CBC announces returning shows

DESPITE CHALLENGES, CBC TV ANNOUNCES A STRONG ROSTER OF CANADIAN SHOWS FOR THE 2012-13 SEASON

April 19, 2012 – Buoyed by very strong ratings last season, CBC Television today announced that 14 Canadian favourites will be returning for the 2012-13 season. ARCTIC AIR, the hit show which debuted to the largest audience for a drama in 15 years, will fly high again; MR D. will be back in class for a second season; and established prime time favourites will return to the lineup.

New programming includes MURDOCH MYSTERIES, produced by Shaftesbury Films; crime drama CRACKED produced by White Pine Pictures; historical drama TITANIC: BLOOD AND STEEL from the De Angelis Group (and the team behind CAMELOT and THE TUDORS) and OVER THE RAINBOW – the live competition search for theatre’s newest Dorothy produced by Temple Street Productions in association with Mirvish Productions.

The list of returning prime time shows is:

22 Minutes
Arctic Air
Doc Zone
Dragons’ Den
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
Heartland
Marketplace
Mr. D
Republic of Doyle
The Big Decision
the fifth estate
The Nature of Things
The Rick Mercer Report
The Ron James Show

Full details plus information on specials planned for 2012-13 will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Eat St. returns May 9 on Food Network Canada

From a media release:

Eat St. returns May 9   at 10pm ET/PT with two new back-to-back episodes on Food Network Canada

Get ready for a mouth-watering ride as “Eat St.” season three serves up delicious delights from 60 new street food vendors in 20 different cities including, for the first time on the series, vendors from Toronto and Calgary. This season features crazy new items like the Boss Hog, a habanero jelly and pork shoulder doughnut in Austin, Texas, deep fried cupcakes and cake-filled milkshakes in Miami, Florida, and a whopping three patty Whole Truck burger with optional cheese curds in Calgary. This season “Eat St.” also gets the dish on street cuisine in London with a one-hour UK special. Plus, the improved Eat St. App – available on iTunes – continues to please food lovers with more than 300,000 downloads to date.

Produced by Vancouver-based Paperny Entertainment and directed by Peter Waal, “Eat St.” season three premieres Wed., May 9 with a double helping of episodes at 10pm ET/PT and 10:30pm ET/PT on Food Network Canada. 

Each episode of “Eat St.” takes viewers behind the counter and into the heart of street food by showcasing four different street food vendors. This season explores every type of street cuisine imaginable – from Portland’s meat-tastic Pork Hammer sandwich stuffed with ham, bacon and sausage, to the Pnut Butter Bar in Los Angeles, which dishes up an Elvis-inspired concoction of bacon, bananas and peanut butter, to deep fried Cajun spice battered chicken and honey-butter doughnuts in Austin, Texas. Cities featured this year include Vancouver, Miami, Cleveland, Nashville, Seattle, and Washington DC, to name a few. Canadian comedian James Cunningham returns to host “Eat St.” season three.

Hungry viewers can take the street food experience in their pocket with the updated Eat St. App, which uses GPS to locate nearby food trucks. The redesigned App allows users to build a personal profile, link with their Facebook and Twitter accounts, gain points by taking photos, add tips and rate dishes, as well as search for and review vendors. The new version of the App is more community-driven, as users input new cart details and correct existing information, increasing the App’s accuracy. Vendors can also create a profile for their food cart, post recipes and menus, offer special deals and discounts, and update their location regularly. The iPhone App has been downloaded over 300,000 times and is available on iTunes. It can also be accessed at www.EatStApp.com. The Eat St. App is a collaboration between Paperny Entertainment and Invoke Media.  · 

Episode 1: Deli-icious Delights – Wed., May 9 at 10pm ET/PT
Season three’s first stop is Caplansky’s, a Jewish deli truck out of Toronto, Ontario, serving up classics with a twist such as the WZE Sandwich, featuring grilled kosher-style salami, schmaltz-laced chopped liver, red onions and Russian honey mustard all in a mini challah bun. Next, things cool down at the Lake Street Creamery in Los Angeles, California, where they dish out deliciously unique ice cream flavours including Homemade Donut and Earl Grey Tea. Next “Eat St.” rocks up in Nashville, Tennessee, for some original Mexican gourmet at the Yayo’s OMG truck. Topping off this episode is Gourdough’s truck in Austin, Texas, where they take doughnuts to a whole new level with offerings such as the Porkey’s, a doughnut injected with Jalapeño jelly and topped with cream cheese and Canadian bacon.        

Episode 2: Global Gastronomy – Wed., May 9 at 10:30pm ET/PT
First up is Cleveland, Ohio to meet the Dim and Den Sum truck for some tasty Asian-American comfort food. Next is Alley Burger in Calgary, Alberta, where “Top Chef Canada” competitor Connie DeSousa’s truck serves up some not-so-secret alley delights that include the three patty wonder known as the Whole Truck Burger. After that, “Eat St.” treks across the Atlantic to visit London, England, for a spicy Indian mouthful at a cart called Everybody LoveLove Jhal Muri Express. And finally, it is over to Tampa Bay, Florida, to the Wicked ‘Wiches truck for the greatest – and most heart-stopping – things on sliced bread.

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Tiny Plastic Men and Truckstop Bloodsuckers in production

From a media release:

Mosaic Entertainment in production on Tiny Plastic Men and Truckstop Bloodsuckers

Mosaic Entertainment has launched production on the first season of Tiny Plastic Men, a new comedy television series for the national Pay TV broadcaster Super Channel. The innovative new series combines sitcom and sketch comedy in one neat package and kicks off with a wild and crazy first season featuring an orangutan, a spoiled celebrity socialite and her dog, a faked moon landing, and an unconventional Japanese board game.

Flying high off their whopping 12 Alberta Film and Television Rosie nominations for the third season of CAUTION: May Contain Nuts, Mosaic is launching principal photography on this new series while also prepping to shoot a comedy horror series for BITE immediately after.

Produced by Mosaic Entertainment, Tiny Plastic Men is a dramatic series about three young men working hard and playing even harder as Toy Testers in the basement of “Gottfried Brothers Toys and Trains Co.” As they play in their weird world of toys, their boyish imaginations take them into fantasy sketches where all their biggest nerd fantasies come true.

Nominated for their comedic writing on Seasons 2 and 3 of CAUTION: May Contain Nuts, Matt Alden Dykes and Mark Meer are back as writers and stars of this comedy madness. Joining the Tiny Plastic Men trio of writer-stars is award-winning head writer, Chris Craddock—who recently earned rave reviews for his one-man theatre production, Moving Along. The three writers spark like a pack of dynamite behind and in front of the camera. Rounding out the hilarious cast are improv funny guy Jesse Gervais, theatrical gem Belinda Cornish, Canadian classic John B. Lowe, and a whole host of special guests including former NHL fan favourite, Georges Laraque. Tiny Plastic Men is set to air on Super Channel in the fall of 2012.

While filming Tiny Plastic Men, the folks at Mosaic Entertainment are also in preparations to follow up the shoot with another production. This time it’s a short form TV series and feature film for the national comedy broadcaster BITE called Truckstop Bloodsuckers, a dark comedy that goes for the jugular—literally. In this comedy horror set in a truck stop diner in small-town Alberta, two vampires are passing themselves off as ordinary waitresses. That is, until a gang of tough drug dealers drop in for some pie and stumble upon their secret. Truckstop Bloodsuckers is a seriously tasty dark comedy, where the killers are the good guys, and some jobs suck more than others.

Creators Lindsey McNeill (Head Writer) and Galen Pendleton (Director) came up with the idea while working together on the third instalment of local Nightmare Island film series, Rise of the Blood Queen. With Lindsey’s acting and writing experience in horror films and Galen’s work on CAUTION: May Contain Nuts, the pair have quickly become an irresistible horror-comedy machine and Mosaic Entertainment is excited to bring this latest joint project to life. Truckstop Bloodsuckers begins filming May 7, 2012 and is set to hit BITE and www.bite.ca this summer.

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Canadian Cinema Editors Award nominees announced

From a media release – see full list here (I’m including TV only):

CANADIAN CINEMA EDITORS ANNOUNCE 2012 AWARD NOMINEES

The Canadian Cinema Editors is honoured to announce the nominees for the 2012 C.C.E. Awards, to be held on May 17th at The Capitol Event Theatre in Toronto. The C.C.E. Awards is the largest event hosted by the organization, focusing on the significance of post-production in cinema.

Best Editing in Long Form Television Series (1 hr. drama, comedy, family program):
Teresa De Luca, C.C.E.  -  Combat Hospital, ep110  “Reason to Believe”
Teresa De Luca, C.C.E.  -  Bomb Girls, ep102  “Misfires”
Vesna Svilanovic  -  Murdoch Mysteries, ep413  “Murdoch in Wonderland”
Wendy Hallam Martin, C.C.E.  -  The Borgias, ep107  “Death, on a Pale Horse”
Gareth C. Scales, C.C.E.  -  Flashpoint, ep417  “Priority of Life”

Best Editing in Television Movie or Mini-Series
Lisa Binkley, C.C.E.  -  Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story
Mike Lee, C.C.E.  -  Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story 2
Ron Wisman, Sr, C.C.E.  -  Committed
Don Cassidy, C.C.E.  -  The Kennedys Ep 4
David B. Thompson, C.C.E.  -  The Kennedys Ep 7
 
Best Editing in 1/2 hour Broadcast Short Form (under 30 min.)
Matthew Hannam  -  Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays  Ep 4  “Sleeping with People”
Craig Webster  -  Less Than Kind, Ep 301 “Fugue State”
Jay Tipping  -  Picnicface  Ep 106  “Storybook”
Gordon Thorne  -  Degrassi: The Next Generation   Ep 1107  “Cry Me a River, Part 2”
Brigitte Rabazo  -  Todd & the Pure Book of Evil  Ep 206 “Fisting Fantasy”

Best Editing in Documentary
Kathryn Dickson  -  “Fuelled By Passion: The Return of the Jets”
Roslyn Kaloo  -  “The Mystery of Mazo de La Roche”
Michele Hozer, C.C.E.  -  “West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thompson”
James Blokland  -  “Who’s Sorry Now”
Nick Hector, C.C.E.  -  “Wiebo’s War”
 
Best Editing in Lifestyle/Reality
Jonathan Dowler  -  Undercover Boss, Ep 1003 “1-800 GOT JUNK”
Todd Hallam  -   From Spain with Love, Ep 1002 “Paella: Tradition in a Pan”
Robert Kraus  -   From Spain With Love, Ep 1001 “Basque Country”
Robert Ruzic  -   Fanboy Confessional,  Ep 102 “The Steampunk Edition”
Pete Watson -   Amalfi Getaway”, Ep 101 “Limone ”

Best Editing in Animation
Annellie Samuels  -  Producing Parker, Ep 126 “Parker Prophecies”
Annellie Samuels  -  Producing Parker, Ep 125 “Real Men Eat Parker”
Dan Lee  & Robert Henry  -  Sidekick, Ep 31 “Fortress of Maxumtude”
Kurt Skyers  & Robert Henry   -  Scaredy Squirrel, Ep 22 “Perfect Pickle / Goat Police”
Daniel Palmer  -  Dino Dan  “Where the Dinosaurs Are”

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