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Storage Wars Canada coming to OLN

From a media release:

Get Rich or Die Buyin’! OLN Greenlights New Original Series Storage Wars Canada

It’s time for Canada to go bid or go home as the popular Storage Wars franchise arrives north of the border. OLN, Proper Television, and FremantleMedia today announced that Storage Wars Canada (36 x 30 minutes) has been greenlit with production slated to begin May 2013, and filming to take place in locations across Ontario. Additional production and broadcast details to be announced at a later date.

Commissioned by OLN’s original content team and produced by Proper Television, Storage Wars Canada is a modern-day treasure hunt, as four professional buyers use their knowledge, expertise, and wit to bid on the contents of abandoned, repossessed, and forgotten storage containers. With only a matter of minutes to scan the contents of the locker using only the beam of a flashlight, the high stakes fun begins when the buyers have to out-bid each other for the locker, which could be full of trash…or treasure.

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Awards, Continuum, Featured

Continuum’s Simon Barry on his WGC Screenwriting Award Nomination

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This year’s Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award winners will be announced on April 22. We’ve been catching up with many of the writers nominated in the comedy and drama categories. First up, Continuum‘s Simon Barry, nominated for his episode “End Times.”

Can you describe the episode “End Times” and how it fit into the Continuum season?

“End Times” brings together many of the threads we set up in season one and resolves them while also setting up new questions and threads that carry over into season two. It also sets up some new characters and some new dynamics for established characters.

What was the biggest triumph in this particular episode?

I’m not sure there was anything worthy of the description “triumph.” I could say that one of the goals was to find the balance between a satisfying finale and an intriguing tease. I think we accomplished that goal and challenged ourselves to make an entertaining episode.

What does this recognition mean to you?

It’s great to be recognized by fellow writers who appreciate how difficult it is to get ideas from your imagination onto the page and then on screen intact. It’s great that a new show has found support in the first year and I hope we can live up to the expectations of the audience and my fellow Guild brothers and sisters.

If there was one Canadian show that is no longer on the air that you could see honoured at this year’s awards, what would it be? (If you have a specific episode, even better).

SCTV – one of my favorite all time shows. The episode where they parodied Ingmar Bergman was sublime brilliance.

Continuum is currently in production on season two, which will premiere on Showcase on April 21, 2013.

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Seed

Seed actors want Canadians to relax

From Jon Dekel of Postmedia News:

Seed actor Korson wants Canada to start ‘relaxing a bit’
Toronto native Adam Korson has spent the good part of the last several months talking about sperm. As the affable lead on City’s original comedy series Seed, Korson, and City executives, have bet heavily on Canadian audiences being open to the concept of a gregarious yet morally questionable sperm-donor protagonist. Which means the 31-year-old – whose “who me?” punim graces all the show’s publicity – has been peddling the forward-thinking, sexually suggestive show to typically conservative Canadian outlets and audiences since before Seed debuted in early February. Read more.

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Continuum

Continuum invades Vancouver’s CBC building

From Adrian Mack of the Georgia Straight:

Continuum bunkers down in Vancouver
The CBC building on Hamilton Street is already better protected than the Pentagon. But security has been intensified in the past few weeks since Continuum moved into the bunkerlike complex, providing the wildly successful Showcase series with a base of operations and an appropriately sterile location for its second season, now in production. Read more.

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