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Posted by: Diane in Air Farce, Being Erica, Corner Gas, Degrassi, Dragons' Den, Flashpoint, Heartland, Instant Star, JPod, Little Mosque on the Prairie, No Opportunity Wasted, Odd Job Jack, Rick Mercer Report, Robson Arms, Sophie, The Border, The Listener, The Tudors, The Week the Women Went, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Wild Roses
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From Andrew Ryan of the Globe and Mail:
- Canadian shows scoop awards at Banff festival
Say it loud and proud, Canada: Our track record of unique TV programming still ranks among the best in the world. A diverse group of Canadian programs were among the grand-prize-winners named at the 29th Annual Banff World Television Awards.” Read more.
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Original to TV, eh?:
There’s no red carpet, no A-list celebrities dripping with borrowed jewels in haute couture, no online forums guessing winners, no widely televised ceremony. What the Banff World Television Awards do have is a truly international scope, with winners from countries including Liberia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Israel, South Africa, and more.
Presented at the Banff World Television Festival, the 29th annual Awards – popularly known as The Rockies — included a Lifetime Achievement award to BBC producer Jon Plowman (Extras) and the NBC Universal Canada Award of Distinction to actor Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City).
The Grand Prize went to HBO’s White Light/Black Rain: The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Comedy award was given to Extras: Episode 9 – Daniel Radcliffe, airing on BBC and HBO, while Skins of the UK’s Channel 4 picked up the trophy for Continuing Series and A&E’s Intervention won for Reality Format Program.
Canadian shows pick up awards
National Geographic’s Ghosts of the Yangtze (Up the Yangtze) and Discovery Channel’s The Real Superhumans and the Quest for the Future Fantastic both won Best Canadian Program. How the Gimquat Found Her Song won in the Children’s Programs categry, while Odd Job Jack was rewarded for Interactive Program Enhancements and The Border: Interactive picked up the Mobile Programs and Enhancements award.
The Banff World Television Festival website has a full list of winners.
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Posted by: Diane in Awards, Blood Ties, Corner Gas, Durham County, Intelligence, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Moose TV, Odd Job Jack, ReGenesis, Rent-a-Goalie, The Jane Show
From a media release (so please don’t ask me what makes these Canadian TV shows independent):
Association announces CFTPA Indie Awards nominees
The Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) is extremely pleased to announce the nominees of the CFTPA Indie Awards.
The awards were created by the CFTPA in order to recognize and honour the outstanding achievements of Canadian independent producers. The Awards will be presented at a special reception and ceremony in Ottawa on February 20th, 2008.
“There is an incredible number of talented independent producers across Canada, and this is a reality that is not celebrated nearly as often as it ought to be,” said Guy Mayson, President and CEO, CFTPA “On behalf of the members of the CFTPA and the Board of Directors, we are proud to showcase such excellence and we congratulate all the nominees.”
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Sean Davidson of Playback talks to Brent Haynes, VP of Space and The Comedy Network:
- Funding Canuck hits is no laughing matter
“There have been hits – Corner Gas, Comedy Inc., Odd Job Jack, Puppets Who Kill – as well as misses. The Gavin Crawford Show, one of Haynes’ personal favorites, stumbled through one and a half seasons at the tail end of the sketch boom, while the more recent Punched Up failed to cash in on the faux-reality craze.” Read more.
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James Reaney of the London Free Press talks to ReGenesis Gemini winner Ingrid Kavelaars:
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Alex Strachan of CanWest News Service
- Gemini Awards are still suffering growing pains
“This year’s best-drama Geminis nominees reflect a mix of different genres and styles, from CBC’s Intelligence — unfairly overlooked last year — to The Movie Network and Movie Central’s Slings & Arrows, last year’s winner, and the futuristic sci-fi thriller ReGenesis.” Read more.
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Victoria Ahearn of the Canadian Press interviews Odd Job Jack executive producer Jonas Diamond:
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Etan Vlessing of Playback dissects the Gemini comedy nominations:
- No Dog River vs. Mercy showdown in Regina
“Here’s the joke: Canada’s breakout comedy hit Little Mosque on the Prairie won’t be competing for the Geminis’ best comedy series award when the trophies are handed out in the show’s home province of Saskatchewan on Sunday, Oct. 28.” Read more.
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Posted by: Diane in Air Farce, Awards, Corner Gas, Intelligence, Jozi-H, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Odd Job Jack, ReGenesis, Rent-a-Goalie, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Whistler
From the Toronto Star:
- ‘Mosque’ fails to win Gemini nomination
“The hugely successful CTV sitcom Corner Gas will compete against Royal Canadian Air Farce and This Hour Has 22 Minutes at this year’s Gemini Awards, but the much-discussed Little Mosque on the Prairie failed to make the cut for best comedy series.” Read more.
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From CTV:
- Don McKellar’s animated role no ‘Odd Job’
“Perpetually unemployed. Going nowhere. Drowned in debt. It’s easy to describe Jack Ryder, the animated star of “Odd Job Jack,” as the quintessential slacker bounces from temp job to temp job. But for the voice behind Jack, Canadian actor/writer/director Don McKellar, this going-on-five-years-gig is the longest he has ever held down.
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Andrew Ryan of the Globe and Mail mentions the return of Odd Job Jack:
- Another easy way to easy street
“And nice to report there’s still no evidence of dreams or ambition on the unassuming Canadian cartoon Odd Job Jack (Sunday, Comedy Network at 9:30 p.m.), which returns for a fifth season. Don McKellar still provides the voice for Jack, a twentysomething slacker with a degree in sociology who bounces from job to job each week. In the first new show, he becomes a croupier in a “snuff poker” establishment. Odd Job Jack is still sharply written and crudely animated, which is part of its appeal. Be grateful some things remain resistant to change.”
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From Brad Sears, via the comments:
Hi. Thanks for the support of Odd Job Jack’s Freejack program. We just released a single torrent containing all 13 Freejack archives. Think of it as a full set.
Download it here:
http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/odd-job-jack-compilation.torrent
This archive contains master flash assets from 13 episodes including:
- 1416 characters
- 914 props
- 2762 cameras
You can browse all the files before downloading the torrent:
http://www.oddjobjack.com/freejack.php?sec=2
Check out our 39 production interviews, videos, worksheets, and tutorials here:
http://www.oddjobjack.com/freejack.php?sec=3
Learn about the Odd Job Jack season 2 DVD just released here:
http://www.oddjobjack.com/dvd.php
Catch Odd Job Jack in ‘person’ in his mall tour:
http://www.oddjobjack.com/OJJLive.php
Don’t forget to register at OddJobJack.com for a chance to win a PlayStation 3.
http://www.oddjobjack.com/freejack.php
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http://www.legaltorrents.com
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License so feel free to share, remix and mash. Don’t forget to send us a link to your work.
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From the comments:
Files from episodes 4 and 5 of the creative commons Odd Job Jack project “freejack” are now up with a high speed seed:
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(From the comments section below, because it deserves a post of its own:)
Download all the files used in the Aug. 5 episode now:
Episodes 1, 2, and 3 of our creative commons Odd Job Jack project “freejack” are now up with a high speed seed.
We also just put up a sample flash movie, two video tutorials, 23 animation guides and 13 interviews with our production team:
If you bother to register then you are in a draw for a PlayStation 3. How much better does it get than this?
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