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In the news: Degrassi love at GLAAD Awards

From andPOP:

  • Adamo Gets Lots of Love at GLAAD Awards
    “Canadian “Degrassi” star Adamo Ruggiero was so popular at the GLAAD awards on Saturday, he may have even made Rufus Wainwright jealous. The crowd went so wild when Adamo took to the stage to speak about his decision to come out of the closet, that when Wainwright was accepting the Stephen F Kolzak Award later in the evening, he said, ‘I’m giving up my music career and taking up a role on Degrassi.'” Read more.
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CTV and MTV Funded Canadian Series 4REAL Honoured with United Nations Screening

From a media release:

The United Nations is honouring 4REAL, the CTV and MTV in Canada eight-part original documentary series, with a special screening of 4REAL Yawanawa at UN headquarters today in New York City. 4REAL follows a different celebrity each week, to some of the most heartbreaking places on earth, and spotlights inspiring community leaders. 4REAL also received international recognition earlier this month, when producer and co-creator Sol Guy and co-creator Josh Thome were the first Canadians to be honoured with the National Geographic Emerging Explorers Award, for their work on the series. 4REAL is part of CTV’s ongoing commitment to produce and support socially relevant programming that helps affect positive change around the world.

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In the news: Rent-a-Goalie interview

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From me at Blogcritics, based on the Blogtalkradio interview:

  • Rent-a-Goalie Is As Heart-Filled As It Is Fart-Filled
    “Rent-a-Goalie, which just finished production on a third season set to air in the fall, is an ensemble comedy centred around Cake, a recovered-from-every-imaginable-addiction hockey nut who runs his replacement goalie service out of Cafe Primo in Toronto’s Little Italy. Cake lives by The Code, his personal philosophy on life that keeps him out of trouble. Almost.” Read more.

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In the news: Robson Arms’ renovation

From Alex Strachan of Canwest News Service:

  • One roof, different worlds
    “Smells like – old paint. The building in Robson Arms may be old, but starting today, the episodes are new. And CTV’s eccentric, slice-of-life anthology series about the wacky, sad and occasionally lonely residents of a low-rise apartment block in Vancouver’s West End will maintain its frisky joie de vivre, insist the show’s creators, Susin Nielsen and Gary Harvey.” Read more.
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