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The baby blues: TV shows get creative when it comes to their stars’ pregnancies
Childbirth is a miracle. It’s also a pain in the butt for the entertainment industry.
Long-running TV shows often have to find creative ways to handle an actress’s pregnancy, given lengthy filming schedules and intersecting plot lines.
New Girl went in an unusual direction: It wrote out Zooey Deschanel’s character completely. Megan Fox, another slim, pretty brunette, will play a subletter named Reagan for the few episodes that Deschanel took maternity leave.
But most of the time, even in an extremely body-conscious industry, TV series will write pregnancies into the story or hide baby bumps with clever clothing and camera play. It affects all kinds of shows, from long-running, renowned series like Frasier and Seinfeld to action shows like Alias to quirky comedies like 30 Rock.
The cover up option requires help from the prop and wardrobe departments. “Toward the end of the pregnancy, it’s such a group effort,” said costume designer Kirston Mann, who has worked with pregnant actresses on her current show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, plus Parks and Recreation, United States of Tara and Up All Night.
Here’s a look at how some other television series have handled actresses’ pregnancies, dating back to 1952.
Kerry Washington, Scandal
What they did: Hid it. They deployed every trick in the book, from giant purses to chest-up camera framing to blurred foreground shots reminiscent of an Orson Welles film.
Did it work? Not really, but no one cared. The show’s fans knew the real-life star was pregnant, and all the ridiculous ways they covered her bump provided a drinking game of sorts.
Hayden Panettiere, Nashville
What they did: Wrote it in. Viewers seemed surprised to learn that Panettiere suffered from and was treated for postpartum depression, a condition her character Juliette Barnes also had.
Did it work? Just by virtue of shining a light on an often hidden condition that affects many mothers, yes.
January Jones, Mad Men
What they did: Wrote it in — sort of. The twisted writers made the normally very fit and body-conscious character go through an unflattering “Fat Betty” phase, as fans untastefully named it. Jones wore a fat suit and prosthetic chin that masked her pregnancy.
Did it work? Not really. It’s not that it didn’t make sense to have Betty go through a physical transformation. As show creator Matthew Weiner noted, he could “have her walk around with laundry baskets in front of her, or I can really accept the fact that when her ex-husband, whom she rejected, married a woman 10 years younger than her, that that was a crushing blow to her self-esteem.” But overall, the plot seemed a bit forced, the neck prosthetics were distracting, and it didn’t really add anything worthwhile to Betty’s already complicated character.
Angela Kinsey and Jenna Fischer, The Office
What they did: Hid it, and then wrote it in. Kinsey was shot a lot from the waist up or with stuff masking her stomach when she was pregnant, though later donned a fake belly when her character, Angela, was with child on the show a few years later but Kinsey was not. Fischer wore a fake baby bump when her character, Pam, was pregnant, but when Fischer became pregnant in real life later on in the series — surprise! — Jim and Pam welcomed a second baby, which wasn’t even announced on the show — Pam just disappeared.
Did it work? Yes and no. All the hiding worked fine, but giving Pam a second baby made her stuck taking care of the babies while Jim gallivanted off to his dream job in Philadelphia.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City
What they did: Hid it, and shortened the season to eight episodes. Her character, Carrie Bradshaw, was dressed in loose-fitting clothing but that was about it.
Did it work? Yes. Carrie was experimental enough in her fashion choices that her different silhouettes didn’t seem odd, though we’re sure many were disappointed by the season ending so quickly.
Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox, Friends
What they did: Wrote it in and hid it, respectively. When Kudrow was pregnant, her character Phoebe stepped in as surrogate for her brother and his much older wife, who were having trouble conceiving naturally. And in the last season, when Monica (Cox), and Chandler are going through the adoption process after finding out they aren’t able to have a child of their own, Cox was coincidentally pregnant with her first baby.
Did it work? Yup! Phoebe was just offbeat enough to make the semi-incestuous-but-not-really plot work, and after 10 years, Friends fans were so invested in the show that Cox’s actual pregnancy didn’t matter as much as Monica and Chandler’s long sought-after adoption.
Katey Sagal, Married With Children
What they did: A combination of writing it in and hiding it, due to tragic circumstances. Sagal’s first pregnancy was originally written into the show, but after she gave birth to a stillborn at eight months, the show’s writers made the entire pregnancy part of a dream sequence. When Sagal became pregnant again a few years later, they chose not to write it in again, this time opting for careful camera framing and a few episodes where Peggy was only featured as a voice on the phone.
Did it work? Does it matter? The writers did what they had to do in order to make a terrible situation slightly less painful.
Phylicia Rashad, The Cosby Show
What they did: Hid it. Her screen time was reduced, and she had her stomach blocked by a large teddy bear and other objects. The producers even cut a hole in the Huxtables’ mattress so Clair (Rashad), was sunken down and looked normal next to Cliff (Bill Cosby).
Did it work? Yup. Nobody seemed to be any the wiser.
Lucille Ball, I Love Lucy
What they did: Wrote it in — despite the fact that CBS wouldn’t allow the word “pregnant” to be used in the 1952 episode. And Ball is visibly pregnant in the pilot episode of the series, but it’s never mentioned again.
Did it work? Yes. It was one of the first TV shows that had a pregnant character onscreen.
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Inside the mind of Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson has all the cool self-possession and gravitas of Stella Gibson, the police inspector she plays in The Fall. The BBC drama, available in Canada on Netflix, which pits her remorseless cop against an equally remorseless serial killer played by Jamie Dornan, will return later this year. Anderson has been prolific in the past year or two, with stage work and television roles in the serial-killer drama Hannibal and the BBC’s adaptation of War and Peace.
She speaks with a flawless English accent, the legacy of a life spent moving between Britain and America.
“It is near to impossible for me to stay American in England, and it would be impossible to stay British in America. If I’m sat at a dinner table talking to a Brit and there’s an American next to me, in my ear, it’s very hard. When I try and control it, I sound like a Eurotwat, you know what I mean?” She cackles delightedly (there are whole videos on YouTube devoted to this anarchic laugh). “Like I’m putting it on!”
Most important, maybe, is Anderson’s decision to revive what remains her most famous role: that of Dana Scully in the paranormal drama The X-Files, which recently returned with David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, in a six-episode run.
What was it that brought her back?
“I guess it was having enough distance,” she said, “and feeling I had spread my wings sufficiently in the interim.”
The initial agreement was to “do six (episodes) and that’d be the end of it,” but now she is not ruling out the possibility of more. “We might all bite, for the right compensation,” she says, “And move our worlds around to make it happen.”
The X-Files made her a star. But it also swallowed nearly a decade of her life.
“What people don’t realize is that in order to audition for a pilot, you have to sign a contract prior to your final audition,” she said. “So young actors, who are looking at being paid more than maybe their parents have made in their whole lives, go – ‘Yeah! Five years? Sure! Why not?’ ” Returning to the series wasn’t a straightforward decision for her.
“But mostly, once I sat back and contemplated the reality of it, when it looked like a real probability, I thought – actually, it could be fun; a present to the fans.”
Great swaths of the gossiping Internet have long hoped that a reallife relationship might follow on the heels of the tense sexual dynamic between Mulder and Scully. People who want to read more into that closeness, however, should “know there’s nothing to it,” Anderson said. “It’s a game.” She shifts in her seat, and fixes me with a cool gaze.
Does she really think people believe that?
“Does he live in London?” she snapped. “Does David live in London?” Not to my knowledge, I say; but were they ever romantically involved? “Nope,” she replied crisply. “Is that going to be the headline of this interview?”
Perhaps an alternative headline then, one entirely contrary to the imagined love story: namely, that the two stars couldn’t stand each other. Anderson has little time for this narrative. A few days ago, Fox sent her a compilation of outtakes and bloopers from The X-Files, “and there’s such a lovely, supportive, really genuinely caring feeling” about the relationship between her and Duchovny.
“From a bird’s-eye view, now, it looks quite sweet. I was moved by it. We’ve always had an element of that. That was there, I think, from the very beginning.”
There’s no doubt, however, that the pair’s closeness also brought with it a degree of friction. “I think the grind of working every single f– day, 17 hours a day, with each other, in those circumstances, just took its toll.”
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As David Suzuki turns 80, he talks about his legacy, life and death
When David Suzuki sits down with his family and friends to watch The Nature of Things on March 24, he won’t know what’s waiting for him.
The latest episode of the show, which debuted on the CBC in 1960 and which Suzuki began hosting in 1979, will be dedicated as a present to Suzuki as he turns 80 that day.
“I was surprised because I thought, ‘Jesus Christ, my life has been an open book,'” Suzuki said in an interview conducted with The Vancouver Sun at the David Suzuki Foundation offices in Kitsilano. “I said, ‘Look, if you’re going to do a film about 80 years, what I would like is to go back to the first Nature of Things shows I did and then look at them and say what’s happened since those early years.’ I wanted the focus to be on The Nature of Things. I don’t think they did that, although there’s a lot of good footage.”
“One of the first things I did with The Nature of Things was an item on the overuse of antibiotics in animal feed. And this was way the hell back in the 1970s. Here we are 40 years later and we’re still saying the same bloody thing.”
Suzuki admitted he would actually be watching the episode at a neighbour’s house on Quadra Island due to his secondary home there not having a television.
Without spoiling too much, there is quite a bit of looking back and reminiscing in the Suzuki@80 episode of The Nature of Things, airing at 8 p.m., including some clips from Suzuki’s tenured days at the University of British Columbia (with Suzuki in full hippie regalia) while studying genetics via fruit flies, as well as some fantastic footage of the early days of the show with Suzuki as a host.
Some of Suzuki’s favourite introduction bits are shown, including a skydiving setup and a close encounter with a sea lion.
Nowadays, of course, Suzuki films his intros from the safety of the studio, rather than in the heart of Harlem at night, as he once did when reporting on the drug epidemic in New York City (an admittedly terrifying moment that, to Suzuki’s chagrin, and ours, wasn’t included).
That said, this 80th birthday episode is mainly about where we find the seasoned environmentalist at a pivotal point in his life, looking at his legacy and his family, from his wife Tara to his six grandchildren.
There are many down-to-earth moments, including footage of Suzuki doing the dishes (one of the few chores he enjoys) and rinsing out and hanging resealable sandwich bags to dry.
“They’re a pain in the ass,” he said with a hearty chuckle.
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David Suzuki and his wife Tara during the taping of The Nature of Things episode Suzuki@80.
“I never used to read the obituaries,” Suzuki said. “But now I scan the obituaries and go, ‘Oh god, he’s younger than me. And he’s younger than me.’ So it’s a constant realizing that more and more people dying are younger than me. The time is coming up.
“I’ve been very, very lucky in terms of my health. But it’s inevitable. Aging is a part of life. I don’t really go, ‘Oh shit, I’m gonna die tomorrow.’ But I have a certain sense of urgency. I still have ideas and I still wanna get these messages out. I feel this is a really good time — I don’t really give a shit about getting a job or a raise or a promotion. So I’m really free to speak up. I urge other elders: This is the time. This is your time. You gotta talk to young people.”
Suzuki’s message remains the same: We are the environment and the environment is us.
“The way you see the world shapes the way you treat it. Is my house a home or is it just real estate? To me a home is a place where I’m developing roots and I am committed to that place. The problem I think we face across Canada is that all of us have come to this country over the last 300 years. We’ve looked at land or real estate as something you buy. We don’t have the deep roots.”
Born in Vancouver on March 24, 1936, David Suzuki felt uprooted at a young age.
A third generation Japanese-Canadian, Suzuki never had a conversation with his grandparents, who hadn’t learned to speak English. At age six, Suzuki, his mother and two sisters were sent to a Japanese internment camp in Slocan, B.C., before relocating to Ontario after the war.
“Everything I’ve established is through school and the friendships that I’ve got, but I have no roots to this place. A lot of it was being new immigrants coming here. The war only made it worse by displacing us.”
David Suzuki says environmentalism has been turned into a battle of ideologies.
Relocating to Vancouver after graduating from the University of Chicago in 1961, Suzuki truly found the meaning of being rooted to the land when he first went to Haida Gwaii (then the Queen Charlotte Islands) 30 years ago to cover the fight against logging operations in the area and interviewing artist and activist Guujaaw.
“(The Haida) showed me a very different way of relating to a place,” Suzuki said. “That opened up the whole way I see environmentalism. It’s changed because of that.”
Even the way Suzuki looks at death is framed as a return to nature.
“I’ve been an atheist all my life. As a scientist you realize the enormity of the universe. We’re this tiny, tiny corner in this tiny, tiny galaxy in this very big universe. I cannot believe there is some guy sitting up there going, ‘Oh, he didn’t say his prayer last night. You better watch out, you little bugger.’ Give me a break.
“I find great comfort in the fact that when we die we don’t disappear. Our atoms are simply back out there, recycled into the whole system.”
With his daughters Severn and Sarika getting involved in the foundation’s work (“I really wish it hadn’t been named after me,” he admits), Suzuki said he now felt it was time for him to spend more time with his grandchildren (to whom he dedicated a book, Letters To My Grandchildren, last year) and to “keep hammering that message.”
He said that even corporations that once considered him “the devil incarnate” were now looking at some of the green initiatives and policies Suzuki had been flaunting all along and were now adopting them as sound business practices.
“Now I’m invited into corporate boardrooms and I talk to people. I’m happy with that position.”
The Nature of Things certainly helped invite that paradigm shift, but the cause of environmentalism is still an uphill battle, Suzuki said, and one he once characterized as a “failure.”
Rather than a battle of facts, the cause of environmentalism has been turned into a fight of ideologies.
“This is one of the most terrible things I’ve witnessed over the course of my career,” Suzuki said. “I still cling to that idea that more and better information is what people need. But the public discourse has been so poisoned and now the problem is that the Internet gives you access to everything. And when you have access to everything it means you don’t have to change your mind.
“You can find whatever you want to confirm what you already believe. This is the really discouraging thing today: People are not literate in the sense of being able to assess the validity and the credibility of what they’re finding.”
Then again, you could posit the same argument against Suzuki.
“Of course! That’s what’s being used to discredit the whole climate change issue. They’re calling it junk science. And all these so-called expert websites are funded by fossil fuel interests.”
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Mario Canseco: Sports reprises battle over Napster
Earlier this month, an Insights West national survey showed just how much Canadian attitudes toward television are evolving. Led by millennials and British Columbians, Canadians spending less time watching television live on a traditional set and more time watching downloaded videos and streaming content.
Our media landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade. “Binge-watching” was a term reserved for a weekend of DVD rentals. Now it is happening with content that is otherwise only available through premium channels — such as HBO’s Game of Thrones — or productions that are not associated with any network, such as Netflix’s House of Cards.
The television industry has tried to get a piece of Netflix’s success, with platforms such as Shomi or CraveTV advertising full seasons of television classics on demand. Streaming on these online sites already amounts to 31 per cent of the viewing time for Canadians aged 18-to-34.
Still, there is a type of programming where “traditional” television is supposed to have an advantage over the power of any downloading or streaming service: sports. Our survey showed that 18 per cent of Canadians watch sports channels every day — including 31 per cent of men.
When it comes to sporting events, the adoption of Web content prepared and delivered by the networks themselves has been slow. Part of the problem lies on the intricacies of television rights and their application across borders. Canadians cannot access, for instance, the streaming services from the U.S. to watch March Madness basketball — unless they cross the border. The CBC streamed all World Cup matches on its website in 2014, but you had to be in Canada to watch them.
Sports networks continue to battle every night for the coveted middle-aged, male demographic that is essential to advertisers. The nightly highlight packages are usually similar, regardless of which network or anchor a particular person prefers. However, if you don’t mind watching sports on a smaller screen, goals from soccer matches, home runs from baseball games and hat tricks from hockey contests are all available on YouTube.
Sports leagues have long fought to remove these highlights from websites, but the efforts have proven mostly futile. Some have opted to simply create their own YouTube presences and invite people to watch the highlights “from the source” instead of fan-generated videos.
The sense of immediacy becomes even more of a hindrance thanks to apps like Vine and Periscope, which lead to more people seeking sports features online. The leagues usually get nothing — not even a piece of the ad revenue. Fans complain that the leagues are already rich enough and can handle a little “file-sharing”. Does this story sound familiar? It should. It ultimately led to the end of Napster and the emergence of iTunes as the de-facto program for “song-listening”.
Watching sports on televisions costs Canadians more money than ever before. In the year 2000, most hockey games were shown on regular cable, and the Canadian Football League (CFL) could be seen on the national broadcaster for free. Now, hockey — whether on television or mobile devices — usually comes with an added cost, and a cable network is the official home of Canadian football.
The inaccessible price of television rights has forced sports networks into the depiction of “entertainment” as sport. Poker and darts have taken spots on cable sports channels that, not long ago, were exclusively occupied by actual contests of fitness and endurance.
Most Canadians are uninterested in this “bait-and-switch”. In our survey, 54 per cent of cable watchers want sports channels to show real sports and not poker or darts competitions — a proportion that jumps to 65 per cent among men. Simply put, two thirds of the coveted demographic that Canadian sports network advertisers are craving will not go from watching the Los Angeles Kings to figuring out who Mervyn King is (he is a darts player from England, in case you wondered).
So, where to go when the content sports fans seek is not available? To the dozens of streaming sites that can show you hockey, soccer, rugby or tennis around the clock. Someone is taking the content that is being shown in other places — usually free of charge — and placing it online where most computers can reach it.
It took the better part of a decade for the music industry to figure out a way to mitigate the monetary problems caused by Napster. Leagues and networks are facing a similar situation with sports online. One thing is certain: if sports fans are going online for their fix, they are not going to be drawn back to the television set by men holding cards or throwing darts.
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Video: Lady Fiona talks about Lady Almina, the real Countess of Downton Abbey
Conversations That Matter features Lady Fiona, the current Countess of Carnarvon who is an historian and author of “Lady Almina” the woman who’s real life story formed the basis of the popular TV show Downton Abbey. Lady Almina, the illegitimate daughter of Alfred de Rothschild, married the Earl of Carnarvon and transformed Highclere Castle into one of the great party houses of all time. Her marriage to the Earl of Carnarvon was rich and diverse and included one of the most important archaeological finds ever. The Earl funded Howard Carter and joined in the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun. This is episode 79 in a series of videos by Stu McNish.
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Video: Victoria actor Beau Mirchoff comes of age in MTV's hit show Awkward
Victoria’s Beau Mirchoff has spent five seasons understanding his character Matty McKibben, in the hit MTV show Awkward. He opens up about life in Los Angeles and the inspiration that drives him as an actor.
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Lionsgate moves filming from North Carolina to Vancouver over anti-LGBT laws: report
Lionsgate will move filming of a new TV series to Vancouver after halting production in North Carolina over to the U.S. state’s new law limiting LGBT protection, according to reports.
The Charlotte Observer reported that the California-based studio was planning to shoot the pilot for Hulu pilot Crushed, a comedy starring Regina Hall, in the Charlotte area but reversed its decision because of the controversial law signed March 23.
The law, which critics argue is discriminatory against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, prevents local governments from approving LGBT protections at restaurants, hotels and stores. It also states that transgender people must use public bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate.
According to the Observer, Jennifer Irvine, the local production office coordinator, said the studio informed employees March 24 that it was pulling the plug.
Prem Gill, CEO of Creative BC, an independent agency funded by the province to support the film and television industry, said the news bodes well for British Columbia.
“It’s excellent news for jobs, for people taking advantage of our infrastructure, and for our talent base, which represents the diversity of our province,” she said. “From Creative BC’s perspective, it’s a clear sign that we share values with the studios that embrace and encourage diversity in all forms.”
Gill added that it’s always great for people to work on a series, especially if it involves multiple seasons. “They bring the same crews back together and it provides a lot of stability for people knowing they’ll be coming back the next year working on the same show.”
Phil Klapwyk, a spokesman for the film union IATSE Local 891, said he can’t comment on negotiations with the Lionsgate production about the move to Vancouver, but he said he’s not surprised the company chose B.C.
“One of the reasons producers choose to work in British Columbia is because of our commitment to an inclusive and diverse work environment, ” he said, adding that the union recently adopted an equality statement to oppose discrimination in all its forms.
Guy Gaster, a spokesman for the North Carolina Film Office, declined to comment Wednesday on Lionsgate’s decision.
Lionsgate has not returned a request from The Vancouver Sun for comment.
The film company isn’t the only business to take measures because of the law, as a backlash continues to grow. PayPal announced it would be cancelling a planned expansion in North Carolina, while other tech companies — including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and IBM — posted statements opposing the law.
Microsoft president Brad Smith tweeted that efforts are needed to tackle discrimination, promote diversity and inclusion, and “not move backwards.”
— with a file from Brian Morton, Vancouver Sun
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Tales from the VGH ER return to small screen
Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH
Season 2 starts April 12, 9 p.m. | Knowledge Network
“Look both ways before you cross the street” was the main takeaway from working on the show’s first season, series producer David Moses says.
“It’s so basic, but especially in Vancouver there’s this thing we found out about that is called the ‘Vancouver Special’ that they talk about in emergency rooms: Dark night, raining, and a pedestrian gets hit — it’s called a ‘ped-struck.’ That was Season One.
“Season Two was: Take care of your feet,” Moses adds. “When you watch all of the episodes, you’re going, ‘Oh my gosh, you really have to take care of your body.’ It’s going to have its revenge on you in ways you can’t imagine. There’s a couple of scene with feet that make you go, ‘Right, I didn’t take enough time down there, taking care of them.'”
Season Two of Emergency Room once again takes the viewer deep in the bowels of the VGH ER, where often complex, life-threatening and quite graphic interventions take place — from simple cuts and bruises to extensive heart procedures.
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The VGH staff returns to the small screen in the second season of Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH.
“Oftentimes you have to ask people to watch your shows,” Moses says. “This is the first show where, unsolicited, people came up to me and told me they had seen it and loved it. That was really gratifying.
“I got calls from friends and neighbours across the country who watched it online or watched it on satellite (television). I have a cousin who works on the East Coast in a hospital who said the hospital staff were all watching the show and that there are some schools who were using the episodes as teaching aids for nursing students to let them know what goes on in the emergency room.”
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Moses’ pedigree includes working as a writer on Robson Arms, for which he earned a Gemini Awards nomination describes, as well as CBC series Heartland. He has recently been working on reality-driven television, including Gastown Gamble, The Real Housewives of Vancouver, and Tricked.
The second season of Emergency Room was shot between June and September of 2015. Moses admits the process of shooting at VGH was not without risk, and some crew members were affected by various ailments, including shingles and gastro diseases.
“In every season there is something that happens where one of the crew ends up in the ER themselves.”
Nevertheless, the response from the medical staff at the hospital has been overwhelmingly positive, Moses says.
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The VGH staff returns to the small screen in the second season of Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH.
Moses laughs.
“It’s a great response. It’s interesting that at the beginning of a season, as a viewer I feel like it’s all some kind of controlled chaos. But by the end of it, for us at any rate, it’s not chaos any more. It’s still a crazy beehive, but now you can separate the people and their duties and why each of the people who are in that room are necessary. Everybody is there for a real specific reason. At the end of the season you really feel like you have a better understanding (of how the ER works).”
If Season One was one of shock at having an unprecedented level of access to the hospital’s emergency room, seeing things never seen and going places that hadn’t been visited before, Season Two is about expanding on the relationships built with the medical staff at VGH and discovering new areas of the hospital.
“There’s an amazing digital scan that we have for one patient that’s coming up that is just unreal,” Moses says. “It takes you through the different layers of the patient’s body — I’m not talking about an X-ray or a CT scan — I’m talking about a complete digital representation of the patient’s body.”
Granted, some moments on the show are not for the squeamish or the faint of heart. And if you think what you get to see is pretty hardcore, ask the people who assemble the show what they’ve been through.
“In Season Two, we were really aware that the story editors and the editors actually go through all of the footage — the raw footage — which has even more graphic images than what we share on the show,” Moses says. “An editor watches a particular scene dozens of time in order to put it together. That’s an amazing responsibility for them. Fortunately, everybody’s been able to take it. But it’s hard work for sure.”
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Five reasons to see comedian Jonathan Kite in Vancouver
Jonathan Kite
April 14 to 16 | Yuk Yuk’s
Tickets and info: $20 at yukyuks.com
1. Two Broke Girls. Since 2011, Chicago-born-and-raised comedian/actor Jonathan Kite has played the character of Oleg the Ukrainian cook on the CBS series, opposite Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs. According to Kite, he credits Wilt Chamberlin and “Ukrainian porn star Vlad, the Impaler” as major influences when creating his character.
2. He does impressions. On the comedy circuit, Kite is known for his many celebrity impressions, including Barack Obama, Vince Vaughn, Tom Hanks, Seth Rogen, Liam Neeson, Christian Bale, Jeff Bridges, Robert Downey Jr., and John Lithgow. And who hasn’t been waiting for someone to do a decent John Lithgow impression?
3. Nine Celebrity Impressions That Will Blow Your Mind. Don’t take our word for it — check out this video, which shows Kite doing some of his celebrity impressions. The video, originally posted on Buzzfeed.com, has received over 2.4m views.
4. Improv chops. In 2010, Kite was a part of the Cage Match Competition with iO West Theater, performing head-to-head long-form improv. His team set the national cage match record, winning 52 weeks in a row.
5. The Walk On. Kite has finished writing his first full-length feature film, The Walk On, which he will also star in and produce. He is also scheduled to appear in a Christmas-themed horror-comedy, All the Creatures Were Stirring.
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Vancouver production company signs deal for pot-inspired programs
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A former Real Housewife of Vancouver and a long-time Vancouver television personality have inked a multi-show deal for a series of shows and digital documentaries about weed.
Mary Zilba and Fiona Forbes announced this week their company LadyPants Productions had signed a three-show deal with New York’s Jerrick Media. Jerrick Media will develop, finance, and distribute three weed-based digital series created by Zilba and Forbes.
Zilba was one of the original cast members on the first season of The Real Housewives of Vancouver, while Forbes is a long-time Vancouver personality and entertainment host. The pair’s LadyPants Productions was established last year.
“I think everyone is very curious about the industry, just as Mary and I are,” said Forbes, on the eve of Vancouver’s 4/20 rally. She and Zilba emphasized the goal of the shows is to be informative and entertaining about the quickly growing industry.
The deal includes three digital series, all of which will star a common ingredient: Marijuana.
Baked is a cannabis cooking show hosted by Mary Jean Dunsdon, known to Vancouverites and Wreck Beach frequenters as Watermelon. The pin-up model and long-time advocate for marijuana has made a name for herself selling watermelon and other edibles for years at the clothing-optional beach on Vancouver’s west side. Zilba noted the show aims to illustrate how to responsibly handle marijuana in the kitchen.
“Even with our show Baked … (Mary Jean’s) very, very big on portion control,” said Zilba. “People are going to start using marijuana to cook and to bake, so it’s important to know about the quantities they’re using.”
Marijuana Minute will be a digital marijuana news program hosted by Mike Eckford, who has previously worked with CKNW and Global BC. The show is expected to cover a range of weed-related news items in a broadcast news format similar to the style made popular by Stephen Colbert, John Stewart, and John Oliver.
“The tagline is, ‘Everything you wanted to know about marijuana but are too paranoid to ask,'” said Forbes of the series, set to begin filming next week. “It’ll be a one-minute, digestible news format that will be entertaining.”
Stoners in Stilettos will be a documentary series about women in the bud business. No information has been released yet on who will star in the series, although Zilba said 10 women in B.C. and 10 women in Los Angeles would be profiled. Pre-production on the show begins this month.
“This is going to be more of a docu-series of some influential women in the business,” said Zilba. “We’re going to highlight women in the marijuana business who are influencers, who are the movers and shakers in the business.”
And while the shows are intended to be informative and entertaining, Forbes said there will be some political aspects as well.
“I don’t think you can get into the discussion about marijuana without getting into the politics,” she said.
Baked, the first of the three series, has completed post production and will premier this June in conjunction with Jerrick Media’s launch of Potent.Media, a website focusing on marijuana-themed content. No timeline has been set for the premieres of the other two series.
Jerrick Media is co-founded by RBC Capital executive Jeremy Frommer and Rick Schwartz, whose credits include Black Swan, The Departed, and popular SPIKE series Lip Sync Battle.
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Hollywood North | Eric McCormack stars in Vancouver-shot Netflix series Travelers
Netflix has partnered with Canada’s Showcase to co-produce Travelers, an original science fiction series starring Eric McCormack.
Production on the time-travelling drama got under way Tuesday in Vancouver.
The series is written, created and produced by Canadian Brad Wright, co-creator of Stargate SG-1 and creator of related franchises Stargate: Atlantis and SGU, and features a heavily Canadian cast led by Emmy Award winner McCormack (Will & Grace).
“My old friend Brad Wright has created a fantastic, complex story with some very rich and complicated characters, and I’m awfully happy to be one of them,”said Eric McCormack.
Other confirmed cast members include: Jared Abrahamson, J. Alex Brinson, Nesta Cooper, Reilly Dolman, Patrick Gilmore, Arnold Pinnock, Dylan Playfair, MacKenzie Porter and Ian Tracey.
A Netflix press release outlines Travelers plot: “Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These “travelers” assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.”
The show will air on Showcase in Canada — and Netflix everywhere else — later this year.
On the street …
Neil Patrick Harris plays Uncle Olaf in Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Meanwhile, A Series of Unfortunate Events, another Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris, will be shooting scenes downtown Vancouver next week.
According to filming notices, the show will be setting up and shooting scenes in multiple locations — on Pender Street and Dunsmuir Street between Granville and Seymour — Sunday through Tuesday.
The majority of the filming will be on Monday with the shooting of exterior scenes on the north sidewalk of the 600 block of West Pender Street (between Seymour and Granville) between 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. The notice says there will be some intermittent traffic and pedestrian control.
A second crew will be filming exterior scenes on the 500 block of Granville Street (at Pender).
A Series of Unfortunate Events is based on a collection of popular children’s fantasy novels that were made into the moderately successful 2004 Jim Carrey movie Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Wild Wild West, Get Shorty). Sonnenfeld serves as co-executive producer of the Netflix series with former True Blood showrunner Mark Hudis (Nurse Jackie, That ’70s Show).
The novels, written by Daniel Handler (under the pen name Lemony Snicket), follow the adventures of the charming Baudelaire orphans (Violet, Klaus, and Sunny) and their nasty uncle Olaf, who is played by NPH on the show.
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Jimmy Fallon starts singing at fancy French restaurant in Vancouver
Don’t you hate it when you are enjoying a quiet dinner at a fancy restaurant and the talk show host at the next table insists on performing an impromptu barbershop version of an R. Kelly song?
It’s the worst, right?
Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and his barbershop quartet, The Ragtime Gals, entertained diners at the Vancouver five-star restaurant Le Crocodile with a rendition of Ignition Thursday night.
Fallon is in town filming scenes for an upcoming amusement park attraction, Race Through New York, for Universal Studios Orlando.
On Wednesday, he joined Paul McCartney on stage at Rogers Arena.
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Netflix drops tech-bomb on Canadian VPN users
It appears Netflix has dropped a tech-bomb on millions of Canadians who use VPNs to stream its U.S. service — rescuing Mary Ann Turcke’s daughter, and many of the rest of us, from a life of crime.
Turcke is the Bell Media president who last year publicly snitched on her 15-year-old daughter for using a virtual private network (VPN) to access U.S. Netflix for movies and TV shows not available on Canadian Netflix.
“We have to get engaged and tell people they are stealing,” she said at the time.
Netflix announced in a blog post in January that it would be employing new high-tech methods to stymie VPNs and other side-doors to the “geo-blocking” of programming.
The movies and TV shows illegally streamed are generally not licensed by Netflix in Canada.
And by all accounts, Netflix was not bluffing.
One of the larger for-pay VPN services, Unblock-Us.com, seems to have had its access U.S. Netflix crippled. Its Twitter feed is an endless stream of posts like “Sorry, we are a few days behind, but we are working as fast as we can around the clock,” and, “If you would like a refund, please let support know and they can help.”
And according to posts in the Reddit-based board NetFlixByProxy, people using all sorts of VPNs are receiving the notice “Proxy Detected — Access to America Denied” and headers like “Anybody know how they are blocking us?” Others on the board are warning not to mention VPNs that are still functioning, fearing Netflix is monitoring such comments and will target offenders accordingly.
One Toronto-based digital professional, who preferred his name not be used, confirmed to the Sun he subscribes to UnBlock-Us.com and that he has lately been unable to access American Netflix with it.
“It sounds like Netflix will triumph, which sucks for me,” he said. He said he has been using a VPN to access Netflix and other geo-blocked U.S. streaming services like Hulu because “it makes cutting the (cable) cord that much less painful.”
How many Canadians are affected by the techno-attack on VPNs is unclear. But about 40 per cent of English-speaking Canadians have Netflix subscriptions, according to Media Technology Monitor. And of them, about a third admit to having accessed the American version.
Contacted this week by Canadian Press, Netflix offered no comment on the current state of its VPN war, beyond what was announced in January.
One ironic example of Netflix’s protectionism is Degrassi: Next Class, the new reboot series that followed Degrassi: The Next Generation. The various Degrassi school series were created in Canada and have been filmed here for 36 years.
First Class is available on U.S. Netflix and on Netflix around the world — but not yet on the Canadian version. It’s currently being shown here on the pay-cable Family Channel, which means its fans need a cable subscription and then pay extra for Family. Next Class will run on Canadian Netflix when its run on Family finishes.
Degrassi creator Linda Schuyler acknowledges that VPNs are very much an issue involving young people like Turcke’s daughter.
“Kids don’t have landlines, they don’t have cable,” she said. “The whole idea of ‘appointment viewing’ is completely alien to them. If they want to watch it, they want to watch it now — in their time and in their space.”
The fact that Degrassi signed a deal with Netflix was partly driven by the show’s cast, she said. “Two or three years ago, the kids (on Next Generation) were saying to us, ‘Why aren’t we on Netflix? Why are we on these old-fashioned broadcasters?’”
Degrassi is known for tackling contemporary teen issues from body issues to cyber-bullying. But Schuyler said they’ve never dealt with teens’ predilection for getting free stuff off the Internet.
Asked how the issue might get treated if they wrote a Degrassi episode around it, she laughed and said, “You’ve stumped me.
“Obviously, we can’t encourage illegal actions, so I guess we would have to take some sort of moral stance on it. It’s a complicated issue.”
SHOWS AND MOVIES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON U.S. NETFLIX BUT NOT ON CANADA’S:
Alias, Ally McBeal, Amadeus, American Horror Story, Animaniacs, Antisocial (Canadian movie), Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Atonement, August: Osage County, The Barbarian Invasions (Canadian movie), Being Human (U.S. version), The Bernie Mac Show, Bill Nye, The Science Guy, Bob’s Burgers, Bonnie & Clyde Burn Notice, Californication, Cheers, Chuck, Criminal Minds, CSI, Damages, Darkman, Dude, Where’s My Car?, eXistenZ (Canadian movie), Flashpoint (Canadian series), The Following, Gossip Girl, Haven, Hoodwinked, The Incredible Hulk, Inglourious Basterds, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Kill Bill Vols. 1&2, The League, The Legend Of Drunken Master, Louie, The L Word, M*A*S*H, My Name Is Earl, NCIS, One Tree Hill, Parks and Recreation, Rules Of Engagement, The Shawshank Redemption, Sliders, Snowpiercer, Sons Of Anarchy, Star Trek (all series), Talladega Nights, Team America World Police, The West Wing, When Jews Were Funny (Canadian documentary feature), Y Tu Mama Tambien.
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2016 LEO Awards nominees announced in wake of provincial funding cuts
The nominees for the 18th annual LEO Awards were announced honouring the highest level of achievement in domestic film and television production in British Columbia’s massive industry.
The Devout captured the most nominations in the motion picture category with 14 in total. The Connor Gaston-directed film about a crisis of faith in rural Bible Belt B.C. stars Charlie Carrick, Ali Liebert, Gabrielle Rose, David Nykl and Ryan McDonell. On the Farm led the television movie category with 10 nominations.
Motive, the popular crime procedural, was top-nominated dramatic series with 17 nominations. The Romeo Section was second with 14. Everything from hairstyling to sound editing is included in the sub-categories for the nominees. Awards will be handed out for all of these down to best guest appearances.
Information, lifestyle or reality series category emerged as one of the most contested, with a three-way tie for top nominee with Hand Crafted, Quest OutWest: Wildfood and Salt, Fresh & Field all receiving four nominations.
Coming on the boot heels of the Christy Clark Liberals’ announcement about changes to the B.C. film and television tax credits, the atmosphere around the LEOs may be more charged than previously.
Citing the cost to taxpayers as being too high, the government has dropped the credits for principal photography from 33 per cent to 28 per cent and for digital animation and visual effects productions a more modest 17.5 per cent to 16 per cent.
Generating 22,000 jobs and as much as $40 million into the local economy for smashes such as Deadpool, the government’s move is controversial.
The LEO Awards take place May 28 and June 4-5 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. Tickets will be on sale at leoawards.com.
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Video: Donald Trump Jr. responds to the vilification of the "Trump" name
Donald Trump Jr. was in Vancouver in preparation to the launch of Trump Tower and respond to his father’s presidential campaign.
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Hollywood North | Is Supergirl about to land in Vancouver?
Vancouver’s comic book universe, which already includes Arrow, The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, may be expanding with news that Supergirl may be heading this way.
Deadline.com is reporting that Warner Bros TV wants to cut the show’s budget and is considering moving Season 2 production of the television series to Vancouver to take advantage of the lower Canadian dollar and B.C. film tax credits.
Film and television productions in B.C. receive production services tax credits of 33 per cent rate and digital animation/visual effects credits of 17.5 per cent. Although Finance Minister Mike de Jong announced this week that those subsidies would be scaled back to 28 per cent and 16 per cent, respectively, come Oct. 1.
The show, starring Melissa Benoist as the caped wonder, was reportedly unable to obtain tax credits from the California Film Commission.
CBS has yet to renew Supergirl for a second season, but Deadline reporter Nellie Andreeva says there is a good chance that The CW, the network home for Arrow, The Flash and Legends, will pick up the series if CBS cancels it.
Actor Tom Cavanagh from The Flash.
Canadian actor Tom Cavanagh, who plays Dr. Harrison Wells on The Flash, hinted that Supergirl might be flying north during an appearance on the Fox talk show Hollywood Today Live when he was asked about The CW’s super hero community in Vancouver.
“We like to call it an empire, but, ya, we can go with community. I think Supergirl is coming up next week … all the super heroes are up there,” Cavanagh said.
(Skip to 3:14 of the video)
In March, CBS and The CW participated in a cross-network crossover when The Flash, played by actor Grant Gustin, appeared on an episode of Supergirl.
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Seth Rogen will film the space comedy The Something in Vancouver this summer.
Vancouver will be a lot funnier this summer with Seth Rogen, Bill Hader and Zach Galifianakis in town filming the space comedy The Something.
The movie, which will mark the directorial debut of screenwriter Rodney Rothman (22 Jump Street), follows a crew of astronauts who encounter another space ship, after being stuck in space for years.
According to the Directors Guild of Canada production list, shooting on The Something is scheduled to begin July 11.
The Vancouver-raised Rogen is a busy guy these days with two movies coming out this year — Bad Neighbours 2 on May 20 and the Vancouver-produce animated feature Sausage Party on Aug. 12. He’s also completed work on a pair of films directed by his Freaks & Geeks buddy James Franco, The Masterpiece and Zeroville.
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Actor Ross Lynch will star in the Vancouver-filmed Status Update.
Disney Channel alum and teen heartthrob Ross Lynch (Austin & Ally) has signed on to star in the just-announced Status Update, a feature film that will begin shooting here June.
The comedy, which is backed by two Chinese financiers D.N.A. Pictures and Heyi Capital, also stars Olivia Holt (I Didn’t Do It) and Courtney Eaton (Mad Max: Fury Road)
The movie is described as “Big meets 17 Again for the millennial generation.”
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Queen Latifah (L) and Wanda Durant attend the premiere screening of Lifetime’s ‘The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story’ at Dolby Theater on May 4, 2016 in New York City.
On Sunday (that’s Mother’s Day, kids) Lifetime Canada will air The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story, a Vancouver-shot biopic about NBA superstar Kevin Durant’s mother.
The movie’s title refers to the tearful speech given by Durant when he accepted the 2014 NBA MVP award.
“You kept us off the street. You put clothes on our backs, food on the table. When you didn’t eat, you made sure we ate. You went to sleep hungry. You sacrificed for us. You the real MVP,” Durant said of his mother,
The Washington Post says Mama Durant, a single woman who raised two kids in a tough neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., had a front-row seat during the movie-making process from script consulting to casting and watching “the dailies” in Vancouver.
“The primary thing that I really wanted to show is life’s ups and downs,” Wanda Durant said of her small-screen moment. “Never quitting and believing that you will succeed for you and your children, that’s the message I want to come across more than anything.”
Cassandra Freeman (Inside Man) stars as Wanda, while Daniel Bellomy plays Kevin. Queen Latifah served as the film’s executive producer.
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Are you ready for the Real Realtors of Vancouver?
Are you ready for the Real Realtors of Vancouver?
A local production company appears to be launching a Chinese-language reality TV show this month that will take viewers behind the scenes of the Lower Mainland’s booming housing market.
Richmond-based Focus Media Inc. posted a 90-second trailer to YouTube last month advertising a show with a title that translates to Gold Broker. The video features Vancouver real estate agent Chris Lee — also known as Li Hongyu — showing clients high-end properties. One clip in the trailer shows a woman holding up a hand-made sign that reads, “18.5M.”
The trailer is also interspersed with scenic shots of Vancouver, and of Lee exploring the city and enjoying time on a yacht and a golf course. The trailer ends with a tease date of May 2016, and states that the show will be available on multiple platforms, including YouTube.
The show arrives at a time when Vancouver’s real estate industry is under intense scrutiny for how agents conduct business, and the impact of foreign ownership on the market.
A woman who answered the phone at Focus Media confirmed that Lee is “definitely the main character,” but other agents are also part of the production.
“There are a lot of different perspectives on how the agents are working and we’re really interested to explore this area, so we work with an agent to see how he actually works,” she said.
Further inquiries were directed to Focus Media CEO Simon Ming Xu, but he declined to comment. Messages left with Lee were not returned by press deadline.
A Chinese reality show based in Vancouver is a formula that has worked, and HBICtv’s Ultra Rich Asian Girls is a prime example. Creator and Vancouver native Kevin Li said filming for Season 3 of his show just wrapped. It has garnered an international following since its 2014 debut and attracted media attention from as far away as Russia and Germany.
“The response for us has been great,” said Li, whose program documents the lives of young, affluent, Chinese-Canadian women. “There’s a new demographic in town, I guess you could say nouveau riche … and because there aren’t a lot of shows or articles that explain the phenomenon, there’s extreme interest in shows like mine and topics around this demographic.”
Li said he hadn’t heard of Gold Broker but believes the concept can work.
“I think it can be successful,” he said. “People watch this because they can live vicariously through these programs for half an hour and wonder what it’s like to live the high lifestyle.”
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Courtney Paige Theroux's new show: 'Basically Entourage meets 50 Shades of Grey'
A B.C. actress has landed a role on a TV show set to start filming in Vancouver this summer.
Courtney Paige Theroux, 27, grew up in Kelowna, where she started her acting career at a young age.
“When I was five years old, I basically loved performing, and it’s been a dream of mine ever since,” she said.
At 11 years old, Theroux joined the Kelowna Community Theatre, where she participated in productions such as Annie and Jack and the Beanstalk.
Theroux graduated from Okanagan Mission Secondary in 2006 and went on to attend Okanagan College before focusing on her true passion.
“I decided there was nothing else I wanted to do besides be an actress,” said Theroux. “I had one suitcase and I moved to Vancouver in 2009.”
In Vancouver, Theroux took classes at Vancouver Acting School and Railtown Actors Studio.
“I trained as hard as I could for six years,” she said.
Theroux has worked with Lifetime Network, Universal and YTV, and she recently booked a role on a new E Online network TV show: The Arrangement.
“It’s basically Entourage meets 50 Shades of Grey, but more appropriate for television,” she said. “It’s a dream come true.”
Filming begins this summer, where Theroux will play a recurring guest star named Annika.
“My character is an aspiring actress who moves from a small town and she’s the puppet of the producer of the show,” she said.
“There’s a lot of truth to my character. She is basically crazy in a nutshell, and I was always teased as being crazy in high school.”
In addition to filming the TV show this summer, Theroux is also spending time writing a movie of her own.
“A friend of mine is making a couple of movies in the Okanagan this summer, and I am writing a horror thriller that we’re potentially filming this summer at my cabin,” she said.
Theroux is excited to see where her career takes her next.
“I would love to work alongside Hollywood’s A-list actors, have an award-winning writing career, do theatre on Broadway and one day own my own production company and star in my own films,” she said.
“And like every actor, the icing on top would be to win an Academy award someday, but it would not define my career.”
For more Okanagan news, visit the Kelowna Daily Courier.
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New Anne needs to keep it real
If you want to play one of the world’s most famous fictional girls, you’d better keep it real.
That’s the advice from the writer behind Anne, a new CBC TV series based on the beloved 1908 Anne of Green Gables novel by Prince Edward Island author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
“You have to think of Anne as a real girl, a real girl just like you,” said writer/executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett. “Be as natural and conversational as possible.”
Screenwriter Moira Walley-Beckett
Walley-Beckett, who is writing all eight episodes of the show, will be at Vancouver’s Shoreline Studios on May 14 and 15 for an opening casting call for girls aged 11 to 14 to play the character of Anne. (More details at theannesearch.com.)
“Anne’s intellect and imagination are so pivotal to her character that, whoever I cast, I want to be able to read it on her face — how quickly her mind is moving and how big her intellect is,” said Walley-Beckett, a Vancouver native who won an Emmy Award for her writing on Breaking Bad.
Anne, which begins shooting later this summer in Ontario and P.E.I., will honour the novel’s iconic moments as it recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an orphan who ends up on a Prince Edward Island farm in the 1900s.
That novel has sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into 20 languages. It has also been adapted for film, TV, radio and theatre, and Anne’s house has even shown up as an attraction at a Japanese theme park.
For Walley-Beckett, the idea of revisiting Anne made sense, as issues such as prejudice, bullying and feminism have endured since the curious, clever and mercurial character first landed on the page more than 100 years ago.
“Anne is more relevant today than she was back then,” said Walley-Beckett, who first read the novel as a pre-teen. “She was always a ground-breaker. But her issues are always topical issues.
“Because Anne was an early accidental feminist, there were no restrictions on what she thought her capabilities could be and were,” added Walley-Beckett. “She’s a great role model for our time.
“She’s complicated. She’s relatable. There’s a reason why she endured and is so beloved.”
While Anne is a character who holds a mirror up to the awkward teen years, the new Anne is not going to pander to the pubescent set. Walley-Beckett said she wants a “co-viewing experience,” and to turn a new audience on to the plucky girl from P.E.I.
“This is not your grandmother’s Anne. I’m sure there will be people that only want Anne to be the way it was, and that’s OK because everything in the world changes. Now is the time for a new Anne for a new generation.”
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