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Todd & the Book of Pure Evil premieres Sept 29 on Space

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todd1 gallery 0 183SPACE Raises Hell with Premiere of Original Series TODD & THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL, Sept. 29

  • Jason Mewes goes back to school as Jimmy the Janitor
  • SPACE launches series with sneak peek at Toronto’s Fan Expo convention, Aug. 28
  • INNERSPACE takes viewers behind the scenes with TODD & THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL Special, Sept. 22

For many teenagers, high school is hell. For students at Crowley High, hell is in their high school. On Wednesday, Sept. 29 SPACE debuts its bloody good, all-new, original scripted series, TODD & THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL with two, back-to-back episodes at 9 p.m. ET and 9:30 p.m. ET. A 13-episode, half-hour original SPACE spawn, TODD & THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL is a tip of the hat to 80s teen and horror flicks that is best described as Breakfast Club meets Evil Dead and a testament to the channel’s devotion to wicked programming. A week before the mayhem is unleashed, INNERSPACE plunges into the depths of hell with a TODD & THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL special, Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 9 p.m. ET. Viewers can relive the mayhem online at spacecast.com.

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New tonight: So You Think You Can Dance Canada – Montreal auditions

dsc 0090(1)9 p.m. – SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA – NEW TWO-HOUR EPISODE

It’s the last stop during the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA audition tour as Canadians have one more shot to prove they are the best dancers during the Montreal auditions. Judges Jean Marc Genereux, Tré Armstrong and Luther Brown are joined by guest judge Mia Michaels.

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Call Me Fitz

Jason Priestley stars as Call Me Fitz

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CallMeFitzJason Priestley stars as an unsavoury car salesman with a conscience in Call Me Fitz, a new Canadian original comedy on HBO Canada

  • New Canadian original series from Movie Central and The Movie Network premieres Sunday, September 19 at 8 p.m. ET/MT on HBO Canada
  • Series premieres with back-to-back half-hour episodes leading into the debut of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire

Some men are born sleazy, some achieve sleaziness, and then there’s Richard “Fitz” Fitzpatrick. Call Me Fitz, starring Jason Priestley as Richard “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, is a biting, dark comedy about a morally bankrupt yet charismatic used-car salesman who is forced to become business partners with his inner conscience. The series premieres Sunday, September 19 at 8 p.m. ET/MT with back-to-back episodes on HBO Canada, a multiplex channel of Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada) and Astral’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada).

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Flashpoint, Podcast, Rookie Blue

TV, eh? podcast episode 7 – A rats’ nest of ego, bickering, backstabbing, rumour and sour dislike

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Episode 7: Listen or download here or subscribe via iTunes or with any other program via the TV, Eh? feed

It’s a ranty podcast with Anthony Marco and I appalled at CBC’s 3D documentary on the Queen and accompanying distribution of 3D glasses and John Doyle’s fabulous tear on Stursberg’s departure: “The CBC is a bizarre institution, a rats’ nest of ego, bickering, backstabbing, rumour and sour dislike of anyone who either has power inside CBC, or anyone or anything that isn’t part of the CBC.”

A clip of The Kids in the Hall talking about downloading their own show from bittorrent leads to even more CBC bashing. We even disparage a show neither one of us has seen yet: So You Think You Can Dance Canada.

And then I lay into the Canadian TV publicity machine for omitting mention of writers while listing directors and production executives, and the Writers Guild of Canada for letting it happen.

And stick around for a great chat with funny, opinionated TV writer/producer Adam Barken (Flashpoint, Rookie Blue, Shattered), one of Playback‘s “10 to Watch” and an observer of the State of the Canadian TV Industry. He also talks about the art and science of writing for TV, and how “they’re making it up as they go along” is actually a compliment.

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