I think an ep got snuck in under the radar, I just looked through the Tv.com ep guides, and the Futon critic eps and this one "Unconditional Love" looked a wee bit out of place, only because I went to the place I watched the eps online and it wasn't listed there but all the others were. Apparently when they say this one was NEW they mean it was NEW.
Ohh this is so not nice, this was a teaser of what will be coming. Small snip from an article I will be posting..
"Note to fans: Tonight’s Flashpoint is a teaser from the upcoming third season of the series, with launch date still to be announced. Note to newcomers: buckle up."
And just to prove that I am not seeing things that aren't there from the "Flashpoint" twitter it says.
Tonight's episode is new in Canada and the US.
Yep folks both got a shock, I knew there was a teaser, I knew it was coming, this is not what I expected.
Okay now the ep, may I just add I had to tape it because I was watching the ballgame. Watched the last half hour of it.
~Parker awesome,
~dial it back Jules not everyone is a psycho.
~Apparently Ed's troubled marriage isn't troubled in one area
~Wait a minute how old is Clark? And Sophia is Pregnante now?
~Ed see's sonogram, goes into surprise, then happy, Aww they hug.
~Nice kitchen for Ed's house, normally we just see the garage. LMAO.
Okay that it's for now until I watch it.
Now that article I promised, I keep them you know.
From the globe & Mail
U.S. viewers are loving our boys in blue
Membership has its privileges for the TV cops of Flashpoint (CTV, CBS, 10 p.m.). At some point, the job really does become the man.
“By now, I love wearing the vest and the utility belt,” says Enrico Colantoni, who anchors the Canadian-made police drama as Sergeant Gregory Parker. “The best part of playing a cop is that the uniform actually does a lot of the acting for you. Nothing makes sense until that uniform goes on.”
This is turning into a very big summer for Canadian cop shows airing on U.S. network television. The recent season of Flashpoint has drawn very healthy U.S. ratings for CBS on Friday nights, and is doing likewise for mother ship CTV in Canada, which is pretty impressive since the same episodes already aired here earlier this year. CBS is also getting good ratings mileage out of the CTV original The Bridge of late.
And in this corner, the filmed-in-Toronto newcomer Rookie Blue – co-created by former Flashpoint writer Tassie Cameron – is already declared a ratings smasheroo in both Canada and the United States, on Global and ABC, respectively.
So this is rare: two slick Canadian cop series, both registering with American viewers, which is what will eventually determine their very existence. And both hits here. The biggest Canadian showdown since Don Messer versus Tommy Hunter? Colantoni is too much the gent to trash-talk the competition.
“No way,” says the Toronto-born TV veteran. “We’ve got nothing to prove, and we’ve already proven ourselves in the U.S. before this last season. Tassie is a terrific writer and I honestly hope Rookie Blue does really well. Why not? The more attention to Canadian television, the better.”
Colantoni’s take on Rookie Blue: “I have not seen it.”
Besides airing on different nights, Flashpoint and Rookie Blue are, of course, very different TV animals. Rookie Blue has crime stories and nice white Toronto police cars, but really it’s Grey’s Anatomy with guns; it is not by accident the show airs in the Grey’s Thursday-night time slot.
Inspired by the real Toronto strategic response unit, Flashpoint has character-driven crime stories, but is closer to the real thing. Each new episode presents a different life-and-death situation handled by capable Canadian cops.
“Viewers still love that adrenalin rush,” says Colantoni. “Sometimes I’ll still think: These situations are crazy. A real human being would be in shock. As an actor, I have to justify it somehow – ‘I’m a cop, I love the rush, let’s go.’ The uniform helps a lot.”
And sometimes those situations imitate real Toronto life. Remember the breaking news story last week about someone stealing a car with a baby in the back seat? (Car and baby were found intact a few blocks away.) Tonight’s Flashpoint takes that scenario and cranks it up tenfold. And the episode filmed six months ago.
Note to fans: Tonight’s Flashpoint is a teaser from the upcoming third season of the series, with launch date still to be announced. Note to newcomers: buckle up.
Like all Flashpoint episodes, it moves at a pace that would put 24 to shame. A car careens off the road, somewhere in Toronto, and a young woman approaches to offer assistance. The scraggly driver crawls from the wreckage, and takes out his hockey bag full of shotguns. The wild-eyed driver shoves the woman to the ground and drives off in her car – with her baby in the back seat. Who ya gonna call?
The Strategic Response Unit, obviously. The baby-napper has already shot one cop, and takes a second hostage, a teen boy, into a motel room.
Head SRU sniper Ed Lane, played by Hugh Dillon, is called in on his day off. Colantoni’s Parker runs the show and tells the troops to keep their distance. Two non-SRU cops broach protocol and try to approach the suspect. Another officer down. This all occurs in the first eight minutes.
“The intensity gets pushed higher in the third season,” promises Colantoni. “It’s the nature of writers to keep pushing the envelope and expand the story, which become highly revved. There’s more insight into my character, and Hugh’s character. It’s all very cool stuff.”
Flashpoint has, for the record, been performing yeoman’s work here and in the U.S. for almost exactly two years now. The show remains on CBS’s roster, but the network has yet to assign it a full-time place on the fall schedule. Colantoni has been to the bigs before – seven seasons spent as a lead player on NBC’s Just Shoot Me – and the kid wants another trip.
“Bring it on,” he says. “We’re as good as any other show out there. I’m grateful for how well we do, but when are they [CBS] really going to test us, put us in a regular prime-time slot and see how well we do? I think we can hit it out of the park.”
Another benefit of playing a cop: two years later, the show’s cast still get thumbs-up on the street from real Toronto cops, a tacit approval of the way they’re portrayed on Flashpoint.
“That means a lot,” says Colantoni, whose brother spent three decades on the Toronto force. “Most people think of cops as stoic or authoritarian, or they remember the guy who gave them a ticket. We give them a heart and a pulse. I think we represent them pretty well.”
