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Link: Women Behind Canadian TV: April Mullen

From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:

Link: Women Behind Canadian TV: April Mullen
“If you enter the industry in the traditional sense it takes such a long time to slowly go up the ladder. If you’re a young woman that’s in love with film and want to be a director, you have to leave school and start creating work and directing shorts right away. If that’s the position you are vying for, then claim that position and start directing immediately because that’s what you’ll be seen as.” Continue reading.

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Link: Daniel Levy on Showing One of the First Pansexuals on TV in ‘Schitt’s Creek’

From Will Thorne of Variety:

Link: Daniel Levy on Showing One of the First Pansexuals on TV in ‘Schitt’s Creek’
“A girl came up to me on the street and said the show changed the dynamic in her family. Her brother’s gay, and her parents had never accepted him. But by watching the way that Johnny and Moira interact with David in our show — how accepting they are — it was able to inform this girl’s parents in ways they hadn’t seen before. You often forget, because you’re so inside it, that television has power. And for us, any chance we get to project a world where things are good and right, that’s all we can hope to do.” Continue reading.

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Comments and queries for the week of January 27

Orphan Black, Schitt’s Creek, Kim’s Convenience among top TV nominations for 2017 Canadian Screen Awards

X Company belongs in the best drama series list. Of all the Canadian series I watch, I think it was the best last year, followed by Orphan Black and Vikings, the latter of which is now interestingly not in the international category anymore. The comedy category is really strong too this year but I have to give my nod to Kim’s Convenience which is a refreshingly funny and original multi-generational comedy with well-drawn characters. —Alicia

Kim’s Convenience: Ins Choi can take pride in this debut

Honestly, one of the best things CBC has produced in a long time. I haven’t laughed this hard in years. I hope it has a long run. —Fred

Photo gallery: First look at CBC’s Pure

Looks like a mess. The Mennonites involved in drug smuggling were Mexican Mennonites, people ultimately of Dutch origin. They even use a wheel of Mexican Mennonite cheese stuffed with drugs in their promos.

Old Order Mennonites however, are of Swiss/Southern German origin. They don’t even speak the same language as Mexican Mennonites (Pennsylvania Dutch as opposed to Plattdeutsch) and wouldn’t be part of the same communities, as they have very different cultures and rules.

This is like lumping in Italian Canadians from Toronto with some Newfoundlanders because they are both Catholic. —Ivriniel

 

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Link: X Company: Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern talk “One for the Moon”

From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:

Link: X Company: Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern talk “One for the Moon”
“Faber and Sinclair both acknowledge each other as master players, and you can never feel safe for too long no matter how much you respect and tentatively trust someone. They always have a card, or two, up their sleeves and I think in both cases they genuinely hope they don’t have to deploy that card, but they know the game too well to play it unprotected.” Continue reading.

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