Female police characters have been arresting TV viewers for decades. Police Woman, starring Angie Dickinson, went off the air forty years ago. Cagney & Lacey, which starred Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as “buddy cops” (and is soon to be re-booted), ended its seven-year run in 1988. In recent years, Canada’s Rookie Blue was a
Wendy Crewson chews the scenery to bits in Monday night’s opening episode of Frankie Drake Mysteries. Trust a TV veteran to get the tone just right. Crewson guests as a gold digger with a secret that links her to the main character, flirty, flapper-era detective Frankie Drake (played by Lauren Lee Smith). The series premieres
The eight-part series Slasher, shot in Parry Sound and Sudbury, premiered Friday on Super Channel. Irish actress Katie McGrath stars as Sarah, a young woman who returns to her home town and the house where her parents were brutally murdered. Soon after, a series of gruesome copycat murders take place. As the bodies pile up, a