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Feast your eyes on TMN’s free preview on Rogers on Demand Online
February 17th, 2012 a 10:23am
Lots of big happenings at Rogers On Demand Online! We’re all buzzing about the fact that we’ve got a fantastic TMN Free Preview for Rogers cable customers happening right now. If you watch television, or if you don’t, I’m sure you’re familiar with a whole bunch of the titles that you can check out here with just a click of a button. Here’s a rundown of just a few of the shows you could check out for free right now.
Luck
Some of us will always think of Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin in The Graduate or maybe for his Oscar-winning role in Rain Man. However, I’m guessing that his starring role in HBO’s brand new series Luck will introduce him to a whole new audience. The shows deals with horseracing and gambling and has a knockout cast that not only includes Dustin Hoffman, but Nick Nolte and Dennis Farina as well. Throw in the fact that it was created by David Milch, who also came up with classic shows like NYPD Blue and Deadwood and it gets even better. But wait, we’re not done yet. The pilot episode, which you can check out right now in our free preview, was directed by the amazing Michael Mann. Take a look at Luck and let us know what you think.
Deadwood
Speaking of Deadwood, that’s another show you can check out in our TMN Free Preview. This is the western to end all western, featuring a star making performance by the great Ian McShane. You can sample the first two episodes from the first season of Deadwood right now for the low cost of free.
Game of Thrones
One of the most anticipated returns this television season is that of Game of Thrones, which was a huge success when it first aired last year. I didn’t watch it right away, but I did play catch up not long ago and have to say I was suitably impressed. Great set pieces, great acting – you don’t have to be a hugh fan of fantasy to get into all of the intrigue. In our TMN Free Preview, you can check out the first episode of Game of Thrones season one, which really sets the stage for all that’s to come.
Those are just a few of the shows you can check out in TMN’s Free Preview. But really, there are so many more shows for you to sample – Showtimes Nurse Jackie, Curb Your Enthusiasm, True Blood and many, many more. Definitely head over to Rogers On Demand Online and take a look at all of these stellar, award winning shows. I’m pretty sure you’ll find at least one you like. And to read more TMN Free Preview related info, be sure to check Rogers Beyond The Guide blog. The TMN Free Preview is on now until February 26th.
What’s your favourite show in the free preview? We want to know!
Andrew is a regular contributor to RedBoard
Tags: Rogers on Demand Online: what’s new for 2012
January 27th, 2012 a 5:46pm
It’s hard to believe that we’re near the end of January already. How are you feeling? Resolved? Tired? Ready to take on a brand new year? A new year also means brand new tv shows all vying for your time and eyes. To bring you up to speed on what’s out there, we’ve put together a list of some of the new prime time shows we’ve got on Rogers On Demand Online. Take a look – I bet there’s something you’ll love to watch.
Alcatraz
What do you get when you combine the most ominous prison in American history with one of the most acclaimed creators currently working in television? The answer is J.J. Abrams’ Alcatraz, which is free to watch to everyone. The show stars Sam Neil, Jorge Garcia (Hurley from Lost) and Sarah Jones. The series combines the supernatural mystery of Lost with a police procedural style case of the week, which makes it an entertaining show. The big question of the series – how are long supposed dead former Alcatraz prisoners alive in contemporary San Francisco having not aged a day? Hopefully, we’ll get answers sooner than later.
Arctic Air
Take a look at the new CBC show Arctic Air, free to watch for all Rogers Customers, and you may notice a familiar face. Adam Beach has been seen in all sorts of mainstream fair, including the film Cowboys and Aliens, Flags Of Our Fathers and as a regular on Law and Order: SVU. In Arctic Air, Beach stars as Bobby, who returns home to Yellowknife and the family business, a maverick airline run by an eclectic group of people. The show is already a huge hit, with more than 1 million people watching the premiere episode. Catch up on the series and see what Canada’s been talking about, right here.
My Babysitter’s A Vampire
If you’re looking for something for the kids, you should definitely check out Teletoon’s My Babysitter’s A Vampire. What began as a made for television film is now a full on series about a trio with some cool powers – Ehtan is a Seer, his best pal Benny is a spellmaster and his babysitter Sarah just happens to be a vampire. Together, they take on all sorts of things that go bump in the night – from zombies and ghosts to demons and witches. My Babysitter’s A Vampire is free to watch to Rogers cable customers, so catch up on the first three episodes right now.
That’s just a taste of some of the new shows available to watch on Rogers On Demand Online. There are also brand new episodes of How I Met Your Mother, Glee and many more available as well.
Of all the new shows that have premiered in 2012, which are you most excited about?
Andrew is a regular contributor to RedBoard
Tags: Rogers On Demand Online – Ho Ho Ho! It’s The Holiday Channel
December 2nd, 2011 a 12:02pm
Can you smell it in the air – fruit cake, pine trees, apple cider? I know I can. I can’t wait for the holidays to begin – it’s my favourite time of year. Spending time with the family and friends, eating too much turkey and oh yeah, the presents. I admit it, I love giving and getting presents. I’m still a kid at heart, I suppose. Over the next month I know I’ll be spending a lot of my free time checking out The Holiday Channel on Rogers On Demand Online. We’ve gone through and collected the best tv shows, free movies, and holiday rentals for you to watch to get yourself in the festive spirit.
Holiday Movies and TV Shows - There are lots of great holiday tv shows and films that you can watch right now on Rogers On Demand Online. You can catch free prime time holiday episodes of hits like 2 Broke Girls and Mad Men. We’ll also be adding in lots of free holiday themed films throughout the month of December, including A Christmas Story and the original Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory! Rogers Customers can also check out free classic Holiday themed retro tv including episodes of Cagney and Lacey and The Addams Family. Yes, even the Addams Family had Christmas episodes.
Free Holiday Shorts – Don’t have time to commit to a tv show or film? No problem! On The Holiday Channel, we’ve got a solid collection of free holiday shorts that will give you a quick hit of yuletide joy. Check out the latest music video from Justin Bieber, hilarious Saturday Night Live shorts and lots of classic retro minisodes of The Facts of Life, Silver Spoons and Newsradio. Get your laughs or tunes in just 5 minutes!
More great primetime shows from Citytv and FX Canada will be added throughout the month of December so make sure you check back often!
Holiday Rentals – The Holiday Channel also features lots of great movies that you can rent from the comfort of your laptop and watch wherever you want in your home. If you’re looking for brand new releases, you’ll find Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas, Becoming Christmas and Holiday Engagement ready to be rented. For more recent films that have become a holiday favourite, you can check out Vince Vaughn and Resse Witherspoon in Four Christmases, or Will Farrell in Elf, which is a favourite amongst all the folks I work with at Rogers On Demand Online. If you’ve got little ones in your family, there are also lots of Thomas & Friends and Bob The Builder movies to choose from in The Holiday Channel. And be sure to check back regularly, as we’ll be adding more holiday rentals all through December.
There’s already lots of great content to choose from in The Holiday Channel, with even more on the way. So really, there’s no reason anybody should be saying “bah hum-bug” throughout December.
On that note, I’m going to go rent Four Christmases, one of my favourite holiday films. What’s one of yours?
Andrew is a regular contributor to RedBoard
Tags: Get creeped out with Rogers On Demand Online
October 28th, 2011 a 4:50pm
With the dog days of October closing in on us, that spooky feeling that comes with the month just gets stronger and stronger. Works for me – I’m a huge horror film fan. From ghosts and goblins to vampires (ones that don’t shimmer and go out during the daylight), werewolves and creepy things with tentacles, I’ll watch them all. On that note, I’m really pleased that Rogers On Demand Online has the Spooky Cinema & TV Collection on our site. Basically, all the great, creepy content available on the site can be found on one, easy to manage page. Here’s a look at just some of the movies, television shows and rentals you can find.
Free Movies: there’s nothing scary about watching some classic horror flicks for the low cost of free. In the Spooky Cinema & TV Collection, you’ll find some essential Halloween films, guaranteed to make you leave the lights on.
There’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe Freddy Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar, as a group of teenagers who accidently kill a man and swear to never anybody. Not really a great idea, especially when the foursome starts getting picked off one by one.
Also available to watch for free is the first film in the Saw franchise. Go back to the beginning where we meet the maniacal Jigsaw for the first time. If you haven’t seen Saw before, bear in mind it is pretty gory at certain points throughout the film. However, it’s also clever and well made, with a spectacularly unpredictable ending.
Spooky TV Shows: One of the scariest shows to have hit television over the last few years was Masters of Horror. The idea was simple – get some of the best horror filmmakers in the world to create hour long episodes of their choosing. It’s an anthology series that lasted two seasons and featured work from directors like John Carpenter, Joe Dante, Stuart Gordon and Dario Argento. You can watch both seasons of Masters of Horror for free at Rogers On Demand Online, but you will have to sign in first.
Spooky Rentals: There are lots great new release and classic scary films available to rent from Rogers On Demand Online right now. Scream 4 reunites the original cast from the beloved film franchise – including Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Neve Campbell and whoever it is behind the Ghostface mask this time. There’s also The Ward, the latest film from Halloween director John Carpenter, about a young institutionalized woman terrorized by a ghost. As for classics, you can take a trip to the Overlook Hotel (if you dare) by renting The Shining (still one of the greatest films ever made, horror or otherwise, in my humble opinion). What about The Exorcist – often hailed as thee scariest film every created?
As you can see, Rogers On Demand Online offers countless hours of great Spooky Cinema & TV for you to choose from in our collection. All you have to do is decide whether or not you’re brave enough to watch.
What’s your favourite scary to movie to watch at Halloween?
Andrew is a regular contributor to RedBoard
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Let’s go to the movies: Rogers On Demand Online celebrates film festivals
September 14th, 2011 a 12:02pm
Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to attend a few big movie premiers. Back in 1994, I was in the same room with Robert Englund, the horror legend you may know better as Freddie Krueger, for the debut of Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, which was pretty cool for a horror fan like me.
While there’s nothing quite like the glitz and glamour of a big time movie premiere, there’s also a lot to be said about watching movies in the comfort of your own home. Not only is Rogers On Demand Online a great place to catch up on any of your favourite tv shows you may have missed, it’s also your one stop destination for movie streaming on the web with the Rogers On Demand Rentals Store. Along with new titles on the day they’re released (typically Tuesday if you’re looking for them), we also have special themes that we run to tie in with everything from holidays to movie stars to special events.
In the case of September, we’re featuring some critically acclaimed festival flicks that we know you’ll want to check out.
Some consider Apocalypse Now to be one of the greatest war films of all time, while others simply site it as one of greatest films, period. Starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brandon, Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper (along with a blink and you’ll miss it appearance by Harrison Ford), the film debuted at Cannes back in 1979 and received a huge reaction. Some twenty years later, director Francis Ford Coppola added footage that was originally edited out for various reasons and created Apocalypse Now Redux, making a great movie even better. If you’ve never seen either version, get comfortable and check it out now.
Bill Murray is often regarded as simply a comedic actor, but the man is incredibly versatile. For proof, look no further than Lost In Translation, co-starring a then 18-year old Scarlett Johansson as a woman who meets an aging movie star when both wind up in Tokyo. When Lost In Translation debuted at the Telluride Film Festival back in 2003, it immediately created a buzz, thanks to the poignant performances from Murray and Johansson and the subtle direction of Sophia Coppola (daughter of Francis). Made for just $4 million, Lost In Translation wound up grossing nearly $120 million worldwide, an amazing accomplishment for a small but gorgeous film.
Another solid and interesting rental on Rogers On Demand Online is Blindness, which was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008. The film, about a sudden epidemic of blindness that effects society, features a knockout cast, including Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover and beloved Canadian actor Maury Chaykin. The film is fairly dark, but it’s also an intriguing concept anchored by a strong script by Canadian Don McKellar (who adapted Blindness from the book of the same name).
If none of the above appeal to you, there are a lot more festival flicks for you to peruse on Rogers On Demand Online, or choose from our huge selection of New Releases for some of the biggest Hollywood hits from the last few months. Next time, I’ll let you know all about the free films we have on the site as well.
What one film can you watch over and over without ever getting bored?
Andrew Burns is a regular contributor to RedBoard
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Kid approved: Rogers on Demand Online introduces Kids & Family Collection
August 12th, 2011 a 2:43pm
Where can you find hundreds of hours of amazing kids and family content online for your viewing pleasure?
If you answered Rogers On Demand Online’s Kids & Family Collection, I’d say you are spot on. But if you’re asking, “What’s he talking about?” allow me to give you all the details.
Rogers On Demand’s Kids & Family Collection was designed to make life easier for you to search for all sorts of kid-friendly content, which we admittedly have a ton to offer. And believe me when I say a ton – this is no exaggeration. To help you find the shows you want your family watching, we curated our video content into four different areas:
- Free For All – Who doesn’t like free stuff? When it comes to Kids & Family, we’ve got a great selection of free content that you can start watching immediately, including episodes of Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, Gisèle’s Big Backyard and Digimon Adventure!
- Pre-School – As the father of a one-year old, I can tell you that I’m so glad there are channels like TVOKids, Treehouse and Disney Junior out there. There are so many quality programs that I know my child is going to be able to watch sooner than later. With our Pre-School channel, we’ve made it easy for you to find shows like Dora The Explorer, Caillou, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! and many more, and you can watch them all for free until September 7th!
- Kids – Looking for shows for your tween is easy. We’ve collected all of their favourites, from Kick Buttowski : Suburban Daredevil and Johnny Test to The Suite Life on Deck and iCarly. You’ll be the coolest parent around when you tell your kids to go watch the computer!
- Editor’s Picks – How do you know what the latest and greatest kids and family shows are? That’s what our editor’s picks are there for. We take a look at all the great shows that we have on our site, and then pick out a few that we want to highlight that we know you’ll enjoy.
From animation to live action, the hottest new shows to some classic retro offerings, you’re guaranteed to find what you’re looking for with Rogers On Demand Online’s Kids & Family Collection. Even better, from now until September 7th you can catch freeviews of Teletoon, Teletoon Retro, YTV, Treehouse, Disney Junior, Family and Disney XD!
What’s your favourite kids & family show?
Andrew Burns is a regular contributor to RedBoard
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Oh Canada! Celebrating Canadian content On Rogers On Demand Online
June 30th, 2011 a 11:04am
Can you believe that our home and native land is turning 144 years old this Canada Day? Where has the time gone? To celebrate, why not check out some of the great Canadian content we have available on Rogers On Demand Online.
In the mood for a mystery? This summer you can catch new episodes of the CityTV series, Murdoch Mysteries. Set in Toronto in the 1890’s, the show stars Yannick Bisson as police detective William Murdoch, who uses some pretty unorthodox methods for the time to solve crimes. Now in its fourth season, Murdoch Mysteries is free to all Rogers Wireless, Home Phone, Hi-Speed Internet and Cable TV customers.
This summer you can also catch up on some of the great homegrown shows from CBC. On Dragons’ Den, some of the county’s most brilliant financial minds decide whether or not to invest in aspiring Canadian entrepreneurs. The pitches are entertaining, as are the reactions from the Dragons’ themselves. You can also watch the entire first season of Republic of Doyle, the comedy-drama series about a father/son private investigation team, set within the gorgeous scenery of St. Johns, Newfoundland. Both shows, along with lots more CBC content, is available for free to Rogers Wireless, Home Phone, Hi-Speed Internet and Cable TV customers.
Something for the kids
If you’re looking for some great kid’s content, definitely visit the newly launched TVO Kids channel on Rogers On Demand Online. Kids can take a trip to Gisele’s Big Backyard or kick out the jams at Jackie’s School of Dance. Not only are the shows like My Canada educational, they’re fun as well. It’s a great way to learn about topics like the Prime Minister or Canada’s place in the world without anybody’s eyes glazing over. And it must be noted that Space Trek’s Captain Kent is almost as cool as one James T. Kirk. Almost. TVO Kids is free to everyone.
HBO Canada
One great Canadian show of the past few years has been the HBO Canada series Durham County, starring the amazing Hugh Dillon (who is also the frontman for Canadian rockers, The Headstones). For three seasons, we watched the story of Durham detective Mike Sweeny as he dealt with brutal criminal cases and a disintegrating family life. The series is often dark and disturbing, but it’s also full of mesmerizing performances and visuals. Durham County and HBO Canada is available on Rogers on Demand Online to Rogers Cable TV customers as part of their HBO subscription.
Homegrown talent
If we’re talking Canada Day, we’ve also got to give a tip of the hat to all the Canadian stars this country has produced, which is what we’re doing on our Rentals page with O Canada – Canadian Stars. Find out what happens when a man challenges himself to say yes to everything in Carrey’s Yes Man or head back to the swingin’ sixties with the grooviest character Mike Myers ever came up with, Austin Powers. You can also catch Keanu on Rogers On Demand in two of my favourite films of his, the comic book adaptation Constantine and the great supernatural story The Devil’s Advocate, which also stars the one and only Al Pacino as Lucifer himself.
There’s lots more great Canadian shows to discover on Rogers On Demand Online.
What’s your favourite Canadian series or film?
Andrew Burns is a regular contributor to RedBoard
Tags: A Friday night free for all with Rogers on Demand Online
June 3rd, 2011 a 10:56am
Do you remember when it didn’t cost nearly $50 for a night at the movies? We do. Luckily, if you’re looking for a free, fun way to spend a Friday night (or any night, for that matter), Rogers On Demand Online has some super movie and TV show suggestions to keep you entertained.
As part of a new RedBoard series highlighting some of the great content on Rogers on Demand Online, we’re starting with a look at some of our favourite programming that’s included with your Digital TV subscription at no additional cost.
Mad Men: Mad Men is one of the most critically acclaimed television series of the past five years, thanks to it’s unique setting (the ad agency world of the 1960’s) and ridiculously hot cast (Jon Hamm, January Jones and Elisabeth Moss, for starters). Rogers On Demand Online has all four seasons of the show, so you can start at the very beginning. Mad Men is available for free to all Rogers Digital TV customers.
Robocop: Part man. Part machine. All cop. That was the tagline for Robocop when it hit theatres back in 1987. The less said about the sequels and TV series, the better, but there’s no doubt that the original film, which is available to Rogers customers on Rogers On Demand Online, has stood the test of time. Sidenote – a remake is on the way next year, but we doubt it will be as good as the original. Robobop is available for free to Rogers Wireless, Home Phone, Hi-Speed Internet and Cable TV customers.
HBO: If you’re a HBO Subscriber, you can watch the channel on your computer so you don’t have to battle for TV supremacy. Among the HBO shows you can access easily are George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones and The Ricky Gervais Show. Plus, you can get psyched for the upcoming fourth season of True Blood by revisiting Season Three. HBO programming is available on Rogers on Demand Online to Rogers Cable TV customers as part of their HBO subscription.
That’s just a small sampling of the amazing content Rogers On Demand has to offer. If none of the above speaks to you, I guarantee you’ll be able to find something when you visit the site.
What’s your favourite show or movie to watch on a Friday night?
Andrew Burns is a regular contributor to RedBoard
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