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Haven

Link: Haven returns September 18

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From Eleni Armenakis of The TV Junkies:

Haven returns to Canada
“Feeling Troubled? Maybe that’s because Showcase has announced the return date of Haven for September 18 along with a two-hour premiere starting at 9 p.m. ET. The series will then return to 10 p.m. ET on Sept. 25 for Episode 3. Season 5 has already marked some big changes for the show as it’s renewal earlier this summer also came with the news that the upcoming season would be double the usual length, clocking in at 26 episodes.” Continue reading.

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Orphan Black

Link: Orphan Black’s Toronto

From David Fleischer of Torontoist:

Reel Toronto: Orphan Black — Season Two
“It’s a curiosity for all sorts of reasons, not least of which is the show’s puzzlingly ambiguous setting. It seems to be set in Toronto, and includes occasional undisguised glimpses of the skyline and even (as we saw in the first season) documents that explicitly mention the city. And yet locations rarely play themselves; the notion that we’re in Toronto is never openly addressed—it just sort of is. We’re okay with that, we guess.” Continue reading.

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Featured, Industry News

Women in TV: Another example of “You can’t be what you can’t see”?

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How can you dream of what you can be, and all you can be, if you never see it in the storytelling of your culture?” – Jill Golick, Writers Guild of Canada President

Tatiana Maslany should have an Emmy for her performance as the kick-ass clones of Orphan Black. Anna Silk, Laura Vandervoort and Rachel Nichols headline other popular Canadian genre shows. But when you dig deeper into the statistics of women in Canadian television, the idea of a female-friendly industry erodes.

Last year’s Women in View report and the previous Ryerson report show that the industry has a long way to go in representing women and minorities, particularly behind the scenes.  If telling our own stories is foundational to the Canadian television industry, we should aspire to have our country’s diversity of voices represented.

In this Operation Maple video, Golick and ACTRA National President Ferne Downey speak about the challenges facing women in television, onscreen and off.

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