The career of Helen Shaver is really a story of three careers, two in front of and one behind the camera. Shaver has had acting roles in such films as Who Has Seen the Wind, In Praise of Older Women, Amityville Horror, The Osterman Weekend, Desert Hearts, The Color of Money, and Bethune: The Making … Continue reading TV Eh B Cs podcast 45 – Helen Shaver’s Longship Journey
Lara Azzopardi has been a producer on such shows as Lost Girl, The Listener, The L.A. Complex and Combat Hospital, and totally switched genres when she became showrunner, writer and director on Backstage, Family Channel’s series about the artistic kids attending an arts high school. Pregnant with her third child, she expected the usual six to eight-month … Continue reading The amazing race to make Family Channel’s Backstage
A workday conversation with Saving Hope lead Erica Durance and showrunner Adam Pettle. Saving Hope is CTV’s enduring supernatural medical drama that centres around the lives of the doctors and nurses of Hope Zion Hospital. Erica has spent the last decade and a half in film and television, before Saving Hope probably most noted for … Continue reading TV Eh B Cs podcast 38 – Erica Durance & Adam Pettle: The Ghosts of Christmas Hope
From a media release: Award-winning mother-daughter team, filmmaker and producer Gail Harvey (Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries, Lost Girl), and actress, writer and producer Katie Boland (Gerontophilia, Reign) of Straight Shooters Productions are delighted to announce a development deal with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for their ground-breaking new comedic drama Gold Lamé. Being developed through the comedy department at the CBC, Straight Shooters Productions will work with Sienna Films (Unless, Riftwood … Continue reading Straight Shooters Productions and CBC developing new drama series
From Amber Dowling of Buzzfeed: 18 Aggravating TV Problems Only Canadians Could Understand 1. Falling in love with a show, only to have it cancelled when it does poorly in the U.S. RIP Combat Hospital AKA Canada’s No. 1 rated summer drama in 2011. Continue reading.
