From Victoria Ahearn of the Canadian Press:

• Former Toronto police union head says cop series The Bridge is fictional
  “In the new cop series The Bridge, debuting Friday on CTV and CBS, Aaron Douglas plays a tough police officer turned union head battling top brass and an ‘old boys’ network’ as he cleans up the force. Though the storylines are inspired by the insights of outspoken former Toronto police union head Craig Bromell, the events and characters are purely fictional, he insists.” Read more.

From Joshua Ostroff of Eye Weekly:

• Who watches out for the watchmen?
  “The Bridge leads to grey areas behind the thin blue line. ” Read more.

From Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun:

• From street cop to TV producer
  “‘Bully Bromell’s’ scripted antics and continuous blurred blue line was the stuff of movies and those same politicians, who spent thousands of dollars looking for bugs in their offices, will be in front of their TVs on CTV Friday at 9 pm to watch this two-hour premier movie because ‘The Craig Bromell Show’ continues in the form of a hot-looking new cop drama called The Bridge.” Read more.

From Glen Schaeffer of the Vancouver Sun:

• The Bridge inspired by former police union leader
  “A scene in the first episode of the new Toronto-set TV drama The Bridge has a group of police officers emptying their guns into a fleeing pickup truck, after which one of them jokes blackly with investigators probing the shooting. ‘Americans love that,’ says Vancouver actor Aaron Douglas, who stars in the show as that scene’s joker, a uniformed cop and police union leader named Frank Leo. ‘I’ve shown the pilot to friends, a couple of cops, and they think that’s just the best scene in the show.'” Read more.

From Alex Strachan of Canwest:

• Moments of real intensity
  “It’s an open question, though, how many of those viewers will stay in the following weeks. Because the sad truth is that, while there are moments of real intensity– the opening scene, for starters — The Bridge looks and feels very much like a work in progress. The Bridge is well worth a look.” Read more.