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Q’s contest: What would you like to see on Canadian TV?

From CBC:

  • The Q Contest: What would you like to see on Canadian TV?
    “Post your best pitch for a new Canadian TV show… in 25 words or less. (Maybe a show about talking dolphins in the Vancouver aquarium? Gordon Pinsent in Three’s Company-style sitcom? Pitch away!) We’ll award points for humour, and catchy show titles. The best pitch will win a small swag collection, and the admiration of the nation. Pitch now, and pitch often!” Read more and enter here.
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APTN’s Cashing In starts production on 3rd season

From a media release:

CASHING IN ANNOUNCES START OF PRODUCTION: THIRD SEASON OF TV DRAMA UNDERWAY

Production recently began on the third season of Cashing In, the popular television series that airs on APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network).

ABOUT THE SERIES

Through elaborate love triangles, merry mix-ups and ever-twisting plot lines, Cashing In exposes the high-stakes, winner-takes-all world of First Nations gaming. The half-hour drama is set on the fictional Stonewalker First Nation in Southern Manitoba. Nestled comfortably beside an affluent beach community, the North Beach Casino is a successful gaming facility jam-packed with sharp executives, smooth dealers and rising stars. In other words: sex, money and power.

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TV, eh? podcast episode 8 – So You Think We Can Podcast Canada

Episode 8: Listen or download here or subscribe via iTunes or with any other program via the TV, Eh? feed

Anthony Marco and I give a rundown of September’s new Canadian shows, including Lost Girl, Todd & The Book of Pure Evil, Call Me Fitz, Men With Brooms and Shattered.

I rant about Global’s marketing department doing such a poor job of marketing Shattered in particular, their history of poor CanCon marketing, and their delusion that they have the only new Canadian show premiering this fall (hello, see above).

So You Think You Can Dance Canada guest judge Mary Murphy joins me for an interview to talk about the Top 22, what’s unique about the Canadian version of the show, her negotiations to come back full time on the US version, and more.

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