From Alisha Grauso of Film School Rejects:
Wynonna Earp Brings The Casual Feminism We So Need On TV Right Now
If you’re not watching it, you need to remedy this and catch up — because it’s quietly been one of the best new shows of the season, if not one of the best shows out there, period. And it’s built itself upon something we’ve sorely needed on television for a while now: casual feminism. Continue reading.
From Sean Craig of the Financial Post:
Canada Media Fund CEO fires back at CanCon critics, says it’s given ‘a pride of place at home’
Last week was not the best week for the Canadian Content regime. A report from the non-partisan C. D. Howe Institute argued that CanCon quotas should be abolished, foreign ownership restrictions lifted and that regulations which require cable providers to spend fixed amounts on content should be replaced with direct subsidies from the government. Continue reading.
From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:
Will CTV’s new morning show be ‘Canada AM: The Next Generation’?
t’s always a wrench when a long-running series or a favourite TV star says goodbye. Viewers who grew up with David Letterman still miss him a year after his 33-year late night stint ended. Michael Strahan caused a kerfuffle last month after bolting from “Live with Kelly & Michael” after just four years. When “The Simpsons” finally go, two or three generations of fans will have a cow. Continue reading.
From a media release:
Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Android! Smash Hit Series DARK MATTER Returns July 1, Exclusively on Space
Space’s most-watched new series DARK MATTER returns with 13, new one-hour episodes when Season 2 premieres Friday, July 1 at 10 p.m. ET. Created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, executive producers and writers of the STARGATE franchise, the original Canadian series stars Marc Bendavid as One; Melissa O’Neil as Two; Anthony Lemke as Three; Alex Mallari Jr. as Four; Jodelle Ferland as Five; Roger Cross as Six; and Zoie Palmer as The Android. Season 1 of DARK MATTER experienced explosive ratings with 520,000 average viewers tuning in Fridays at 10 p.m. ET, making Space the most-watched specialty network in the timeslot for all key adult demos.
DARK MATTER navigates through a fragmented crew aboard a derelict spaceship, the Raza, with no memory of how they got there. Facing threats at every turn, they work together to survive a voyage fueled by vengeance, betrayal, and hidden secrets. Season 2 finds the crew of the Raza embroiled in an intergalactic conspiracy, seeking a mysterious device that may hold the key to victory in a looming all-out corporate war.
As previously announced, joining the DARK MATTER crew this season is Melanie Liburd (GAME OF THRONES) as Nyx, an ex-con with killer instincts and Shaun Sipos (MELROSE PLACE), a world-class surgeon with a dark past. Also boarding the Raza is star of iconic cult classic Run Lola Run, Franka Potente, who guest-stars as Commander Shaddick, a cool, calculated force of nature who’s hell-bent on making things difficult for the Raza crew.
Throughout its first season run, DARK MATTER was the most-watched new series on Canadian entertainment specialty channels. For those who missed the first run, Space takes a quantum leap to the beginning of it all with a Season 1 marathon beginning at 8 a.m. ET on Friday, July 1. Making for an all-Canadian Canada Day double play, the DARK MATTER marathon leads into the Season 2 premiere of Space original series, KILLJOYS at 9 p.m. ET, followed by DARK MATTER Season 2 debut at 10 p.m. ET.
In the Season 2 premiere episode “Welcome To Your New Home†(Friday, July 1 at 10 p.m. ET), the crew of the Raza have been betrayed by one of their own, with a motivation that questions everyone’s loyalties. The rest of the crew find themselves incarcerated in the notorious Hyperion-8 Detention Facility where they must deal with dangerous fellow inmates a corrupt Warden, and corporate agenda that threatens their lives.
Developed with Prodigy Pictures (LOST GIRL), executive producers for DARK MATTER are Jay Firestone (LOST GIRL), creators Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, and Vanessa Piazza (LOST GIRL).
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From Victoria Ahearn of the Globe and Mail:
Tears, hugs and smiles as Canada AM hosts say goodbye
There were some farewell tears but for the most part, the hosts of “Canada AM†kept the mood upbeat and by-the-book on Friday as the venerable show aired for the last time. A day after the unexpected announcement that CTV would be abruptly cancelling the show after 43 seasons, co-hosts Beverly Thomson, Marci Ien and Jeff Hutcheson greeted viewers with smiles and only briefly acknowledged the show’s fate before getting straight into the day’s headlines. Continue reading.
