Music: {allcanada} 'Flashpoint' third season returns

Monday, January 3, 2011

{allcanada} 'Flashpoint' third season returns

When it comes to prisoners escaping custody, you have to hope police transport vans are more secure in real life than they are on TV or in the movies.

After all, prisoners in scripted projects tend to free themselves from transport vans with alarming regularity. And all their accomplices always seem to know exactly when the van is leaving and where it's headed. Weird.

Anyway, that's just a side observation with regard to the Canadian cop drama Flashpoint, which begins airing the back end of its third season on Tuesday, Jan. 4, on CTV.

In the new episode titled Collateral Damage, a pre-planned escape from a police transport van puts the Flashpoint team -- played by Enrico Colantoni, Hugh Dillon, David Paetkau and Amy Jo Johnson -- in pursuit of a desperate man accused of killing his infant daughter.

Elsewhere on TV Tuesday, there's the debut of the CBC sitcom InSecurity (our interview with star Natalie Lisinska appeared last weekend) as well as Paula Abdul's new series Live to Dance on CBS and CTV. Returning with their second seasons are V on ABC and A, and Burn Notice on Showcase.