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Killjoys

Link: Killjoys Creator on Avoiding Love Triangles, ‘Aliens’ Influence

From Amber Dowling in the Hollywood Reporter:

‘Killjoys’ Creator on Avoiding Love Triangles, ‘Aliens’ Influence
Lost Girl doesn’t sign off until later this year, but creator Michelle Lovretta has already been hard at work on her next act. Killjoys — a co-production between Syfy and Canada’s Space – centers on Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), a beautiful but lethal Level 5 bounty hunter in outer space. In the pilot, her partnership with Level 3 hunter John (Aaron Ashmore) is put to the test after a kill warrant shows up for his brother D’Avin (Luke Macfarlane). Continue reading.

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Dark Matter, Killjoys

Tonight: Killjoys, Dark Matter, Indspire Awards, Survivorman – Finding Bigfoot

 

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Killjoys, Space – series premiere “Bangarang”
Killjoys Dutch (Hannah John–Kamen, HAPPY VALLEY) and John (Aaron Ashmore, LOST GIRL) are in serious need of R&R after capturing a dangerous smuggler in the badlands of Westerley. But when a death warrant is posted for D’avin (Luke Macfarlane, BROTHERS & SISTERS), John secretly takes the job to save his estranged brother. With a competing Killjoy also on the job, the team is in a race against time to clear D’avin’s name and their own. Check out Greg’s feature on Killjoys.

Dark Matter, Space – Episode 2
As the crew comes to terms with the revelations about their respective pasts, they are faced with a dilemma – help the miners against insurmountable odds, or abandon them to certain death. Look for Greg’s review in the morning.

Indspire Awards, Global
Fourteen outstanding Indigenous achievers will be honoured at the 2015 Indspire Awards gala, recorded live in Calgary, AB. Co-hosted by Lorne Cardinal and Kyle Nobess, the 2015 Indspire Awards gala features performances by Indigenous talent from across Canada, as well as a special appearance by New Zealand’s Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre. Indspire is an Indigenous-led registered charity that invests in the education of Indigenous people for the long-term benefit of these individuals, their families and communities, and Canada.

Survivorman: Finding Bigfoot, City – “Tennessee”
Hiking far off the beaten path, Les searches remote forested land deep in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee with Scott Carpenter, a local researcher claiming to have interactions with Bigfoot in the area. Battling his own psyche, Les enters the Bigfoot hot spot, planting hidden cameras and scent traps in an effort to elicit an interaction – but the longer Les hunts for Sasquatch, the stranger things get.

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X Company

Link: X Company’s Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner

From Kevin Young of Socan Magazine:

Music Creators Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner
Although X Company is a period piece, the score is quite modern, and intentionally so, Posner says. “Right from the get-go, they said, ‘It’s set in World War Two, but it has to feel like now’ – in order to make younger viewers see themselves in the characters. There are times when the score needs to be a bit more traditional to put you in that era, and sometimes we erred on going a little too modern, but that’s really how it found its legs.” Continue reading.

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Industry News

Proper Rights, Boxing Cats ink distribution deal

From a media release:

Proper Rights announced today that they have entered into an exclusive multi-title distribution agreement with Canadian production company Boxing Cats Productions, which will see Proper representing three of Boxing Cats latest series for presales and international distribution.

Boxing Cats Productions (Canada’s Greatest Know It All, Patent Bending, And Go!) is an award winning Toronto based Production Company formed in 2006 by veteran producer/director Brad Brough, who specializes in reality, formats, factual entertainment and specialist factual television – BCP creates original, ambitious and entertaining series for audiences worldwide.

The three series are currently in development with major North American broadcasters, and include a unique character-led paranormal series, an authentic new survival expedition series set in the Yukon, and a fixed rig series that goes behind the scenes inside some of the biggest businesses in the country.

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Comments and queries for the week of June 19

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What Canadian TV shows should be saved by Netflix?

Slings & Arrows, Almost Heroes, Rent-a-Goalie, Men with Brooms, Wild Roses, MVP. —Roger

If we wish hard enough for Netflix to fund a Fargo/True Detective-style limited series I’m sure we could convince them to come north for a season. Now I just need to get some leverage over Netflix other than my $8.99/month.

If they kept it a soap I think it would work well, however I think something in a slightly more serious tone about a Canadian investment bank/hedge fund trying to navigate being a big deal on Bay Street yet barely a minnow in the larger world could be interesting. Plus there seems to be a greater overall awareness of the high finance world, ready-made villains (let us all boo a billionaire and the dude bro traders) and continue the Traders tradition of making ethically dubious choices for money. —Gardner

I would also include: This Is Wonderland, ReGenesis and Shattered. Great shows. —Nancy

Martin Sheen to star in new Anne of Green Gables TV-movie

Compare Gilbert’s first proposal to Anne to Laurie’s proposal to Jo in Little Women. The part where Anne says that they would fight? Not in the book; in Little Women. And there’s a scene where Gilbert catches Anne coming from the post office with a rejected manuscript, and teases her about it as a secret. That scene doesn’t exist in the book either (Anne freely discusses her story mainly with Diana, and tells Gilbert she will let him read it if it’s published), but there’s an almost identical one in the Little Women movie (at least the June Allyson version; not sure how it goes for Winona Ryder) and it’s the bicycle that seems to clinch the copying.

Kevin Sullivan’s shameless copying from Little Women aside, I also resented the way he magnified out of all proportion the idea that Anne was romantically jealous of Gilbert spending time with Josie Pye (to the point of having Gilbert present at the ridgepole incident), and the occasions where Gilbert deliberately humiliated Anne (refusing to acknowledge her at a dance).

Maybe it’s too much to hope that the new version will come closer to my vision of the book, but for now I can at least hope. —Xaipe

 

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