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Travelers

Enrico Colantoni joins Season 2 of Showcase’s Travelers

From a media release:

Showcase announced today that Enrico Colantoni (Remedy, Person of Interest) will join Season 2 of the time-travelling sci-fi drama series Travelers. Colantoni will play the character Vincent, a mysterious individual who may or may not be a friend of the travelers. Production now underway in Vancouver, Colantoni broke the news from the Travelers set with series star Eric McCormack. Stephen Lobo (Continuum) will appear as a recurring character and Amanda Tapping (Sanctuary) will return to direct multiple episodes and guest star.

Travelers follows a group of people from the future who have discovered how to send consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These “travelers” assumed the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform high-stakes missions in order to save the world from a terrible future. Season 2 picks up on the group’s haunting realization that their missions may have altered the future in ways they did not predict, and will air exclusively on Showcase in Canada in Fall 2017.

As previously announced, series writer and creator Brad Wright returns, along with leads Eric McCormack as FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren, Jared Abrahamson as Trevor, Nesta Cooper as Carly, Reilly Dolman as Philip, Patrick Gilmore as David, and MacKenzie Porter as Marcy.

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Anne

Links: Anne

From John Doyle of The Globe and Mail:

Link: Anne of Green Gables adaptation is sublimely reinvigorated
Anne is adapted this time by Moira Walley-Beckett, who wrote some of the most striking episodes of Breaking Bad. The leap from that to Anne of Green Gables might seem an extraordinarily risky one, but it makes sense. Anne is a rebel, after all. A classic one. This version, on the evidence of Sunday’s two-hour opener, is not reverential, nor is it overcontemporized, but it affords Anne Shirley an agency that is formidable. There is such fierce, uninhibitedly direct longing and defiance in this Anne. Continue reading.

From Bill Harris of Postmedia Network:

Link: Anne, the latest take on the Green Gables saga, goes a little darker than usual
It’s a simple question, but I thought about it quite a lot while watching the first episode of the new series Anne.

This, of course, is yet another take on the well-known Anne of Green Gables story. In Anne, the young Anne Shirley, played this time by Amybeth McNulty, pauses to consider everything she has experienced, everything she has seen, and she is mulling a future which, at that moment, does not appear too bright. Continue reading.

From Victoria Ahearn of the Canadian Press:

CBC’s Anne shows darker past of “accidental feminist” from Green Gables
The chatty Canadian dreamer that is Anne of Green Gables is internationally beloved for her cheery qualities: a big imagination, bold spirit and face full of freckles.

But the new series “Anne,” debuting Sunday on CBC and later this spring on Netflix elsewhere in the world, unearths a dark chapter of her life that shaped her resilience. Continue reading. 

From Sarah Boesveld of Chatelaine:

Meet the plucky young star of the Anne of Green Gables remake
“She’s such a survivor. She’s so amazing because she’s gone through so much in her life — the bullying, the prejudice, the sexism, everything — and she still has such an incredible spirit. I love that about her so much.” Continue reading.

From Johanna Schneller of The Globe and Mail:

Breaking Bad writer brings ‘dark sensibility’ to Anne of Green Gables
So while the new limited series Anne is nowhere near as black as Breaking Bad, it’s certainly the darkest, truest rendering to date of what being a redheaded orphan in 1890s Prince Edward Island would have been like. Continue reading.

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Alias Grace

Link: Sarah Polley’s Alias Grace adaptation the right fit for Canadian TV

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From Johanna Schneller of The Globe and Mail:

Link: Sarah Polley’s Alias Grace adaptation the right fit for Canadian TV
Sarah Polley, the Oscar-nominated, Canadian writer/director/actress, spent 20 years thinking about how to adapt Margaret Atwood’s sprawling novel Alias Grace for the screen. She spent her own money to buy the rights when they came available. Then, she spent nearly two years writing, often in snatched hours during her children’s naps. Continue reading.

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Travelers

Showcase announces second season for fall’s No. 1 new series Travelers

From a media release:

Showcase announced today that Travelers, the #1 new Fall series*, will return for a second season with production beginning this March in Vancouver. Produced by Peacock Alley Entertainment Inc., in association with Showcase and Netflix, Season 2 of the time-travelling sci-fi drama will air exclusively on Showcase in Canada in Fall 2017. Series Writer and Creator Brad Wright returns, along with series leads Eric McCormack, Jared Abrahamson, Nesta Cooper, Reilly Dolman, Patrick Gilmore, and MacKenzie Porter.

Season 1 of Travelers followed a group of people from the future who have discovered how to send consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These “travelers” assumed the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform high-stakes missions in order to save the world from a terrible future. Starring Eric McCormack as FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren, MacKenzie Porter as Marcy, Patrick Gilmore as David,  Jared Paul Abrahamson as Trevor, Nesta Cooper as Carly, and Reilly Dolman as Philip, Season 2 of Travelers picks up on the group’s haunting realization that their missions may have altered the future in ways they did not predict.

Travelers is produced by Peacock Alley Entertainment Inc., in association with Showcase and Netflix, and is distributed by Sky Vision.

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