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Cracked

Cracked draws on real life

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From Jen Traplin of Metro Ottawa:

  • CBC crime drama Cracked draws on real life events
    The executive producer behind Cracked, a new, one-hour-long Canadian crime drama on CBC, calls the series “a police procedural, but with a real twist.” “I think it’s not like anything people have seen on television before,” says Ottawa native and award winning filmmaker, producer and president of White Pine Pictures, Peter Raymont. Read more.
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Lost Girl

Canada riding high on sci-fi

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From Scott Stinson of the National Post:

  • Sci-fi high: The boom in Canadian series that go bump in the night
    Early-episode jitters are a long way behind Silk and Lost Girl now. The show’s third season began this month on Showcase in Canada and on the Syfy channel in the United States. It’s now a standard bearer for what has been a surprising trend in domestic production — series that are heavy on shapeshifters and werewolves and what have you are getting successful multi-season runs in Canada and are being exported internationally. Read more.
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Reality, Lifestyle & Documentary

Thursday: Nature of Things, Doc Zone, Liquidator, Undercover Boss Canada

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The Nature of Things, CBC – “Zapped: the Buzz About Mosquitoes”
The story of our ongoing struggle to conquer a blood-suckering little insect that is both delicate and deadly.

Doc Zone, CBC – “Serving the Royals”
Round the clock they toil, often thanklessly, to keep the monarchy humming. Stories of what the royal servants do and see behind palace doors.

The Liquidator, OLN – “A Hand Up”
Jeff shows his softer side when long-time “frenemy” José faces the loss of his business.

Undercover Boss Canada, W Network – “Wild Wing”
Wild Wing, one of the fastest expanding family restaurant franchises in Ontario, takes Founder and CEO Rick Smiciklas and puts him to work on the frontlines of his own restaurants and what he learns from staff leads to finger pointing and an explosive confrontation.

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Awards

The growing pains of the Canadian Screen Awards

From Alex Strachan of Postmedia News:

  • Canadian Screen Awards: New, but not improved
    A’ for effort, ‘C’ for results. The Canadian Screen Awards nominations, revealed Tuesday in Toronto, are meant to reflect the best in Canadian film and TV, and mark the first time the Genie movie awards and Gemini TV awards have been brought under the same umbrella. Read more.

From Scott Stinson of the National Post:

  • Canadian Screen Awards: Canada’s Golden Globes, they are not — yet
    There is much to recommend about the decision to create the Canadian Screen Awards out of the marriage of the Genies (for film) and Geminis (for TV). No longer will two unloved awards ceremonies be stuck at opposite ends of the calendar, for one, and the combined heft of the two industries should lend the March 3 proceedings a dose of star power. But sifting through the nominations for the inaugural Screenies, as we’re calling them informally since, well, we can, there’s an unfortunate wake aspect to the television side of things. As in a funeral wake. Read more.

From Bill Brioux of TV Feeds My Family:

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