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23 July 2010 @ 10:31 pm
13 February 2010 @ 10:34 am
The episode names of the 2 hour premiere of The Bridge is ...
1x01: Red Door / 1x02: Paint It Black
Episode Synopsis (from the CTV website for The Bridge): When beat cop Frank Leo becomes fed up with the corrupt police brass, he leads a walkout strike and makes himself a target as a renegade union rep.
Below is the more detail episode synopsis from the CTV Media Release on Feb 11th ...
In the special two-hour series premiere (Friday, March 5 at 9 p.m. ET), beat cop Frank Leo is fed up. Bridge Division is understaffed, and good cops are being blamed for a spate of mysterious drug rip-offs. Then Frank's mentor, framed by the corrupt police brass, commits suicide. When Frank realizes the brass won't give his mentor a police funeral, it's the last straw. He leads a walkout strike, putting his career and the careers of his entire division on the line. Then, when Frank and his fellow officers are blamed for an act of "Contagious Fire", the brass sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of Frank once and for all. Frank realizes that in order to save himself and change things, he must take over the reigns of the Police Union. He soon finds himself thrust into a treacherous world of politics, intrigue and violence. And just as he's become head of the Police Union, Frank is forced to make a critical decision that could ultimately bring him down.
1x01: Red Door / 1x02: Paint It Black
Episode Synopsis (from the CTV website for The Bridge): When beat cop Frank Leo becomes fed up with the corrupt police brass, he leads a walkout strike and makes himself a target as a renegade union rep.
Below is the more detail episode synopsis from the CTV Media Release on Feb 11th ...
In the special two-hour series premiere (Friday, March 5 at 9 p.m. ET), beat cop Frank Leo is fed up. Bridge Division is understaffed, and good cops are being blamed for a spate of mysterious drug rip-offs. Then Frank's mentor, framed by the corrupt police brass, commits suicide. When Frank realizes the brass won't give his mentor a police funeral, it's the last straw. He leads a walkout strike, putting his career and the careers of his entire division on the line. Then, when Frank and his fellow officers are blamed for an act of "Contagious Fire", the brass sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of Frank once and for all. Frank realizes that in order to save himself and change things, he must take over the reigns of the Police Union. He soon finds himself thrust into a treacherous world of politics, intrigue and violence. And just as he's become head of the Police Union, Frank is forced to make a critical decision that could ultimately bring him down.
03 February 2010 @ 08:55 am
THE BRIDGE will premiere on CTV on Friday March 5th, 2010 @ 9pm.
Below is the press release (copy and paste of just the parts about The Bridge) .....
Below is the press release (copy and paste of just the parts about The Bridge) .....
Olympic Games Launch Pad: New CTV Original Series HICCUPS, DAN FOR MAYOR, and THE BRIDGE Get Post-Olympic Games Premieres
Toronto, ON (February 2, 2010) – CTV announced today it has strategically scheduled three new Original Canadian series to debut next month, immediately following the conclusion of the VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES. The three series will benefit from weeks of promotion during what is to be one of the most-watched television events of the year.
Aaron Douglas heats up Friday Nights in new police drama THE BRIDGE, March 5
The much-anticipated premiere of CTV’s newest one-hour original drama series, THE BRIDGE. Starring BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s Aaron Douglas, THE BRIDGE is an authentic and unique twist on the police procedural told through the lens of a charismatic police union leader. The series debuts Friday, March 5 at 9 p.m. ET with a special two-hour series premiere before moving to its regular Fridays at 10 p.m. ET timeslot beginning March 12 on CTV.
Episodes of HICCUPS, DAN FOR MAYOR and THE BRIDGE will also be available on demand in HD on the CTV Video Player at CTV.ca following their television broadcast. HICCUPS and DAN FOR MAYOR also air Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT and 8:30 p.m. ET/PT beginning March 6 on The Comedy Network and will also be available for purchase from popular download sites.
THE BRIDGE
After the rank and file unanimously vote tough and dedicated street cop Frank Leo (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s Aaron Douglas) into office as the police union’s dynamic leader, he begins his quest to put street cops first and clean up the force from the ground up as he battles criminals on the street, police department brass and corruption in the ranks. But the old boys’ network running the police force and the city’s self-serving politicians are not about to sit idly by while a former street cop makes up his own rules. Frank walks the thin blue line as he battles criminals on the streets, corruption in the ranks and the politically motivated department brass, letting nothing stop him from fulfilling his unwavering vow that when cops are in trouble, he will be there to protect the protectors.
THE BRIDGE also stars Paul Popowich (ANGELA’S EYES, I ME WED); Inga Cadranel (RENT-A-GOALIE, MVP); Frank Cassini (Vice, INTELLIGENCE); Theresa Joy (ALL THE GOOD ONES ARE MARRIED, Sixty Days); Ona Grauer (STARGATE SG-1 and STARGATE ATLANTIS); Michael Murphy (Away from Her, X-Men: The Last Stand); and Stuart Margolin (THE ROCKFORD FILES, TOM STONE).
Source: CTV Media Releases
Toronto, ON (February 2, 2010) – CTV announced today it has strategically scheduled three new Original Canadian series to debut next month, immediately following the conclusion of the VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES. The three series will benefit from weeks of promotion during what is to be one of the most-watched television events of the year.
Aaron Douglas heats up Friday Nights in new police drama THE BRIDGE, March 5
The much-anticipated premiere of CTV’s newest one-hour original drama series, THE BRIDGE. Starring BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s Aaron Douglas, THE BRIDGE is an authentic and unique twist on the police procedural told through the lens of a charismatic police union leader. The series debuts Friday, March 5 at 9 p.m. ET with a special two-hour series premiere before moving to its regular Fridays at 10 p.m. ET timeslot beginning March 12 on CTV.
Episodes of HICCUPS, DAN FOR MAYOR and THE BRIDGE will also be available on demand in HD on the CTV Video Player at CTV.ca following their television broadcast. HICCUPS and DAN FOR MAYOR also air Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT and 8:30 p.m. ET/PT beginning March 6 on The Comedy Network and will also be available for purchase from popular download sites.
THE BRIDGE
After the rank and file unanimously vote tough and dedicated street cop Frank Leo (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s Aaron Douglas) into office as the police union’s dynamic leader, he begins his quest to put street cops first and clean up the force from the ground up as he battles criminals on the street, police department brass and corruption in the ranks. But the old boys’ network running the police force and the city’s self-serving politicians are not about to sit idly by while a former street cop makes up his own rules. Frank walks the thin blue line as he battles criminals on the streets, corruption in the ranks and the politically motivated department brass, letting nothing stop him from fulfilling his unwavering vow that when cops are in trouble, he will be there to protect the protectors.
THE BRIDGE also stars Paul Popowich (ANGELA’S EYES, I ME WED); Inga Cadranel (RENT-A-GOALIE, MVP); Frank Cassini (Vice, INTELLIGENCE); Theresa Joy (ALL THE GOOD ONES ARE MARRIED, Sixty Days); Ona Grauer (STARGATE SG-1 and STARGATE ATLANTIS); Michael Murphy (Away from Her, X-Men: The Last Stand); and Stuart Margolin (THE ROCKFORD FILES, TOM STONE).
Source: CTV Media Releases
20 January 2010 @ 08:13 pm
Below is a video that an actor has uploaded on YouTube of his audition for The Bridge.
In the first scene it appears that the 'reader' is reading the parts of both Frank Leo (Aaron Douglas) and Abby St. James (Ona Grauer). I'm not sure if this is actual dialogue from the show so consider it a spoiler just in case it is.
( video description under the LJ cut ... )
In the first scene it appears that the 'reader' is reading the parts of both Frank Leo (Aaron Douglas) and Abby St. James (Ona Grauer). I'm not sure if this is actual dialogue from the show so consider it a spoiler just in case it is.
( video description under the LJ cut ... )
17 January 2010 @ 10:59 pm
Shoe fits as acting duo collaborates
By: Rita Zekas
Date: January 16th, 2010
Mother and daughter share a certain talent but Ardal defers to Cadranel when it's time to shop.
Actors Maja Ardal and Inga Cadranel don't have a mother-and-daughter act, but it is inevitable. They share a profession, a shoe size (7), a love of footwear and a wicked sense of humour.
Ardal is back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where she staged her Dora-Award winning one-woman play You Fancy Yourself, now playing in Toronto at Theatre Passe Muraille through Jan. 23. Cadranel has a series The Bridge, set to debut on CTV and CBS, and is off to Los Angeles for pilot season.
They converge at Walking on a Cloud at 2010A Queen St. E. in the Beach because Ardal has been drooling over a pair of Hunter rubber boots for weeks. She is going for the Hunters and a pair of MBTs, shoes with a "rocker" sole that are supposed to be a workout for the feet.
( continue reading the interview under the LJ cut ... )
By: Rita Zekas
Date: January 16th, 2010
Mother and daughter share a certain talent but Ardal defers to Cadranel when it's time to shop.
Actors Maja Ardal and Inga Cadranel don't have a mother-and-daughter act, but it is inevitable. They share a profession, a shoe size (7), a love of footwear and a wicked sense of humour.
Ardal is back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where she staged her Dora-Award winning one-woman play You Fancy Yourself, now playing in Toronto at Theatre Passe Muraille through Jan. 23. Cadranel has a series The Bridge, set to debut on CTV and CBS, and is off to Los Angeles for pilot season.
They converge at Walking on a Cloud at 2010A Queen St. E. in the Beach because Ardal has been drooling over a pair of Hunter rubber boots for weeks. She is going for the Hunters and a pair of MBTs, shoes with a "rocker" sole that are supposed to be a workout for the feet.
( continue reading the interview under the LJ cut ... )
22 December 2009 @ 10:34 pm
Meet Inga Cadranel
By: Flannery Dean
Date: December 21st, 2009
Inga Cadranel played Francesca in the Showcase comedy Rent-A-Goalie, a role that won her two Canadian Comedy Awards. Now, the Toronto-born and bred actress is getting serious, playing a tough detective on the new CBS/CTV co-production The Bridge. (The series will debut in early 2010.) Here, the down-to-earth actress talks about comedy, female cops on TV, her and favourite cop drama of all time.
( continue reading the interview under the LJ cut ... )
By: Flannery Dean
Date: December 21st, 2009
Inga Cadranel played Francesca in the Showcase comedy Rent-A-Goalie, a role that won her two Canadian Comedy Awards. Now, the Toronto-born and bred actress is getting serious, playing a tough detective on the new CBS/CTV co-production The Bridge. (The series will debut in early 2010.) Here, the down-to-earth actress talks about comedy, female cops on TV, her and favourite cop drama of all time.
( continue reading the interview under the LJ cut ... )
15 November 2009 @ 10:04 am
Below is a copy and paste of an article in the The Globe and Mail where Theresa Joy is interviewed. I have highlighted Theresa's part of the article in green font if you want to just skip to that part.
The Geminis: buddy, can you spare a tux?
By: Gayle MacDonald
Date: November 13, 2009
Everyone looks like a million bucks at the Geminis. But most Canadian actors can't afford too much champagne.
[ For years, Theresa Joy of The Bridge worked multiple jobs to make ends meet ]
( continue reading the interview under the LJ cut ... )
The Geminis: buddy, can you spare a tux?
By: Gayle MacDonald
Date: November 13, 2009
Everyone looks like a million bucks at the Geminis. But most Canadian actors can't afford too much champagne.
[ For years, Theresa Joy of The Bridge worked multiple jobs to make ends meet ]
( continue reading the interview under the LJ cut ... )
15 October 2009 @ 09:38 am
My Car: Sports cars aren't sexy
By: Petrina Gentile
Date: October 14th, 2009
A Jeep SUV gets this TV star's family off-roading, or cruising while blasting Iron Maiden
( continue reading the interview under the LJ cut ... )
By: Petrina Gentile
Date: October 14th, 2009
A Jeep SUV gets this TV star's family off-roading, or cruising while blasting Iron Maiden
( continue reading the interview under the LJ cut ... )
12 August 2009 @ 07:22 pm
An article on an actress who will be guest starring on THE BRIDGE.
Local actress appearing in cop show
By: Julia Le
Date: August 11th, 2009
Rahnuma Panthaky came home several months ago, for both work and play.
The University of Toronto Mississauga theatre and drama studies graduate, now an actress/writer/producer who for the past few years has been living in both Mississauga and Los Angeles, spent three weeks in May visiting family and shooting a guest spot on a new Canadian television show being filmed in Toronto.
Panthaky, who auditioned earlier this year for a spot on The Bridge, a one-hour police drama to air in the new year on CTV in Canada and CBS in the U.S., will appear on an episode as a 9-1-1 dispatcher.
She said it's a great opportunity to work on a Canadian series. "It's really well-written," said Panthaky, who played Dr. Sheila Basrur in the television movie, Plague City: SARS in Toronto, and was a regular on BBC mini-series The State Within. "It peels away the veneer of a big-city Canadian police force to reveal the political machinations underneath and underlying things that happen within it."
The series, written by five-time Gemini Award-winner Alan Di Fiore (Da Vinci's Inquest, The Life, The Handler), is based on the insights of insider and outspoken former Toronto police union head Craig Bromell. It stars Aaron Douglas (Chief Galen Tyrol, Battlestar Galactica), who plays Frank Leo, a street cop turned police union head.
Panthaky says she loves acting, but didn't always know she wanted to be a performer.
"I didn't think I was going to have it as a career," she said, adding her original plan was to be a drama teacher. "But then something happened during second-year university and, through performing, I thought I didn't want to teach this, I wanted to do."
These days, Panthaky is busy writing, producing and acting. She's working on developing a half-hour TV comedy geared toward women in their 30s, called Way Past Curfew.
"It's been really cool to be on the other side of creating a television series, versus being on camera," she said.
Source: Mississauga
By: Julia Le
Date: August 11th, 2009
Rahnuma Panthaky came home several months ago, for both work and play.
The University of Toronto Mississauga theatre and drama studies graduate, now an actress/writer/producer who for the past few years has been living in both Mississauga and Los Angeles, spent three weeks in May visiting family and shooting a guest spot on a new Canadian television show being filmed in Toronto.
Panthaky, who auditioned earlier this year for a spot on The Bridge, a one-hour police drama to air in the new year on CTV in Canada and CBS in the U.S., will appear on an episode as a 9-1-1 dispatcher.
She said it's a great opportunity to work on a Canadian series. "It's really well-written," said Panthaky, who played Dr. Sheila Basrur in the television movie, Plague City: SARS in Toronto, and was a regular on BBC mini-series The State Within. "It peels away the veneer of a big-city Canadian police force to reveal the political machinations underneath and underlying things that happen within it."
The series, written by five-time Gemini Award-winner Alan Di Fiore (Da Vinci's Inquest, The Life, The Handler), is based on the insights of insider and outspoken former Toronto police union head Craig Bromell. It stars Aaron Douglas (Chief Galen Tyrol, Battlestar Galactica), who plays Frank Leo, a street cop turned police union head.
Panthaky says she loves acting, but didn't always know she wanted to be a performer.
"I didn't think I was going to have it as a career," she said, adding her original plan was to be a drama teacher. "But then something happened during second-year university and, through performing, I thought I didn't want to teach this, I wanted to do."
These days, Panthaky is busy writing, producing and acting. She's working on developing a half-hour TV comedy geared toward women in their 30s, called Way Past Curfew.
"It's been really cool to be on the other side of creating a television series, versus being on camera," she said.
Source: Mississauga
06 July 2009 @ 10:42 pm
[click on thumbnail to enlarge image]
Photo caption: Ona Grauer and Inga Cadranel from The Bridge at the CTV Up Close party.
Photographer: Rui Agapito
Source: Playback Magazine (Issue: June 22nd, 2009)
