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In the news: JPod’s web extras

Ilona Beiks of Playback reports on JPod Internet extras:

  • JPod extras in the works
    “Douglas Coupland is playing games with producers Larry Sugar and J.B. Sugar. The author of Generation X, Souvenir of Canada and Everything’s Gone Green is exec producing the adaptation of his game-themed novel JPod with the father and son principals of No Equal Entertainment for CBC and, according to J.B. Sugar, a web component may also be in the works.”
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Little Mosque on the Prairie

In the news: Little Mosque’s Minnesota connections

From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

  • ‘Little Mosque on Prairie’ puts Muslims in a sitcom
    “The show’s Minnesota connections run deeper than its playful reference to the “Little House on the Prairie” in Walnut Grove, Minn., made famous by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books and the TV show starring Michael Landon. “Little Mosque” executive producer Mary Darling grew up in Minnetonka and came up with the show’s name years after she made frequent trips through Walnut Grove to visit her grandparents in southwestern Minnesota.”
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    “Can you see it here? Not yet, but producers are in negotiations with U.S. networks and say chances are “extremely high” it will be shown here as soon as this fall.”
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In the news: ‘Guns’ exposes seedy side of Toronto

Jim Bawden of the Toronto Star talks to David “Sudz” Sutherland about his upcoming CBC miniseries:

  • Gun drama shoots from the hip
    “All we want to do is tell the truth. Why is that so unsettling for some people?” Sutherland later asks as he has a hasty dinner in the lunch room. “It is fiction, yes, but based on true stories. I did my research with the police to find where thousands of guns are coming from.
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