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In the news: TV Tonight
From the Toronto Star, items on the Junos, The Tudors, The Trojan Horse, and Experience the Rock:
- TV Tonight: Five Worth Watching
Bold, the digital channel once known as Country Canada, launches its uncut run of the sexy, 10-part period drama The Tudors with three episodes. Jonathan Rhys Myers is Henry VIII (Bold at 10). … At 8, Paul Gross’s two-part mini The Trojan Horse wraps up on CBC. Read more.
On the Air Farce season finale
From Bill Brioux of TV Feeds My Family:
Farce Goes Out With A Bang
“The Farce was with the entire studio audience last night as CBC’s Air Farce Live signed off with their 15th season finale. Eleven more episodes next fall and the troupe will pack their sets, wigs and wardrobe trunks and shuffle off to TV history.” Read more.- Farce’s Long Fade To Black Begins Tonight [Friday]
“Tonight marks the season finale of Air Farce Live (CBC, 8 p.m.). The hour-long special will be a little more special tonight given the surprise announcement this week that the series is bowing out next New Year’s Eve after one more half season of 11 more episodes.” Read more.
In the news: Trojan Horse part two airs Sunday
From Robert Cushman of the National Post:
Ah, the North Toronto desert: The Trojan Horse offers complex political intrigue
“Our subject is Gross hypocrisy. I mean that in the nicest way. In Slings and Arrows, Paul Gross played a decent and talented artist haunted by the suspicion that he was a fraud. In The Trojan Horse, the new two-part thriller on CBC, he’s a politician whose idealism masks unscrupulous ambition: the same persona turned inside out.” Read more.
In the news: Life with Derek on DVD
From Mediacaster Magazine:
- Kids’ Show Gets DVD Distribution Deal
“KOCH Vision will distribute DVDs of the first three seasons, totaling 52 half-hour episodes, in North America in Q4 2008. Program Partners, Shaftesbury’s U.S. representative on drama series ReGenesis and The Listener, concluded the Life with Derek deal with KOCH Vision.” Read more.