From a media release:

THE MOVIE NETWORK AND MOVIE CENTRAL OFFER AN ONLINE, ON DEMAND AND IN-FLIGHT PREVIEW OF THE CANADIAN ORIGINAL SERIES BLOODLETTING & MIRACULOUS CURES

Beginning today, Astral Media’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada) are offering subscribers and non-subscribers alike numerous opportunities to catch a sneak preview the new Canadian original series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures leading up to its network premiere on Sunday, January 10, 2010, at 8 p.m. ET/MT on HBO Canada.

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The eight-part series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures premieres on HBO Canada January 10, with an online sneak peek starting December 22.  I have a copy of the award-winning Vincent Lam book it’s based on to give away, so comment or email to enter to win. (If you comment, please put your email in the email line; it won’t appear on the site.)

From a media release:

HBO Canada presents the Canadian original series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, a television adaption of Vincent Lam’s award-winning book

• New Canadian original series from The Movie Network and Movie Central premieres Sunday, January 10, 2010, at 8 p.m. ET / MT on HBO Canada
• Starring Shawn Ashmore, Mayko Nguyen and Byron Mann

HBO Canada, a multiplex channel of Astral Media’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada), presents the intertwining journeys of three young medical professionals as they navigate school, residency and their first years as doctors in the new Canadian original series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures. Based on the critically acclaimed, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning book by Vincent Lam, the eight-part drama will premiere on HBO Canada on Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 8 p.m. ET / MT.

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From the Canadian Television Fund:

• interacTVity, No. 8

From Cassandra Szklarski of the Canadian Press:

• TV turns to literary hits for newest prime-time series
  “The small screen similarly offers the greatest potential for Vincent Lam’s Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, said screenwriter and playwright Jason Sherman, who adapted the collection of stories for an eight-episode miniseries bound for The Movie Network and Movie Central early next year. Sherman wonders if the influx of literary inspiration is in any way driven by cable’s success with more sophisticated, layered TV dramas. ‘TV needs story,’ said Sherman, who has also adapted books for the stage and written for Citytv’s Murdoch Mysteries, based on a series of novels by Maureen Jennings.” Read more.

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