Elvis Stojko never looked straighter – in retrospect, anyway. New for ’09! “Battle of the Blades is an elimination-style challenge that teams up Canada’s top figure skaters with this country’s most daring and versatile hockey stars to compete against one another each week in a glitzy pairs figure skating performance.” Wait – the figure skaters are girls, right?
Also greenlit: 18 to Life and Republic of Doyle (just those two), Ron James, and, hot on the heels of Canwest’s speling be, Canada’s Super Speller.