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U8TV
''U8TV: The Lofters'' was the world's first completely online TV channel and Canada's first reality television series. It aired on the Life Network and online on the internet television channel U8TV.com, in 2001 and 2002. It was created by Zev Shalev, Lili Shalev-Shawn and Fiorella Grossi, its co-founders and executive producers."Lofty experiment for young TV hosts: Cast of U8TV will live, work for a year in front of the cameras". ''Ottawa Citizen'', January 10, 2001. The show followed the lives of eight Canadians in their 20s who lived together in a Toronto loft for a one-year period, while at the same time producing and hosting their own television programs for Life Network or other cable TV networks, and for the website U8TV.com."Alliance has lofty idea for reality show". ''Kingston Whig-Standard'', August 30, 2000. Format The loft, located in the Entertainment District near the intersection of Peter and Richmond streets in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, had 21 cameras fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Ruta
Jason Ruta (born August 7, 1979, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian television personality and actor.Ben Kaplan, "Less chalk and cheese, more steak and eggs; Jason Ruta and Arisa Cox took two very different paths to end up at the same spot, and they couldn't be happier about it". ''National Post'', December 13, 2008. Ruta first came to prominence as a participant in the second season of '' U8TV: The Lofters''."M8, H8 & CRE8 on U8TV ; Eight fresh faces ready to be taped, watched and talked about 24/7". ''Toronto Star'', January 8, 2002. The show followed the lives of eight Canadians living and working in a fully wired loft TV studio, producing and hosting shows. Unlike season one's Mathieu Chantelois, who was openly gay from the very beginning of his time on the show, Ruta came out as gay during his time in the loft. He hosted the Gemini-nominated magazine series ''So Gay TV'' for U8TV and PrideVision,"Reality bites: An oral history of The Lofters". '' The Grid'', August 7, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Gay TV
''So Gay TV'' is a Canadian television talk show, which aired on PrideVision in the early 2000s."Reality bites: An oral history of The Lofters". ''The Grid'', August 7, 2013. Hosted in its first season by Mathieu Chantelois and in its second season by Jason Ruta, the program originally aired in 2001 as an Internet television series connected to '' U8TV: The Lofters'', and was picked up by PrideVision after that network's launch."Wanted: a loftier reality TV". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 30, 2001. The series ended in 2002 after the cancellation of ''The Lofters'', although it continued to air in repeats on PrideVision. ''So Gay TV'' mixed panel discussions and interviews with documentary and feature reports on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues and life in Canada. One of the show's most widely publicized segments was an interview with Hal Sparks, one of the stars of '' Queer as Folk'', about his experience as a heterosexual actor playing a gay character. The show w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Jarvis
Carolyn Michelle Jarvis (born July 20, 1979) is a Canadian television journalist, currently the chief correspondent for Global's newsmagazine program '' 16x9''. Jarvis was born in North York, Ontario and grew up in Richmond, British Columbia. She earned a degree in music, but established a career in investigative journalism and as a news anchor. Early life Jarvis was born in North York, Ontario in 1979 and moved with her family to Richmond, British Columbia shortly thereafter. Jarvis earned a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance and moved to Toronto to pursue a career in musical theatre. Career In 2001 Jarvis was a cast member on '' U8TV: The Lofters'', where she produced content and hosted shows on the Independent Film Channel and The Life Network among others. The following year she joined the Weather Network as a forecaster and earned a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society certification, while taking night courses at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arisa Cox
Arisa Cox (born December 7, 1978) is a Canadian television and radio personality, best known as the host of '' Big Brother Canada''."Big Brother Canada: Arisa Cox to host first edition of reality show" '''', January 21, 2013. Cox was born in , . Attending |
Trevor Smith (actor)
Trevor (Tre) Smith (born December 10, 1970) is a Canadian former television personality, best known for his role in the reality television series '' U8TV: The Lofters''."The Lofty Airs Of U8TV" chartattack.com, January 1, 2001. Prior to appearing on ''The Lofters'', Smith was a child actor, whose credits included regular roles in the shows '''' and '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Hedger
Jennifer Frances Hedger (born September 18, 1975 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian television personality and the co-host of TSN's nightly sports news program '' SportsCentre''. Broadcasting career Hedger's first on-air experiences were with the London station for Rogers Television where shes regularly contributed to the show ''Plugged In!'' and was host of ''OHL Primetime'' during the 1998-99 OHL season. In 2001, she was chosen to be a part of ''U8TV: The Lofters'', a Canadian reality show where eight strangers lived together in a Toronto loft while also producing and hosting their own online television shows. After her year in the loft ended, she made appearances on TSN's talk show ''Off the Record with Michael Landsberg'', before joining TSN in 2002 as co-anchor of '' SportsCentre's'' 11pm and 2am ET broadcasts. Hedger is currently the co-host of the 10 p.m. ET edition of SportsCentre alongside Darren Dutchyshen. In addition to her TSN duties, Hedger co-hosted Olympic D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Chantelois
Mathieu Chantelois (born July 4, 1973) is a Canadian television personality, journalist, magazine editor, and marketing executive. Early life and education Mathieu Chantelois was born and raised in Mascouche, a suburb just outside Montreal, Quebec. He studied at Pierre Laporte Secondary School, a musical academy in Montreal. He is a graduate of Carleton University's journalism program, and in 2018, he completed a certificate in strategic perspectives in nonprofit management at Harvard Business School. Career Television Chantelois was one of the original housemates on the Canadian reality television series '' U8TV: The Lofters''."Reality bites: An oral history of The Lofters" . '' |
Reality Television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as ''The Real World'', then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series '' Survivor'', '' Idols'', and '' Big Brother'', all of which became global franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges, by the viewership of the show, or by the contestants themselves. Documentaries, television news, sports television, talk shows, and traditional game shows are generally not clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment District, Toronto
The Toronto Entertainment District is an area in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is concentrated around King Street West between University Avenue and Spadina Avenue. It is home to theatres and performing arts centres, the Toronto Blue Jays, and an array of cultural and family attractions. The area was also home to most of the nightclubs in downtown Toronto. They have mostly moved to King St west of Spadina Av just beside the Entertainment District. History Garment District In the first half of the 20th century, the original name of the neighbourhood was the Garment District and it was almost wholly industrial. The Canadian National Railway controlled a huge amount of land along the Lake Ontario waterfront, and to the north many firms took advantage of the easy access to rail and the harbour. The most important industry was textiles and fashion, and the area had few residents. Much of the area was built after the 1904 fire, which forced many businesses to move west of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loft
A loft is a building's upper storey or elevated area in a room directly under the roof (American usage), or just an attic: a storage space under the roof usually accessed by a ladder (primarily British usage). A loft apartment refers to large adaptable open space, often converted for residential use (a converted loft) from some other use, often light industrial. Adding to the confusion, some converted lofts include upper open loft areas. Loft and attic In U.S usage, a loft is an upper room or storey in a building, mainly in a barn, directly under the roof, used for storage (as in most private houses). In this sense it is roughly synonymous with attic, the major difference being that an attic typically constitutes an entire floor of the building, while a loft covers only a few rooms, leaving one or more sides open to the lower floor. In British usage, lofts are usually just a roof space accessed via a hatch and loft ladder, while attics tend to be rooms immediately under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slice (TV Channel)
Slice is a Canadian English language discretionary service channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel primarily broadcasts reality shows targeting young adult women, typically dealing in subjects such as fashion and lifestyles. This channel was launched on January 1, 1995, as Life Network under the ownership of Atlantis Communications. Atlantis was acquired by Alliance Communications in 1998 and Life Network was relaunched as Slice on March 5, 2007. In 2008, Canwest and Goldman Sachs acquired Alliance Atlantis, and the channel's ownership was later sold at first to Shaw Media in 2010 and ultimately, Corus Entertainment in April 2016. History As Life Network In June 1994, Your Channel Television Inc., a company majority owned by Atlantis Television Ventures Inc. (Atlantis Communications), was granted a television broadcasting licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a channel called ''YOU: Your Channel'', described at the time a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urine
Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many other animals. Urine flows from the kidneys through the ureters to the urinary bladder. Urination results in urine being excretion, excreted from the body through the urethra. Cell (biology), Cellular metabolism generates many by-products that are rich in nitrogen and must be clearance (medicine), cleared from the Circulatory system, bloodstream, such as urea, uric acid, and creatinine. These by-products are expelled from the body during urination, which is the primary method for excreting water-soluble chemicals from the body. A urinalysis can detect nitrogenous wastes of the mammalian body. Urine plays an important role in the earth's nitrogen cycle. In balanced ecosystems, urine fertilizes the soil and thus helps plants to grow. Therefore, Reuse of excreta, urine can be used as a fertilizer. Some animals use it to territory (animal)#Scent marking, mark their territories. Historically, aged or fermented urine (kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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