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Friday's episode of Canadian drama Flashpoint managed to bring back about 85% of the audience for round two and was the most-watched program of the night on both sides of the border. (The decline could be attributed to the Joker Effect, as ratings for Friday were depressed compared to the previous week, while 10 million people took in the newest Batman film.) In a sign of confidence, CTV and CBS, which broadcast Flashpoint in the States, have been replaying the show on Sundays to boost exposure. The tactic was one way to counterbalance Flashpoint's so-called "dead zone" timeslot of Friday at 10 p.m. (Although if eight to nine million viewers can find a show at the time, is it the slot that is the problem or the lack of involving programming?)

Photo by sevennine from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

The fine for street racing is now $10,000. There goes my weekend.

Former Alliance president Robert Lantos and former president of CBS/Tri-Star Pictures/Sony Pictures Jeff Sagansky have invested millions in TV production company Blueprint Entertainment in order to create better Canadian television. Lantos explains, "The strategy is simple: to design TV shows that from the ground floor are genuinely Canadian...[and] whose first sale is to a network in the U.S. In the States, they perceive these shows as being domestic, so they are able to be sold for a much higher price than any imported programming.” It's like what they did with Due South, so how can it be bad?

Can a hard-rocking cat from Toronto’s seamy west end win over American TV audiences, impress three of the most jaded rock stars on the planet, and still keep his artistic integrity? Well, Lukas Rossi, Toronto’s contribution to CBS' “Rock Star: Supernova” reckons that he can.

The Canadian Content of the Late Show with David Letterman will increase by several hundred percent as our own uber-group Broken Social Scene hits CBS tonight. We wonder whether Paul Shaffer will join Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, et al.

The OPP report that 800 traffic tickets were given out on this province's busy highways. The worst offenders included a woman not wearing a seatbelt to be able to play with her chihuahua, and a driver in his underwear holding a bottle of vodka.

"In what way? More sensational? More violent?" he was asked by an incredulous knot of student journalists. At which point a tear gas canister landed nearby and he dashed for cover, thereby avoiding the need to clarify.