From Heather M. of The Televixen:
Link: Dennis Heaton Talks Motive Season 4
“One of the most fun parts of doing a TV season is that first week in the writer’s room where it’s just me and my staff of writers and we’ve got the season ahead of us, and we can spitball all the crazy ideas that come out there.” Continue reading.
Fans of Christina Cox and Dylan Bruce rejoice! She of Blood Ties, Defying Gravity and Shadowhunters (pictured above), and he of Orphan Black and American Gothic drop by for Tuesday night’s new episode of Motive. And, like the guest cast who have appeared before, both become instantly memorable.
Here’s what we can tell you about “The Dead Hand”—written by showrunner Dennis Heaton—without giving too much away.
The main storyline is um … the bomb
The whole episode is, actually. As teased by the above picture, Angie’s day—week actually—is wrecked when Susan (Cox) arrives at the precinct with a bomb strapped to her chest. The Navy IED expert is upset her son, Jake, was convicted of killing his sister, Nancy, and forces Angie to re-open the case.
The whole team checks in
Vega, Betty, Lucas and Paula do some digging and quickly find not everything in the case is as cut and dry as it first appeared. Jake, a recovering drug addict, blacked out while robbing his parent’s house and when he came to his sister was at the bottom of the stairs, neck broken. The problem? A 45-minute space between police interviews that has the team scratching their heads.
Dylan Bruce is a killer co-star
Bruce’s Rand Hardy is identified as the killer in the case right away (as is Motive’s M.O.), and as the story goes through twists, turns and doubles back, Rand is revealed to be one sick puppy. It’s a treat to see Bruce play a complicated character.
Motive airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on CTV.
I’m a big fan of shows like How It’s Made and Food Factory, two programs that go behind-the-scenes to show how all manner of things are created, from everyday items we use to the food we put on our plate.
But while those programs spotlight the creation of things from base materials, Made by Destruction comes at it from a different angle. Created by Toronto’s Yap Films, the folks behind Close Up Kings, Dig WW2 and Battle Factory, Made by Destruction—airing back-to-back episodes beginning Monday on Discovery—takes cast-off items and turns them into something else via recycling.
Mondays debut begins with the lowly photocopier. As technology surges forth in that industry, old models are being broken down to create the most unlikely of objects: trumpets. Sims Recycling Solutions in California goes through the painstaking process of breaking down office-size copies into its component parts.
Using cool CGI and engaging narration, Destruction outlines how defunct machines are shredded to extract the copper hidden in the power supply and motor casings, netting about five pounds of the metal. It’s fascinating to watch how a heavy-duty conveyor belt, series of shredders, magnets and vibrating meshes extracts the minute coils of copper collected, loaded into shipping containers and transported to Olin Brass in Illinois, where the instruments are created. Once there, 70 percent recycled copper is mixed with zinc to make brass cast bars. The bars are transformed into thin sheets, wrapped and sent to S.E. Shires in Massachusetts, where the final product is made.
Other stories featured in the first half-hour show how companies in Denmark and the Netherlands team to transform potatoes into biodegradable egg cartons, and a U.S. company turns empty plastic milk jugs into park benches.
All three stories—and the series overall—show the truly interesting journey old items go through to create new things. I’ll be tuning in.
Made by Destruction airs back-to-back episodes on Mondays at 7 p.m. ET on Discovery.
From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:
Link: Canadian sci-fi series ‘Killjoys’ and ‘Between’ both return for 2nd season
Space, as they used to say on “Star Trek,” is the “final frontier.” A visit to the sets of two returning Canadian sci-fi shows demonstrates that, behind the scenes, things can look very down to earth.
“Killjoys” (Friday on Space) is about a trio of inter-galactic bounty hunters: Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), D’Avin (Luke Macfarlane) and John (Aaron Ashmore). They track down criminals throughout the solar system. Continue reading.
From Kelly Townsend of The TV Junkies:
Link: Dark Matter: Joseph Mallozzi talks “Welcome to Your New Home”
“I wanted to create a show where there’s a revelation in every episode and each episode builds on the next. It’s a show that you want to tune into and watch rather than sit and wait because you don’t want to be spoiled.” Continue reading.
From Starrymag:
Melissa O’Neil, Melanie Liburd & Roger Cross – Dark Matter
“The character of Nyx like she comes in and she’s like, she is strong and powerful and Mel brings like this natural sexiness. So I think it would be it would be crazy for there not to be someone drawn to her character. And I think like in terms of friction-friction, everybody comes with their own set of baggage. And for her to come onto the ship with whatever ends up being her baggage, it’s deciding whether or not the crew of the Raza wants to help her. ” Continue reading.
From Tom Gardiner of ThreeIfBySpace:
Dark Matter Interview: Two, Six & Nix, Part 2
“He is trying to do the right thing. He’s trying to be the authority figure that he discovered that he is. He is a cop, he swore an oath to uphold the law and protect people. And so it’s kind of like what is the higher calling to uphold, this law that’s set out by a bunch of hypocrites that are doing it to control people and make themselves more powerful and wealthy, or do I uphold the greater law of taking care of people and doing the right thing?” Continue reading.
From Michael Idato of The Sydney Morning-Herald:
Link: Dark Matter creator Joe Mallozzi reveals secret behind series’ characters
A little too much? Not enough? Spilling the beans in genre television is a precarious minefield, concedes Dark Matter creator and executive producer Joe Mallozzi, where there are few rights, and a lot of wrongs. Continue reading.
From Andrew Liptak of Barnes and Noble:
How Dark Matter went from graphic novel to Syfy hit
Dark Matter returned last weekend for its second season on Syfy. The action-heavy series about a mind-wiped crew that awakens aboard a derelict spaceship has played a key role in the resurgence of the basic cabler, which returned to its science fiction roots with fervor in 2015, launching one ambitious new program after another, from Killjoys, to The Magicians, to The Expanse. But the road that brought Dark Matter to television was anything but straight. As we gear up for more mysterious adventures, creator Joseph Mallozzi talks about how the series went from pitch, to the comic page, and finally, to the small screen. Continue reading.Â
From Robin Burks of Tech Times:
Dark Matter Season 2 will offer more insight into characters, but also include adventure
“We find ourselves in this budding intergalactic corporate conspiracy. And so while trying to figure out who the heck we’re having to deal with, something so much larger than us.” Continue reading.
