Is more Anne of Green Gables a good thing?

From Leah McLaren of the Globe and Mail:

Red-haired Anne returns. Is that a good thing?
It was not without curiosity, then, that I read this week that the granddaughter of Lucy Maud herself, Kate MacDonald Butler, has inked a deal with Toronto-based Breakthrough Entertainment to make a new Anne series for television. She wasnâ€™t able to do so previously because of a prolonged legal battle she and her family had been waging against Sullivan Productions, the production company headed by Kevin Sullivan that originally brought Canadaâ€™s favourite Victorian orphan to the screen. As she recently told the media, â€œI was bound by other contractual arrangements and couldnâ€™t really move forward (with the new project). But those arrangements have now been terminated.â€ Read more.

Life lessons from Real Housewives of Vancouver

From Marsha Lederman of the Globe and Mail:

10 things Iâ€™ve learned from Real Housewives of Vancouver
Television can be an illuminating experience; the stories we watch are not mere opportunities of plot and spectacle, but reflections of ourselves, and the human plight. And so, we offer these lessons from The Real Housewives of Vancouver (season one): Read more.

From Eric Volmers of the Calgary Herald:

Little Mosque on the Prairieâ€™s legacy lives on
Eight or nine years ago, journalist and filmmaker Zarqa Nawaz sat on one of the park benches outside the majestic Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel and pitched her idea to a producer. The show? A sitcom about a small Saskatchewan townâ€™s comedic dealings with a new mosque and its liberal-leaning imam. Read more.

From Andrew Ryan of the Globe and Mail:

TV: Five shows worth watching tonight
The Listener (CTV, 10 p.m. ET/PT) For all the kudos and critical praise showered on homegrown TV dramas like Flashpoint and Republic of Doyle, this series remains the success story of Canadian television. Recently returned for its third season, the show finds fans wherever CTV puts it and routinely garners a viewing audience in the million-viewer range. Read more.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

The Brioux Report: Wallenda walks over Stanley
Canadian-made fare like The Listener, Saving Hope and Continuum thrived. Finally, the MMVAskept a lot of 13 year old girls off the streets. Hereâ€™s how all it all played out across Canada in prime time among adults 2+ the week of June 11 to 18 according to overnight estimates: Read more.