Paranormal Roommates, a Time Traveler and a Fake Reality Show
1. Being Human (Syfy 9/8c)
The werewolf that isn't a werewolf anymore is now a werewolf again. The ghost who was reanimated is now becoming a flesh (animal flesh for now) eating zombie and the vampire was just infected with a virus that could potentially kill him. Will he die? Probably not, but the way this show works we could possibly get a ghost-vampire. Or would it be a vampire ghost?
2. Continuum (Syfy 8/7c)
The episode before the finale is usually called the penultimate episode because a lot of the story lines either come to an end or the start to cross and we start to see a bigger picture of what the show is about. Continuum is no different and in the second to last episode of it's first season Kiera and Carlos end up a Max's farm to stop his step brother and his friends from blowing the city up. Thank god for future cop.
3. Burning Love (E! 10/9c)
In honor of the Bachelor season finale one of my Top Three spots is given to the parody reality TV show that pokes all sorts of fun at the Bachelor series. If you like the Bachelor or just enjoy laughing in general take thrity minutes out of your day and check this show out.
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Sally is becoming a zombie and losing her hair, Aiden is going through blood withdrawals and Josh is being the same cool bro as always. Now only that it looks like the death of the teenage werewolf has made Josh's girlfriend ok with Aiden (?).
2. Continuum (Syfy 8/7c)
The eighth episode of the first season has a very video game feel, mainly because it is based around a video game. When two people end up committing murder suicides and there only common bond is that they tested software, Kiera decides to try the software herself. She ends up being controled and almost killing her partner. And she would of got away with it too if it wasn't for the meddling kid in the barn with all his gadgets.
3. Burning Love (E! 10/9c)
The parody Bachelor show is hilarious and if you enjoy these episodes at all go to yahoo.com and check out the second season which is being aired right now online.
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This season hasn't been le-gen-wait for it-dary, and ever since it was renewed for another season the realization that in order to find out who the mother is you'll have to wait a whole other season. I think it would be cool if for the final season we get a sitcom where Bob Sagget (the voice of adult Ted) is the dad and the two kids he's been telling this 9 year long story too will have actual stories. They have shown us clips of the future before, why can't they have a whole season set there?
2. Being Human (Syfy 9/8c)
The ghost that is not a ghost anymore, but if she sees someone she new before she died they will die, runs into her brother this episode. Which means she has pretty much killed her brother. The only way she can think of stopping it from happening is to go see the witch. The witch doesn't take to kindly to them and that can probably only mean one thing Sally will give up being a not-ghost and go back to being a ghost to save her brother. (That is just a prediction and I have no actual knowledge, besides the clip, of what happens in this episode.)
3. Continuum (Syfy 8/7c)
The Syfy show is just entering the best episodes of the season. You are going to learn some things that make the show make so much more sense. If you still have not seen this show, find a way and watch the whole season now and hopefully you will be ready if they make a season 2.
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It seems that before this show is over they are going to try and give Ted every possible stereotypical girlfriend. Last week it was the stalker, the week before that it was a young women who wants an older man. Where do they go from there, maybe a girl that isn't white. Maybe a blind women. Maybe a women with only one leg. The bad thing about this show is that I am almost positive that they have shown us each of those women. Come on guys can we just meet the mother already?
2. Being Human
The show about a vampire, a ghost and a werewolf living together is getting weird. First the ghost isn't a ghost anymore and if she sees anyone from before she died then they will die. The werewolf also isn't a werewolf anymore, but his girlfriend (that he turned) is one and so is the 15 year old orphan girl they have decided to take in. The vampire on the other hand is only the last vampire left in Boston because of a flu that affects humans and permanently taints their blood. Yeah, I just wrote all that and is sounds even crazier now that I think about it.
3. Continuum
The Canadian show airing on Syfy hasn't gained that much steam from it's new home and probably won't get a second season. So if you like to support Canadian television or just like good science fiction than find a way to check out this show.
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Not only are we getting another look at Robin Sparkles but there are a lot of Canadian guest stars on this episode where we still wont find out who the titular mother is. Now that HIMYM has been renewed for another season there is no reason to believe they are going to let anyone know who the mother will be.
2. Continuum (Syfy 9/8c)
This show is set in Canada and made by Canadians. Since being picked up by Syfy, in the states, the possibility of a second season has jumped and I am literally holding my breath until they announce one. (I can't breath.)
3. Hawaii Five-0 (CBS 10/9c)
This weeks episode of Hawaii Five-0 is a remake of a episode from the 70's series. I never saw any of the old show so hopefully they give us a lot of flashbacks.
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A werewolf, ghost and vampire all live together in nice house in the city. The only thing is that in this third season the werewolf has been cured and the ghost has been put back in her body. Bring Human tends to get a little crazy at about half way through the season, too bad we're not there yet.
2. Continuum (Syfy 8/7c)
Continuum is a Canadian show that got picked up to air in the United States on Syfy. Most Canadian shows that get picked up by the States is usually stripped of everything and then they try and make it a more regional show but that hasn't worked yet. This show is being left completly in tact which I think is a great idea.
The show is about a group of terrorists, in the year 2075, who instead of being executed hatched a plan to use the execution machine to send them back in time. Little did they know, that when they taveled back a cop (future cop?) was also sucked into the time machine. Now the lone future cop has to stop them before they take down the government, cause everyone loves the government.
On a slow TV night what's better then watching a bunch of rubes get swindled out of their money.
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When you think of Canadian television
shows, expertise and execution are not always what first come to mind. Most of
the time you think of campy storylines, bad acting or you don’t even bother
thinking about them at all. Over the years, though, there have been a few TV
shows that could easily pass for an American show. There has even been a show
that being taken and remade for American TV (Being Erica). The shows on this
list could (on a slow TV day) possibly pass for a show from the States, or at
least a BBC show.
10. Rookie Blue
The tenth spot came down to two police
dramas, Flashpoint and Rookie Blue. Of the two only Rookie Blue has been turn
into a quickly canceled American television show, and that being the case it
makes the list. Rookie Blue has some strong Canadian talent in the cast lead by
the beautiful Missy Peregrym.
9. Continuum
Continuum debuted this year on
Showcase and is about a cop and a group of terrorists who time travel from 2077
to 2012. The whole show takes place in beautiful Vancouver and although you’ll
recognize that the main actress (Rachel Nichols) is not Canadian most of the
other actors are Canadian citizens (Erik Knusden, Victor Webster, Tony
Amendola).
8. Dragons’ Den
If you are from the United States of
America then you would be surprised to know that before Shark’s Tank there was
a successful entrepreneurs-get-pitched-ideas-and-fight-over-them reality TV
show called Dragon’s Den. Canadian business men Kevin O’leary and Robert
Herjavec even made the jump from the Canadian Dragons’ Den to the American
Shark Tank.
7. Degrassi High
Degrassi is the original teen high
school drama. The show followed a bunch of Canadian kids through high school
(the kids were followed from Kids of Degrassi Street and Degrassi Junior High
too). The topics and storylines of many of the episodes were very
controversial, dealing with such things as abortion, sex, suicide, drugs and
AIDS. The show is so popular in Canada that it has spawned a modern version
(Degrassi: The Next Generation) a decade after it ended its initial run.
6. Rent-a-Goalie
The main character of this half hour
comedy was Cake (Wikipedia describes him as: “a hockey-mad,
recovered-from-everything go-to guy, who runs a rag-tag hockey goalie rental
service out of cafe Primo, a family owned coffee shop in Toronto’s Little
Italy.”) The show was full of all sorts of
hijinx and really only failed because it didn’t get enough viewers. Today if
they marketed it like FX does with It’s always Sunny In Philadelphia they
wouldn’t have had a problem.
5. The Kids in the Hall
The original kings of Canadian sketch
comedy (yeah I see you SCTV), if you have never laughed at a skit where Mark
McKinney and Scott Thompson are in dressed in drag then you are missing out.
Not to mention Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald at their comedic prime, these were
the days. (I’m squishing your head!)
4. Less Than Kind
This show was a half hour based comedy
set in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I don’t know if this show resonated with me
so much because it is set in my home town or because the main character is an
awkward, overweight teenager with a dysfunctional family, but either way I’m
glad I did. The show has been on hiatus (I don’t know if it’s coming back)
since the passing of legendary Canadian actor and one of the leads on the show,
Maury Chaykin. I’ll end this segment with a quote from the late and great
legend himself that I found on Wikipedia (because obviously that’s where I do
all my research).
“We
understood that the value of the show was in the fact that it’s not a sitcom –
it’s a shoe that’s beautifully written, with characters that are less than
perfect, that are real... We’re not wrapping every episode up nice and neatly,
because it’s all in the sloppiness – that’s where the gold is.” - Maury Chaykin
3. Kenny vs. Spenny
Is t just me or has one of the best
reality series’ of all time came and passed already in our lifetime? I cannot
answer that with utmost certainty but what I can say is this, I loved Kenny vs.
Spenny. It was one of the most polarizing shows because you found yourself
rooting for the villain (Kenny) to cheat and win the competitions most episodes
(unless you are soft and felt bad for Spenny). The fact that no other two
humans on earth have ever tried to recreate the things they did, (or if they
have, had very little success at it) says something about the originality and
utter craziness that they unleashed on the world.
2. Trailer Park Boys
The States has many mockumentaries on
TV nowadays and I wouldn’t put any of them up against TPB is a face off of
great mockumentaries. TPB is the story of a film crew that follows around low
level criminals, Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, during their everyday life in
Sunnyvale Trailer Park. The show is utterly ridiculous at most points and has a
lot of very familiar yet unfamiliar storylines (especially for Canadians). The
whole concept was made even better when the cast were at Ali G levels of commitment
and doing many of their interviews and off screen appearances as their
characters.
1. Corner Gas
The Canadian Seinfeld, Brett Butt has
less of “what’s the deal with...” feel and more of an “eh that’s kind of
strange” thing going on. They do have a lot in common though, both were stand
up comics who took their routines and adapted them for TV. Both seem pretty
cynical and lazy. And both of their shows are more or less based on “nothing”.
The differences between their shows
were apparent, middle of nowhere Saskatchewan is not New York, Jerry’s
apartment isn’t the Corner Gas Gas Station, and The Ruby is no Monk’s. Again,
though, comparisons can be made the wacky friend (Hank/Kramer), the will they won’t
they female opposite (Lacey/Elaine), both shows even had the older couple that
always bickered (the Leroys/the Costanzas). Both shows even developed much
divided fan bases that either loved them or hated them.
I know that comparing Seinfeld and
Corner Gas is like comparing apples and oranges and to all the Seinfeld fans
out there, there will never be another Seinfeld. At the same time though, all
the Canadian fans of Corner Gas know that there will never be another Corner
Gas either and it all ours.
