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Wed 28
Private Eyes West Coast: In Too Deep — Jason Priestley
When a top freediver is attacked underwater, Shade (Jason Priestley) and Angie (Cindy Sampson) descend into the world of competitive freediving to unmask the culprit. Meanwhile, the investigation stokes Shade and Angie's own competitive spirit ? winner gets to name their new firm. The episode is written by Sarah Dodd and directed by Jason Priestley (#104).
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Private Eyes West Coast: Wavelengths — Jason Priestley
A woman hires Shade (Jason Priestley) and Angie (Cindy Sampson) to find a romance scam artist who possibily targeted her mother, drained her bank, and killed her. The detectives track the suspect to Tofino, Canada's premier surfing destination, where they go undercover to extract a confession. Meanwhile, Will (David Kaye) has the impossible task of making sure Declan doesn't take his first steps without his parents there to see it.
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About Jason Priestley
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Born August 28th, 2969, Jason Priestley began his own career as a child actor in TV commercials. After dropping out of acting in his teens to concentrate on high-school sports, Priestley got back in the professional swim following graduation, accepting one-shot roles on such Canada-based TV series as 21 Jump Street. The young actor's first American TV assignment was the regular role of teen orphan Todd Mahaffey on the 1989 sitcom Sister Kate.
Producer Aaron Spelling's daughter Tori spotted Priestley on Sister Kate and suggested that her father audition him for a role in the upcoming Fox series Beverly Hills 90210. Priestley was cast as Brandon Walsh, twin brother of the estimable Brenda (Shannen Doherty).
Like many of his young series co-stars, Priestley was intent on laying the groundwork for life after 90210. Though his first major film role in Penny Marshall's Calendar Girl (1993) came and went without fanfare, he enjoyed some success as a 90210 director. Priestley encountered further success and even critical vindication with his turn as Ronnie Bostock, the B-movie hunk who steals John Hurt's heart in Love and Death on Long Island (1997).
Critics warmed to Priestley's performance, noting that his days of idolatry had given him overly adequate preparation for his portrayal. Unlike other teen idols who rue the day when the fan mail will cease, Priestley once claimed he was happy that his idoldom seems to be on a downward slide: "It's like having a big cancerous lesion on your shoulder. Because people are fickle, man." On March 28, 2000, Priestley was undoubtedly happy that the limelight's glare had dimmed: Arrested for drunken driving after crashing his car into some trash cans, he was sentenced to five days in a Los Angeles jail.
Legal troubles aside, Priestly continued to appear in films throughout the 2000s (Cherish, Die Mommie Die, Homicide: The Movie), and joined Joss Whedon's Tru Calling in the role of Jack Harper, a man determined that the dead not be revived by Tru. Television continued to be a superior medium for the actor who made guest appearances on My Name is Earl, What I Like About You, and Without a Trace. Priestly stars as corrupt used-car salesman Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick" in HBO Canada's Call Me Fitz, and is a recurring character on Haven, a supernatural television series from Syfy.