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The Canadian police drama King will return for its second season with its premiere episode slated to air on the Showcase channel this Wednesday, February 29 at 9 PM. King is a clever series focusing on Jessica King (actress Amy Price-Francis), a charismatic but unconventional lead investigator for Toronto’s Major Crimes Task Force. Imagine King as a cross between Kate …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Television Producer and Writer Thania St. John. Thania graduated from Harvard University in 1983 and got her start in television in 1989 and in1990 as a story editor and writer on 21 Jump Street; a writer on Midnight Caller; a writer and producer on Life Goes On and a story editor …

Thanks to an article at Pop Candy, the weekly column at USA Today written by Whitney Matheson, I recently learned about a documentary film that is (hopefully) going to be featured at the annual South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas next month. That documentary is called Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines. A film that focuses …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on writer, producer and series creator Leila Gerstein. Leila got her start writing a 2004 made-for-TV movie called Tempting Adam that starred a then unknown Joelle Carter (Justified) and Matthew Del Negro (Rizzoli & Isles) and then was a writer for the short-lived ABC series life as we know it in 2005. …

So much happened in the latest episode of Lost Girl that it is a lot to rap your head around. First, Kenzi and Nate are back after being on the road. They learn about Bo’s new boy toy – Ryan – and a sweet reunion takes place between the pseudo-sisters once the boys are out of the way. And, they …

The fourth season of the innovative music series Live from the Artists Den will return to national public television on February 3. The Emmy-nominated show connects music fans with an interesting array of artists and emerging musicians in historic and unusual settings. This year’s series will premiere with a performance by multi-platinum Grammy nominee Adele at the Santa Monica Bay …

As the TV season continues to roll out this year, the following are shows that are returning to the winter line-up, cable shows that will be back on with new episodes, new shows that will debut or time slot changes for a select few. Please use the following as a guide for your viewing pleasure for February: February 1 – …

For many years the proliferation of shows from “across the pond” has been unprecedented with countless shows from the UK becoming hits here in the States. Just a few examples are shows such as Doctor Who, Torchwood, Luther and Being Human. But now the folks at the BBC and BBC America just might have a contender to deal with: Canadian …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on film and television director Arlene Sanford. Arlene got her start in television in 1980 by writing the story for an episode of the classic family series Diff’rent Strokes and then writing, producing and directing a short film called Welcome Home that starred Jamie Lee Curtis. From that point on she focused …

When I watched the pilot for The River at Comic Con this past July, I was sitting alone (i.e. without friends or Nice Girls nearby). The screen was very very big, the sound was very very loud. If they wanted to make a memorable impact on the audience, they did a fantastic job. I was terrified. I watched most of …