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Cover Story The ‘instafame’ game ABC’s ‘Selfie’ puts a comedic spin on social media By Cassie Dresch mour. “Selfie” takes the ram- “‘Selfie’ holds the most TV Media pant narcissism that is some- promise out of any half-hour times bred from social media comedy this fall, thanks to ucker up and smile pretty and blends it with a little bit of some genius casting — John Pfor the camera! ABC is “My Fair Lady” (1964) and Cho and Karen Gillan are spot hashtagging, Instagramming “Pygmalion” (1938). While I on — and of course the writ- and friending its way through imagine Audrey Hepburn ing stylings of ‘Suburgatory‘s’ the sitcom scene with a new would be absolutely stunning Emily Kapnek,” said “E! On- half-hour laugher that’s set to in any and all selfies, “Doctor line” TV Scoop reviewer Kristin take social media from the Who’s” Karen Gillan and “Star Dos Santos. computer screen to the TV Trek’s” (2009) John Cho add “It’s a premise that should their own twist to the unre- screen. Catch the series pre- not work,” added fellow TV fined pupil and uptight tutor miere of “Selfie,” airing Tues- Scoop writer Tierney Bricker, roles. “yet [it] totally does, thanks to day, Sept. 30, on ABC. Gillan stars as the self-ob- Cho and Gillan’s chemistry and Since the advent of Face- sessed Eliza Dooley, a woman the writing, with almost every book more than 10 years ago, highly focused on herself, her single joke landing.” social networking has been “tweeps” and her image. She As Bricker mentioned, it taken to new heights. You can has more than 263,000 follow- seems like “Selfie” shouldn’t now send out mini-messages ers who cling to her every pic- work as a TV show, especially of 140 characters or less with ture and post on social net- since it’s a storyline that’s been Twitter, post heavily filtered working sites, and she thrives done before both on screen photos of your goings-on on the attention and “insta- and on stage — and with through Instagram and even fame.” After an unfortunate great success. The 1964 movie send 10-second picture mes- mishap on an airplane, Eliza musical version of “My Fair sages on Snapchat that disap- realizes she needs a bit (read: a Lady” starring Audrey Hep- pear into the abyss when the ton!) of help to update her im- burn (“Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” timer hits zero. age and get over the cringe- 1961) and Rex Harrison (“Doc- It’s a culture of oversharing worthy embarrassment. tor Dolittle,” 1967) took home that continues to grow. Eighty- Enter Henry Higenbottam. eight Academy Awards. The three per cent of Canadians He’s a workaholic, marketing 1956 Broadway musical the over the age of 16 used the In- self-image guru who de- movie is based on star- ternet in 2012 for personal use, spises everything to do ring Harrison and Ju- and of those people, 67 per with social networking lie Andrews (“The cent were connecting to social and the people who Sound of Music,” media, compared to 58 per rely too much on tech 1965) won six cent in 2010. Even Merriam- connectivity to live. Tony Awards, in- Webster is jumping on the The character, played cluding Best Mu- tech-centric bandwagon, add- by Cho, decides to sical. ing the words “hashtag” and lend his rebrand- “selfie” to the Collegiate Dic- ing expertise to tionary to “reflect the growing Eliza so that she Allyn influence technology is having understands Rachel on human endeavour, especial- there’s more to as seen ly social networking.” life than just In- in So it makes sense that ABC stagram, Can- “Selfie” is tackling this trend, and it’s dy Crush Saga doing it with a heavy hit of hu- and Twitter. 2 Feature Story Bar your doors ‘Stalker’ may be ‘the scariest drama’ CBS has ever aired By Jacqueline aspects of stalking and intimi- leave behind are what will give Spendlove dation, showing fictionalized him valuable insight into the TV Media versions of things that actually minds of the creepy culprits happen to people in real life. In he’s after. fact, CBS president Nina Tassler Rounding off the team are hese days, you’re probably calls the series “the scariest detectives Ben Caldwell (Victor seldom given pause when T drama the network has ever Rasuk, “How to Make It in you tweet about the concert aired.” The detectives look into America”) and Janice Law- you’re at or post a shot of your cases of voyeurism, cyber ha- rence (Mariana Klaveno, “True meal at the restaurant you like rassment and romantic fixa- Blood”). The youngster of the to frequent. With everyone and tion; determine what kind and group, Caldwell lacks the level his dog running rampant on degree of threat the victim’s of experience his teammates social media, we’ve all made under; and respond before the have, but he’s nevertheless ea- ourselves extremely accessible stalking and intimidation can ger to learn and play his part. to our friends and family, but turn into something worse. Smart as a whip, Lawrence is a that giant window into our Enter Lt. Beth Davis (Maggie key member of the team, and lives can’t always be a good Q, “Nikita”). A victim of stalk- her exceptional brain power thing. ing herself, Davis is an expert in will prove to be invaluable. CBS’s new series is going to the field, strong and focused, We’ll get a look at how the have the masses scrambling and doesn’t take any guff. That team works together and com- for the privacy settings on makes wise-mouthed Det. Jack plements one another, while Facebook pages everywhere. Larsen (Dylan McDermott, also getting to know them as “Stalker” is a suspense thriller “American Horror Story”) a people dealing with their own about — you guessed it — perfect foil for Davis, his new lives and obsessions. stalkers. More specifically, it’s boss. The show is a long time about the people who investi- Larsen has recently moved coming. The seed was planted gate incidents of stalking and to Los Angeles after transfer- in executive producer Kevin put a stop to them before the ring from New York City’s ho- Williamson’s brain years ago, threats get really out of control. micide division. He’s got a following the slasher flick The psychological drama pre- strong personality and a cer- “Scream 2” (1997), which he mieres Wednesday, Oct. 1, on tain swagger that have wrote and developed. After CBS and Global. gotten him into trouble having an experience with The network’s lineup is al- before, along with some an “overzealous fan,” he ready pretty laden with crime dubious past behaviour learned about the real-life and suspense, so execs must that will actually prove Threat Management Unit, figure you can’t have too much useful in his new posi- on which the work of of a good thing. “Stalker” will tion. There’s a cer- “Stalker’s” be joining prime-time heavy- tain mystery to Threat Assess- weights such as “Person of In- Larsen; he’s try- ment Unit is terest,” “The Good Wife,” ing to change based. “NCIS” and “Criminal Minds” from the man he’s been in Dylan on the roster this fall, and if the McDermott pilot’s anything to go by, it’s the past, yet at the same stars in likely to be just as compelling “Stalker” as its fellows. time, the The series is centred around very trans- the LAPD’s Threat Assessment gressions Unit. It takes a look at different he’s trying to 4 CrosswordTV 7 Tennis great Mr. Agassi 8 Oscar-winner Al 9 __ Bator (Mongolia’s capi- tal) 10 Sulk 11 Henrik Ibsen play, __ Gynt 17 Visionary 19 Diminutive suffix 21 Mr. Anthony of song 22 “So long!” 26 Name of Rumplestiltskin’s son on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time” 27 ‘Flex’ suffix 28 Van __, California 32 NEW! 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