothing at Gottfried Bros Toys is the same as it was. Can he go back to the beginning and return Gottfried Bros to the beloved status quo?
Special guest stars for the upcoming season include Alan Thicke (Growing Pains) as Judge Andy Jury in an episode entitled “The Ex-Factorâ€, Kevin McDonald (Kids in the Hall) as a whacky Willy Wonka type character, and hockey hero Georges Laraque reprises his role as Gaston LeBoeuf, an openly gay Canadian linebacker.
From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:
The Canadian Screen Awards are wobbling toward us
Awards season isn’t over. Not around here, anyway. It isn’t over until The Canadian Screen Awards (Sunday, CBC, 8 p.m.) have unfolded and the nervous nellies of the Canadian TV and film rackets have counted the number of tweets mentioning the CSAs or their show. Continue reading.
From Bill Tierney of the Montreal Gazette:
Mohawk Girls isn’t brilliant, isn’t to die for. It doesn’t have the fashion budgets of New York-inspired Sex in the City or, more recently, the stylized grit of Girls. Kahnawake and Montreal aren’t New York, and production values can’t match the big networks. But Mohawk Girls is ours and it does ask questions we should be asking. While we’re being amused at the antics of these liberated young women, your laughter evaporates leaving more serious issues exposed. Continue reading.
