From a Devine Entertainment media release:

Devine Entertainment Corporation, capitalizing on the global distribution of award-winning original film and television content, has announced growing recognition by leading publications regarding the Company’s soon-to-premiere primetime television series, “Across the River to Motor City,” signaling further progress in Devine’s strategy to develop new films and television content to address untapped revenue opportunities in the entertainment marketplace.

Three of Canada’s leading newspapers, “The National Post,” “The Globe and Mail” and “The Toronto Star,” have reported on or reviewed Devine’s upcoming film-noir miniseries, “Across the River to Motor City.” The series, Devine’s first foray into the primetime television marketplace, is scheduled to premiere in November.

Photo credit: Russ Martin. Charlotte Sullivan and David Fox in Across the River to Motor City.

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Rob McKenzie of the National Post picks a Canadian show as #9 of the top 10 new fall shows:

• Top 10 new TV shows: No. 9, Across the River to Motor City
  “While half the tale is in Detroit, the other half lies across the river in Windsor, Ontario. It takes place not only in two cities and two countries but two eras: 1963, when private eye Ben Ford’s girlfriend disappeared on the day JFK died; and the present, when her body is belatedly found, forcing Ben, by now a vinegary old man, to deal with the past he lost and the present from which he is estranged.” Read more.

Sasha Ruiz as Ben Ford. Photo credit: Russ Martin.