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Of course, you do! Especially games that involve torturous death! Lionsgate has released some more goodies for all you Saw fans out there! We have a new featurette, clip, and a couple TV spots for the eighth film in the horror franchise, Jigsaw. They give us a glimpse of the nightmarish terror that awaits audiences and unravel the philosophy of the iconic killer Jigsaw.

I don't know about this movie. I was done with this franchise and now Lionsgate is trying to lure me back in with the return of a killer that's supposed to be dead! When talking about the upcoming film, co-director Michael Spierig told EW:

“We’ve got some pretty wild traps in the film — we don’t shy away from the gore. It’s such a perfect Halloween scarefest. It’s perhaps not quite as vicious and more fun,...

Yesterday, the winners at the 25th Gemini Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Emmy Awards, were revealed as Corey Monteith (Glee) was hosting that night. Moreover, Degrassi Junior High/Degrassi: The Next Generation was crowned by the public as the best Canadian TV series of the last 25 years.

Without further ado, here's the list of winners.

Best Animated Program or Series:

Glen Martin, Dds

Best Children or Youth Fiction Program or Series:

Overruled!

Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series:

Canada's Super Speller

Best Comedy Program or Series:

Less Than Kind

Best Cross-Platform Project - Children’s and Youth:

Taste Buds

Best Cross-Platform Project - Fiction:

Being Erica Webisodes

Best Cross-Platform Project - Non-Fiction:

Kraft Hockeyville 2010

Best Documentary Series:

Licence To Drill

Best Dramatic Mini-Series:

The Summit

Best Dramatic Series:

The Tudors

Best General/Human Interest Series:

Tosca: Flexing at 49

Best History Documentary Program:

Paris 1919

Best Original Program or...

France's TV viewers will have a second chance to see the Canadian TV series The Line. In fact, this series created by George F. Walker and his creative partner Dani Romain will premiere September 6 on 13ème Rue, a crime-series dedicated cable network from France, at 11 Pm.

Shot entirely on location in Toronto and Scarborough, Ontario, The Line follows two morally ambiguous cops, Max (Ron White) and Donny (Daniel Kash), who take matters into their own hands in an attempt to clean up their neighbourhoods. Having lost interest in conventional police work, Max now opts to implement his own method of dealing with the criminals he pursues, while having an affair with burned out legal aid lawyer Jayne (Sharon Lawrence) who has her ailing father Patrick (Ed Asner) to deal with. Donny treats his job as more of a hobby and prefers to bide his time with drinking and prostitutes and...

Today, the Canadian Academy revealed the nominees for the 25th Gemini Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Emmy Awards. So without further ado, let's reveal those who have graced our land of television in fall 2009 and winter 2010.

1. Best Animated Program or Series:

* Glenn Martin, Dds

* Guess With Jess

* Johnny Test

* Kid Vs Kat

* Wapos Bay

2. Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series:

* Degrassi: The Next Generation

* Overruled!

* Pillars of Freedom

* That's So Weird!

* Total Drama Action

3. Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series:

* A World of Wonders

* Canada's Super Speller

* Survive This

* Tvokids: Mark's Moments

4. Best Comedy Program or Series:

* Dan for Mayor

* Less Than Kind

* Little Mosque on the Prairie

* Pure Pwnage

* The Rick Mercer Report

5. Best Dramatic Miniseries:

* Alice

* The Phantom

* The Summit

6. Best Dramatic Series:

* Durham County

* Flashpoint

* Republic of Doyle

* Stargate Universe

* The Tudors

7. Best Music, Variety Program or Series

* 2009 Much Music Video Awards...

Milwaukee - Henry Winkler is not the Fonz.

He played the coolest guy on Happy Days for eleven seasons. But he doesn’t wear a leather jacket, ride a motorcycle or fix things by bumping them with his elbow. He’s not even Italian. He’s got a life that has gone beyond the Fonz. There’s probably a generation that knows him better for Adam Sandler movies and Arrested Development. On a May evening at the Quail Ridge bookstore in Raleigh, there is a group of kids under 12 years old that know him as the author of the Hank Zipzer books (along with co-writer Lin Oliver).

Many stars of the ’70s sell their tawdry memoirs of behind the scenes perversions. Winkler created a young adult book series that taps into grade school life instead of the action in Arnold’s bathroom. We’ll have to wait for lurid tales of the Hooper triplets.

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Linda Hamilton, best known for her role as Sarah Connor in 'The Terminator' and 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day', is joining the cast of the award-winning Showtime series 'Weeds'.

The Ausiello Files reports that Hamilton will appear in several episodes of the sixth season, playing an eco-conscious marijuana grower in Seattle, Wa, helping out Nancy, who's on the run from Southern California. The role marks Hamilton's first return to episodic TV since 2008's 'The Line' with Sharon Lawrence, and her casting comes after the news that original cast member Elizabeth Perkins is leaving the show had proved unpopular with fans.

Perkins, who has been nominated multiple times for Emmys and Golden Globes for her role as alcoholic mother-of-two Celia Hodes, announced in May 2010 that she would not be returning for the sixth season. Instead, she will be playing James Marsden...

About two weeks ago, the first trailer of Shattered surfaced on the net. However, The Cultural Post specified that it was a preview of an old pilot shot before Shattered's script was modified. Now, the second and official trailer of Shattered has finally surfaced on the net.

In this procedural drama created by Rick Drew, Callum Keith Rennie (Californication) plays Ben Sullivan is a tough, smart homicide detective with Multiple Personality Disorder. In the first moments of the series, Ben and his new partner, Amy Lynch (Camille Sullivan), pursue a murder suspect and Lynch is forced to shoot. The resulting Siu investigation bonds the two partners in blood. Moreover, as Ben and Amy works on homicide cases, he doesn't know which personality will surface or when it will.

Moreover, the show also star Karen LeBlanc (Defying Gravity), Clé Bennett (The Line), Molly Parker (Deadwood), Martin Cummins (Dark Angel), Ty Olsson...

A few months ago, the first images of the upcoming Canadian TV series Shattered - which was shot in and around Vancouver, B.C. - surfaced on the net. Now, it's the turn of the show's first trailer to do the same thing.

First of all, this show created by Rick Drew is billed as a cross-over between A Beautiful Mind and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Callum Keith Rennie (Californication) plays Ben Sullivan, a homicide detective with a Multiple Personality Disorder. In the first moments of the series, Ben is bonded in blood to his tough and beautiful partner Amy Lynch (Camille Sullivan). While they work to solve the murder cases that cross their desk daily, Ben copes with the fascinating complexities of his disorder that he doesn't want to reveal to anyone (except a psychologist) and the uncertainty of never knowing which alternate personality will surface, or when.

Moreover,...

HBO Canada, a multiplex channel from the two premium cable networks The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Movie Central (Western Canada), announced that the upcoming Canadian half-hour comedy Living in Your Car will premiere on May 7 at 9:30 Pm.

With the unstable economy as a backdrop, Living in Your Car follows Steve Unger (John Ralston), a fallen corporate executive whose rule of the financial world comes to an abrupt halt when he is arrested and charged with fraud, obstruction and racketeering. After cutting a deal to get out of prison, Steve quickly realizes his old life no longer exists: his former colleagues shun him, his wife, Lori (Ingrid Kavelaars), and daughter, Kate (Mariah Horner), don’t want to live with him, and even his own parents refuse to help him. As he clings desperately to the last vestige of his former self – a luxury sedan – Steve finds himself under court...

Sharon Lawrence has joined Josh Schwartz's comedy pilot for CBS "Hitched." The Schwartz and Matt Miller co-written ensemble centers on a newlywed couple played by Rachel (Kristin Kreuk) and Brett (Jack Carpenter), who deal with their family and friends. Sources report that Lawrence will play Rachel's nosy but well-meaning mother. Lawrence was last seen in "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Community" and "The Mentalist." Other credits including roles in "Monk," "The Line" and "Privileged." Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lawrence is a veteran whose career spans back to 1992's first role in "Civil Wars" as Norma Helmutz.

The Canadian Press, a news agency, has released the first production images of the upcoming TV series Shattered, which was created by Rick Drew. Besides, these pictures can also be found on the Facebook fan page of Callum Keith Rennie, the TV series' leading actor.

Billed as a cross-over between A Beautiful Mind and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the TV series introduces us to Ben Sullivan (Callum Keith Rennie), a homicide detective from Vancouver, B.C. with a Multiple Personality Disorder. In the first moments of the series, Ben is bonded in blood to his tough, beautiful partner Amy Lynch (Camille Sullivan). While they work to solve the murder cases that cross their desk daily, Ben copes with the fascinating complexities of his secret disorder, and the uncertainty of never knowing which alternate personality will surface, or when.

Secondly, series regulars include actors Karen LeBlanc (Defying Gravity, ReGenesis) as Sergeant Pam ‘Tc’ Garrett,...

"There Are Some Places In The Universe You Don't Go Alone."

So said the tag line advertising the main feature at London's Odeon Leicester Square in August 1986. The film on show was Aliens, the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 1979 sci-fi horror movie Alien. Fans of the first film had waited a long time to see what new horrors would be inflicted on Alien's heroine, Ellen Ripley, and her beloved cat. Some feared the cat might be the unfortunate host of writer and director James Cameron's new generation of stomach-bursting beasts. The young Canadian director was keeping the truth close to his chest, though.

Despite the secrecy, moviegoers and critics were optimistic that they would get something good from the man who had thrilled them with The Terminator. As one of them, I went to the Odeon Leicester Square to see Aliens one week after it went on general...

At CinemaSpy we get screeners of early episodes of new television series to review. It's particularly satisfying when you get through a batch and want to see more of a show. So it was with The Line, a 15-episode Canadian-made cop drama that is currently airing on The Movie Network, Movie Central and HBO Canada.

The Line is essentially a soap opera that focuses on two dysfunctional detectives, Max (Ron White) and Donny (Daniel Kash), and the people whose lives they touch. Both men have messed-up love lives and their complicated personal relationships interweave with other elements of The Line's plot to produce a tangled, ongoing story that is atypical of conventional police procedural shows.

Max lives with his wife Karen (Yanna McIntosh) but their relationship is crumbling under the weight of their ethnic differences. Hence, he regularly has sex with burned-out legal aid lawyer Jayne Huxley (Sharon Lawrence...

'Melrose Place,' 'Vampire Diaries' part of fall plans.

By Daniel Frankel

Sources close to CW say the network has picked up three dramas for next season, “The Beautiful Life,” “Melrose Place” and “The Vampire Diaries.”

Produced by Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst Films, “The Beautiful Life” focuses on the lives and careers of fashion models. Sara Paxton (“Last House on the Left”) and Ben Hollingsworth (“The Line”) are series stars.

Arriving from CBS TV Studios, “Melrose Place” is executive produced by Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer (“...

Ever wonder what happened to the actors and actresses from your favorite cancelled shows? They're keeping busy on TV shows like Heroes and According to Jim, on web-only projects and movies. Here's where you'll be able to find performers like Logan Marshall-Green (Traveler), Dylan McDermott (Big Shots), Nicki Aycox (Ed, Supernatural), Justin Baldoni (Everwood), Seth Green (Four Kings), Brekin Meyer (King of the Hill), Justin Long (Ed), Josh Charles (Six Degrees), Christina Ricci (Ally McBeal), Eric Estrada (CHiPs), Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man), Kevin Falls and James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek), David Denman (Angel, The Office), David Faustino (Married with Children), Corin Nemec (Stargate Sg-1), Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Brad Garrett (Til Death), and Jonathan Lipnicki (Meego).

To start off, Logan Marshall-Green (Traveler) and Dylan McDermott (Big Shots) have signed on to The Line, a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced pilot being made for TNT.

TORONTO -- Canadian premium pay TV channels the Movie Network and Movie Central on Thursday raised their order for The Weight from eight to 16 episodes, even before the Canadian drama debuts on air.

Toronto-based producer the Nightingale Co. said the pay TV channels doubled their order for the cop drama from the writing duo of George F. Walker and Dani Romain based on dailies from the first season, which started production in August.

"Here we are, in production for only two months, and we feel truly validated by the networks' decision to commit to a second season" of eight episodes, series producer Debbie Nightgale said.

The Canadian pay TV series stars Ron White (Screamers) and Daniel Kash (Cinderella Man) as two cops as damaged and morally ambiguous as the criminals they pursue.

The first season of The Weight is slated to bow on the Movie Network and Movie Central in fall 2008.

The cast for the Canadian series is rounded out by Sharon Lawrence, Linda Hamilton, Edward Asner and Cle Bennett.