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Haven

In the news: Nova Scotia fills in for Maine in Haven

From Vernon Oickle of South Shore Now:

  • South Shore becomes ‘stand-in’ for Maine town
    “”Haven” is a new, one-hour original television drama currently being filmed along the South Shore as places like Lunenburg, Chester, Hubbards and Northwest stand in for the fictional town. It is precisely this region’s close visual resemblance to Maine that ultimately attracted producers to these shores, but the decision to film here was made for many other reasons according to one of the driving forces behind the 13-episode series.” Read more.
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Awards, Less Than Kind, Little Mosque on the Prairie, The Listener, This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Canadian Comedy Award nominees announced

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From a media release:

2010 CANADIAN COMEDY AWARD NOMINEES ARE ANNOUNCED!

The race for the 2010 Canadian Comedy Awards is on! Canada’s finest comedians will go head to head for the coveted BEAVER statuette this October in Toronto, as The Canadian Comedy Awards Foundation in association with The Comedy Network today announced the nominees for the 2010 Canadian Comedy Awards. At a media conference held at Yuk Yuk’s in Toronto, emcees Deb McGrath and Colin Mochrie highlighted the nominees in all 21 categories.

Winners will be declared at The Comedy Network Presents the Canadian Comedy Awards & Festival Awards Show on Monday, October 18 to be held at the Isabel Bader Theatre.

To view a complete list of the 2010 Canadian Comedy Awards nominees and to access nominee bios, please go to www.canadiancomedy.ca.

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Top Chef Canada

Thea Andrews named Top Chef Canada host

From a media release:

TOP CHEF CANADA BRINGS ABOARD CELEBRATED TELEVISION PERSONALITY THEA ANDREWS AS SERIES HOST

GettyImages 102169723Food Network Canada and Insight Production Company Ltd. announce that television host and passionate foodie Thea Andrews (Entertainment Tonight; ESPN) will host the premiere season of Top Chef Canada, the anticipated Canadian version of the award-winning U.S. series. Top Chef Canada – which sees Canada’s top culinary talent face-off for the chance to win $100,000 and the ‘Canada’s Top Chef’ title – premieres spring 2011 on Food Network.

Canadian Thea Andrews is an experienced TV personality and entertainment journalist, having worked as a correspondent and weekend host for Entertainment Tonight in Los Angeles, as co-host for several ESPN series and, most recently, co-hosting the 16th Annual Screen Actor Guild Awards Red Carpet Show for TNT. A bon vivant at heart, Thea has studied and taken cooking classes both in New York and Los Angeles. Thea and her husband have organized vacations around visits to vineyards and restaurants they have heard about. She recently took her love of the culinary world one step further by investing in a brand new 315-seat New York restaurant called Millesime opening in the historic Carlton Hotel in September. The two floor restaurant features 2-star Michelin chef, Laurent Manrique, and a 2 million dollar show kitchen.

For more information on Top Chef Canada visit www.foodnetwork.ca/topchef.

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Rookie Blue

Interview: The “intellectually agile” Gregory Smith of Rookie Blue

GregorySmithFrom Tamar Abrams of the Huffington Post:

  • Everwood’s Gregory Smith Heads to ABC’s Rookie Blue Premiering Thursday
    “‘It’s hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But Rookie Blue has a pure emotional center that’s not cynical. The characters are so well developed. It’s a show with heart.’ Smith plays a ‘young Jewish hipster cop’ named Dov Epstein which, he says, is a good sign since his character in the hit show Everwood was named Ephram. ‘Odd, interesting names are good to me,’ he says.” Read more.
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