Not me, of course...I'm travelling all this week and will miss most of these shows but I wanted to give you the lowdown... check with TV, Eh? if you want to know more.
Anyway, here's a short rundown of some series that are bowing this week that you could take a look at, should you so desire...
Monday
8pm - CBC - 18 to Life - Good buzz on this show from people I know who've seen cuts of finished eps. Kinda charming premise too. Two 18 year old sweethearts get hitched. After seeing the wonderful (but somehow existentially depressing) UP IN THE AIR on the weekend, a little positive on the love front might be what the Doctor ordered.
Wednesday
9pm - CBC - Republic of Doyle - Newfoundland local hero Allan Hawco wears all the hats in this story of a Father/Son detective team working the streets of St. John's. The Globe & Mail's TV critic seems inordinately pleased to have a show share his surname.
And before the catty comments start, let me squash the rumors once and for all: the above has absolutely nothing to do with, and played no part in the creation of my own upcoming revisionist Western romp, "Badlands of Brioux."
(Preceded by the 5th season premiere of the suddenly unstoppable Dragons Den.)
Sunday
8pm - HBO Canada - Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures - Premiere of this 8 part miniseries based on the book by Vincent Lam. I'm looking forward to this one - loved the book. Read it in one sitting. Fabulous, well-rounded, flawed characters...everything good drama's supposed to have. HBO Canada got me a screener so hopefully I can post something about it before it airs.
NEXT WEEK: Jan 12...the show I'm waiting for...Kids in the Hall's Death Comes to Town!
4 rumbles:
Happy New Year! And thanks for the reminders of the Cdn shows. Hope to catch Doyle and very sad that I won't be able to see Bloodletting when it airs.
Also curious about your upcoming work.
Best wishes for 2010!
Hey, what time is Badlands of Brioux on? Can I get somebody to fly me there??
Better than that Bill.
We're going to fly you out to Regina, where you will be immediately supplied with a companion animal. Then you will be loaded onto our specially equipped schoolbus. Your companion animal will be instructed to run alongside the bus and eventually overtake it so that you can then watch him run away for three days.
The 96-hour bus trip will bring you directly to the Badlands set, where you will see a perfect recreation of a Western town, circa 1873.
Of course, because we had to go for co-financing with the British to top up the license fee, unfortunately it's a Western ENGLISH town. But the twist is that it's a place where the plummy old English have had to live with newcomers -- plucky young sexy Cowboys from the Canadian West.
It's sort of a remake of Magnum P.I. And we have hot sexy babes in bathingsuits. Of course, they all speak Polish (we got money on the foreign sale to make up that last 10%).
We originally were going to have a fun fish out of water character we called Indian Bob, but the CBC got Cold feet so now he's just Bob and we've had to make up an ethnicity.
It's sort of a remake of Latka on Taxi.
Oh and each week they get into hilarious trouble when they find a dead body and use forensics to solve how they died.
It's sort of a remake of CSI.
And then, to top it all off, Saskatchewan and Manitoba both invested as equity partners, so we're doing versions where we say "Regina" a lot (which face it, is funny -- the Brits think it's hilarious) and then half the time we say "Brandon."
Oh, and speaking of Brandon, we got Jason Priestley to do a cameo in the pilot.
It's sort of a remake of the original 90210.
Whatever, we're confident that you'll really enjoy this highly original televisual feast. And we've got swag too. But It's not back from China yet.
God, I hope it isn't deadly.
Best comment that coulda been a post, ever.
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