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Kim's Convenience

Link: In Kim’s Convenience, Canada’s first Asian sitcom family finds voice

From Grace Lee of NBC News:

Link: In Kim’s Convenience, Canada’s first Asian sitcom family finds voice
When Ins Choi found himself playwriting for an Asian-Canadian theater company, he didn’t have to look far for source material. For “Kim’s Convenience,” Choi found inspiration in his experiences growing up in Canada. The play was adapted into a television show and became a breakthrough for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — the country’s national public broadcaster — premiering Canada’s first Asian leads in a TV sitcom in October. Continue reading.

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Reality, Lifestyle & Documentary

Link: Vital Bonds will challenge you

From Jim Bawden:

Link: Vital Bonds will challenge you
I had just about determined I would not watch Vital Bonds, CBC-TV’s new documentary on organ donors.

That’s because I had a dear friend who did not long survive his heart transplant and after a decade ago  memory is still painful to me. Then curiosity got the best of me and I thought I’d watch the first 10 minutes.

Well, the next thing I realized was I’d watched the entire hour –it’s that well made, an often brilliant pastiche of interviews with survivors and donors’ families stitched in with mini-profiles of the doctors and nurses who seem to toil around the clock. Continue reading.

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Kim's Convenience

Link: Taking Stock Of TV’s ‘Kim’s Convenience’

From D.K. Latta of the Huffington Post:

Link: Taking Stock Of TV’s ‘Kim’s Convenience’
One can quibble whether the series is truly the first Canadian series to feature a predominantly Asian cast. It was preceded by Omni TV’s crime drama, Blood and Water (which also featured Liu as the son of immigrants), and some years earlier by the memorable CBC cops n’ mobsters mini-series, Dragon Boys. But certainly by virtue of being on a major network, an open-ended format, and the populist idiom of a sitcom, Kim’s Convenience is hoping to put a pin in the map of Canada’s evolving pop cultural landscape. Continue reading.

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Featured, Murdoch Mysteries, Podcast

TV Eh B Cs podcast 54 — A Long Walk Off a Murdoch

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On Saturday, Oct. 1, Greg David of TV, Eh? moderated a series of panels during Unlock the Mysteries of Murdoch: The Ultimate Inside conference, held in CBC’s headquarters in downtown Toronto. Here is the third of three sessions we recorded, with Murdoch Mysteries cast members Kristian Bruun, Yannick Bisson, Mouna Traoré, Hélène Joy, Jonny Harris, Arwen Humphreys, Thomas Craig and showrunner Peter Mitchell.

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