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TV Eh B Cs podcast 67 — The Tim Rozon Entree

Tim Rozon’s first major role was playing heartthrob, Tommy Quincy, opposite Alexz Johnson and Laura Vandervoort for four seasons on the teen drama series Instant Star for TeenNick and CTV. Other leading roles include two seasons playing Mutt Schitt on CBC’s runaway comedy Schitt’s Creek.

Tim has made guest appearances on many of the hit shows made in Canada over the last decade, including: Rookie Blue, Flashpoint, Heartland, Lost Girl and 19-2. In addition to acting, Tim produced the documentary feature Shuckers, about the world of oysters and those who shuck them.

When not acting, Tim plays the role of restaurateur in Montreal at his hit restaurants Garde Manger and Le Bremner opposite star chef Chuck Hughes.

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From Ciara Pitts of MoviePilot:

Link: Wynonna Earp: How the cast and crew get LGBT visibility so right when so many TV shows still get it wrong
June, which is also Pride Month, has just kicked off. Many of us in the LGBTQ community are celebrating our freedom and who we are, along with the TV shows that make us more visible. One of those shows being Syfy’s Wynonna Earp, which returns for its second season on June 9. The series follows the titular character on a journey to take down demons and other supernatural forces that invade her mysterious hometown. Continue reading.

From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:

Link: Wynonna Earp: Emily Andras talks “Steel Bars and Stone Walls”
“I really thought of the premiere as almost the second half of Episode 113. It felt like a two-parter with all those cliffhangers and because we had given ourselves, or cursed ourselves, with all those cliffhangers, we had no choice but to answer those questions. I didn’t want it to be a bunch of talk and exposition. I wanted it to feel really fun and really blistering.” Continue reading.

Link: Wynonna Earp’s Melanie Scrofano on working for Black Badge and that surprise guest star
“There’s a certain amount of not wanting to see things that are right in front of you when they threaten your sense of security. Waverly gives Wynonna such a sense of security and family and belonging and she just thinks that partly it can’t be true.” Continue reading. 

From Nivea Serrao of Entertainment Weekly:

Link: Wynonna Earp boss on that big Season 2 premiere twist
“We are going to see a slightly different Wynonna for the first few episodes. Not only has she killed Willa, but the other thing that has happened is, essentially, she has lost Dolls. So she’s going to feel a lot of pressure to kind of move into a leadership role. And that’s not Wynonna’s strong suit. She hates authority. She rebels against authority.” Continue reading.

From Carly Lane of Nerdist:

Link: Wynonna Earp’s Dominique Provost-Chalkley talks “bloody good” Season 2 
“She comes into her own. It’s kind of perfect timing because I feel like she’s going in that direction but just touching the goo accelerates that, and so I wanted to make sure that right from the get-go there was almost a power that ran through her, an adrenaline underneath that maybe she didn’t have before.” Continue reading. 

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Wynonna Earp showrunner Emily Andras talks Season 2, laundry and Sheriff Nedley

There’s a reason I love chatting with Emily Andras. It’s not just because she’s been a writer and producer on stellar programs like Killjoys and Lost Girl and has created the scintillating sci-fi series Wynonna Earp from Beau Smith’s kick-ass comic. Those are great reasons on their own. No, I love speaking to Andras because she’s witty, self-deprecating and strictly no-bullshit.

With Wynonna Earp roaring back to our TVs this Friday at 10 p.m. ET on Space, I was looking forward to her take on where Wynonna, Waverly, Doc, Dolls and Haught were headed in their sophomore season as well as a peek back at what she learned from Season 1.

Where are you at in the process of Season 2 now?
Emily Andras: The big bulk of my work is done. It was five days a week and now it’s three days a week. Of course, now everyone is talking about Season 3 development and I’m like, ‘Uh, can I just do one load of laundry?’

And, of course, you’ll be live tweeting too.
Yes, I’m increasing my wine intake in preparation for Friday nights. The thing about live tweeting is it’s such a gas. Can I just say, publicly, that if you’re sort of a normal person who I know in the Canadian television industry, mute me now because of the live tweeting. No hard feelings, actual people, if you want to mute my Twitter while I live tweet. We’ve been public about the fact that fan interaction is what made our show and got us a second season. The cast isn’t contractually obligated to live tweet; we do it because we love the show.


At the end of the day, the Earp sisters are the heart of the show. And just winding up Melanie Scrofano and letting her go. Her performance in Season 2 makes her performance in Season 1 look like garbage.


How important were the fans when it came to second season storylines?
I’ve been pretty honest about this. It’s the new conundrum for every showrunner, which is that fan engagement is incredibly important, but at the same time you need to tell a story and not everybody can be involved. It often give the analogy of driving a bus. I’m going to be driving the Wynonna Earp bus and you can get on the bus if you want. You can yell at me while we’re on the bus, you can hoot and holler out the window and you can get off the bus if you don’t like where it’s going. We can’t all grab the wheel of the bus because then we’ll go off a cliff.

As much as I appreciate the fan engagement, my job is to tell a good story and make you feel things. I want to surprise you. I love the fan engagement but I don’t necessarily take fan instruction if that makes any sense. I just can’t. I just try to put that aside when I’m putting together a season with my amazing writers. We just try to think of what we can do to take these people on a ride and make them feel things and, hopefully, feel satisfied at the end of the day.

What was your post-mortem on Season 1? Were there things you wished you’d done differently?
There definitely was. I am not being falsely modest when I say I was genuinely amazed when people got the show. We were running around in the woods in Alberta going, ‘I don’t know if anyone is going to watch this thing.’ I think there was a lot of soul-searching from Syfy, to be honest, and to their credit and some of the things they thought they would tweak—when it came to focus testing some of the things we did in Season 1—were really popular. They said, ‘Throw that out, we want to stick with what is working.’ I think the thing that was personally the most important to me was just keeping the tone of the first season. At the end of the day, the Earp sisters are the heart of the show. And just winding up Melanie Scrofano and letting her go. Her performance in Season 2 makes her performance in Season 1 look like garbage.

There was something in every single episode of Season 1 that I would have done differently. A joke that didn’t work or a special effect that didn’t work, but pace and tone and making more of what worked was what I was most concerned about.

You introduce new characters in Season 2 and as I watched the first episode, “Steel Bars and Stone Walls,” I recalled your reference to Buffy the Vampire, and this being a version of the Scooby Gang. We’re getting that.
One thing that I noticed that Buffy did really well and we didn’t get a chance to do a lot of in Season 1 was, part of the best parts of Buffy was when the team is working together. I wanted to get more of that in Season 2. The more of my amazing cast I can cram into one scene—bickering or yelling or figuring things out—the better the energy was. That’s definitely something you’ll see more of this season.

Were there any milestones you wanted to hit in Season 2?
One of the things we wanted to do, and the network encouraged us to do, was to take on a little bit more of the comic book tradition by Beau Smith—who we all adore—and expand the world from just demon revenants into more supernatural creatures. We wanted to have Wynonna and the team fighting more of those. We had a lot of fun with that. We also wanted to have some more long form storytelling and arcing. It’s still, ultimately, about the curse and Wynonna trying to do this thing that she’s destined to do. There are so many surprises this year and I think something happens at midseason that turns everything on its head that I’m really excited about. All in all, it was about the spirit and fun of the comic book and seeing if we could lean into that, even more, this year.


We are definitely going to find out more about Dolls and what he is. In the grand Lost tradition, as we get answers it sometimes raises more questions. I hope it’s interesting and compelling and satisfying.


When we pick up on Friday, the team is trying to save Dolls. We keep getting peeks that he’s something. Will we find out what he is—or isn’t—by the end of this season?
We are definitely going to find out more about Dolls and what he is. In the grand Lost tradition, as we get answers it sometimes raises more questions. I hope it’s interesting and compelling and satisfying.

What can you say about the Black Badge?
I like the mystery of the Black Badge. The idea of them being a paranormal government agency … how the hell does that happen!? I like the idea that, at the end of the day, they don’t seem as legit. I always like the idea that there’s another big bad.

Will Sheriff Nedley join the team as well?
He’s in and out. I freaking love Greg Lawson. He is so good this year. He is like, #hero. My favourite thing about him, as a character, is he refuses to be impressed by these idiot young people. He just doesn’t care because he’s seen it all. He’s just counting down the days until retirement. He’s nobody’s fool and sees more than you think he does. We just kept going back to the well on Nedley this year because he’s so funny and useful to bring down the rest of the characters and their drama. Greg Lawson is a delight. I think he’s one of the most underrated actors in Canada.

Was he planned to be a short-term character and then you expanded the role?
It was more that I thought he was going to be a dipshit. He was going to be Boss Hogg, a slightly racist, slightly homophobic small-town sheriff, kind of what we saw in the pilot was what we were going to get. But, it wasn’t necessarily the best fit for Greg and I believe it’s good to lean into people’s strengths if you can. So much of the show is about not making assumptions about people—what they look like and what have you—similarly I thought it was much more interesting to have Sheriff Nedley be a little bit more diverse and a smarter guy. He can be a small-town dude that loves hunting and fishing and still be an open-minded, literate gentleman.

Wynonna Earp airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET on Space.

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From Daniela Costa of NBC News:

Link: Wynonna Earp star Dominique Provost-Chalkley dishes on new season
Fans of Syfy’s supernatural drama “Wynonna Earp” are in for a treat come the show’s season 2 premiere on June 9, so says fan favorite Dominique Provost-Chalkley.

“If I thought that Waverly had a huge arc in the first season, it doesn’t even compare to what we have in store this season,” she told NBC Out. Continue reading.

From Jen Stayrook of The Workprint:

Wynonna Earp Season 2 review: A hilarious, non-stop adventure and it’s so, so gay
There’s a darkness in Waverly we haven’t seen before. Whether it’s how she truly feels or a consequence of the black goo remains to be seen, but the end result is that Dominique Provost-Chalkey can act her pants off. Continue reading.

From Maureen Ryan of Variety:

TV Review: Wynonna Earp Season 2
That’s a long way of saying that the first four episodes of Season 2 are focused and fun. If you need a weekly treat that takes advantage of every meaning of the word “stakes,” this may be the show for you. And this year, everyone, from the writing staff to the directors to the extremely game cast, has dialed in on exactly how to come at this material. Continue reading. 

From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:

Link: Wynonna Warp’s Melanie Scrofano says Wynonna must trust her instincts in Season 2
“Season 2 starts off right after Season 1 and she just has to jump right in. She’s just gone through this horrible tragedy again, only this time she’s the cause of it, and now Dolls, her mentor/lover/question mark, has been taken. She’s got to navigate all of this on her own instincts which is really scary for her, but all she can do is forge ahead because if she stops even for a second, she’ll realize how in over her head she is and how much she’s lost.” Continue reading.

From Eric Volmers of Postmedia:

Link: “We really get into a lot of trouble”; Wynonna Earp’s second season debuts Friday on Space
It was just under a year ago that the cast of Wynonna Earp was informed they would be returning to Calgary to shoot a second season. It wasn’t complete surprise. By that point, the supernatural modern western was already earning a devoted fan base. Continue reading. 

From Nivea Serrao of Entertainment Weekly:

Link: Wynonna Earp boss Emily Andras talks “bigger, badder, better” Season 2
“Now Wynonna takes some responsibility and has people in her life who support her, but she also feels responsible for, who she cares for. So it’s about her trying to keep this dysfunctional family together as they really work on becoming a team.” Continue reading.

From Melissa Girimonte of The Televixen:

Link: Melanie Scrofano on higher stakes in Wynonna Earp Season 2
“Anyone in view of the Earp curse and of Wynonna herself is in some way going to be affected, and those bonds are going to be tested with anybody. The curse is pretty high maintenance and I’ll say that it tests Wynonna to her limit. Any time somebody is tested like that, there’s going to be fallout elsewhere.” Continue reading. 

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Wynonna Earp sounds off: A conversation with Melanie Scrofano

Anyone who has access to social media—and fans of Wynonna Earp do—knows the Season 2 return episode previews have been fantastic. Count us in on the praise-heaping. Showrunner Emily Andras and her writing team have advanced the plot—Super-creepy new monsters! A laboratory! New characters!—while keeping our core of favourites intact.

And while Friday’s first episode—”Steel Bars and Stone Walls,” airing at 10 p.m. ET on Space—is full of snark, fights and The Peacemaker, there are quiet moments too. When we catch up with Wynonna, Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), Haught (Katherine Barrell) and Doc (Tim Rozon), they’re plotting to save Dolls from the clutches of Agent Lucado (Kate Drummond). With the curse stronger than ever, Black Badge intrigue, gobs of goo still hanging around, and new evils to contend with, Season 2 is going to be jam-packed.

We spoke to Melanie Scrofano for some help sorting it all out.

I’m really loving the tone of Season 2 so far. Friday’s return, “Steel Bars and Stone Walls,” features plenty of slow-motion hair flipping and strutting.
Melanie Scrofano: Really?! Already? Oh, I do. I DO.

As an actress, forget about the lines written … is it hard to get the hair flip just right?
MS: No, because there is so much hair and none of it is mine. I’m just trying to, like, ‘Get off!’ I’m so used to doing that in real life. Sometimes I just do it, and other times in the script it will say, ‘Super, sexy, hair porn.’ Something like that, but better, because it’s Emily.

There is so much to address in Season 2. First is the goo that was absorbed into Waverly. Anything you can say about the goo at this point?
MS: The thing about goo is … [looks at network publicist] … it just goos up your life. You just never know how long it will be in your life.

I not going to spoil anything about Friday’s first episode, but we do get a little more background into Dolls and why Lucado [Kate Drummond] feels the way she does towards him. Can you comment?
MS: It’s safe to say Dolls has got a lot more complexity than any of us realize and it will also play to our strengths as a team. It definitely makes things harder and he has a lot to deal with on his own. Just like Wynonna kind of sucks at the beginning at her job, but the things that are a mess about her, like her instinct rather than being polished, is what gives the team its edge. I think we can say it’s the same with Dolls.

Where is Wynonna’s state of mind at the beginning of Season 2? Her attitude suggests she thinks she’s a pretty big deal.
MS: Given everything that happened at the end of Season 1 and the mountain she’s up against, she’s puffing out her chest and is going, ‘I don’t know if I can do this, but I have to.’ Part of the reason everything is so fast-paced is because she can’t slow down to think because she’ll have a meltdown if she thinks about what she’s done and what’s happened.


Wynonna doesn’t have time to choose. She’s like, ‘Boys are important and everything, but I have to save the world! So, sorry for your feelings, and I’m going to do my best but I’ve got a job to do.’


There’s a lot going on in the first episode back. The team is going after Dolls, so we’re introduced to a new setting in the lab and a couple of new characters and new monsters.
MS: Any monsters that we come across don’t just come and go. They are all tied together in some way.

There is also one heck of a fight between Wynonna and another character. How long does it take to choreograph and film a fight scene?
MS: They take all day, and you see them on the schedule and you want to go home. Usually, you don’t have a lot of time to prepare for them and they’re messy. It adds a nice energy to it because you’re phrenetic and you hope that you don’t actually connect and actually punch somebody. Those scenes are very intricate, there are so many pieces, and then you have to land your marks and sell the punches. The scene in Episode 1 probably took six to eight hours.

Who’s the stunt coordinator?
MS: Steve McMichael. He’s incredible. Don’t tell him this, but he could poison my oatmeal and we would have him back for Season 4 because he’s just so good!

One thing that was teased by Emily, and Tim Rozon told me for an upcoming podcast, is the dynamic of having characters in different pairs this season.
MS: Everybody is affected differently by the curse. Wynonna and Officer Haught didn’t work much together last season, so it was interesting to see how that relationship evolved and I found it really fun and touching. I really loved that one. It was interesting to see different perspectives on the curse.

I also get the sense there’s going to be more regarding the love/affection triangle between Wynonna, Dolls and Doc.
MS: Wynonna doesn’t have time to choose. She’s like, ‘Boys are important and everything, but I have to save the world! So, sorry for your feelings, and I’m going to do my best but I’ve got a job to do.’ I like that aspect of it. She doesn’t want to be harsh, but at the same time, the clock is ticking.

Wynonna Earp airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET on Space.

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