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Alphas, from Michael Karnow and comic book movie veteran Zak Penn (X-Men 2, Elektra, The Incredible Hulk), is a relatively realistic show about people with superpowers, though given this description, it’s less gritty (at least initially) than you might expect. It’s not like Jason Bourne with superpowers (or Battlestar Galactica, despite the presence of Callum Keith Rennie). And the realism doesn’t stop the show from having some cool special effects.

It’s broadly similar to Warehouse 13 (another SyFy show also scored by Edward Rogers) in tone and visual style, though Alphas’ pilot is better. Since Warehouse 13 was relatively slow to start, but got really good in the second half of Season 1, then hopefully Alphas could be even better, if it shows the same level of improvement. The characters aren’t as good as in Warehouse 13, though it’s early days yet, though most of them are quite good,...

CBC, a public Canadian TV network, has announced on its shopping web site that the second season of its hit TV series Being Erica will be released on DVD in Canada on September 14.

This show, which is broadcasted in the USA and many European countries, follows Erica Strange (Erin Karpluk), a thirty-two-year-old woman from Toronto. In the second season, Erica works as a junior editor for a publisher and she seems to be in seventh heaven with her boyfriend (Tyron Leitso). Moreover, thanks to her therapy with Dr. Tom (Michael Riley), a therapist who sends her back in time (or in her possible future) to fix her regrets, Erica has gained more confidence in her judgement. However, she has to deal with her sister Samantha (Joanna Douglas) heading towards a divorce and Kai (Sebastian Pigott), a mysterious man she befriends.

The show also stars Reagan Pasternak, Morgan Kelly, Vinessa Antoine,...

Do You Ever Wish You Could Have A Do-Over? Up next Wednesday March 10 is Episode 208 - "Under My Thumb" . Catching Ethan in a compromising position forces Erica to face problems in her sex life, on a new episode of "Being Erica." Past episodes saw "your average 33 year-old" Erica's do-over day with Dr. Tom, where Kai and Erica kissed, and created lots of awkwardness for Erica and which Kai doesn't remember. Erica's tempetuous boss Julianne (Reagan Pasternak) is unaware that Julianne's author boyfriend Friedken (Jeff Seymour) is messing around with the office staff. So what's Erica to do? Tell Julianne and possibly get shot as the messenger or let Julianne know that Friedken is...

Sex sells. If the average marketing campaign in the United States can convince you of anything, it’s that. Equal parts Kinsey and Ally McBeal, Show Me Yours dances along that fine line separating sexual promiscuity and exploration. So why didn’t Show Me Yours ever get the American attention such a sex-oriented feature would typically garner? Even after the first episode it’s abundantly clear that sex is the order of the day, after all, it’s at the dead center of the plot. For whatever reason, the age of Canadian-to-American television pipeline seems to have dried up. Show Me Yours may have found an American outlet via Oxygen (you know, the other channel aimed primarily at women), but it never found the audience it really deserved.

Dr. Kate Langford (Rachael Crawford) studies sex from the psychological angle. Her ideas are fresh and she even has a book deal in the works.