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The reality behind the Real Housewives of Vancouver

From Marsha Lederman of the Globe and Mail:

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Saturday: W5

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W5, CTV – “The Survivor”
A story of heroism and courage. Lisa LaFlamme with THE SURVIVOR. How the shooting at Toronto’s Eaton Centre changed one family’s lives forever. And the first responders who charged to the rescue. The broad strokes of Connor Stevenson’s story about his near-death experience in the Eaton Centre are well known, but the fine points have only emerged over six months of rare access Connor’s family gave to CTV’s W5 to document their journey back to life.

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Friday: Transporter, Marketplace, Fifth Estate

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Transporter: The Series, HBO Canada – “Hot Ice”
In Toronto, Frank is asked to pick up a package containing a data stick holding sensitive content implicating a senior industrialist in the African blood diamond trade from a high-security bank vault and bring it to a specific address. Immediately upon leaving the hall he is attacked by a hit squad posing as security guards and finds himself locked inside the building. To make matters worse, an attractive woman security officer (Katheryn Winnick) falsely accuses him of being responsible for the death of her colleague, who was caught in the firefight and in order to prevent Frank’s escape, she handcuffs him to herself – difficult conditions when you have a hit squad on your tail…

Marketplace, CBC – “Back on the Case”
Inside a water filtration company we busted once before–how it’s still using dirty tricks. Plus, our hospital cleaning test IS BACK.

The Fifth Estate, CBC – “Target bin Laden”
The true story of how the CIA tracked the world’s most wanted terrorist.

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Kristin Lehman at home in Motive

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From Alex Strachan on Postmedia News:

  • B.C.’s Kristin Lehman stars in the Vancouver-based drama Motive
    Eleven of the first 13 episodes are in the can, and Motive is now in the stretch run before its planned end-of-season production in mid-February. Lehman is tired — she’s handling the chores of raising a young son while holding down the lead role in an hour-long weekly crime drama — but the rigours of day-to-day TV production are nothing new to her. Read more.
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