Season four of Haven is drawing to a close on Showcase, but there’s still time to catch up with the show’s newest co-star, Colin Ferguson, to chat about his character, joining the cast, and the contingent of Canadian actors on the series.
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Jared Keeso and Adrian Holmes star in Bravo’s new series, 19-2, a police drama about two officers, both recovering from painful events in their lives, who are partnered on the streets of Montreal and have to figure out how they can deal with their issues and still work together.
Monsters and creatures of the night come in all shapes and sizes, although not if you’re talking about werewolves. For a very long time, werewolves have been macho monsters, which is why it is more than a little refreshing to see a woman ripping into the throats of her enemies in the new Space channel series, Bitten.
Helix is an enigma wrapped in a riddle and buried in the dark confines of a research base in the frozen reaches of the arctic, and it’s fantastic.
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first new Blu-ray column of 2014. This year’s first edition is essentially dominated by the latest from television–most notably, two Canadian-made series that are well worth mentioning.
Winter might be raging across Canada right now, but back when Lost Girl was filming their big fourth season in Toronto, the hottest days of summer had the city sweltering. The cast, for their part, were calm and cool on set as I sat down to chatted with them about the developments from season three, and where things were headed for the show’s new season that was still in the midst of production.
Netflix has the perfect bloody Valentine planned for February 14 thanks to the return of House of Cards for the show’s second season, which follows the hugely successful debut in 2013 on top of four Golden Globe nominations — including for Best TV Series – drama, and three nods for actors Robin Wright, Kevin Spacey and Corey Stoll.
Less than two weeks from now the Academy Awards will announce the nominees for the 2014 Oscars, but not before host Ellen DeGeneres got her groove on with a group of tuxedo-clad dancers, who all got very theatrical to the song “The Walker” by Fitz and The Tantrums.
Angels walked the runway in New York City last night for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which aired on CBS, and Global in Canada. Star performers Taylor Swift and Fall Out Boy helped open the night as Victoria’s Secret models showed off the latest designs that will be on a lot of wish lists this season, including the Royal Fantasy bra.
The GATE has been working hard collecting lists of all of the programs that will be airing over the holiday season, and we’ve put together a special calendar to help you catch some of the specials airing on television over the coming weeks.