Flashpoint (TV series)

Flashpoint
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Flashpoint intertitle
Genre Police drama
Created by
  • Mark Ellis
  • Stephanie Morgenstern
Directed by
  • David Frazee
  • Stephen Surjik
  • Holly Dale
  • Erik Canuel
Starring
  • Enrico Colantoni
  • Hugh Dillon
  • Amy Jo Johnson
  • David Paetkau
  • Sergio Di Zio
  • Michael Cram
  • Mark Taylor (episode 1–23)
  • Ruth Marshall (episode 1–13)
  • Olunike Adeliyi (episode 24–31)
Theme music composer
  • Amin Bhatia
  • Ari Posner
Country of origin Canada
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 35 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Anne Marie La Traverse
  • Bill Mustos
Producer(s) Tracey Boulton
Location(s) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cinematography
  • David Perrault
  • Stephen Reizes
Running time 44 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel
  • CTV (Canada)
  • CBS (United States)
Picture format HDTV 1080i
Original run July 11, 2008 (2008-07-11) – present
External links
Official website

Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and CBS in the United States.[1] The series is broadcast on the Canadian French-language network V (formerly known as TQS) in Quebec since March 9, 2009.[2] The show was created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern and stars Enrico Colantoni, Amy Jo Johnson, Hugh Dillon and David Paetkau.

Contents

Plot

Flashpoint is about an elite tactical unit, called the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), within a Canadian metropolitan police force (styled on the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force[3]). The SRU are tasked to resolve extreme situations that regular officers are not trained to handle including hostage-taking, bomb threats and heavily armed criminals. Equipped with high-tech tools and a cache of weapons and explosives, members use negotiation tactics and intuition to try to avoid the use of force.

Episodes

Cast

Original main cast of Flashpoint. From left to right: Ed Lane (Hugh Dillon), Julianna 'Jules' Callaghan (Amy Jo Johnson), Lewis 'Lew' Young (Mark Taylor), Gregory 'Greg' Parker (Enrico Colantoni), Mike 'Spike' Scarlatti (Sergio Di Zio), Roland 'Rolie' Cray (Gabriel Hogan) and Kevin 'Wordy' Wordsworth (Michael Cram). Hogan was replaced by David Paetkau, playing Sam Braddock (not pictured), after the first episode

The majority of the cast of Flashpoint are Canadians, including Enrico Colantoni, David Paetkau, Hugh Dillon, Sergio Di Zio, Michael Cram, Mark Taylor and Ruth Marshall. Amy Jo Johnson is the only American actress starring in the Canadian-made drama,[4] who said that she had no problems being in Flashpoint despite announcing to the press that she was already pregnant[5] with her first child with her fiancé Oliver Giner[6] during initial production of Flashpoint.[5]

Ruth Marshall left the series after Season 1 and Mark Taylor left after the first episode of Season 2, Part 2 (aka episode 211) after his character dies. During Amy Jo Johnson's pregnancy, she was temporarily replaced by Jessica Steen who played Donna Sabine. Steen's involvement with the series ended in the sixth episode of Season 2, Part 1 when Johnson's character returned full-time. Taylor was replaced by Olunike Adeliyi who portrays Leah Kerns as of the second episode of Season 2, Part 2 (aka episode 212).

In an interview, the creators of the show stated that they like to cast only Canadians in the show and the only non-Canadian that has ever been on the show is Amy Jo Johnson.[7]

Production

Flashpoint began life as a part of a CTV project that encouraged actors to submit scripts to the network. The original Flashpoint script (known earlier as Sniper[8] and Critical Incident[9]) was for a two-hour TV movie. A pilot episode was produced for CTV in July 2007 under the Critical Incident title featuring most of the cast of the current series (but without either the characters Jules Callaghan or Lewis Young—the characters in the pilot were Kate Travers and Robert "Shakes" Boneyman and were portrayed by other actors).[10] CTV's interest in the project led to Flashpoint being reworked as a regular CTV series which was approved in mid-December 2007.

The show was unaffected by the 2007-08 WGA strike because WGC rules allow any members of the WGC living in Canada, including writers with dual WGA/WGC membership, to write for Canadian productions.[11] Writers living in the USA with dual WGA/WGC membership were required to get a waiver from the WGA in order to work on Canadian productions during the strike.[11]

Although originally developed for a Canadian audience, it was announced on January 29, 2008 that American network CBS had purchased the rights to air the series in the United States,[12] making it the first Canadian TV series aired in prime time on a US broadcast network since Due South, also a CTV show aired by CBS.[13] In addition, Flashpoint is the first Canadian series aired by a major US broadcast network that is set entirely in Canada (as Due South was primarily set in Chicago but filmed in Toronto).

On March 5, 2008, CBS announced that Flashpoint would premiere on that network in July 2008.[14] CTV announced on May 8, 2008 that it would simulcast the show in Canada beginning on July 11, 2008.

Flashpoint began filming 13 episodes on April 17, 2008. It is written and created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern and executive produced by multiple Gemini Award-winner Anne Marie La Traverse for Pink Sky Entertainment and Bill Mustos for Avamar Entertainment in association with the CTV Television Network and CBS Television Studios (formerly CBS Paramount Network Television).

The pilot episode titled "Scorpio" was based on an actual event that occurred in Toronto in 2004 in which a gun-wielding hostage taker was shot and killed by an Emergency Task Force sniper.[15] Ellis and Morgenstern wrote their teleplay for the episode after interviewing members of the ETF.[16] The majority of the episode reused substantial portions of the unaired Critical Incident pilot together with new footage featuring Amy Jo Johnson and Mark Taylor (who were not in the pilot).[17]

Director David Frazee carefully shoots the SRU as one unit in order to show their unity throughout the show.[18] Producer Anne Marie La Traverse said that the show would take people to their "own personal flash point."[19] David Paetkau, one of the show's regular cast members, said Flashpoint "tries to capture the human element involved in policing and discusses how some officers end up with emotional baggage and suffering with mental illnesses like post traumatic stress disorder."[20] Input and advice from various ETF personnel were used in the making of the series.[21]

On August 25, 2008, CTV announced it had renewed the show for a second season of 13 episodes to begin production in Toronto in early 2009.[22] Some months later, both CTV and CBS increased the renewal to 18 episodes. According to tvguide.com CBS announced that Flashpoint would return January 9, 2009 at 9pm for a midseason start. In the United States and Canada, the remaining four episodes that were originally produced for season 1 aired as a part of season 2.[23][24] CTV in Canada originally considered these episodes as part of season 1; however, after the airing of the fourth episode (which was originally considered the final episode of season 1), CTV changed the labeling of these four episodes, matching CBS in the United States as being considered part of season 2.

CBS and CTV both ended season 2 on May 25, 2009 after airing only the first nine episodes produced. The second nine episodes, filmed from May to August 2009, were originally aired in Canada by CTV as season 3. CTV has since officially begun to refer to the episodes as the second half of season 2 (and altered its Flashpoint website accordingly). These episodes will begin airing June 4, 2010 on CBS.[25]

A new group of 13 episodes, now referred to by both CTV and the production companies as "Season 3", was commissioned by CTV and CBS in October 2009. The first of these episodes began filming on January 13, 2010. This will give CBS 22 original episodes to broadcast while CTV will have 13.

Setting

While initially, and according to Enrico Colantoni, the setting for the show was not identified,[26] a Canadian flag was included on the officer's uniforms. As the show has progressed, the setting has become more significantly identifiable. This is especially true of the third season. Toronto landmarks, such as the CN Tower and York University, a fictional Toronto Interpreter newspaper (designed in the style of the Toronto Star, though "The Star" was mentioned during the premiere of Season 3), and Toronto Transit Commission stations and patrol cars are now regularly shown. Most police cars used in the show are in fact Toronto police vehicles, though camera angles avoid showing 'Toronto' printed on the side of the vehicles. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Ontario Provincial Police are also occasionally shown. Dialogue also references Tim Hortons, and local streets, as well as communities within the Greater Toronto Area. In the first episode, someone mentions that the character Sam Braddock, was in JTF2 which is a Canadian Forces Special Operations Unit. In "Between Heartbeats", a shooting victim is carried to an ambulance by a paramedic whose shirt reads "Toronto EMS Paramedic", and in the seventh episode of the third season ("You Think You Know Someone"), firefighters are shown to have "Toronto" on the back of their uniform overcoats. Also, in the episode "He Knows His Brother", there is a brief scene in a military school in which Canadian Forces combat uniforms are being worn. Police forces in York and Durham Regions are mentioned in "Exit Wounds". The fourth episode of the third season features a shot of an Ontario driver's licence with a Toronto, ON address which is visited by the SRU officers. Finally, in the Season 2, Part 2 (aka episode 218) finale episode "Behind the Blue Line" the name "Toronto" is finally spoken for the first time in the series, in a reference to the city's pro hockey team.

At the start of the series, Bill Mustos, founder of co-production company Avamar Entertainment, commented that "you’re not going to see a show that is screaming ‘Canada.’ It’s a show in a big sophisticated urban city where crises take place. The stories we’re trying to tell are universal stories."[27] CTV's press release regarding the series did identify Toronto, and noted that the SRU is based on Toronto's Emergency Task Force.[28]

Music

The music of Hugh Dillon, Matthew Good and Amy Jo Johnson has been used in the show's soundtrack.[29] Some of the music used in the show include Matthew Good's "Weapon", used in the final scenes of episode 13 "Between Heartbeats", Johnson's "Dancing In-between", used in the ending of episode 6 "Attention Shoppers" with Dillon's "Lost at Sea" was used to conclude the 8th episode, "Never Kissed a Girl".[29][30] The show's 30-second theme was written by Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner.[30]

Ratings and reception in Canada and the United States

Canada

Season Timeslot Season Premiere Season Finale TV Season Viewers Rank
1 Friday 10:00PM (July 11-July 18)
Thursday 10:00PM (July 25-September 18)		 July 11, 2008 September 18, 2008 2007-2008 1.20 n/a
2 Friday 9:00PM January 9, 2009 May 15, 2009 2008-2009 1.35 n/a
3 Friday 10:00PM September 25, 2009 November 20, 2009 2009-2010 1.67 #1[31]

The pilot episode was watched on CTV by 1.11 million viewers, earning the #1 spot in its timeslot.[32]

Flashpoint drew in 1,216,000 viewers from July 28 to August 3 of 2008.[33] It gained a bit more audience when the show drew in 1,300,000 viewers.[34] In ratings from February 23 to March 1 of 2009, Flashpoint has been watched by 1,339,000 viewers.[35]

CTV announced that a new series of Flashpoint episodes would air in the fall of 2009 on Friday nights at 10 pm ET.[36] These episodes would not be simulcast with CBS. After CBS delayed broadcasting the episodes from summer 2009 to mid-season 2010, CTV initially backed off its commitment to fall 2009.[37]

Eventually in late August, CTV announced that the new episodes would premiere in Canada on September 25, 2009.[38] It marked the first time CTV broadcast new Flashpoint episodes out of simulcast with CBS in the United States. The last original Flashpoint episode for the Canadian fall 2009 season was broadcast on November 20, 2009.

Two Flashpoint episodes, Attention Shoppers and Who's George?, were nominated as finalists in the 2009 WGC Screenwriting Awards.[39]

United States

Season Timeslot Season Premiere Season Finale TV Season Viewers
1 Friday 10:00PM (July 11-July 18)
Thursday 10:00PM (July 25-September 18)		 July 11, 2008 September 18, 2008 2008 7.61
2 Friday 9:00PM January 9, 2009 May 15, 2009 2009 9.11
3 Friday 9:00PM June 4, 2010 TBD 2010

The Boston Globe praised Flashpoint for using emotions that "lingers on the psychic toll that such high-tension work can take."[40] As an example, a recent episode has the team shoot a bank robber who is stealing money for the Alzheimer's treatment of his elderly ill wife, which is presented as sad but necessary. Shooting the bereft senior citizen whose wife is going to be evicted from the senior citizen's home for lack of funds is troublesome for the team. The pilot episode was watched on CBS by 8.23 million people, earning the #1 ranking for the hour.[41]

According to Flashpoint executive Bill Mustos in August 2008, the success of the show in the US was not due to the Writer's Guild strikes, but mainly because of the need of having a new kind of show on television.[42]

Flashpoint did well in its initial airings on Friday nights (in the time slot normally given to NUMB3RS), building on the lead-in from that show. In fact, it drew more viewers on Friday nights than Swingtown, another new drama, did on the normally busier Thursday nights, which prompted CBS to move Flashpoint to Thursday nights in an attempt to further build its audience.[43]

On December 2, 2008, CBS announced that they would begin airing the second season of Flashpoint on January 9, 2009.[44]

A third season of Flashpoint was to have aired as a midseason replacement during CBS's 2009–2010 schedule;[45][46] however, CBS announced it would air these episodes during the summer of 2009 beginning on July 17, 2009 instead of its previously announced 2010 timetable. On July 7, 2009, CBS has rescinded its decision, and the show will air at midseason after all.[47] These will be the same episodes that CTV broadcast in Canada during the fall 2009 season. CBS began airing these episodes on June 4, 2010.[48]

On Metacritic, Flashpoint got mixed to average reviews scoring 51 out of 100 on the site's metascore.[49]

DVD releases

In Region 1, Season one was released on DVD on October 13, 2009 by CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment) in the US[50] and by Phase 4 Films in Canada. Season 2, Volume 1 was released in Canada on March 23, 2010[51] and in the US on May 25, 2010 under the title "Flashpoint: Season 2".[52] Season 2, volume 2 will be released on November 2, 2010 in Canada. On the same day, Phase 4 films will also release the complete second season in a 6-disc set.[53]

In Region 2, ITV DVD released the complete first season on DVD in the UK on April 13, 2009.

In Region 4, Hopscotch Entertainment has released the first two seasons on DVD in Australia.[54]

DVD name Episodes Release dates
Region 1 (CAN) Region 1 (US) Region 2 Region 4
Season 1 13 October 13, 2009 April 13, 2009 April 16, 2009
Season 2: Volume 1 9 March 23, 2010 May 25, 2010 TBD March 4, 2010[55]
Season 2: Volume 2 9 November 2, 2010 TBD TBD April 15, 2010[56]

International distribution

Flashpoint is being distributed by Alchemy Television based in New York.[57] and Tele München Group to all international markets outside of North America. Already in July 2008, it was announced that the two distributors had sold the series to TV networks in 50 countries outside Canada and the US, among them Tv2 in New Zealand, ITV3 in the United Kingdom and networks in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Latin America.[58]

By December 2008, only nine of the 13 episodes produced during the series' first season had been aired in North America, although all 13 episodes had been aired by New Zealand's TV2 as of December 10, 2008.

The Australian premiere occurred on January 11, 2009 when Nine Network took the unusual step of screening the second episode in isolation ahead of the season after a major cricket telecast, in a relatively late Sunday night timeslot.[59] Nine aired the show on Wednesday nights, its regular time slot, where episodes were erratically shown out of their intended order. Nine took the show off air soon after, but it returned to air during summer non-ratings on Monday November 30, 2009 at 9.30pm and was taken off air again only two weeks later.

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