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The Atwood Stories
''The Atwood Stories'' was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on W in 2003. A short-run dramatic anthology series produced by Shaftesbury Films, the series dramatized six short stories by Margaret Atwood. It was one of the first original Canadian drama series ever commissioned by the network. The series was a Gemini Award nominee for Best Drama Series at the 18th Gemini Awards. The following year, Shaftesbury produced ''The Shields Stories'', a similar series which dramatized six short stories by another Canadian writer, Carol Shields."Shields and Atwood on TV? What took so long?". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...'', March 9, 2004. Episodes References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Atwood Stories, The 2000s Canadian drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
W Network
W Network (often shortened to W) is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel primarily broadcasts general entertainment programming oriented towards a female audience. W Network was established in 1995 as the Women's Television Network (WTN), which had a focus on women's lifestyle programming. The channel was eventually acquired by Corus in 2001 and relaunched under its current branding in 2002. As part of the relaunch, W's programming shifted to a mix of both entertainment and lifestyle programming. By 2017, W had moved its lifestyle programming to its sister networks, focusing exclusively on entertainment programming. The channel is available in two time shifted feeds, East (operating from the Eastern Time Zone) and West (operating from the Pacific Time Zone). History In June 1994, Linda Rankin, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, (later incorporated as Lifestyle Television (1994) Limited, principally owned by Moffat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Scarfe
Jonathan Scarfe (born December 16, 1975) is a Canadian film and television actor. Early life He was born in Toronto, Ontario, to actors Alan Scarfe and Sara Botsford. He dropped out of high school at age 15, and at the age of 16 he spent a year working at the Stratford Festival, where he learned about acting. Career Television Scarfe's first major role was on the Canadian teen drama ''Madison''. He appears in a recurring role as Chase Carter, the drug-abusing cousin of John Carter, on the medical-drama series '' ER''. His television guest appearances include the police procedural series ''NYPD Blue'', ''CSI: Miami'', ''Cold Case''; and the drama series ''The L Word'', as well as the supernatural drama series ''Grimm''. Scarfe portrays Sheldon Kennedy in the biographical drama television film ''The Sheldon Kennedy Story'' (1999), which follows the story of Kennedy a former professional ice-hockey player with the Calgary Flames who, after years of self-blame, self-guilt and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins (born 1959) is a Canadian actress and singer. Acting She had starring roles in the 1990s CBC series ''Black Harbour'', and the films '' Bye Bye Blues'', '' Marion Bridge'', ''Wilby Wonderful'', ''Whole New Thing'', ''South of Wawa'' and '' Supervolcano''. She also had a supporting role in the 1992 film '' Bob Roberts'', as Dolores Perrigrew. In NBC's miniseries '' 10.5'' she portrayed California governor Carla Williams. Jenkins appeared in the January 17, 2006, episode of the WB series ''Supernatural'', where she played the loving wife to a faith healer. Her next project was a television movie entitled ''Past Sins'' directed by David Winning, in which she co-starred with Lauralee Bell. ''Past Sins'' aired on Lifetime in November, 2006. In 2012, she appeared in Sarah Polley's documentary film '' Stories We Tell'', playing Polley's mother Diane in dramatic recreations. Music As a singer, Jenkins has primarily been a backing vocalist for Jane Siberry and Parachu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkville, Toronto
Yorkville is a neighbourhood and former village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is roughly bounded by Bloor Street to the south, Davenport Road to the north, Yonge Street to the east and Avenue Road to the west, and it is part of The Annex neighbourhood. Established as a separate community in 1830, it was annexed into Toronto in 1883. Yorkville comprises residential areas, office space, and retail shopping. The Mink Mile shopping district on Bloor Street is located in Yorkville. History Founded in 1830 by entrepreneur Joseph Bloore (after whom Bloor Street, one of Toronto's main thoroughfares, is named) and William Botsford Jarvis of Rosedale, Yorkville began as a residential suburb. Bloore operated a brewery north-east of today's Bloor and Church Street intersection, while Jarvis was Sheriff of the Home District. The two purchased land in the Yorkville area, subdividing it into smaller lots on new side streets for those interested in living in the cleaner air outside of York. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Bako
Brigitte Bako (born May 15, 1967) is a Canadian actress known for her role on ''Red Shoe Diaries''. She also wrote, produced and starred in the adult comedy ''G-Spot''. Life and career Bako was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Jewish parents. Her mother is a Holocaust survivor. She trained with the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and acted with the Canadian National Shakespeare Company. She has starred in Hollywood productions, numerous Canadian-made movies, and films made in Canada by American producers. Bako's first major break was in Martin Scorsese's ''New York Stories''. She co-starred with David Duchovny and Billy Wirth in ''Red Shoe Diaries''; Benjamin Bratt and Michael Keaton in ''One Good Cop''; and Ralph Fiennes in '' Strange Days''. ''Saint Monica'' was featured at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, and Bako received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Bako also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress in 1993. She starred in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Campbell
Christian Bethune Campbell (born May 12, 1972) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles as Gabriel in the film ''Trick'', Greg Ivey in the television series ''Big Love'' and on stage as Jimmy Harper in the musical ''Reefer Madness''. Early life Campbell was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Campbell's mother, Marnie ( née Neve), is a yoga instructor and psychologist from Amsterdam, Netherlands, who also ran a theatre in Guelph, Ontario. His father, Gerry Campbell, a Scottish immigrant to Canada from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, taught high school drama classes in Mississauga, Ontario — first at Westwood Secondary School (now Lincoln M. Alexander Secondary School), later at Lorne Park Secondary School, and now at Erindale Secondary School. Campbell's maternal grandparents ran a theatre company in the Netherlands and his paternal grandparents were also performers. On his mother's side, Campbell descends from Sephardi Jews who immigrated to the Netherlands and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Bailey
Norma Bailey (born 1949, in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian film writer, producer, and director whose work is rooted in feminist and intersectional film theory. Bailey has directed several films, both in English and French and in various different genres, including fiction and non-fiction films. Her prolific career within the film industry has awarded her various awards and professional accolades including being named to the Order of Manitoba in 2010. Career Norma Bailey graduated from the University of Manitoba and began her film career as a production assistant on David Cronenberg’s ''Rabid (1977 film), Rabid''. She joined the National Film Board of Canada, and her first short, ''The Performer (1980)'', made for the ''Canada Vignettes'' series, won a jury prize for short film at the Cannes Film Festival. Bailey has since then had an extensive career writing, producing, and directing numerous shorts, documentaries, features, and television dramas including ''The Sheldon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Maxwell
Roberta Farnham Maxwell (born June 17, 1941) is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress. Biography Maxwell began studying for the stage in her early teens. She joined John Clark (actor/director), John Clark for two years as the child co-host of his ''Junior Magazine'' series for CBC Television. She first performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1956. She appeared as Ursula in ''Much Ado About Nothing'', Lady Anne in ''Richard III (play), Richard III'', Olivia in ''Twelfth Night'', and Anne in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', before going on to England, where she spent three years in repertory. She made her West End theatre, West End debut with Robert Morley and Molly Picon in ''A Majority of One''. In 1982, she starred as Rosalind in the Stratford Festival's stage production of Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'', a production which was videotaped and telecast on Canadian television in 1983. In 2011, she played the duchess of York in Richard III (play), Richard II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Sherman
Jason Sherman (born July 28, 1962 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. After graduating from the creative writing program at York University in 1985, Sherman co-founded What Publishing with Kevin Connolly, which produced ''what'', a literary magazine that he edited from 1985 to 1990. Before establishing himself as a dramatist, Sherman's journalistic works such as reviews, essays, and interviews appeared in various publications, including ''The Globe and Mail'', ''Canadian Theatre Review'' and '' Theatrum''. He edited two anthologies for Coach House Press, ''Canadian Brash'' (1991) and ''Solo'' (1993), and was playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre from 1992 to 1999. Sherman's first professional productions were ''A Place Like Pamela'' (1991) and ''To Cry is Not So'' (1991), followed by ''The League of Nathans'' (1992, published in book form in 1996), which won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1993), and was nominated for the Governor Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonja Smits
Sonja Smits (born September 8, 1958) is a Canadian actress. She was nominated for two Genie Awards: for ''Videodrome'' (1983) and '' That's My Baby!'' (1984). On television, she starred in '' Street Legal'' (1987-1992) and '' Traders'' (1996-2000). Life and career Smits was born in Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada. She went to Bell High School in Bells Corners, she also attended Woodroffe High School and South Carleton High School in Richmond, a village outside Ottawa. She studied acting at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute until she was invited to join the Centre Stage theatre company in London, Ontario. Smits has played roles in many television series, including ''Falcon Crest'', ''Airwolf'', ''Odyssey 5'', '' The Outer Limits'', '' Street Legal'', '' Traders'', ''The Best Laid Plans'' and '' The Eleventh Hour''. Smits also played Bianca O'Blivion in the David Cronenberg horror movie ''Videodrome'' (1983) and was lead actress in 2021 drama film '' Drifting Snow''. Smits is married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
