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    SG1/SGA - Attn: Canadians: Canoe: Fall TV Preview

    From Canoe:

    http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/08/22/1768897.html

    (Please follow the link for the complete article.)

    Here we go again -- the U.S. networks court us with serial dramas that beg viewers to commit to long-term relationships -- only to have them snatched away in midstream. Remember how Fox aborted its 20-part serial Reunion last year? And NBC dropped Surface and CBS dumped Threshold and ABC ended that alien Invasion? Well, apparently, short-attention-span network heads forgot. Sure there are serial successes like Lost, Prison Break and 24, but why should we put our faith in new shows if networks won't? There are tempting offers on the fall slate. Just don't bite too hard:

    **snippage**

    Shark (CBS/Global, Sept. 21)

    James Woods is a brash narcissist who leads a team of L.A. criminal prosecutors with a high-tech arsenal at their disposal. A former defence lawyer, he knows all the tricks and has all the expensive toys, along with TV's must-have accessory -- a precocious teen daughter. Wracked by guilt for getting a killer off the hook, he joins the good guys and butts heads with boss Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager's Seven of Nine). Look for former Winnipegger Sarah Carter in a supporting role. [Alexis Cruz (Skaara) is also part of the cast.]


    **snippage**

    MID-SEASON SHOWS


    Masters of Science Fiction (ABC)
    Stephen Hawking introduces a sci-fi anthology series shot in Vancouver. Judy Davis, Terry O'Quinn, James Cromwell, John Hurt and other hot talents star in adaptations of stories by Robert Heinlein and other sci-fi greats.

    **snippage**

    http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/08/26/1777333.html

    Fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on? Too true too often. But we can be thankful to cable pioneers on a couple of fronts. Intrepid upstarts — think The Sopranos circa 1997 — not only forced broadcast networks to ramp up their creative game, they made life beyond basic cable a hip place to hang. And in TV, nothing breeds like success. Thanks to U.S. cablenets like FX, Showtime and HBO — along with stalwart BBC — we’re starting to feel like we’re getting what we pay for on those cable and digital tiers. Some reasons to believe:

    New Arrivals

    Life on Mars (BBC Canada, Sept. 13)

    Manchester cop Sam Tyler (State of Play’s John Simm) is desperate to rescue his girlfriend from a serial killer when a car accident knocks him right out of the 21st century and back to 1973. His old-new world may only be a coma-induced dreamstate — voices from his hospital room often filter in via his TV set — but there’s no escaping his retro life or his grudging bond with old-school partner Gene Hunt (SoP’s Philip Glenister), a tough copper whose methods are strictly un-PC — like he gives a rat’s arse. Part buddy actioner and part police procedural — without modern conveniences like cellphones, computers and DNA tests — the show is massively entertaining. And even with Roger Whittaker, it’s got the coolest soundtrack on the tube.

    **snippage**

    Eureka (Space, Sept. 10)

    A town full of oddballs and genius inventors — several members of the Einstein and Oppenheimer families among them — go about their brainy business in a small northwest U.S. town. When an L.A. cop (Coupling’s Colin Ferguson) and his runaway teen daughter happen on the scene, they’re soon introduced to a secret government science lab, a high-tech Aussie dogcatcher type (Matt Frewer) and a sexy psychiatrist (Debrah Farentino) who knows where all the bodies are buried. Shot in Vancouver for U.S. Sci-Fi Network.

    **snippage**

    Returning Shows


    The 4400 (Space Sept. 11)

    My, how baby Isabelle has grown. A war is brewing between non-abductees and the 4400 as the series — featuring former Winnipegger Richard Kahan as geek Marco — resumes.

    Masters of Horror (Scream, Oct. 28)

    The first season kinda sucked wind, but what the hey. John Carpenter (Halloween) and other directors promise more chills on the second go-round. But if you want real chills, you’ll have to hit the DVD store next month to pick up Japanese director Takashi Miike’s episode, which the U.S. network refused to air.


    Battlestar Galactica (Space, Oct. 7)

    Those darn Cylons — just when the humans find a friendly planet, they make an alien mess of it.

    Stargate SG-1 (Space, Nov. 2)

    The 10th and final season of the show, made superfluous by …

    Stargate Atlantis (Space, January)

    The spinoff opens its sophomore season with more peril for Dr. Weir’s intrepid gatecrashers.

    Copyright © 2006, Canoe Inc.


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