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Television

Robson Arms is still standing

Robson Arms may not be a real place, in the empirical sense of the word, but it surely feels real to the people who work on the show of the same name, to its pleasantly addicted fans—waiting far too long through an extended hiatus that ends this week—and for the passersby who wander into the ground-floor “convenience store” that anchors the East Side site that is masquerading as a downtown apartment building.
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Television

jPod reflects real-world

By Blaine Kyllo
Douglas Coupland’s 2006 novel jPod concerns the lives of a group of Vancouver twentysomethings working at a video-game developer called Neotronic Arts. It’s a thinly veiled reference to Electronic Arts (EA), in the same way that Microsoft was the model for the monolithic corporation in Microserfs.
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Television

Geeks, puck bunnies roll out on Canuck TV

By Sean Minogue
While the Writers Guild of America strike rages on south of the border, new and returning Canadian television productions keep rolling out, covering everything from cross-border issues to techno geeks and puck bunnies. Check out these highlights.
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DVD Releases | Television

What's new on DVD

Best of Colbert, Devil Came on Horseback, No End in Sight, Complete Seinfeld, Sicko
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Movies Features | Television

Looks like Canada

By Ken Eisner
Our nation’s filmmakers are up for “everything possible”, contends Canadian Images programmer Terry McEvoy.
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Television

The hockey, the heart, the hits of our fall TV

By Sean Minogue
Toss the sunscreen aside and pick up the remote. It's time to say goodbye to another balmy Vancouver summer. But don't worry your fading farmer's tan won't be the only red-and-white thing this fall. Homegrown Canadian productions will keep you in your seat till Christmas with must-see documentaries, miniseries, and dramas.
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Movies Features | Television

Filmmaker conjures Jane Austen, the rebel

By Ian Caddell
NEW YORK—If you only watched the British TV shows and films that make it to North American television networks and theatres, you might assume that it would be impossible for a British filmmaker to have a lengthy career and avoid making costume dramas. Julian Jarrold says you would probably be right, despite the fact that his resume includes a popular modern British TV show, Cracker, and a popular modern film, Kinky Boots.
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Television | Trigger Happy

Mega-storage powers up Xbox 360, not PS3

By Blaine Kyllo
Eighteen months after Microsoft released the Xbox 360, its next-gen gaming console, the company will drop a new version onto the market. The latest machine, tagged the Xbox 360 Elite, will be in stores on May 4, and is priced at $550.
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Music Features | Television

Apples in Stereo hobnobs with legends and hobbits

By Shawn Conner
Around Christmastime last year, viewers of The Colbert Report were witness to the guitar summit to end all guitar summits. Classic rocker Peter Frampton went fret to fret with indie-rock champ Chris Funk of the Decemberists, while Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen showed up to lend one of his double-necked guitars to the host. Dropping by to sing a tribute to Colbert—called, appropriately, "Stephen Stephen" (sample lyric: "Who's the television host/That matters most")—was Apples in Stereo's Robert Schneider.
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Movies Features | Television

Timothy Hutton digs into the work

By Ian Caddell
LOS ANGELES—Timothy Hutton was just 19 when filming started on Ordinary People, for which he won an Academy Award for best supporting actor. He went from there to starring roles in several films, including Taps, Iceman, and The Falcon and the Snowman. Twenty-six years after picking up his Oscar, he has come to terms with being a working actor and not a movie star.
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Movies Features | Television

Oscars wild

By Ian Caddell
If the Academy Awards follow tradition this weekend, most winners will be podium regulars—and then there are the exceptions
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Television

Rinkside ratings grab is another NHL clunker

By Jeff Paterson
Sending broadcast team down from booth to bench marks new low in hype, and leaves analysts and audience to drift in space.
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Movie Notes | Television

This week's movie snippets

Best in the West
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Movie Notes | Television

Movie Notes

Gemini glitterati in Richmond The term movie star doesn’t really fit well with English Canadian culture. (Quebeckers support their films, but the rest of us spend our dollars on American movies.) Though there are many outstanding Canadian movies, there is no real star system, which doesn’t help in a medium that relies on headliners for most of its ticket sales.
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Television | Trigger Happy

Game Reviews

By Blaine Kyllo
We Love Katamari, Daxter, and New Super Mario Bros. reviewed
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Television | Video Game Reviews

Daxter

By Blaine Kyllo
Daxter is the side-splitting sidekick from Sony's Jak and Daxter franchise, but in this game, he gets what every sidekick dreams of: a chance to star in his own spinoff. The story integrates nicely into the mythology that's already established in the Haven universe, and the game play is straight?forward and simple, which is all I want when playing on the PSP.
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Television

Home Screen

By Paul Myers
Bioterrorism and other dystopic themes infect the plot lines of the socially relevant sci-fi series ReGenesis, returning for a second season this Sunday (March 19) at 7 p.m. on pay channel Movie Central. Starring Peter Outerbridge, Maxim Roy, and Vancouver's Sarah Strange, the series is produced by Toronto's Shaftesbury Films, which reports that it is currently seen in 60 countries.
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Television

Home Screen

By Paul Myers
CBC Television's Opening Night once again proves it has a knack for commissioning creative and innovative musical entertainment with the premiere of John Murrell and John Estacio's opera Filumena, on Thursday night (March 9) at 8 p.m.
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Television

Home Screen

By Paul Myers
Admittedly, it looks like a nonstarter on paper. So imagine our pleasant surprise when the advance screener of the premiere episode of the fourth season of Puppets Who Kill (airing tonight [March 2] at 10 p.m. on the Comedy Network) arrived and it was actually pretty funny.
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Television

Home Screen

By Paul Myers
As PBS gets ready to re-air all 45 episodes of the classic British sketch comedy of Monty Python's Flying Circus in April, the U.S. public broadcaster has already begun to tease fans with a new six-part series featuring favourite moments from each of the troupe's cast members. Monty Python's Personal Best consists of six one-hour shows spotlighting the individual work of John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and the late Graham Chapman.
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Television

Home Screen

By Paul Myers
"Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is lying about 9/11." As cartoonist Aaron McGruder grabs your attention in the opening minutes of The Boondocks-making its Canadian premiere on Teletoon this Friday (February 17) at 10:30 p.m.-you could be forgiven for thinking that Gil Scott- Heron had it wrong when he sang that the revolution would not be televised. Sadly, you'd be mistaken.
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Television

Home Screen

By Paul Myers
CBC Television's Opening Night continues its winning streak at 8 p.m. tonight (February 9) with another original musical program totally worthy of your attention. This week, it's the Frantics' Dan Redican teaming up with accomplished Canadian composer Alexina Louie for the premiere of their one-hour comic opera Burnt Toast.
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Television

Home Screen

By Paul Myers
Last year, McLean Mashingaidze-Greaves, a producer on CBC TV's innovative arts program Zed, commissioned Grammy-nominated, Juno-winning hip-hop composer Kevin Brereton (aka K-OS) to write a collaborative work to perform with the Vancouver CBC Radio Orchestra-the last remaining ensemble of its kind in North America. The results, and their painstaking process of creation, are chronicled in Burning to Shine, a musical documentary directed and produced by Jennifer Ouano.
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Television

Home Screen

By Paul Myers
Last week we happily tipped you off about CBC's Opening Night, a series featuring an eclectic collection of Canuck cultural events each week. Tonight's show (January 19 at 8 p.m.) features another exciting premiere in the form of Black Widow, an operatic film noir based loosely based on Hamilton, Ontario's, infamous Evelyn Dick Torso murder case, which shocked the nation in the late 1940s.
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Television

Home Screen

CBC TV's Opening Night program, tonight (January 12) at 8 p.m., features the film presentation of The Score, a Vancouver-produced musical drama about a scientist whose own genetic history threatens her career, her lab, and her life. Directed by Kim Collier for Vancouver's Screen Siren Pictures, the film is based on the Electric Company Theatre's play, which explores the controversial world of genetic research through song, dance, and humour.
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