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Casting is now open for Project Runway Canada

From Alliance Atlantis:

The search is on for the next big name in Canadian fashion

  • Application forms available at slice.ca

Slice(TM) and Insight Production Company Ltd. have begun the search for the nation’s hottest up-and-coming fashion designers for Project Runway Canada.

From March 12, 2007 through April 13, 2007, designer hopefuls aged 19 years and older are invited to visit slice.ca to download the application form and mail in their submission. The series will find 12 designers competing for the once-in-lifetime chance to show collections at a premiere fashion event in fall 2007.

Ultimately one designer will claim their rightful place in the spotlight, winning the top prize, including $100 000 to begin their own fashion line and a feature spread showing their winning collection in the pages of the country’s foremost fashion magazine.

Produced by Insight Production Company Ltd. the highly-anticipated Canadian format of the Emmy-nominated U.S. series, developed by The Weinstein Company, is set to debut with Slice’s(TM) fall 2007 season.

“Fashion has no borders. I’m confident our search will reveal Canada’s unique and promising designers, hungry to make their mark on the international stage,” says John Brunton, President, Insight Production Company Ltd. “We look forward to uncovering the talent and turmoil of cut-throat couture.”

“We are eager to work with Insight to open the door to the amazing crop of undiscovered Canadian design talent out there. I am confident that after this nationwide search, we’ll be left with twelve designers who are incredibly talented, extremely creative and who will no doubt have very different personalities! The combination of raw talent and the drama that arises when the designers live and work together during the innovative challenges are sure to keep Slice(TM) viewers hooked,” says Vanessa Case, Vice President, Content, Slice(TM), Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.

Information on how to enter Project Runway Canada is available at www.slice.ca and www.insighttv.com.

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Little Mosque on the Prairie

In the news: Corner Gas and Little Mosque ratings

From Media in Canada:

  • Mosque and Gas finales ratings winners
    “Though a far cry from its much-hyped premiere – which exploded on Jan. 9 with nearly 2.2 million viewers – CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie had a strong first-season finish. It nabbed more than 1.1 million viewers for the season finale entitled “Playing with Fire” on March 7, despite airing opposite CTV reality juggernaut American Idol.”
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This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Stand up in Kandahar, CBC, March 14

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From CBC:

FIVE COMICS, TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED TROOPS AND TWO MISSILES: THE MAKINGS OF A GREAT COMEDY SPECIAL –

STAND UP IN KANDAHAR – AIRS ON CBC TELEVISION

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 AT 8:00 PM (8:30 NT)

STAND UP IN KANDAHAR is a hilarious one-hour comedy special recently shot on location at Kandahar Air Field (KAF) in Afghanistan. KAF is the temporary home for about 2500 Canadian men and women serving in support of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan. STAND UP IN KANDAHAR airs on CBC Television, March 14 at 8:00 pm (8:30 NT)

The hour-long special is hosted by Shaun Majumder (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, “24”, Just For Laughs). Sharing the stage with him are some of Canada’s funniest stand up comedians: Mark Critch (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Halifax Comedy Fest), Irwin Barker (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Yuk Yuks, Winnipeg Comedy Festival), Tim Nutt (Just For Laughs Tour, Yuk Yuks), and Erica Sigurdson (Vancouver Comedy Festival, CBC Radio’s The Debaters, Halifax Comedy Fest).

The show taping was a standing-room-only hit, with all of the comedians successfully adapting to the unusual location. The show was interrupted by a Taliban rocket attack, which sent the audience and the talent scurrying to the bunkers. Not skipping a beat, the comedians turned the impromptu event into more grist for the comedic mill.

STAND UP IN KANDAHAR consists mainly of laugh-out-loud funny comedy delivered from the make-shift stage, plus additional “behind-the-scenes” footage filmed around the camp.

STAND UP IN KANDAHAR was shot by the CBC Halifax production crew, and is produced and directed by Geoff D’Eon.

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In the news: Corner Gas goes on

From Playback:

  • Gas goes on, with new staff
    “What a difference a red herring makes. CTV enjoyed a boost to its ratings on Monday night when the much-buzzed fourth season ender of Corner Gas aired to a record-setting two million viewers, coming in 29% higher than its season average, thanks — there can be little doubt — to the net’s carefully planted hints that the smash sitcom would not be brought back for a fifth.”
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