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In the news: The summer of Hugh Dillon

From Brian Gorman of the Brantford Expositor:

  • Hugh Dillon’s U. S. move helps conquer Canadian media
    “This has been the summer of Hugh Dillon on Canadian television. First, through the late spring and early summer, the Global Television Network was running Durham County, a very dark, very highly praised series about death and dysfunction in the suburbs, which starred Dillon as a troubled police detective.” Read more.
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In the news: Seven left on Canadian Idol

From Sarah Miller of the National Post:

From Sheri Block of CTV:

From Sarah Miller of the National Post:

  • Canadian Idol: Talking With Sebastian Pigott
    “Sebastian Pigott’s voice is a little hoarse, but there is no mistaking his enthusiasm the morning after he was the third member of the Top 10 to be eliminated from Canadian Idol. In fact when asked how he is, he says he’s ‘just golden.'” Read more.
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Upcoming episode: Flashpoint, CTV, July 31

From CTV:

Asking For Flowers

8Rebecca Kessfield (Chandra West, John from Cincinnati, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), speeds across town, praying under her breath. She can’t take it anymore, her little sister Sadie (Meredith Henderson, Shania: A Life in Eight Albums, Jumper) can’t take it anymore… bursting into a little house in the Beaches, she finds Sadie on the bathroom floor, kidney-punched, throwing up blood, a newborn baby crying in the bedroom. Problem is: Sadie’s abusive husband is a cop. He knows where to hit her so it doesn’t show, and he knows how to find her if she tries to leave… Enraged, Rebecca takes Pete’s (Kenneth Mitchell, Jericho, Odyssey 5) gun from a drawer and heads to Pete’s local cop bar. This is going to stop, and it’s going to stop tonight. When Rebecca takes Pete to his sailboat on the waterfront – the place he married her sister, the perfect place for a troubled cop to “commit suicide” – she has no idea that Ed, Jules, and the SRU are one step ahead of her, pulling out all the stops in a desperate effort to protect one of their own. But the sympathies of the SRU are going to come into conflict, when they discover their brother in arms is a vicious abuser of women.

Writer: Tassie Cameron

Director: Clark Johnson

Guest Stars: Chandra West (John from Cincinnati, I Now Pronounce You Chuck, Larry), Meredith Henderson (Shania: A Life in Eight Albums, Jumper) and Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho, Odyssey 5)

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In the news: Canada’s saner diet shows

From Kate Taylor of the Globe and Mail:

  • Diet shows that are hard to swallow
    “X-Weighted (Slice; 8 p.m.) is the veteran here, wrapping up its third season tonight with an episode devoted to Tammy, a former model and athlete turned home-daycare provider and mother of two who started to put on weight after she was sidelined by a bad car accident. In six months time, she wants to have lost 50 pounds and run a half-marathon. … It’s this kind of thing that makes newcomer Stuck (W, 9:30) stick out. The show has taken a refreshingly different approach – no competitions, no dramatic weigh-ins, just a group of seven women who feel stuck in their lives and who get together to enjoy supportive friendship and encourage each other to work out, try new sports and maybe eat better too.” Read more.
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