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Shaw Media Unveils 2011-2012 Programming Lineup For Its Specialty Channels

“Our audience ratings across our specialty services have surged to new levels. With the new fall schedules, our broadly appealing, impactful and entertaining programming will continue to catapult the ratings on our channels and solidify us as leaders in the specialty television landscape,” said Barbara Williams,Senior Vice-President,Content, Shaw Media. Slice™ continues to indulge women with the ultimate roster of addictive, guilty pleasure series. This fall includes new seasons of the world’s number one hit lifestyle reality franchise Real Housewives. The channel has also announced that in the year ahead, the international smash hit will be crossing the border, treating Canadians to a version of their own with Real Housewives Vancouver. Slice™also welcomes former Dragon’s Den star and highly regarded business man/philanthropist W. Brett Wilson to the channel with his new series Risky Business. HGTV is the number one destination for entertaining home-related content that attracts strong female audiences. This fall, viewers can look forward to the return of their favourite shows such as House Hunters, House Hunters International and Holmes Inspection with Mike Holmes along with exciting new and original series includingConsumed and Urban Suburban. Specialty’s number one entertainment channel, almost doubling its audience over the last five years, History Television continues to be a driving force with new series and returning audience favourites such asIce Road Truckers, Pawn Stars, Ice Pilots, and American Pickers, along with record-shattering phenomenon IRT: Deadliest Roads. History Television delves deep into name origins with the brand-new original series What’s In A Name. Home to the top-rated cable dramas, Showcase most recently had its biggest fall in four years. This fall, Showcase becomes the exclusive home to two show-stopping series, Royal Pains and Warehouse 13. Viewers can rejoice with the return of the number one scripted original drama Lost Girl and the second season of the sleek spy series Covert Affairs. Boasting the biggest selection of the newest cable premieres, Shaw Media’s massive collection of movie titles can be seen in over 4 million homes across its stable of channels including Action, Showcase Diva and MovieTime. Showcase’s 2011-2012 collection of blockbuster premieres include A-list titles such as The Hangover, Star Trekand Iron Man 2.

Jill Monroe's Blog - Off The Keyboard: Contest!

Jill Monroe's grandparents firmly believed their grandkids should experience the satisfaction of hard work…by harvesting potatoes in 100-degree weather. In fact, Jill's grandma felt it was her personal duty to pass along the fading arts of canning, sewing and keeping house to her only granddaughter. While Jill didn't "take to" canning or sewing OR, let's face it, cleaning, she did pick up her grandparents' other favorite pastime — reading. During the hottest time of those long summer days, Jill's grandma and great-aunts read and discussed their favorite romance novels. It wasn't long before Jill joined in the conversation. No one is more proud of Jill's first book than her grandma and great-aunts. After various careers, including driving a van of 14 college students cross-country, breaking up fights and being one of several to interview Jesse Jackson for a local radio station, Jill happily settles behind the computer and writes the kind of stories she hopes people will enjoy reading on those long, hot days of summer. Or to heat up the slow, cold nights of winter!

Random Ranter's bad habits of not being very good at things like, canning or sewing OR, let's face it, cleaning, rubbed off on jill. But Random Ranter was a great reader, and so was able to pass on that favorite pastime. During the hottest time of those long summer days, Random Ranter and various other folks, read and discussed their favorite romance novels. It wasn't long before jill joined in the conversation. No one is more proud of Jill's first book than Random Ranter.

Grandma is happy to report not all her time was wasted; Jill can be found every October in the fabric store helping little ones decide which costume they want sewn for Halloween. The canning is still a problem, but she is working on that with friend and fellow author, Marie Whittemore, whose newest novel and sure-to-be-a-bestseller "Phoenix Blood" will be hitting the bookshelves in late 2008.

While grandma felt it was her personal duty to pass along the fading arts of sewing since she was a professional and keeping house to her only granddaughter... me, she found it was a waste of her valuable time. I can't sew a straight line and my cleaning is usually before company comes. I love to be outdoors as much as possible working in the garden and the yard and even do most of my reading on the porch with lots of windows open to enjoy the cool breeze and sunny skies.

"Grandparents firmly believed their grandkids should experience the satisfaction of hard work…by harvesting potatoes in 100-degree weather. " As I, Kelli McBride, read this startling statistic, I flashed back to my own childhood, shackled to unfeeling grandparents who made me work the sod, even though I was allergic to dirt. As I dug for potatoes, my tears and snot mingling together to form a thick muddy paste, I swore, as God was my witness, I would never dig dirt again. Somehow, with that mantra, I connected to the part of the universe that revels in romance and tall, dark, handsome alpha males. Growing up, I studied Hollywood adventure romances set in Casbahs, Desert Tents, and Spanish Castles. I drew inspiration from the tragic loves of heroines, vowing to write stories were every disguised princess reunited with her long-lost love (a deposed Arabian prince). My fight continues to rescue fiction from the clutches of literary prose that seeks to set high that which brings us low, that defies the boy-gets-girl ending and embraces the boy-dies-in-tragic-fire-incident-and-girl-has-affair-with-his-best-friend-a-gay-cocaine-addicted-alcoholic-who-dumps-her-for-his-art. I especially want to thank the girl for crying out at my class reunion "Yes!!" Though I don't remember what she looks like, her passionate affirmation of the affirmative reaffirmed my passion for writing and romance. Thank you mumpy-looking girl with Diet-Cherry-Coke breath.

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