From Bill Brioux of Toronto.com:

• CBC hopes Arctic Air takes off
  Who knew the high Arctic was just eight kilometres north of the U.S. border? That’s where CBC and Omni Films shoot Arctic Air, a new adventure series set in Yellowknife, hundreds of kilometres north of this border town. Read more.

From Brad Oswald of the Winnipeg Free Press:

• Beach grabbed right boarding pass
  For Adam Beach, this was all about having the chance to soar. The last time he took a TV-series role — a brief stint as Law & Order: SVU’s Det. Chester Lake — he quickly grew disillusioned with the strictly procedural nature of the NBC cop show’s storytelling, and opted out after just one season. But the Manitoban-born actor decided to take another shot at an ongoing drama after reading the pilot script for CBC’s Arctic Air. Read more.

From Scott Stinson of the National Post:

• CBC’s Arctic Air all set to take off
  There are, of course, no guarantees in the fickle business of television, but Beach’s confidence in Arctic Air speaks to the ease with which the producers were able to land someone who has worked with directors such as Clint Eastwood (Flags of Our Fathers) and Jon Favreau (Cowboys & Aliens) and on successful U.S. series such as Law & Order: SVU. Read more.

From Bill Harris of QMI:

• Beach breathes in ‘Arctic Air’
  Adam Beach has an actor’s eye but a poet’s heart. We’ve noticed it previously, having interviewed Beach on a few occasions through the years. But the most recent occurrence came when Beach was discussing his new TV series Arctic Air, which debuts Tuesday, Jan. 10, on CBC. Read more.

From a media release:

CBC TELEVISION’S “ARCTIC AIR” PREPARES FOR TAKEOFF – SEASON PREMIERE ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 AT 9 PM

• ROBSON SQUARE BECOMES TARMAC ON THE TUNDRA FOR ICE PLANES THIS WEEKEND

In advance of Tuesday, January 10th’s debut of ARCTIC AIR on CBC Television (Tuesdays at 9 p.m./9:30 NT), Vancouver’s Robson Square will be transformed into a tarmac on the tundra this weekend, hosting a display of illuminated aircraft ice sculptures.

Ice planes by Newad’s Experiential Marketing team will be on display from noon on Saturday, January 7 until 7 p.m. on Sunday, January 8. Passersby can pick up ARCTIC AIR “boarding passes” with information on how to enter a “watch and win” contest for a chance to win one of two trips to Yellowknife (Northwest Territories), the setting for ARCTIC AIR. More details at www.cbc.ca/arcticair.

ARCTIC AIR launches Tuesday, January 10th with a sold-out gala premiere screening of the debut episode, followed by a Q&A session with the cast, at The Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville Street in Vancouver.

Filmed in Vancouver and Yellowknife, ARCTIC AIR is an action-packed one-hour adventure series about a maverick airline and the extended family of unconventional people who run it. Mel (Kevin McNulty), the cantankerous owner, keeps his crew of pilots in the air while Bobby (Adam Beach), his headstrong business partner, saves the airline from, well, “crashing.” Each week, their hot-shot pilots take off to deliver cagey prospectors to secret diamond mining sites, rescue scientists from snowed-in research camps, water-bomb forest fires or play tour guide for polar bear-seeking Japanese tourists.

ARCTIC AIR features the star power of Adam Beach (Cowboys and Aliens, Flags of our Fathers, Law & Order: SVU), Pascale Hutton (Fringe, Rookie Blue, Sanctuary) and Kevin McNulty (The Killing, End Game, Battle Star Galactica). ARCTIC AIR is written by Ian Weir and produced by Omni Film in development with CBC.