Motive

Actor Roger Cross juggles Motive, Continuum and Arrow

From Glen Schaefer of The Province:

Actor cross skips between TV sets
Itâ€™s been a crazy 2012 for Vancouver actor Roger Cross. 2013 is shaping up as more of the same as he juggles work on no less than three TV series. Read more.

Multicam comedy among homegrown winter TV

From Cassandra Szklarski of the Canadian Press:

Citytv turns to homegrown U.S.-style multi-cam comedy for 2013 lineup
â€œCanada seems to have a great history â€¦ of childrenâ€™s programming and sketch comedy and dramas. But the sitcoms by-and-large either feel too broad maybe, for U.S. audiences, or too sketchy. Or fall somewhere in between a dramedy and a comedy. None of which by the way is bad â€” itâ€™s not a judgment â€” itâ€™s just, if they wanted us to go on after â€˜Scrubs,â€™ it didnâ€™t (work).â€ Read more.

From Entertainment Weekly:

‘Orphan Black’: See the first teaser trailer and key art
The show follows the story of a girl named Sarah (Maslany), who assumes the identity of a woman only to later learn the deceased is her clone. Sarah must then unravel a twisted and dark conspiracy â€” while also trying to stay alive. Read more.

From Bill Brioux of TV Feeds My Family:

Air Farce jets back for another year-ender
Looking for what to watch this New Year’s Eve? Taped in Toronto earlier this month, the 20th annual Air Farce New Yearâ€™s Eve special (8 p.m. ET, CBC) goes Stephen Harper Style. A slimmed-down Craig Lauzon goes Gangnan as Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a â€œFarce Filmsâ€ sketch. The special features several guest stars, including Team Canada goal scorer Paul Henderson, plus George Stroumbuolopoulos, Yannick Bisson (Murdoch Mysteries) and Olympic trampoline champion Rosie MacLennan. Read more.

From Kate Taylor of the Globe and Mail:

Murdoch Mysteries takes the stuffing out of period drama
The props department on the set of the TV series Murdoch Mysteries is a busy place: Last season, property master Craig Grant stuck a recumbent bike inside a Thule cargo carrier to create a purely fictional electric car. This season he turned an ultra-light plane into something the Wright brothers might have flown, recreated the first fountain pens that used refillable cartridges and built an early version of a metal detector. Read more.