Start the New Year with a look at why all those work-out newbies are crowding your gym in January. Plus appearances by Panic Room’s Betty Hope (Cathy Jones) and everyone’s favourite sports fan, Raj Binder (Shaun Majumder).
New tonight: The LA Complex series premiere on CTV and MuchMusic – “Down in LA”
During the first episode of this sexy six-part, hour-long drama, Abby (Cassie Steele) is evicted, broke and desperate in Los Angeles, and finds a place to crash at “The Lux†motel in Hollywood, California. There, she meets a group of like-minded, displaced dreamers. After a series of missed opportunities, mishaps, and a broken-down vehicle, Abby starts to wonder if it’s time to go back to Toronto and give up her dreams, or if tomorrow will be her day? The series continues on MuchMusic.
LA Complex “bursts with energy”
From Alex Strachan of Postmedia News:
- Degrassi-like L.A. Complex has Canuck honesty
The L.A. Complex (MuchMusic, 9 p.m.), MuchMusic’s Degrassi: The Next Generation-style ensemble drama about Canadian newbies trying to make it in Tinseltown, practically bursts with energy in its hour-long opener. Read more.
This week in TV …
From Christopher Bird of Torontoist.com:
- Televisualist: Funnier and More Handsome Than Rob Schneider
Meanwhile, CTV gives us a “sneak peek†at their new show, The L.A. Complex, which is about Canadians who move to Los Angeles in order to make it big in show business. This show is some sort of elaborate joke, right? In order to make a show about Canadians, CTV sets it in L.A. and makes it about Canadians who can’t make it in Canada because the entertainment industry there is so desperately focused on leeching American content to reduce cost, so they head south? Is CTV just fucking with us at this point? Is that what they’re doing? Because it feels like that’s what they’re doing. (9 p.m.) Read more.
Interview: Adam Beach of Arctic Air
From Annette Bourdeau of the Huffington Post:
- Adam Beach Talks CBC’s ‘Arctic Air,’ His Girlfriend And TV In Canada
Adam Beach has plenty of things to be happy about these days. He got to work with Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig in last summer’s blockbuster “Cowboys & Aliens.” He enjoyed a stint as a popular guest star on “Combat Hospital.” And now he’s starring in “Arctic Air,” a show that he’s passionate about and also happened to lead him to his current girlfriend, co-star Leah Gibson. Read more.