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Jonathan Torrens is having an episode. . .13 of them in fact! In his new show TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens (TVtropolis),"TV's JT" spends an honest and hilarious half-hour a week dissecting all the goings-on and goings-wrong in the wide world of television.

Through satire, streeters and sketch, Torrens gives the big picture on the small screen by focusing each episode on a different - but familiar - genre of TV. From Period Dramas to Paranormal, from Crime to Kids, our TV guide tries to answer the questions we're all thinking when it comes to the current state of television. Are we just adrift on a sea of nostalgia or was TV actually better back when Sam loved Diane,when Kevin loved Winnie, when My Two Dads loved each other?

Since launching his career as a host on CBC's Street Cents 20 years ago, Jonathan Torrens has grown up on TV. And from Jonovision to J-Roc to Joe Schmo, he's been a perennial presence in the Canadian TV landscape for two decades.There is no one better to channel misguided tele-visionaries through today's vast- sometimes terrifying- multi channel universe.

Who better to ask questions like: why aren't there shows that make us cry anymore like the Family Ties finale...or laugh like the last episode of Seinfeld ... or rejoice like the Murder She Wrote finale?

Now that reality television seems to be a permanent reality and appointment viewing is giving way to binge-watching seasons of Lost in a weekend, what is the future of TV? 
For answers to these and more pressing questions for the TV junkie in all of us, tune in to TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens on TVtropolis, and TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens Cycle II premiering Saturday June 12th at 10:30PM ET. Repeating Wednesdays at 11 PM.

Produced in Halifax by Arcadia Entertainment in association with TVtropolis.