Upcoming series: Grand Star, Space, Sept. 22

September 20, 2007 Diane Wild

From a Spacce media release:

Cold as Ice! Earth falls into an Ice Age in the new Canadian series GRAND STAR

Airs Saturdays at 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT, beginning September 22 on SPACE

Based on a collection of novels from French novelist Georges J. Arnaud, comes the futuristic, action adventure Grand Star, premiering on SPACE Saturdays at 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT, beginning September 22. A series about human conflict, adventure and mystery, Grand Star investigates the psychological behaviour of mankind, the demand for justice and the social class gap.

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In the news: Intelligence back for second season

September 20, 2007 Diane Wild

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Sean Minogue of the Georgia Straight interviews Ian Tracey, Klea Scott, and Chris Haddock of CBC’s Intelligence:

Intelligence provides proof that crime pays
“Ian Tracey returns to the small screen in one of the fall TV season’s most highly anticipated dramas, and he thinks cops and crooks sometimes look at life the same way.” Read more.

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In the news: Mark McKinney

September 20, 2007 Diane Wild

David R. Guarino of the Bay Area Reporter interviews Mark McKinney, including mentions of Kids in the Hall, Robson Arms, and Slings and Arrows.

Not just another kid in the hall
“If it could be said that actor/comedian Mark McKinney has but one goal in life, it would be to make people laugh.” Read more.

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In the news: Jim Shaw’s peculiar obsession with The Trailer Park Boys

September 20, 2007 Diane Wild

John Doyle of the Globe and Mail defends The Trailer Park Boys against Jim Shaw’s rants:

Note to Jim Shaw: Leave the Trailer Park Boys alone
“During the initial flapdoodle over the CTF, Shaw, top honcho at Shaw Communications, cited Trailer Park Boys as a production initially funded by the CTF and took the view that funding the show was an outrage. Some of us were taken aback. Others laughed. Trailer Parks Boys is, after all, a hugely popular success for Canadian TV.” Read more.

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In the news: Canadian storytelling examined

September 19, 2007 Diane Wild

Todd Babiak of The Edmonton Journal uses St. Urbain’s Horseman to illustrate an attempt to move away from the weaknesses “screenwriting guru” Robert McKee sees in Canadian storytelling:

Lifting storytelling to new levels
“Basically, McKee said English-Canadian film and television is currently a wasteland. Literature and theatre aren’t doing so well either. Thanks to a combination of dark forces like the grant system, poetic prose, our fealty to all things French, cultural inferiority and a reflexive anti-Hollywoodism, we’re making ‘art’ instead of story.” Read more.