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Cycle 3 of Canada’s Next Top Model announced

From a media release:

CTV Begins Search for CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL

  • Cycle 3 of Gemini Award-winning Reality Series to air on Canada’s No. 1 Network
  • Visit www.model.ctv.ca to Download Full Application Kit and Apply Online

CTV announced today it is looking for CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL. Recruitment starts today for competitors for the third cycle of the 2007 Gemini winner for Best Reality Program or Series, which will air
for the first time on CTV in 2009. In a program first, CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL hopefuls have the option of submitting their application packages online at the series’ all-new website, model.ctv.ca. Applications are being received now through December 22, 2008. Thousands will apply, but only 10 women will compete on-air for an incredible grand prize that includes a $100,000 beauty contract.

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In the news: Snowboarders in reality-drama series

From Bill Harris of Sun Media:

  • Reality TV snow job
    ” MTV Presents: Summer Sessions is a new, hour-long reality-drama that debuts tonight, fittingly on MTV. It follows the exploits of Canada’s national snowboarding team during a summer training camp in Whistler, B.C., and serves as a prequel to an upcoming reality-drama snowboard series called Over the Bolts, which is filming this month and will air next year.” Read more.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money shooting now

From a media release:

START OF PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON WHIZBANG FILMS’ GRIPPING SERIES’ PILOT LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY

  • Starring Luke Kirby, Clark Johnson and Caroline Cave and Executive Produced by Paul Gross, Frank Siracusa, & Malcolm MacRury

Whizbang Films, in a partnership with Canwest, announced today that production has begun on Lawyers, Guns & Money, shooting in Hamilton, Ontario, through November 11, 2008.

The pilot follows Jimmy Burns, a young claims adjuster for a faceless, bottom-line corporation who maneuvers his way around insurance scams and the criminal underworld as he tries to escape his past and make a better life on the gritty post industrial streets of Hamilton.

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Ratings last week

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family, with ratings for Mercer, Dragon’s Den, The Border, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Tudors, Heartland, Air Farce, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Sophie, The Guard, So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Corner Gas and Degrassi:

  • Last Week: Mercer’s Back On Top
    “He shoots, he scores: last week’s Rick Mercer Report topped all CBC prime time shows with 1,114,000 viewers, outdrawing even Saturday night staple Hockey Night in Canada (1,021,000).” Read more.
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