Trailer Park Boys Rob Wells, John Paul Tremblay and Mike Smith will appear on Jimmy Kimmel tonight on Citytv and ABC (12:05 am).
Trailer Park Boys on Jimmy Kimmel tonight
Ratings: The Summit, Dragon’s Den, The Listener
From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:
- Summit Fails to Give CBC Much of a Boost
“Ratings for the CBC miniseries The Summit didn’t exactly hit any peaks last Sunday. Part One scored 415,000 viewers according to overnight BBM Canada estimates. Part Two of the political thriller, starring Bruce Greenwood as a defiant Canadian PM and Christopher Plummer as a prickly U.S. president, airs this Sunday.” Read more.
Interview with Flashpoint co-creators
From Alex Epstein at Complications Ensue:
- Morgenstern and Ellis on FLASHPOINT
“”We didn’t set out with the goal of making a border-crossing product. It was about the story. We were just curious: what is life like behind the ballistic shield? What is the messy, complicated, human thing that breaks your heart when you have to take someone’s life? This was our point of departure. This is what was keeping us up at night.” Read more.
In the news: Flashpoint game among Telefilm-funded projects
From Etan Vlessing of Media in Canada:
- Flashpoint gets its game on
“Many are seamless TV extensions, including Xenophile Media’s cross-platform Flashpoint Interactive game that enables players, as police recruits, to learn negotiating skills, rifle marksmanship and other techniques employed by the fictional Toronto SRU unit on the popular drama.” Read more.
YTV’s fall season
From a media release:
THAT’S SO WEIRD!
Premieres: Wednesday, September 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Produced by Halifax Film in association with YTV, That’s So Weird! is what happens when seven teens band together to save So Weird TV, a third rate television network, where the programming is even weirder than the name. So Weird TV airs commercial parodies, bizarre game shows and features regular guest appearances by celebrities such as Sean Astin and Michael Rosenbaum, athletes Matt Stajan and Jason Blake, as well as musicians, including Eva Avila.
HOW TO BE INDIE
Premieres: Friday, October 2 at 6:30 p.m.
Created by writer Vera Santamaria (Little Mosque on The Prairie), this half-hour live action comedy series is told through the eyes of 13-year-old Indira “Indie” played by Melinda Shankar (Degrassi: The Next Generation), as she tries to balance her immigrant family’s South Asian traditions and her Canadian lifestyle. But even with these challenges and the struggle of being a teenager, Indie and her best friend’s, Abi and Marlon, are determined to make eighth grade their year to shine. How to be Indie is produced by Heroic Film Company in association with YTV.