Shaw Media unveiled today an innovative way for some movie advertisers to engage viewers with a dramatic new approach to commercial breaks known as a live on screen integration. A first of its kind for Shaw Media, Warner Bros. will be the lead client to take part in this unique integration to promote its release of The Hangover Part III within Showcase’s May 18th Big Ticket Movie airing of The Hangover (10pm ET/7pmPT). Read More

Showcase unleashes the first fully integrated convergence of Vine and dramatic television with Continuum Interactive. The online initiative developed by Showcase in association with Secret Location, curates digital storytelling that will live on Showcase.ca/continuum, Twitter and Facebook. The multi-layered initiative empowers fans of Continuum to decide the outcome of the season two finale, through sharing and creating original social content. Read More

Delivering out-of-this-world ratings, Showcase’s brand-new series Defiance trumps Monday night with over 500,000 viewers (2+) and over 250,000 viewers, adults 25-54. Read More

There’s a new face in the Five Points…Showcase, BBC America and Cineflix Studios announced today that critically-acclaimed actress Alfre Woodard (Steel Magnolias, Twelve Years a Slave, True Blood) will guest star in the second season of COPPER, the Showcase original drama set in 1860s New York City. Read More

Hugh Dillon (Flashpoint, Durham County) has landed a guest star role in the upcoming second season of Showcase’s number one series, Continuum. The Gemini Award-winning actor will join the cast in a multiple episode story arc.  Read More

Midway through its daring third season, Showcase orders a fourth season of the homegrown smash hit, Lost Girl. Boasting giant ratings, the Canadian original series begins production on season four this spring, set to air late 2013. Season three continues with new episodes Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Read More

Syfy’s highly anticipated Defiance will have its Canadian series premiere Monday, April 15 at 10 pm ET/PT on Showcase, with a two-hour episode (culminating in a total of 12 episodes/13 hours).  Defiance, an unprecedented approach to storytelling, will unite scripted television and online gaming for the very first time.  Both the series and the game feature an interconnected world and storylines that will launch in early April with the release of the game and continue seamlessly with the series premiere on the 15^th.

Defiance stars Grant Bowler (Nolan), Julie Benz (Amanda Rosewater), Stephanie Leonidas (Irisa), Tony Curran (Datak Tarr), Jaime Murray (Stahma Tarr), Graham Greene (Rafe McCawley) and Mia Kirshner (Kenya).

Showcase’s top-performing original drama, Lost Girl, returns for a third season on January 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. This season sees everyone’s favourite succubus, Bo (Anna Silk), making life-altering decisions that may have deadly consequences. To gear up for the new season, Showcase has produced an all-new special, Lost Girl ConFAEdential, airing the same night, and unveils a state of the art mobile gaming app. Read More

Ahead of the much-anticipated season one finale, Shaw Media, BBC AMERICA and Cineflix Studios have renewed the breakout hit series Copper, for a second season with an increased order of 13 episodes. Canadians can watch the season one finale on November 4 on Showcase. Read More

Shaw Media picks up sci-fi series Defiance slated to debut in Spring 2013 on Showcase.  Acquired from NBCUniversal Television Canada, the new one-hour multifaceted series from Syfy is set in the near future and introduces audiences to an exotically transformed planet Earth, with landscapes permanently altered following the sudden – and tumultuous – arrival of seven unique alien races.  An unprecedented partnership between Syfy and Trion Worlds, Defiance is the first-ever convergence of television and Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) gaming, featuring an interconnected world and storylines that will co-exist throughout a scripted drama series and a multiplatform MMO game. Read More