Bundle up, kids!  It's cold outside.  It's I'm-not-going-out-unless-I-absolutely-have-to cold.  And it's going to get even colder.  I mean, come on!  What happened to the promise of global warming?  Spring in winter?  Summer in autumn?  A world safe from runaway icebergs and douchey ski pros.  More of this - And less of this - Despite the…

And that's a wrap on Project A 2017 writers' room.  Over the course of the past five days, we broke the pilot, broad stroked the second episode, bulleted the first episode character arcs, fleshed out the backstory of our aliens, overviewed our five season plan, ate a hell of a lot of breakfast pastries and…

To be perfectly honest, I was looking forward to some time off.  Nothing crazy.  Maybe a month.  Or six.  While a lot of my fellow writers start going stir crazy after a few directionless weeks, I have no problem sleeping in, spending time with my girlfriend and the dogs, and reading into the wee hours.…

A reminder to join us this Wednesday, December 6th, at 10/9c for a Dark Matter/Stargate live tweet event in which I'll be fielding questions and offering insights on my 15 combined years on all four sci-fi productions.  Tell your friends! Well, today was Day #1 of the writer's room for one of the projects (let's…

We've all experienced them at least once in our lives, those inexplicable, unnerving instances that make us wonder whether dark forces are at play, their subtle and sinister hands manipulating our reality from afar.  They leave an impression, an indelible mark at the deepest levels of your subconscious, buried away by overwhelming reason, the steadfast…

Circle the date and tell your Dark Matter and Stargate-loving fans.  We'll be meeting up on twitter to talk about a few of our favorite shows.  If you have questions about DM, SG-1, SGA, or SGU, I'll be online fielding them for the better part of an hour.  What Stargate cast-member binge-watched almost 200 episodes…

Winter is almost upon us and, while it's almost impossible to coax my french bulldog, Lulu, outdoors at the mere sight of snow, our senior pug, Suji, loves the frisky weather.  I don't know what it is - maybe the fact that she was, literally, raised in a barn - but she seems impervious to…

Recently, much of my days are spent reading, writing, and in creative discussions over the phone, via email, or while enjoying double chocolate mochas.  Again, the plan was to take time off, travel, catch a bunch of matinees, but the opportunities that have presented themselves have proven too intriguing to pass up.  Besides, in this…

In the almost eight years she's been living in Canada, Akemi has mastered many aspects of western culture - its unreliable transportation system, the English language, Beef Wellington - but there's one uniquely North American oddity she's yet to grasp: the knock-knock joke.  And yet, despite her repeated failures to fully grasp its nuanced set-up…

Courtesy of Mean Jean Brophey! Matt Purdy, Jozie Conte, and Kelly Anastasiou - behind the scenes on EOS-7. Bits and pieces - Episode 304, "All the Time in the World" Turn off the damn light!  Can't you see Mishka Thebaud is trying to sleep here! Ready to shoot - Episode 304, "All the Time in…

  Ideally, I'd like my next show to be either an anime, comic book, novel adaptation - or one featuring dogs in pajamas. Akemi, meanwhile, has been hard at work designing for her upcoming Suji-themed lapel pin and badge line. A few shout-outs are in order today: Marc Bendavid, Dark Matter's ONE, stars in a…

We were walking back from my favorite pizza joint, Superpoint on Ossington, last night when we were approached by a somewhat disheveled looking man.   "Do you have twenty-five cents for food?"he asked.  I recognized him as the same guy we'd passed not two hours earlier on our way to the restaurant. "Offer him the…

I fell asleep on the couch and napped for two hours today. I'm getting more forgetful. I pulled something doing lunges two weeks ago and now my inability to cut has diminished my confidence in my ability to play the corner position. Instead of doubling its character limit, I really feel twitter would have been…