TV, eh? | What's up in Canadian television | Page 3254
TV,eh? What's up in Canadian television
Uncategorized

Upcoming series: Jozi-H premieres Oct. 13 on CBC

From a CBC media release:

Hard-Hitting New Series Jozi-H Combines Cutting Edge Medicine with Riveting Drama Beginning Friday, Oct. 13 at 9 p.m. on CBC-TV

Ancient customs and cutting-edge medicine square up for a head-on collision in JOZI-H, a gripping new 13-part medical drama premiering Friday, Oct. 13 at 9 p.m. on CBC Television.

Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, JOZI-H is about the personal struggles faced by a varied team of international doctors, surgeons and nurses, dedicated to saving lives at the world’s highest profile emergency medicine facility-Johannesburg Metropolitan Hospital. Filled with complex characters and intriguing storylines, the series is set in an intense crucible of culture clashes that sets it apart from any medical series ever produced.

JOZI-H’s reputation for trauma work is legendary. Overseas professionals would give anything for the privilege of training there. It’s where modern western medicine meets traditional African healing; where ground-breaking HIV/AIDS research leads the way in search of a cure; where diseases no longer found in the western world remain a deadly challenge; and the volume of violent crime forces interns to become world experts on trauma in weeks, rather than years. Most of the medical team-originally from Canada, the U.S. and Britain-are on their own personal “tour of duty”. They struggle to deal with the challenges of life, love and medicine against an intense, ever-changing landscape.

Vincent Walsh (Hemingway vs. Callaghan) stars as Dr. Russ Monsour. Hiding the fact that he’s half native, the recently divorced Winnipeg doctor wishes to disappear into a place where no one knows him. Sarah Allen (Booky Makes Her Mark) is Jenny Langford, a paediatric surgical registrar posted for six months in South Africa. With an inflexible bureaucracy standing in the way, Dr. Langford has to fight for the drugs to treat her young HIV/AIDS patients, while acting as single mother for her own child born with spinal bifida. These foreign surgeons, along with a local mix of doctors and nurses, band together to form an overworked, underpaid and over-dedicated team of health care workers. Their backgrounds are diverse and their pasts incomparable, yet each is united in an effort to heal all those who enter the hospital.

Continue reading Upcoming series: Jozi-H premieres Oct. 13 on CBC →

Facebooktwitterredditlinkedinmail
Uncategorized

In the news: Corner Gas radio broadcasts

From a CTV media release:

Cross-Country Radio Stations Descend Upon Dog River to Celebrate Corner Gas Season Premiere, Sept. 18

– National radio campaign supports Season 4 premiere of Corner Gas –

Toronto (September 13, 2006) – Canada wakes up in Dog River this coming Monday, September 18 when eight radio stations from across the country broadcast live from the set of Corner Gas in advance of the series’ season premiere that night on CTV. It is the latest in a series of innovative marketing outreach campaigns by CTV that have contributed to Corner Gas becoming Canada’s favourite homegrown TV program and Number 1 comedy series. Led by star Brent Butt, the entire Corner Gas cast will begin a marathon seven-hour national radio broadcast beginning at 3 a.m. local time with C100 in Halifax and continuing until 10 a.m. when Vancouver’s Jack FM wraps up their morning show. In between, the Corner Gas crew will be live on-air with additional radio stations from Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary and Edmonton. The eight stations will broadcast live from the Corner Gas set at Regina’s Canada / Saskatchewan Production Studios.

Never attempted before, the radio campaign gives fans a chance to experience the prairie charm of Corner Gas by tuning in to some of Canada’s most listened-to radio shows on the morning of the fourth season premiere. Complete morning teams and correspondents will set up right inside the familiar Corner Gas sets of The Ruby, Oscar and Emma’s house, the Dog River Police Department and Mayor Fitzy’s office as Brent Butt and his Corner Gas cast mates stop and visit with each morning crew. The day prior to the broadcast, the radio station representatives will visit neighbouring Rouleau, Saskatchewan (aka Dog River), and receive a special tour of the series’ on location sets.

“Taking the Corner Gas experience to the radio platform represents a novel and innovative outreach effort to find even more viewers for Canada’s Number 1 comedy series,” said Mike Cosentino, CTV Vice-President of Communications.

Other elements of the campaign include listen-and-win contesting with the radio stations where Corner Gas fans can win a walk-on role in Season 5 of the series. The campaign is being supported by 30-second on-air promos on CTV in each local market driving viewers to tune in to the participating radio station for contest details. The campaign was created in-house at CTV.

The eight radio stations participating in the event are C100 (Halifax), 93.9 BOB-FM (Ottawa), The New Country 95.3 (Toronto), Hot 103 (Winnipeg), 104.9 The Wolf (Regina), 96.9 Jack FM (Calgary), CISN Country 103.9 (Edmonton) and 96.9 Jack FM (Vancouver).

Viewers can fill-up with a whole new fourth season of laughs when Corner Gas returns with 19 half-hour episodes on Mondays at 8:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 18 on CTV (check local listings). The new season will also air Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, beginning Sept. 23 on The Comedy Network.

In the Season 4 premiere, the laughter continues as Karen makes Emma mad when she agrees to cut Brent’s hair. As well, Davis is after Oscar to replace his muffler, which is as loud as it is old.

For everything Corner Gas, visit www.cornergas.com.

Facebooktwitterredditlinkedinmail
Uncategorized

Hockey: A People’s History to premiere September 17

3 Comments

From a CBC media release:

Epic five-part series traces Canada’s first steps on the ice

Hockey: A People’s History launches this Sunday, September 17th at 8 p.m. on CBC Television with back-to-back episodes.

In the premiere episode, A Simple Game, the origins of hockey are traced back to the ancient pyramids and seen in different forms throughout the world. When the puck is dropped in 1875 one winter’s night in Montreal, a young country has a new passion that explodes across class and gender, creating Canada’s most honoured game.

The episode traces the remarkable evolution of the game and introduces the men and women from all across Canada who will make it their own. It’s the story of visionaries, of a Renaissance man such as James Creighton, the unlikely candidate to be this country’s founding father of hockey, Lord Stanley of Preston, who gives the sport its Holy Grail and the Mic Mac Indians who emerged as the first manufacturers of hockey equipment.

In the second episode, The Money Game, millionaires and mercenaries team up to create professional hockey. For the first time, young men from the working class will make a living playing hockey. The creation of the Montreal Canadians and advancement of hockey’s first super stars, like Fred “Cyclone” Taylor, the highest paid athlete of the day, leads to the creation of the NHL. The structure of hockey as we know it today is formed when the Patrick brothers build Canada’s first artificial ice arenas in Vancouver and Victoria and conceive rule changes that are still in use in today’s game. Among them, the introduction of the blue line, line substitutions, post schedule playoffs, points for assists and forward passing – the key innovation that leads to hockey becoming the fastest game on two feet.

Hockey: A People’s History will air every Sunday at 8 p.m. until October 15 with two one-hour episodes each evening. Series narrator Paul Gross is accompanied by hockey “philosophers” (experts in the field) Wayne Gretzky, Ken Dryden, Michael McKinley, Alison Griffiths, Jean Beliveau, Stephen Brunt, Don Cherry, Daniele Sauvageau, and Bruce Dowbiggin, among others. Hockey: A People’s History is a collaboration between CBC Television and Société Radio-Canada and is produced by the award-winning team who created the nationally acclaimed series Canada: A People’s History.

Facebooktwitterredditlinkedinmail