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Auction, Featured

Thank you! Kids Help Phone auction raised more than $8400

KHPThe auction has ended, the winners have paid, items are being shipped out, and the donation has been made. With the help of our prize donors, bidders, and those who helped spread the word, we raised more than $8400 for Kids Help Phone — a free, anonymous and confidential phone and on-line professional counselling service for youth. If you’d still like to contribute, please go directly to their website to make a donation.

All bidders, winning or not, helped raise that money. Everyone who shared our posts on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere helped. And of course our prize donors helped. Special thank yous for the wonderful items and experiences up for bid to:

Thanks again to the Canadian television community for supporting such a great cause.

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Featured, Reality, Lifestyle & Documentary

Preview: Alan Thicke’s Unusually Thicke renovates for Season 2

Listen, as long as you realize every scene in Season 2 of Unusually Thicke: Under Construction is a set-up, you’ll enjoy the heck out of it. Yes, Alan Thicke, wife Tanya and son Carter are back for another go-round—this time on HGTV because, well, they’re renovating their house—Unusually Thicke once again explores the exploits of the Kirkland Lake, Ont., native many know as Mike Seaver on Growing Pains.

Returning Thursday with two back-to-back episodes, Alan, Tanya, Carter and guest star Wayne Brady strap on tool belts, pick up hammers and start renovations on Thicke’s sprawling home. Oh, wait a minute, no they don’t. Instead, Episode 1 follows Alan and Carter as they trade $100 for Alan’s stolen cell phone and Wayne swings by to drop off a redneck golf tournament gift bag (containing press-on nails, double-A batteries and baby oil) to Tanya. Anyone expecting to see the key cast doing any kind of manual labour will be disappointed; they merely pick up the phone and order others to do the work.

And you know what? I’m fine with that because Alan, Tanya and Carter are a hoot going through their scripted everyday lives. How scripted? Well, what are the chances Alan’s cell phone is stolen and the Find My iPhone app used to locate it minutes after Alan tells Carter he is going to use that app to track his son while he’s away at college? And yet that’s exactly what happens, complete with a dimly-lit meet in a parking lot where the “thief”—whose face, unlike Cops, is shown the whole time—gets $100 from Alan for returning the phone. I’m using quotes around the word thief because no other criminal would stick around with camera crews milling around Alan’s car. Carter in particular puts in a strong performance in Thursday’s debut, rolling is eyes and delivering playfully snide remarks at his father’s expense.

As for home renovations in the return? Tanya orders crews to fix the cracks in the tennis court, replace the hot tub’s heater and empty out the septic tank. Mike Holmes this trio ain’t, but that’s OK because they’re fun to watch.

Unusually Thicke: Under Construction airs Thursdays at 10 and 10:30 p.m. ET/PT on HGTV.

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Canada's Smartest Person, Continuum, Dragons' Den, Featured, Heartland, Lost Girl, Murdoch Mysteries, Polls, Reality, Lifestyle & Documentary, Rick Mercer Report, Saving Hope, Sunnyside, This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Poll: Which returning Canadian TV shows are you most excited about watching this fall?

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Evenings grow crisp, trees explode into vibrant colour and the new fall Canadian television season launches. We here at TV, Eh? are as excited as you, with all of our returning favourites hitting the small screen between now and the end of November.

So, to have a little fun—and celebrate the coming season—we’ve put together a poll where you pick the three returning Canadian-made shows you’re most looking forward to seeing this fall. Wondering exactly when those projects will be back? Check out our handy calendars and mark yours! The poll closes next week, so have fun!

Instructions: Click on the boxes next to your three choices and then register your votes by clicking the Vote box (on some browsers it’s greyed out) just to the right of Unusually Thicke.

Which three returning Canadian TV shows are you most excited about watching this fall?

  • Murdoch Mysteries (37%, 1,876 Votes)
  • Lost Girl (9%, 485 Votes)
  • Rick Mercer Report (9%, 449 Votes)
  • Heartland (6%, 318 Votes)
  • Canada's Worst Driver (4%, 218 Votes)
  • Property Brothers (4%, 198 Votes)
  • Saving Hope (4%, 196 Votes)
  • The Nature of Things (4%, 185 Votes)
  • 22 Minutes (3%, 169 Votes)
  • Love It or List It (3%, 157 Votes)
  • Dragons' Den (3%, 147 Votes)
  • Continuum (3%, 140 Votes)
  • The Fifth Estate (3%, 138 Votes)
  • House of Bryan (2%, 102 Votes)
  • Marketplace (2%, 100 Votes)
  • Highway Thru Hell (2%, 87 Votes)
  • Canada's Smartest Person (1%, 42 Votes)
  • Fugget About It (0%, 19 Votes)
  • Sunnyside (0%, 18 Votes)
  • Hockey Wives (0%, 15 Votes)
  • The Next Step (0%, 14 Votes)
  • Custom Built (0%, 14 Votes)
  • Fool's Gold (0%, 8 Votes)
  • Unusually Thicke (0%, 7 Votes)
  • Gaming Show (0%, 6 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,663

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Featured, Less Than Kind, Podcast

TV Eh B Cs podcast 30 – Marvin Kaye Looking for Kind’s Kin

MarvinKayeHaving started with a career acting on stage, Marvin Kaye moved to the screen appearing early on shows like Earth: Final Conflict, Due South, and La Femme Nikita. He was the voice of Mort in the animated series Quads!

He was the creator and Executive Producer of the City-TV/HBO critically-acclaimed Less Than Kind which, over four seasons, won numerous Canadian Comedy, Canadian Screen, and Gemini Awards before wrapping up in 2013.

Most recently he’s written a couple of episodes for CBC’s Mr. D. and we wrangled some discussion about relaunching oneself from the plateau of past success.

Listen or download below, or subscribe via iTunes or any other podcast catcher with the TV, eh? podcast feed.

Want to become a Patron of the Podcast? We’ve got a Patreon page where you can donate a small amount per podcast and get a sneak peek of each release.

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Dark Matter, Featured, Killjoys

Space’s Killjoys and Dark Matter returning for Season 2

There will be more adventures in The Quad. Space announced Tuesday that Season 2 of Killjoys is a go, with production starting in Toronto this winter.

“We are proud that Killjoys has connected so well with viewers to become a ratings and critical success,” David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, co-presidents of Temple Street Productions and executive producers said in a press release. “We are thrilled to partner with Space again for a second season and look forward to building on this unique world for our stellar cast to continue the captivating journey.”

We had a feeling this news was coming. After all, how awkward would it be to have Killjoys and Dark Matter panels at Fan Expo if they had been cancelled?

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The news comes just over a week following Killjoys’ cliffhanger Season 1 finale, which left D’Avin (Luke Macfarlane) in the clutches of Khlyen (Rob Stewart) in Red 17 and Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) and Johnny (Aaron Ashmore) vowing to find him. The trio, ensconced in their faithful ship Lucy (voiced by Tamsen McDonough), have been travelling around The Quad—a planet called Qresh and its three moons, Westerley, Arkyn and Leith—cracking skulls and collecting bounty.

Debuting in June, Killjoys snagged a season finale audience of over 560,000 viewers for Space and is the network’s most-watched original series of all time. Killjoys and fellow Friday night sci-fi series Dark Matter have made Space the No. 1 specialty network for Adults 25-54, Adults 18-49 and Adults 18-34.

Killjoys was created by Michelle Lovretta (Lost Girl) who serves as executive producer and showrunner; Season 1’s writer and consulting producer was Jeremy Boxen with writers Emily Andras, Adam Barken and Aaron Martin on board.

Created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, Dark Matter had a cliffhanger of its own, revealing Five (Jodelle Ferland) had wiped everyone’s memories and that Six (Roger Cross) had betrayed his team. Marc Bendavid, Melissa O’Neil, Anthony Lemke, Alex Mallari Jr. and Zoie Palmer made up the rest of Dark Matter‘s key cast.

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