From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail:
Link: Canadian TV now: Squeezing out a few good ones
Awards season isn’t over. Not in this neck of the woods. It’s Canadian Screen Awards Week. Days and days of shindigs for this and that, mostly in the TV racket. On Sunday, the big awards gala live on CBC. Let’s assess. Continue reading.
The mind is a powerful thing. It can inspire you to seek the most powerful and healthy version of yourself or propel on to a downward slide of negativity.
Debuting Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET on AMI-tv, Mind Set Go takes the latter and aims for the former with help from The Amazing Race Canada finalists Julie and Lowell Taylor and Canadian Paralympians. The eight-episode season features everyday folks struggling to overcome the negative thoughts that lead to obesity via a three-month system of diet, exercise and support to get them on the path to health and personal wellness. Serving as certified health and fitness coaches and confidantes are the Taylors, who millions saw competing in Season 4 of The Amazing Race Canada; Lowell is legally blind due to retinitis pigmentosa. The pair plays an integral part in helping the contestants shed weight and negative thoughts.
“AMI was very interested in our story,” Julie says on the line from Lethbridge, Alta. “Our relationship, our teamwork and the fact that Lowell is visually impaired worked. We realized that we have something special that can reach a broader audience.” The journey begins with Gio. One of the original members of The Canadian Tenors, Gio stopped singing professionally over a decade ago and fell into a depression he fed with food. Now he’s ready to get healthy. It’s not easy. After a pep talk and weigh-in with Julie and Lowell, Gio begins his transformative journey.
The road to self-worth includes a bike ride with Michelle Salt. The one-time fitness model lost her right leg in a motorcycle accident but found drive and a zest for life as part of Canada’s Paralympic Snowboard Team. Salt listens to Gio before putting him on a bike and challenging him to keep up and pedals away. As she says, the only thing holding Gio back from success is his mind.
“We often talk to people who are patients about this,” Lowell says. “If you believe you can’t you’re right. If you believe you can, you’re also right. If we let those bully voices inside of our head, that becomes the limiting belief. That becomes the thing that pulls us away, to withdraw, to stop living.”
“I don’t even think people identify that that is what’s holding them back,” Julie continues. “It becomes so internalized that they haven’t even identified that. Bringing it to light is so important.” Future episodes of Mind Set Go showcase Canadian Paralympians and athletes in Maya Jonas, Josh Cassidy, Summer Mortimer, Ness Murby, Greg Westlake and AMI This Week co-host Victoria Nolan.
Mind Set Go airs Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. ET on AMI-tv.
Images courtesy of AMI.
Still Standing, The Amazing Race Canada, Mayday, Rise and CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme were among the winners during Night 1 of the non-televised portion of the Canadian Screen Awards.
Miguel Rivas, of The Comedy Network’s The Beaverton, served as host for the evening, poking fun at The National‘s four-person panel and holding mock auditions for a co-host. Among the finalists? Chef Matty Matheson, The Social‘s Lainey Lui and Peter Mansbridge. One of the most emotional moments of the night followed Viceland’s Rise being awarded Best Documentary Program. Series producer Michelle Latimer tearfully championed Indigenous Peoples and referenced the effects colonization has had on First Nations people in Canada and around the world.
Fifty categories celebrating non-fiction television—including news, sports, factual, reality, lifestyle, talk and children’s programming—were handed out at Toronto’s Westin Harbour Castle during the non-televised event. Karyn Pugliese received the Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism.
Here are the winners in several key categories:
Best News Anchor, Local
Andrew Chang, British Columbia Votes
Best News or Information Program
Terror, Viceland
Best Sports Host
James Duthie, TSN
Best Children’s or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series
Science Max: Experiments at Large, TVO Kids
Best Variety or Entertainment Special
P.K. Subban: Shots Fired, CBC
Best Writing, Factual
Still Standing, CBC
Best Writing, Lifestyle or Reality/Competition Program or Series
The Amazing Race Canada, CTV
Best Writing, Documentary
Unstoppable: The Fentanyl Epidemic in Canada, CBC
Best Biography or Arts Documentary Program or Series
Rush: Time Stand Still, HBO Canada
Best Factual Series
Mayday, Discovery
Best History Documentary Program or Series
The Nature of Things, CBC
Best Documentary Program
Rise, Viceland
Best Host in a Live Program or Series
Rick Mercer, Canada Day 150! From Coast to Coast to Coast
Best Talk Program or Series
The Marilyn Denis Show, CTV
Best Lifestyle Program or Series
Property Brothers, HGTV Canada
Best News or Information Series
The Fifth Estate, CBC
Best Host in a Program or Series
Jonathan Torrens, Your Special Canada
Best Local Newscast
CBC News Vancouver at 6, CBC
Best National Newscast
CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme, CTV
Best News Anchor, National
Heather Hiscox, CBC News Network with Heather Hiscox
Best Sports Play-by-Play Announcer
Luke Wileman, TSN
Best Sports Program or Series
Aaron Sanchez: Limitless, Sportsnet
Follow the link to the complete list of winners.
Are you happy with the shows and talent who took home hardware tonight? Let me know in the comments below.
From a media release:
“We take care of our friends… so long as you remain a friend.†Following a successful six-episode Season 1 run, City is taking care of its viewers by greenlighting eight new one-hour episodes for Season 2 of the compelling, original drama Bad Blood, starring Canadian powerhouse Kim Coates. Produced in partnership with New Metric Media and Sphère Média Plus, in association with distributors DHX Media and Skyvision, writing on the new season is currently underway with production slated to begin this summer for a Fall 2018 premiere. Additional broadcast details will be announced at a later date.
Season 1 of Bad Blood is nominated for three 2018 Canadian Screen Awards, including nods for Kim Coates and Maxim Roy for Best Lead Actor and Actress, Drama or Limited Series, respectively, and Michael Konyves for Best Writing, Drama or Limited Series. Both Coates and Roy are among the confirmed presenters for Sunday night’s CSA broadcast gala.
Reaching 3.2 million Canadians and consistently holding a spot in the Top 10 shows among all English stations during its time period (Ind. 2+), Season 1 of Bad Blood followed the true-crime saga of one of Canada’s most notorious mafia bosses, Vito Rizzuto (Anthony LaPaglia). Now, five years after Rizzuto’s death, his former right-hand man Declan Gardiner (Coates) is the reigning king of the Montreal drug trade – that is, until a new breed of mafiosos arrive to wage war in an attempt to wrestle the city from his grasp.
Michael Konyves will return as showrunner, alongside writers Patrick Moss and Alison Bingeman. Additional casting details will be announced in the coming weeks.
From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:
Link: Workin’ Moms Juno Rinaldi on Frankie’s quest for a real connection
“She’s trying to figure it out. After realizing that maybe Giselle wasn’t the right fit, she’s seeing that she is attractive to other people. She’s trying out all those avenues and maybe is experiencing that for the first time in a long time. When you come out of that phase of being a new mom you want to feel alive and sexual again.” Continue reading.
