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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Haven renewed for fourth season
From a media release:
SHOWCASE RENEWS SUPERNATURAL SERIES HAVEN FOR FOURTH SEASON WITH 13 NEW EPISODES
- Season Three Currently Airs Fridays at 9pm ET/PT
Showcase’s fan favourite series, Haven, will return for a fourth season of 13 new episodes in 2013. Canadians can watch the season three finale on December 21 on Showcase.
Haven, based on the novella The Colorado Kid from renowned author Stephen King, follows former FBI agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose), who becomes a cop in the small town of Haven, Maine, and soon discovers the town’s many secrets, which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past. This season the story behind those secrets is finally revealed and all of Audrey’s questions will be answered leading up to Haven’s shocking season three finale.
From leading independent studio Entertainment One (eOne), Haven is co-commissioned by Shaw Media in Canada and globally via Universal Networks International (UNI).
The creative team behind Haven includes executive producers John Morayniss (Rookie Blue, Hell on Wheels) from eOne Television and David MacLeod (Legends of the Fall, The Ray Bradbury Theater) of Big Motion Pictures, who are joined by Lloyd Segan, Shawn Piller, Scott Shepherd (Stephen King’s The Dead Zone, Greek) of Piller/Segan/Shepherd and Matt McGuinness (Journeyman, Dark Blue) as well as Sam Ernst & Jim Dunn (Stephen King’s The Dead Zone), who also developed the series.
Haven is produced by Entertainment One and Big Motion Pictures in association with Piller/Segan/Shepherd and airs on Showcase in Canada, Syfy in the U.S. and internationally on Universal Networks International’s channels. Entertainment One controls the worldwide distribution rights to the one-hour series and concluded a deal with Germany’s Tele München Group (TMG) for the television rights in Continental Europe.
Over the Rainbow finalist rejects reality show manipulation
From Joel Rubinoff of the Toronto Star:
- Over the Rainbow finalist rejects show’s competitive storyline
Instead of the snarky, girl-on-girl drama that has become a hallmark of TV talent contests, Rainbow’s teenage subjects stood together, holding hands, eternally supportive as viewers voted them off one after another while, I’m guessing, apoplectic producers wrung their hands in frustration. Read more.
Charlotte Hegele salutes Bomb Girls
From Jessica Smith of Metro Toronto:
- Bomb Girls actress honoured to salute women like one she portrays on TV
Growing up studying history, Charlotte Hegele learned all about the men who fought the Second World War. It was only years later, reading the script of Bomb Girls, that she really learned about the women. “I think a lot of young people blur history together and they don’t realize that there are specific pockets of time where extraordinary things happened,†said Hegele. “It’s so important that we tell women’s stories.” Read more.
New tonight: Strip The City, Marketplace, The Fifth Estate
Strip The City, Discovery World – “Desert City – Dubai”
Dubai is a gleaming metropolis, grown from the desert sands in just a few decades – yet it sits in one of the driest places on Earth, is pummelled by raging sandstorms, and its skyscrapers are resting on top of sand. This episode looks beneath the city’s skin to discover what keeps Dubai’s buildings standing, protects them from desert storms, and keeps residents alive in the searing heat.
Marketplace, CBC – The Dirt on Hotels (Part 1)
Marketplace puts six of the largest hotel chains in Canada to the test–with shocking results.
The Fifth Estate, CBC – “The Elephant in the Room”
The controversy over what to do with older elephants when they are ready to retire has sparked an elephant war in Toronto and Edmonton, which may spell the beginning of the end for the world’s zoos.
