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Reality, Lifestyle & Documentary

Beer Money premieres tonight on Citytv Vancouver

From a media release:

New, Original Sports Trivia Show Beer Money Premieres Dec. 17 on Citytv Vancouver

Hosts Sunny Lenarduzzi and comedian Andrew Barber crash local bars and sports arenas to hand out cold cash to unsuspecting fans in new Citytv original series, Beer Money. Like a laugh? Know a little about the Canucks, Lions, and Whitecaps? Those who do can walk away with $130 in cash…and who couldn’t use a little more Beer Money? Beer Money premieres Monday, Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. PT on Citytv Vancouver.

Born into Canadian sports royalty, Sunny Lenarduzzi (daughter of Bob Lenarduzzi, former athlete and President of the Vancouver Whitecaps FC) is a lively interviewer not afraid to mix it up with athletes … or the public. A radio and television dynamo, Sunny’s favourite career moment – so far – is reporting on the 2010 Winter Olympics, including Jon Montgomery’s gold medal run and his triumphant parade through Whistler.

Vancouver-based comedian, actor, writer, and director – Andrew Barber is famed for creating the video sensation of the Vancouver Canucks’ 2011 Stanley Cup run with his YouTube series featuring the madcap adventures of his sports-mad character, Boston Greg. A regular on the local comedy scene, Andrew can be seen about the city showcasing his improv and sketch comedy chops.

Beer Money writer Tom Hawthorn is an award-winning newspaper and magazine journalist. He is a member of the Society for International Hockey Research and the Society for American Baseball Research. Marni Goldman is the production executive for Rogers Media.

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Reality, Lifestyle & Documentary

Shaun Majumder’s Fawlty Towers aspiration

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From Bill Harris of QMI Agency:

  • Majumder hopes show revives N.L. town
    Shaun Majumder wants to be the Newfoundland Newhart. “Yeah, kinda,” Majumder said with a laugh, thinking of his new series, Majumder Manor. “(Bob Newhart) had that beautiful old inn (in the 1980s series Newhart). Ours is a little more modern. But no, I actually have no desire to be Newhart. I want to be Fawlty Towers. That’s really where it’s at.” Read more.
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Dramas and Comedies

The Horses of McBride retells real-life rescue

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From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:

  • B.C. town rode to rescue of horses
    When Aidan Quinn returned to this picturesque town outside Calgary last March to shoot The Horses of McBride, he was happy to see a familiar face — John Scott. The veteran horse wrangler and Alberta rancher has been helping everyone from Brad Pitt to Sam Elliott to Jackie Chan stay in the saddle for 40 years. Scott worked with Quinn, Pitt and Anthony Hopkins on the 1994 feature Legends of the Fall and with Quinn again on the 2007 HBO film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Read more.

From Eric Volmers of the Calgary Herald:

  • Horses of McBride offers story of community and survival
    Aidan Quinn is hardly a delicate flower. One of the stars of TV film The Horses of McBride, the American actor has been a movie tough guy for years. He lives in the country. He loves the wilderness. But even he has his limits. Moose Mountain in Alberta, for instance. Read more.

From Fish Griwkowsky of the Edmonton Journal:

  • Horses of McBride retells dramatic rescue
    Written and directed by Edmonton-born Anne Wheeler, executive-produced by Due South’s Paul Gross, The Horses of McBride fictionalizes the 2008 true story of a family who rallied an eastern B.C. mountain town to dig out the emaciated creatures. The pack animals were abandoned by an Edmonton hunter in the fall of that year near McBride, west of Jasper National Park, and by winter had lost hundreds of pounds and much of their fur from sleeping on ice. They’d even eaten each others’ tails. Read more.

From Brad Oswald of the Winnipeg Free Press:

  • Horse tale helps your family shovel away winter blues
    Given recent weather patterns hereabouts, and the repetitive outdoor-chore obligations they’ve inevitably created for local folks, it might seem a bit risky — foolish, even — to recommend a TV movie that’s basically about shovelling snow. But in the spirit of the spirit of the season, here goes: The Horses of McBride is a lovely, well-crafted and beautifully performed yarn that’s perfect for family viewing during the festive season. Read more.

From Liz Brown of Metro Canada:

  • Horses of McBride tells of real life rescue from B.C. mountain
    Just before Christmas in 2008, Toni Jeck was faced with a tough decision. Armed with some hay and a shotgun, she was tasked with deciding the fate of two starving horses her snowmobiling brother had found trapped in two-metre deep snow on the side of Mount Renshaw, near McBride, B.C. Read more.

From Nick Kuhl of the Lethbridge Herald:

  • Southern Alberta touch to CTV movie based in B.C.
    When CTV airs its holiday movie “The Horses of McBride” on Sunday, viewers may notice a significant southern Alberta flavour. Not only was it filmed just west of Calgary, but the production stars MacKenzie Porter, who grew up near Medicine Hat, and Kari Matchett, who went to high school at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute. Read more.
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Sunday: Horses of McBride

Horses of McBride, CTV
Inspired by real-life events, in THE HORSES OF MCBRIDE, cowboy-outfitter Matt Davidson (Aidan Quinn, Unknown) has decided to sell his family ranch and find work in the city. His wife Avril (Kari Matchett, COVERT AFFAIRS, 24) and son Kenny (Edward Ruttle, HELLCATS) have embraced the move, but his daughter Nicki (MacKenzie Porter, R.L. Stine’s THE HAUNTING HOUR), who dreams of being an outfitter and mountain guide like her dad, is shocked and angry. It’s late December 2008, when two starving horses are discovered high up on the Rockies, trapped in a six foot-deep prison of snow more than 30 miles from any road. After seeing the spirit in their eyes, Nicki commits to getting them off the mountain – somehow. With no other options, she picks up a shovel and starts to dig out the mile-long path in deep snow to a groomed snowmobile trail, inspiring her father, family, and an entire community to pitch in. Encore presentation airs Friday, Dec. 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CTV Two

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