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Online Promotion | CBC Gem, Netflix January 2019 premieres

Online Promotion | CBC Gem, Netflix January 2019 premieres

CBC Finds a Shiny, Chooses Gem

CBC formally announced watch.cbc.ca’s and the CBC TV app’s revamp December 11, 2018 in a media release. As part of the service’s rollout, upcoming drama Northern Rescue streams exclusively on the newly established CBC Gem starting March 1, 2019. CBC Gem currently works on Apple TV and Google Chromecast-enabled Android devices.

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Trailers | "The Macra Terror", Doctor Who season sets

Trailers | “The Macra Terror”, Doctor Who season sets

There Is No Macra…Wait, There They Are

“The Macra Terror” DVD and Blu-ray debuts in the United Kingdom March 18, 2019. No official release yet exists for North America. There’s an Amazon entry for “The Macra Terror”, though. Audio, clips and stills exist for this serial, yet the full video version of “The Macra Terror” no longer exists.

The Macra appeared in “Gridlock”four decades after their…

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Trailers | Letterkenny Season 6, Travelers Season 3

Trailers | Letterkenny Season 6, Travelers Season 3

Letterkenny’s sixth six-episode season premieres in Canada December 25, 2018 on Crave. Letterkenny’s Christmas special, “The Three Wise Men”, previously premiered November 23, 2018 on Crave. Hulu has streaming rights to Letterkenny in the US. While this is the first official trailer for Letterkenny’s sixth season, the season’s debut date was announced November 16, 2018 in tandem with the…

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Trailers | Luther Series 5, Roswell, New Mexico (Showcase)

Trailers | Luther Series 5, Roswell, New Mexico (Showcase)

Psychological crime drama Luther’s four-episode fifth series premieres late December 2018 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom. In the US, Luther’s fifth series premieres on BBC America in 2019. The show stars Idris Elba as John Luther, a Detective Chief Inspector solving – and brooding over – high-profile London murders. Luther’s four series aired on BBC One in 2010, 2011, 2013 and…

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Trailers | Marvel’s Runaways S2 (Showcase), Young Justice: Outsiders

Trailers | Marvel’s Runaways S2 (Showcase), Young Justice: Outsiders

Marvel’s Runaways’ second season premieres January 2, 2019 on Showcase in Canada, and December 21, 2018 on Hulu in the US. Showcase advertises a two-hour season premiere for Marvel’s Runaways, while Hulu premieres the entire second season. Marvel’s Runaways is one of Showcase’s top hits, so Gloryosky doubts Showcase loses interest in Marvel’s Runaways if its second season performs well there.

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Trailers | Deadly Class (SPACE), F is For Family Season 3

Trailers | Deadly Class (SPACE), F is For Family Season 3

Comic Book Showosky isn’t as important to Gloryosky as it once was. That doesn’t mean series based on comic books aren’t still greenlit (see: DC Universe; half of The CW’s output). Deadly Class, the action-thriller series based on Rick Remender and Wesley Craig’s Image title, debuts January 16, 2019 on Space in Canada and Syfy in the US.

Deadly Class is set in the 1980s, so Killing Joke’s…

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Trailers | Pure (WGN America), MST3K: The Gauntlet

Trailers | Pure (WGN America), MST3K: The Gauntlet

Pure, the Mennonite mob drama that aired on CBC from January to February 2017, makes its US cable debut January 23, 2019 on WGN America at 10:00 PM ET/9:00 PM CT. For Canada, this means a two-year wait between seasons – Super Channel Fuse is the first window for Pure’s second season in Canada,with CBC retaining its association with the series. CBC initially cancelled the series after its first…

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Trailers | MST3K Turkey Day 2018, Toronto Santa Claus Parade 2018

Trailers | MST3K Turkey Day 2018, Toronto Santa Claus Parade 2018

Mystery Science Theater 3000’s annual Turkey Day linear stream begins Sunday, November 18, 2018 at Shout! Factory TV Live and on Shout! Factory TV’s Twitch channel. On Turkey Day proper – American Thanksgiving, November 22, 2018 – Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet has movie sign on Netflix. MST3K: The Gauntletis the entire twelfth season of the show, the second since its Netflix revival…

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Online Promotion | Acorn TV Line of Duty trailer, "In Flanders Fields" (TheZoomer)

Online Promotion | Acorn TV Line of Duty trailer, “In Flanders Fields” (TheZoomer)

BBC police anti-corruption procedural Line of Duty sees its fifth series premiere on Acorn TV for American and Canadian SVOD audiences in 2019. Line of Duty’s fourth series premieres on Acorn TV November 26, 2018, with the first three series already available. Line of Duty’s first four series premiered on Hulu in the US, and on Netflix in Canada. Line of Dutyis currently still available on…

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Trailers | Street Legal (revival), TOKU November 2018 premieres

Trailers | Street Legal (revival), TOKU November 2018 premieres

Street Legal first aired on CBC from 1987-94. To its credit, the revival – which has Cynthia Dale reprise her role as Olivia Novak – acknowledges the quarter-century passage of time since the original series. Bruce M. Smith previously showran the English version of 19-2, and the Street Legal revival is sold by him as a next-generation version of the show.

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Trailers | Unspeakable, Burden of Truth

Trailers | Unspeakable, Burden of Truth

CBC’s winter 2019 schedule has one of its more interesting drama lineups of recent years – among other things, a Street Legal revival, Floyd Kane legal drama Diggstown, limited series Unspeakable, and Coroner, the television adaptation of M.R. Hall’s Jenny Cooperseries. While Gloryosky won’t pass judgment on the shows until after they air, CBC largely sticks to legal and coroner dramas for winter…

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Site News | Gloryosky Mission Statement, 2018-19

Site News | Gloryosky Mission Statement, 2018-19

Yes, it’s another “state of the site” article. It’s also the second Gloryosky website post in 2018, and it’s one hundred percent my fault for allowing that to happen.

Gloryosky’s strength has been in social media since 2017. Promoting YouTube videos and occasional media releases through Twitterhas given Gloryosky its first increase in professional standing in about half a decade, yet a move to a…

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Trailers | Bob Rock, Jann Arden, Dan Mangan on Vintage TV Canada

Trailers | Bob Rock, Jann Arden, Dan Mangan on Vintage TV Canada

The Gloryosky Twitter has linked to Vintage TV Canada’s YouTube promotional videos since circa March 2018. The music television channel is the Canadian version of the United Kingdom’s Vintage TV. Below are three trailers for Needle Time and My Vintage. Needle Time is an interview program hosted in its Canadian form by Vintage TV Canada creative director Alan Cross, while My Vintageis a music…

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Trailers | CTV upfront pickups; Batman and Harley Quinn

Trailers | CTV upfront pickups; Batman and Harley Quinn

CTV announced on May 30, 2017 its acquisition of two new Marvel comic book adaptations, Fox’s The Gifted and ABC’s Marvel’s Inhumans, as part of CTV’s overall upfront. The big draws for CTV includes CBS’ Young Sheldon and Me, Myself and I, two trips to ShondaLand with ABC’s For the People and a Grey’s Anatomy spinoff, ABC’s Roseanne revival, David Shore’s new ABC drama The Good Doctorand Tassie…

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Trailers | Dark Matter Season 3, Wynonna Earp Season 2

Trailers | Dark Matter Season 3, Wynonna Earp Season 2

The Joseph Mallozzi YouTube account reposts the Syfy trailer for Dark Matter, which has a two-hour third season premiere on SPACE and Syfy June 9, 2017 at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT. Dark Matter settles into its regular timeslot starting June 16, 2017 at 9:00 PM ET/6:00 PM PT. In the interest of related show promotion, the IGN-hosted trailer for Wynonna Earp’s second season is included in this post,…

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Trailer | JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure North American Blu-ray, Set 1

Trailer | JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure North American Blu-ray, Set 1

The first twenty-six episodes (i.e., “first set”) of the 2012- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (Japanese: JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) anime earns a North American Blu-ray release July 25, 2017 through Viz Media. For those unfamiliar with JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (to which the fans’ next line is “read the manga”), it’s a series based on Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo no Kimyō na Bōkenmanga,…

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Trailers | CW Upfront Videos 2017-18, Alias Grace

Trailers | CW Upfront Videos 2017-18, Alias Grace

Given that these videos are posted by The CW before the Canadian upfronts, it’s hard to say which new shows go to which Canadian services, yet Gloryosky posts the What’s Coming to The CW YouTube playlist for Black Lightning, the fifth in a series of Berlanti DC comic adaptations currently on The CW. Black Lightning is not set in the Arrowverse or the Supergirl universeand won’t take part in the…

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