Writers Guild of Canada executive director Maureen Parker told TV Feeds My Family this afternoon that Flashpoint has created no foul. “This is a Canadian production, and has been a Canadian production for several years,” said Parker. Created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern, the Toronto-based police series has been in development at CTV since… Read on

Update on that CTV Flashpoint deal with CBS. The new, Emergency Task Force police drama, which stars Canadian-born actors Enrico Colantoni (familiar to U.S. audiences from Veronica Mars and Just Shoot Me), Hugh Dillon (Durham County), Ona Grauer (Intelligence) and David Paetkau (Whistler), marks the first time since Due South in the mid-’90s that a… Read on

A story in today’s Variety raises huge questions about the future of Canadian broadcasting, strike breaking and cross-border production.CTV’s aptly named Flashpoint–one of two dramas the network recently announced–is going to air concurrently on both CBS and CTV, beginning sometime this summer. The police drama will feature Toronto-native Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars) and other Canadian-born… Read on

Big night on Global tonight: a new House at 9 followed by the second episode of The Guard.The B.C.-based, Canadian coast guard drama launched to respectable numbers last week, clocking in at an estimated 808,000 viewers.That’s tops among the half-dozen 2008 Canadian series launches so far, nudging out CBC timeslot turnarounds The Border and The… Read on

If you missed my visit Friday with Mike Stafford on Toronto’s AM 640, click here to hear this exchange about one of the more famous tall tales in Truth And Rumors: The Reality Behind TV’s Most Famous Myths. The story: Newlywed Game host Bob Eubanks once asked, “Couples, where is the most unusual place you’ve… Read on

In an age when everybody has too many entertainment options and not enough time, can a smart, daily drama work? In Treatment premieres tonight at 8:30 p.m. on The Movie Network (9:30 PT on Movie Central). The HBO drama stars Gabriel Byrne as psychotherapist Paul who, through the week, sees five very different patients. Monday… Read on

Tonight marks the second episode of The Week The Women Went, a new CBC reality show my teenage son refers to as “Kid Nation, only with men looking like idiots instead of 10-year-olds.” Having screened tonight’s hour (which airs at 8 p.m., preceding the fourth episode of The Border), I can see why the women… Read on

Remember K.I.T.T. the talking crime-fighting car from the ’80s? The one that out-acted David Hasselhoff? Twenty-five years later, NBC is bringing it back as a TV-movie with hopes that it leads to a series. The updated sequel will air Feb. 17 on NBC and Global. Here’s the NBC teaser: In the new version, K.I.T.T. (now… Read on