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Link: Mohawk Girls’ Brittany LeBorgne on Zoe’s run at Chief

From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:

Link: Mohawk Girls’ Brittany LeBorgne on Zoe’s run at Chief
“I think it’s amazing and women often don’t get enough opportunity or the chances to do this, especially in this line of work. It is a show about women, yes we do have a lot of male fans, but it is a show about women. If you didn’t have women at the helm I don’t know how authentic it would be. Sometimes I’ll read a script or a description of a female character for an audition and before even looking you’re like ‘oh man, a man wrote this.’ I think there’s something to be said about women writing for women. It’s so nice when we get scripts or hear about storylines we’re like ‘oh my I went through something like that!’ Having women creating for women makes it so much more special, authentic and relatable.” Continue reading. 

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Industry News

Link: Media personality Mike Bullard charged with criminal harassment

From The Globe and Mail (via The Canadian Press):

Link: Media personality Mike Bullard charged with criminal harassment
A published report says Toronto media personality Mike Bullard has been charged with criminal harassment but his lawyer isn’t commenting on the matter.

Asked about the report, Bullard’s lawyer, Arthur Stern, told The Canadian Press that the charges are a matter of public record but says he has no instructions from his client to comment. Continue reading. 

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TV Eh B Cs podcast 54 — A Long Walk Off a Murdoch

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On Saturday, Oct. 1, Greg David of TV, Eh? moderated a series of panels during Unlock the Mysteries of Murdoch: The Ultimate Inside conference, held in CBC’s headquarters in downtown Toronto. Here is the third of three sessions we recorded, with Murdoch Mysteries cast members Kristian Bruun, Yannick Bisson, Mouna Traoré, Hélène Joy, Jonny Harris, Arwen Humphreys, Thomas Craig and showrunner Peter Mitchell.

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Murdoch Mysteries

Link: 5×5 With The Hook: Prop Monkey.

From You’ve Been Hooked:

Link: 5×5 With The Hook: Prop Monkey.
“Our fans have come to expect a level of cool and realism (which I hope I am providing). Knowing that we have events and interactions with the fans every year and that brings people up close and personal with the props, I try to make them that much better and full, they aren’t just items for one shot but possibly pieces to look at for years to come.” Continue reading. 

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Shoot the Messenger gains momentum

Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practise to deceive!
—”Marmion,” by Walter Scott

Walter Scott’s poem is apt as Monday’s episode of Shoot the Messenger tightened frayed ends of stories and brought everything into focus for Mary, Simon and Daisy. “Strange Bedfellows,” written by Carol Hay (Murdoch Mysteries) intersected with the real-life controversy surrounding the late mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. Like Ford, a video threatened to take down someone in high office; in this case it’s Sam Charles.

Simon uttered the phrase from “Marmion” as he and Daisy went old-school with photos and string, tying the relationships between Judge Reeves, Orlandio, Sam Charles, Glen McAllister, Khaalid and Eric Lawson together into a sordid stew consisting of a super jail, government funds, sex, power, corruption … and a young lad named Harry that Daisy and Lutz were both hot to hunt down.

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Harry and Khaalid, it seems, were a couple and the former went missing the same day the latter was killed. Clearly, there was a connection and Daisy aimed to find it. Thing is, Lutz had sniffed out the same information; the two converged on Harry’s home at the same time and learned (from the gardener) that Harry is in rehab. After driving there, Daisy decided to take Anthony’s advice and told Lutz about her drug-fueled past. He was certainly shocked but didn’t recoil from her. In fact, he was downright understanding and even gave her a peck on the cheek at the hotel. Good on both of them for not sullying their tentative partnership by hopping into bed.

Daisy, Mary and Simon figured out what viewers have already been largely privy to: Sam is standing in the way of Lawson’s super-jail being built and Lawson is feeling the economic squeeze. Everyone wants to get their hands on the Sam-Khaalid video Hassan has, and Hassan wants $50,000 from Daisy to hand the video over to the newspaper.

And though “Strange Bedfellows” didn’t reveal anything as shocking as two weeks ago, it did advance the plot and continue the momentum into Shoot the Messenger‘s final three episodes.

Shoot the Messenger airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on CBC.

 

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