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NHL the week in preview December 28, 2018

CBC has the old team for John Tavares visit his new team for the final Hockey Night in Canada of 2018. The 2 Canadian Winter Olympics cities battle in the late game in the home of the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Citytv carries the battle of the capitals again this week in the Canadian capital.

Rogers Sportsnet shows the Canadiens in western Florida on Saturday night. Hometown Hockey airs from Collingwood, ON at 7:30 pm Eastern with no Canadian teams playing after the show on Sunday night. Wednesday Night Hockey starts 2019 with Vancouver traveling all the way to Ottawa.

Rogers Sportsnet One celebrates New Year's Eve with the Calgary Flames hosting San Jose. The channel will also highlight Edmonton's trip to the older of the desert teams late on Wednesday.

The NHL Network won't even show the Rogers Sportsnet pregame show on Saturday. You wish for a secondary U.S. feed or a CBC feed at times like this.

ESPN+ will have the Maple Leafs on Saturday night hopefully with the HNIC feed.

NHL Network

Tape delayed
Saturday Toronto @ Columbus, 11a (2-hour)

ESPN+

Friday
Toronto @ Columbus, 7p
Saturday
NY Islanders @ Toronto, 7p
Thursday
Calgary @ Boston, 7p

CBC

Saturday
NY Islanders @ Toronto, 7p
Vancouver @ Calgary, 10p

Citytv

Saturday
Washington @ Ottawa, 7p

Rogers Sportsnet

Saturday
Montréal @ Tampa Bay, 7p
Wednesday
Vancouver @ Ottawa, 7p

Rogers Sportsnet One

Monday
San Jose @ Calgary, 9p
Wednesday
Edmonton @ Arizona, 9:30p

Hopefully, you didn't get coal in your stocking unless you got Bob Cole in your stocking. The above video ran on This Hour Has 22 Minutes with cast member Mark Critch and was shown in the Hockey Night in Canada open. Cole runs through a few of his catch phrases. Cole seems to have a good sense of humour in these moments, including his stint as the Voice of the Republic on Republic of Doyle. We also get a glimpse in the sketch of the Don Cherry Fairy.

Felt like old time having Bob Cole in Toronto call a Maple Leafs game on a Saturday night. Even though Cole gets a few more games, unless his fate is changed again, that was the last Saturday night in Toronto.

Jim Hughson and Craig Simpson usually work out west close to Christmas but got an unexpected weekend off. Rogers went with the local crew in Edmonton, which did get Drew Remenda on Hockey Night in Canada.

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You might have noticed that the Toronto Maple Leafs Thursday home game with Minnesota has a 2 pm start. This is the Next Generation Game, designed to have a game where kids can attend. The Next Century Game last season with the Maple Leafs was also kid-friendly.

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The CBC promos were focused on 2019. Coroner is one of the new dramas that we are previewed next week. Cavendish is the lone new comedy on the winter schedule.

The game only had 4 promos instead of the required 6 promos. Would have been fun to hear Bob Cole read a Schitt's Creek promo.

Early game: CBC Gem; Coroner (1st); Cavendish; Kim's Convenience (2nd)

video credit: This Hour Has 22 Minutes/CBC

2019 World Juniors preview

2019 World Juniors Schedule for Canada

Date	Opponent	Time	Home/Away
December 26	Denmark	8 pm	Away
December 27	Switzerland	8 pm	Home
December 29	Czech Republic	8 pm	Away
December 31	Russia	8 pm	Home
Times are Eastern.

 

Happy Boxing Day!!

The 2019 World Juniors are back on Canadian soil. The tournament will be at Rogers Arena in Vancouver and the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in downtown Victoria.

This is the second time Vancouver has been involved and the first for Victoria.

One new twist is that Canada is in Group A in Vancouver while the United States will be in Group B in Victoria.

Group B consists of the United States, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, and Kazakhstan.

You can access the full schedule for all the countries.

NHL Network will have the TSN feed in all games that don't feature the United States. Gord Miller and Ray Ferraro will have the coverage from Vancouver while Dennis Beyak and Craig Button will call the games in Victoria. Tessa Bonhomme will work at ice level with Miller and Ferraro.

The playoffs round starts January 2 with a pair of quarterfinals in each city. The semifinals (January 4) and the gold- and bronze-medal game (January 5) will be in Vancouver.

photo credit: 2019 World Juniors

NHL the week in preview December 21, 2018

The NHL Network takes the CBC feed on Saturday night with the Maple Leafs hosting the Blue Shirts.

CBC has Bob Cole with the New York Rangers in Toronto in an Original 6 game. The all-Canadian matchup of the Winnipeg Jets in Vancouver is the late game.

Citytv has a battle of the capitals in the Canadian capital in the early game. The network gets a rare late Saturday game as Connor McDavid and the Oilers host Tampa Bay.

Hometown Hockey stays close to home in Mississauga, ON with Detroit visiting Toronto on Rogers Sportsnet.

Rogers Sportsnet One feasts on an all-Canadian game with Vancouver in Edmonton on Thursday.

The NHL takes a holiday break Monday-Wednesday.

NHL Network

Saturday
NY Rangers @ Toronto, 7p

Tape delayed
Friday St. Louis @ Vancouver, 1p

ESPN+

Saturday
Tampa Bay @ Edmonton, 10p

CBC

Saturday
NY Rangers @ Toronto, 7p
Winnipeg @ Vancouver, 10p

Citytv

Saturday
Washington @ Ottawa, 7p
Tampa Bay @ Edmonton, 10p

Rogers Sportsnet

Sunday
Detroit @ Toronto, 7:30p

Rogers Sportsnet One

Thursday
Vancouver @ Edmonton, 9p

We get that @Rogers has a contract with #Huawei to be that prominent on @hockeynight with 2 Canadians being illegally detained by China over the arrest, there has to be a point where $ isn't everything,

— Chad Rubel (@canadian_xing) December 16, 2018

Last week, Rogers did the smart thing and toned down the Huawei sponsorship of Hockey Night in Canada. The visuals remained but the audio mentions went away. This past week, with 2 Canadians illegally detained by China, Rogers goes back to the regular status quo.

The Huawei contract should have some kind of clause that deals with this, but Rogers has been blinded by money in the past. Even if the contract can't be broken, reducing the impact of the sponsorship would have been a smart move for both sides.

While the Saturday Headlines didn't air in the U.S., we watched them online and they had full sponsorship.

The names of entrepreneur Michael Spavor and former diplomat Michael Kovrig should mean something to all Canadians.

Canada paying a price to go along with U.S. desire to arrest Meng Wanzhou

Rogers isn't known for smart decisions, so we shouldn't be surprised. The Huawei name is damaged goods in Canada as long as those Canadians are illegally detained. The only ones not to know this is Rogers. For those who complained to the CBC about the Huawei sponsorships, the CBC is sadly not responsible for what airs on their channels.

#HNIC still promoting #Huawei phones, with two Canadians being illegally detained by Chinese government #CBC

— Jason Steele (@TheJasonSteele) December 16, 2018

Why is @hockeynight still advertising a known cybersecurity threat with #Huawei smartphones? @TerryGlavin @ianjamesyoung70 pic.twitter.com/Ii2rgI0pbD

— Duane Woods (@Out_ofthe_Woods) December 16, 2018

ESPN+ usually carries the home feed. So you would think that a Hockey Night in Canada game in Vancouver would have the Hockey Night in Canada feed. Unfortuantely, ESPN+ stuck the U.S. audience with a Philadelphia feed.

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Jim Hughson and Craig Simpson get to stay out west for the holidays. They also get the cover the Winnipeg Jets, a team they may be calling in the spring.

Twitter captures: @canadian_xing; @TheJasonSteele; @Out_ofthe_Woods

Chien de Garde fails to make Oscars shortlist

For 5 of the last 6 Oscars seasons, Canada didn't make the shortlist of the Best Foreign Language Film award. The last 2 attempts didn't generate any significant chatter with Hochelaga, terre des âmes and Chien de Garde.

Xavier Dolan's Juste la fin du monde was the only film in that streak to make the shortlist and even that film didn't make the Top 5 cut.

Here are the Best Foreign Language Film nominees for the 91st Academy Awards in 2019 alongside their directors:

Birds Of Passage (Colombia) Cristina Gallego/Ciro Guerra
The Guilty (Denmark) Gustav Moller
Never Look Away (Germany) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Shoplifters (Japan) Hirokazu Kore-eda
Ayka (Kazakhstan) Sergei Dvortsevoy
Capernaum (Lebanon) Nadine Labaki
Roma (Mexico) Alfonso Cuaron
Cold War (Poland) Pawel Pawlikowski
Burning (South Korea) Lee Chang-dong

Cold War is from the same director who did Ida, the film that won 4 years ago. I loved Shoplifters, which won the Palme d'Or prize at Cannes. I also enjoyed Border (Sweden), a film that a few people were surprised did not make the list. Then again, Roma is the odds-on favourite to win. 

This list of 9 nominees will be reduced to 5 films on January 22. The Oscars ceremony will be on February 24.

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Chien de garde is Canada's Best Foreign Language Film entry

While I didn't think much of Chien de Garde, Canada wasn't going to be a player in this year's discussion.

The depth of foreign films is rather strong. Denys Arcand and Xavier Dolan did release films in 2018 but Dolan's film The Death and Life of John F. Donovan is in English. Arcand's film La chute de l'empire américain has attracted little attention outside Quebec.

Canada can't rely on Arcand and Dolan, even though the 2 filmmakers have accounted for 7 Canadian entries in the Oscars category. The winning streak of top 5 nominees for Canada from 2013-2015 feels like a distant memory.

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I have prided myself of seeing the Canadian entries for Best Foreign Language Film. Of the 22 films nominated since 1997, I have now seen 18 of them. My consecutive streak goes back to 2003 for The Barbarian Invasions.

In 2018, I saw Maelstrom (2000) and Hochlega, Land of Souls (2017) to help the streak.

These 4 films are the missing films since 1997. I came close to seeing Emporte-Moi but the event hosts couldn't find a version with subtitles.

Year	Film title English	Film title French	Director
1998	August 32nd on Earth	Un 32 août sur terre	Denis Villeneuve
1999	Set Me Free	Emporte-moi	Léa Pool
2002	Soft Shell Man	Un crabe dans la tête	André Turpin
2004	Far Side of the Moon	La face cachée de la lune	Robert Lepage

I have seen 6 nominated films that were released before 1997: Mon oncle Antoine (1971); Les Ordres (1975); Le Déclin de l'empire américain (1986); Jésus de Montréal (1989); Léolo (1992); and Le Sexe des étoiles (The Sex of the Stars) (1993).

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Should Canada make films that will do well in the Best Foreign Language Film category? Canada should make good films and let the world decide. In the 3 years after the winning streak, the Canadian entries were all fine films but didn't click on the world stage. Canada could be proud of those entries. The entries from the last couple of years produced more puzzled looks than cheers.

Let's hope for a return to a Best Foreign Language Film entry from Canada that Canadians can be proud of nominating.

video credit: YouTube/Bandes Annonces Cinéma
image credit: Chien de Garde film

Schitt's Creek celebrates Christmas with a holiday special

Happy Holidays from these lunatics! The SC holiday special airs December 18th on @CBC in 🇨🇦/ December 19th on @poptv in 🇺🇸! ️ pic.twitter.com/GlZtck8n1k

— dan levy (@danjlevy) November 15, 2018

We noted last spring that Season 4 of Schitt's Creek only had 12 episodes instead of the usual 13 episodes. This is because the show is doing a Christmas episode.

When we normally see Schitt's Creek, the weather is reasonably warm. The show doesn't say it's in Canada.

In the Christmas episode, Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy) wants a family Christmas celebration. Knowing the people in Schitt's Creek, that won't be an easy task.

Levy and Catherine O'Hara were promoting the Christmas episode on the Ellen show last week. You can find the extended version of that interview.

Schitt's Creek has been nominated for Best Comedy at the 2019 Critics' Choice Awards to be handed out January 13. The other nominees in this category are Atlanta; Barry; The Good Place; The Kominsky Method; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; The Middle; and One Day at a Time.

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The Christmas episode airs tonight on CBC at 9:30 pm local time (10 pm in Newfoundland). U.S. viewers will get to watch the episode on Pop TV Wednesday at 10 pm Eastern.

Season 5 of Schitt's Creek debuts on CBC on January 8 and on Pop TV on January 16.

U.S. viewers can also catch up on Schitt's Creek episodes on Netflix. Canadian viewers can watch on the new CBC Gem app.

Twitter capture: @danjlevy

A trip to Winnipeg and Churchill if The Price Is Right

Lee Norton of Rollingsford, New Hampshire came on down on The Price Is Right, was fortunate to make it to the Showcase Showdown, turned down a trip to Morocco, and won a winter trip to Winnipeg and Churchill in Manitoba.

The trip involved a 6-night stay at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg with a 1-night stay in Churchill. The trip is geared toward winter to take advantage of seeing the polar bears in Churchill. Even though the train is up and running from Winnipeg to Churchill, the prize involved a round-trip flight from Winnipeg to Churchill.

A 1-night stay seems really short but as long as you get to see the polar bears, all might be good. My impression of Churchill is based off the scenery in the reissue of Picture of Light (1994) that I saw at the 2017 Windsor International Film Festival. There isn't a lot to do in Churchill but a 1-night stay doesn't offer an error margin in case the weather turns.

I've been to Winnipeg in the summer and could fill 6 days and nights with ease. Winter might offer a few challenges: a Winnipeg Jets game would help. The Fort Garry Hotel is within walking distance to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights and The Forks and not far from Saint Boniface across the Red River.

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Unfortunately for Norton and Manitoba tourism, Norton turned down the trip because he said he couldn't afford to pay the taxes on the prize. In his case, the price was not right. Norton could have spoken to the Americans who came up to Winnipeg for the 2015 Women's World Cup soccer tournament.

A dream trip for 2 to Winnipeg!!!
😬

pic.twitter.com/lLVzoQ2u8J

— Joanne Wilder (@joannewilder) December 12, 2018

The cold Canada winters change the perspective of what to do in Canada. The awareness of the exposure on the CBS television game show helps to portray an image of a Canadian winter odyssey, even to Manitoba.

The Price Is Right airs on CBS in the United States and Citytv in Canada.

photo credit: Fremantle Media via Global News
map credit: Google
Twitter capture: @joannewilder

NHL the week in preview December 14, 2018

CBC seeks the warmth of southern Florida where there will be many more Toronto Maple Leafs fans than home fans. The Philadelphia Flyers find themselves in Vancouver in the late game.

Citytv will carry the CBC feed, a rare occurrence this season.

Rogers Sportsnet has an all-Canadian game with Ottawa down the road in Montréal. Hometown Hockey is in Chatham-Kent, ON with Winnipeg hosting the other Florida team. Wednesday Night Hockey has the Habs in the high air in Denver.

Rogers Sportsnet One steps in on Tuesday with the Edmonton Oilers hosting St. Louis.

Vancouver dominates the ESPN+ lineup this week, including the HNIC late game.

Those watching the NHL Network in the Los Angeles and Pittsburgh markets will get the Maple Leafs Saturday night. 

NHL Network

Tape delayed
Friday Vancouver @ Nashville, 2p
Toronto @ Tampa Bay, 3p
Monday Calgary @ St. Louis, 1p
Tuesday Boston @ Montréal, 2p (2-hour)
Wednesday Toronto @ New Jersey, 1p
Thursday Montréal @ Colorado, 1p

ESPN+

Saturday
Philadelphia @ Vancouver, 10p
Sunday
Edmonton @ Vancouver, 10p
Monday
Boston @ Montréal, 7:30p
Thursday
St. Louis @ Vancouver, 10p

CBC

Saturday
Toronto @ Florida, 7p
Philadelphia @ Vancouver, 10p

Citytv

Saturday
Toronto @ Florida, 7p

Rogers Sportsnet

Saturday
Ottawa @ Montréal, 7p
Sunday
Tampa Bay @ Winnipeg, 7p
Wednesday
Montréal @ Colorado, 8:30p

Rogers Sportsnet One

Tuesday
St. Louis @ Edmonton, 9p

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We thought we were 2 games away from Bob Cole's forced retirement by Rogers. Cole has had a stay to be able to finish the regular season. Cole's last game is now scheduled to be April 6 with the Toronto Maple Leafs in Montréal.

Here is a list of remaining games Bob Cole will call this season:

• December 15 Ottawa @ Montréal
• December 22 NY Rangers @ Toronto
• January 5 Nashville @ Montréal
• February 6 Ottawa @ Toronto
• March 9 Ottawa @ Boston
• March 16 Chicago @ Montréal
• March 30 Montréal @ Winnipeg
• April 6 Toronto @ Montréal

If you are looking for logic on why Cole gets an extra 6 games and 4 months, you could point to Scott Moore's departure as a reason for the extension. Also, Rogers didn't have a backup plan to cover weeks with extra games in the east this season. 

When Cole actually retires, Rogers could look into using Mark Lee as needed or make Rick Ball a national announcer and/or use Ball for most Calgary games and have Lee substitute when Ball is covering national games.

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Bob Cole made stop #8 in Edmonton for the Battle of Alberta Sunday night as part of the Hometown Hockey doubleheader. The game in Edmonton was available on ESPN+, which has carried both Battle of Alberta games this seas. The service might be poking at NBCSN and the NHL Network at their refusal to carry this matchup.

Canada paying a price to go along with U.S. desire to arrest Meng Wanzhou

As we noted in yesterday's story, the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on Canadian soil sparked changes in the Huawei sponsorship with Rogers Sportsnet on Hockey Night in Canada. The visual references remained while the audio copy disappeared. The disappearance of 2 Canadians in China should change the dynamic even more this week. U.S. viewers can only monitor the pregame show this week.

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NHL Network picked up the Winnipeg Jets feed on TSN3 for the Friday game with St. Louis.

The channel messed up and left out a 2nd period Calgary goal in the Thursday matinee rebroadcast of the game with Philadelphia. My sample size is rebroadcasts with Canadian teams, but every time there is a missing goal, that goal was scored by a Canadian-based team.

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CBC promos in December can be a little unusual since the fall season is winding down. The first promo was for Hockey Night in Canada and other NHL fare. However, the ad is for the Sportsnet page on the Shopping Channel in Canada. Unless the CBC gets revenue for actual Hockey Night in Canada fare, which is doubtful, then this shouldn't count as a CBC promo.

The promo for The National was for an interview with Rosemary Barton and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Cavendish is one of the new winter offerings. The intriguing element of the promo was citing a Tuesday, January 8 debut even though the show will run on Thursday nights.

Early game: HNIC and NHL fare; The National (1st); Still Standing; Cavendish (2nd); Canada's Smartest Person Junior; Mr. D (3rd)

Canada paying a price to go along with U.S. desire to arrest Meng Wanzhou

Canada and the United States have an extradition treaty agreement to honour each other's request for arrests. Unfortunately, Canada has been put in a really horrible situation with the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.

Like the Safe Third Country Agreement, Canada's willingness to go along with the United States on an agreement is biting them in the posterior.

We have already seen the Chinese government confirm the detention of 2 Canadians: entrepreneur Michael Spavor and former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig on "endangering national security." This is on top of the threats that may lead to more negative consequences for Canada.

The United States wants to extradite Meng from Canada to the United States for, well, unofficially over concern that Skycom, an alleged subsidiary company, violated U.S. trade sanctions with Iran.

Meng was arrested December 1 in Vancouver as she was switching planes. Meng was released on $10 million CDN bail Tuesday. Her next court date is February 6.

A Eastern District of New York judge issued an arrest warrant for Meng in August.

Canada did unusual favour for U.S. to arrest Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Chinese tech giant #Huawei. Can we talk #tariffs now? https://t.co/4eDj3ZTCzB

— Chad Rubel (@canadian_xing) December 6, 2018

There is a sense of concern over the Chinese telecommunications giant and its ties to the Chinese government to security issues, especially with the implementation of 5G. Huawei is a major sponsor of Rogers Sportsnet with Hockey Night in Canada. While the visual elements remained in the Sportsnet coverage, there was no audio copy that is usually found in the sponsorship.

"Our extradition partners should not seek to politicize the extradition process or use it for ends other than the pursuit of justice," said Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland.

To no one's surprise, Donald Trump spoke on just that point. Even before that remark, there was considerable speculation that this was a political arrest. Even if the allegations are true, Meng hasn't violated any Canadian laws. As long as Meng is on Canadian soil, Canada will suffer as a result.

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As you might recall in the USMCA/CUSMA negotiations, the United States sneaked a provision that if Canada were to negotiate a trade deal with China (without saying China) that the United States would have to get access to secret negotiation information from Canada. The arrest hurts Canadian trade negotiations with China while helping the United States work out a deal with China.

The arrest of Meng Wanzhou might be justified in terms of the charges but this dispute shouldn't involve Canada. The United States is once again taking advantage of Canada's integrity in international agreements.

As we noted in the above tweet, the United States still has major tariffs in steel, aluminum, softwood lumber, and Bombardier planes (threatened) against Canada. There is a USMCA/CUSMA deal in place and still the tariffs exist. Canada should retain integrity in agreements but find some way to fight back against unfair practices by the United States.

Twitter capture: @canadian_xing

Canadian film review: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould is one of those Canadian figures who Canadians know but few outside Canada are familiar with his work.

Yet Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould works well as a biography film because Gould's eccentricities are illuminated by the genius of Colm Feore (as Gould), director Francois Girard, and writer Don McKellar (with Girard).

Glenn Gould was a renown piano genius most associated with his interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. His idiosyncrasies such as shaking people's hands while wearing gloves adds to a character worth exploring.

Gould only lived to be 50 (1932-1982). Gould was one of the finest concert pianists until he abruptly retired after playing on April 10, 1964 and never performed in public again.

The film is filled with different storytelling elements: dramatic versions of key events with interviews with real people who knew Gould. The film skips around in seemingly a random order but feels like a carefully crafted order of the chaos.

The highlight might indeed be Gould on Gould where Feore as Gould interviews himself. The scene can play out like an internal monologue among himself but gives space to explore what might be happening in his brain. Girard shoots the scene in shadows to hide Feore's face to play with the illusion.

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Even Canadians may struggle with the story if they don't know too much about Gould. The film doesn't offer much context or explanation about his story. You almost could enjoy this as a story about a fictional character who was actually real.

The film is entertaining enough as a way to tell a story about a person's life. You can watch the film and then learn more about Gould. I didn't know that much about Gould before the film and the film held my interest.

Glenn Gould was an intriguing figure in classical music in the 2oth century. His life needed an unique way to tell his story. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould accomplishes that goal.

The 1993 film received 6 Genie Award nominations and won 4 Genies, including Best Motion Picture and Best Direction for Girard.

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photo credit: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

Tatiana Maslany makes her debut on The Daily Show

"If people aren't watching, then it doesn't matter."

Tatiana Maslany finally got on The Daily Show well after her success on Orphan Black. Maslany was promoting her current work in the Broadway play Network based on the 1976 film written by Paddy Chayefsky.

Maslany plays television executive Diana Christensen, the role Faye Dunaway had in the film. Bryan Cranston plays Howard Beale in the Broadway version.

Had a blast talking to the wonderful @Trevornoah about @DestroyerMovie & @NetworkBway. Check it out tonight 11pmET @TheDailyShow pic.twitter.com/U0IauDEd4y

— Tatiana Maslany (@tatianamaslany) December 11, 2018

"It's about fake news. It's about the way entertainment and news have become fused and the line is blurry and the people that we let go on television and speak and let their beliefs be what we then ingest."

Trevor Noah also referred back to her work and many accents on Orphan Black. Noah resorted to the stereotypical question about whether Maslany would be bored playing only one character.

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Maslany was on the program to promote her role in the Nicole Kidman film Destroyer. The film looks pretty intense. Maslany joked that she did a lot of drugs while filming Destroyer.

Noah pointed out that Maslany is drawn to characters that nobody would want to play and have to find the human side.

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At press time, there is no extended interview with Maslany. If that changes, this article will be updated. Last week, Noah had lost his voice so he had help from the correspondents. Noah had no trouble with his voice on Monday.

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah airs on Comedy Central in the United States and the Comedy Network and CTV in Canada.

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Twitter capture: @tatianamaslany