From Sonya Bell of Maclean’s Magazine:
Why you should care about ‘Orphan Black’
Canadian television’s critical darling, Orphan Black, wraps up its third season on Saturday—and thank goodness, because, between a talking scorpion and killer boy clones, our brains could use a breather. Continue reading.
From Bill Harris of Postmedia Network:
k.d. lang gives voice to CBC special ‘Balletlujah’
As kindred sports fans, k.d. lang and I shared the same fear. So you have ballet dancers performing to lang’s music in the new TV special Balletlujah, which debuts Thursday, June 18 on CBC. Fair enough. But in more than one scene, the performances are taking place in Prairie fields. My God, don’t those dancers need a flawlessly flat surface? Isn’t that dangerous? Continue reading.
From network episode descriptions:
Escape or Die!, OLN -Â Â “The Viper Tomb Escape (Malaysia)”
World Famous Escape Artist Dean Gunnarson has only one big fear…snakes. Now, he’s been challenged to face it. The Snake Temple in Malaysia has invited Dean to a Viper Escape. Dean will be in a glass box, restrained and handcuffed with deadly, poisonous vipers crawling all over him…he must break free before he gets bitten.
Illusions of Grandeur, OLN – “Las Vegas”
Zack Mirza visits America’s modern day magic Mecca in search of sleight-of-hand secrets from magicians and gamblers alike. He meets not one, but two legendary sleight masters – R. Paul Wilson and Jason England. But in spite of their warnings, Zack blows his money and gets hustled by an up-and-coming entertainer named “Piff†The Magic Dragon. Still, he decides to lay it all on the line, gambling his most valuable asset as a magician – his hands.
From a media release:
Uncensored, unfiltered, and unarguably funny: The Movie Network gets down and dirty on Monday nights this summer with the return of the original stand-up/sketch series FUNNY AS HELL, plus acclaimed titles from IFC including the third season of the deprecating comedy series MARON.
FUNNY AS HELL
Season 5 Premieres Monday, July 6 at 10:30 p.m. ET
In partnership with Just For Laughs Television and hosted by homegrown comic Jon Dore (THE JON DORE TELEVISION SHOW), FUNNY AS HELL returns for a six-episode fifth season. Featuring stand-up comedy, unique sketches, and cutting-edge digital shorts, each half-hour episode brings even more of the edgy, uncensored comedy that has kept audiences laughing year after year.
Comedians featured in Season 5 include: Pete Davidson (GUY CODE); Rachel Feinstein (LAST COMIC STANDING); Pete Holmes (THE PETE HOLMES SHOW); Streeter Seidell (PRANKED); Dan Levy (PREMIUM BLEND); Greg Proops (WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?); James Davis (REAL HUSBANDS OF HOLLYWOOD); Cameron Esposito (SIDE MULLET NATION); Ari Shaffir (The Skeptic Tank podcast); Brent Morin (UNDATEABLE); Jamie Lee (GIRL CODE); Owen Benjamin (SULLIVAN AND SON); Chris Gethard (THE OFFICE); Brooks Wheelan (ADAM DEVINE’S HOUSE PARTY); Cardinal Burns; Mike Polk Jr. (THE MIKE POLK JR. SHOW); Matteo Lane; and Claudia O’Doherty (PROBLEMS).
Having spent the last many years as a writer and producer on Rookie Blue, Remedy, and Flashpoint, Adam Barken’s name will once more be splashed across the screen this summer in the new Space series Killjoys.
Killjoys follows a trio of reclamation agents as they chase deadly warrants throughout the Quad, a distant planetary system on the brink of a bloody class war. The three Killjoys form a highly accomplished team of bounty hunters, each with distinct and valuable specialties to offer as they navigate the culturally rich, politically complex, and economically polarized worlds of The Quad.
You’ll hear all about Killjoys, plus some stories from previous shows he’s worked on, and an impending revenge plot against Romper Room.
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