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Arctic Air

Pascale Hutton, from Sanctuary to Arctic Air

From Lorne Eckersley of the Creston Valley Advance:

  • Creston’s Pascale Hutton starring in CBC series, Part 2
    For four years, she has had a recurring guest role in the Canadian television series Sanctuary, appearing in about half the episodes. The sanctuary is a place in the future that provides a safe home for “monsters”, characters who possess attributes that are key to the survival of the human race. Read more.
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Canada’s Greatest Know-It-All an “inspired idea”

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From Alex Strachan of Postmedia News:

  • TV Monday: Canada’s Greatest Know-It-All
    Canada’s Greatest Know-It-All, one of the more inspired reality-TV show ideas of the past millennium, opens with a flurry of I’m-smart-and-you’re-not remarks from “ordinary, everyday Canadians” — the show’s 10 finalists — who know everything about everything. “I get things done,” one young man says. “I have a degree in physics!” another cries. Read more.
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Dramas and Comedies, Lost Girl

David Winning directs Lost Girl

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From Eric Volmers of the Calgary Herald:

  • Calgary’s David Winning directs Lost Girl episode
    Winning, a veteran helmsman of sci-fi TV shows such as Earth: Final Conflict, Andromeda and Stargate: Alliance, directed Sunday’s episode of the Showcase hit Lost Girl. To get the job, however, he had to convince producers that he was on familiar ground. Winning thought he had his bases covered. But they were fairly specific. Vampires? Yes. Zombies? You bet. Killer wasps? They’re on the resume. But sex-starved demons who dress in leather? Read more.
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Bomb Girls, Dramas and Comedies

Bomb Girls’ lesbian “subtext blows right open”

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From riese of Autostraddle:

  • In Canadian TV Show “Bomb Girls,” It’s Women and Lesbians First
    Hey-o, did you read a lot of historical fiction as a child? Do you like tough women handling heavy machinery in pants and sometimes changing into skirts afterwards but sometimes just keeping the pants on? Do you like lesbians? Then you’ll LOVE Bomb Girls, a sometimes-cheesy show about Canadian women factory workers during World War II with heaps of feminist and homosexual content. You might also love the fancy slick interactive educational website, another high-production-value element of the show my Canadian girlfriend says is unique for Canadian-produced television. Read more.
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