From Kate Taylor of the Globe and Mail:
From a media release:
SAVING HOPE Fever Rises to 1.6 Million Viewers for Episode 2 on CTV
SAVING HOPE’s temperature continues to rise. In its second week, SAVING HOPE’s audience grew 5% with total viewers (1.6 million) and an impressive 19% with A25-54 (639,000) compared to its series premiere last week. The episode also won its 9 p.m. timeslot nationally and in Toronto with total viewers and all key demos.
An encore presentation of SAVING HOPE’s second episode airs Sunday, June 17 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CTV and live on CTV Mobile (visit CTV.ca to confirm local broadcast listings). New episodes of SAVING HOPE and the original digital-only series ASK GAVIN are available on demand following the CTV television broadcast at CTV.ca/SavingHope, on the CTV App and the CTV Mobile Channel available on Bell Mobile TV.
In Episode 3 of SAVING HOPE (June 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CTV), titled “Blindness,” Alex (Erica Durance) is riding high after her comatose fiancé Charlie’s (Michael Shanks) hand moved. As she begins to mull taking time off to spend with her recovering fiancé, she is tasked with diagnosing a patient who already has several surgeries under his belt and whose mysterious symptoms don’t seem to add up. A roof collapse brings two brothers into the ER in critical condition – one of them beyond saving. The surviving brother’s leg has been crushed and if there’s any hope of him regaining function, Joel (Daniel Gillies) must perform a rare surgery that flies in the face of Dr. Dana Kinney’s (Wendy Crewson) policy to avoid high-risk and litigation at all costs.
Starring Erica Durance (SMALLVILLE), Michael Shanks (STARGATE ATLANTIS), Daniel Gillies (THE VAMPIRE DIARIES), Wendy Crewson (Away From Her), Huse Madhavji (CALL ME FITZ), Julia Taylor-Ross (ROOKIE BLUE), and Kristopher Turner (THE LISTENER), SAVING HOPE is from acclaimed Gemini award-winning producers Ilana Frank and David Wellington (THE ELEVENTH HOUR, WOULD BE KINGS, ROOKIE BLUE). Executive Producers and Showrunners are Morwyn Brebner (ROOKIE BLUE) and Aaron Martin (BEING ERICA). The series was created by Malcolm MacRury (CRASH AND BURN, REPUBLIC OF DOYLE) and Morwyn Brebner.
From Mark Leiren-Young of The Tyee:
Saving Hope, CTV – “Contactâ€
Dr. Alex Reid (Erica Durance) treats a young boy with mysterious symptoms while dealing with the arrival of Charlie’s (Michael Shanks) ex-wife. Elsewhere in the hospital, Joel (Daniel Gillies) and Maggie (Julia TaylorRoss) try to help a patient who refuses life-saving treatment on religious grounds. Plus, Dr. Dana Kinney (Wendy Crewson) scrubs in as interim Chief of Surgery and challenges Alex on her ability to be a doctor.
From a media release:
TRANSPORTER- THE SERIES SHIFTS INTO ACTION. HIGH-PERFORMANCE SERIES RESUMES FILMING IN CANADA & FRANCE.
QVF Inc. announced today that the 12-part action series, Transporter-The Series, is back in gear and filming in Toronto as of May 28, 2012. The series will shoot in Canada until July 13, 2012 and continue in France until August 10,2012.
Director and producer Brad Turner (Hawaii Five-0, 24) and producer Tim Lea (FlashForward, Lie to Me) join the series as showrunners, with remaining episodes to be directed by Turner, TJ Scott (Spartacus: Blood and Sand) and George Mihalka (King, The Firm).
Chris Vance (Prison Break) returns to the driver seat of his Audi and is joined by Andrea Osvart (Duplicity), Francois Berléand (The Transporter 1, 2, 3), Delphine Chanéac (Splice) and Charly Hübner (The Lives of Others).
Series Description:
Frank Martin is The Transporter. You want something moved, moved fast, and moved right, you getFrank Martin. He carries anything, anywhere, no questions asked. Ex-Special Forces, he’s acquired the driving, fighting and survival skills to make the delivery on schedule, and he neverquits until the package is where it’s supposed to be.
From Paris and Berlin to Geneva, New York and points beyond – dropoffs and pickups, freight yards and luxury hotels, chalets, warehouses, nightclubs and finally to his beautifulhome on the shores of the Mediterranean: this is the life of The Transporter.
Transporter- The Series is produced by Canadian Susan Murdoch (Dan for Mayor) for QVF Inc. and Klaus Zimmermann (Borgias) for Atlantique Productions. Showrunners Tim Lea (FlashForward, Lie to Me), and Brad Turner (24, Homeland, Hawaii Five-0) are joined by Executive Producers Fred Fuchs (Camelot) and Takis Candilis alongside franchise co-creator Luc Besson.
Transporter-The Series is a France/Canada international treaty co-production produced by Atlantique Productions SA and QVF Inc. in association with broadcast partners The Movie Network and MovieCentral as well as M6 (France), RTL (Germany), and HBO/Cinemax (US).