''The Shields Stories'' was a Canadian television

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

series, which aired on W in 2004. A short-run dramatic

anthology series An anthology series is a radio, television, video game or film series that spans different genres and presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short. These usually have a dif ...

produced by

Shaftesbury Films Shaftesbury Films is a film, television and digital media production company founded by Christina Jennings in 1987. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Background Shaftesbury is a creator and producer of original content for television an ...

, the series dramatized six short stories by

Carol Shields Carol Ann Shields, (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel ''The Stone Diaries'', which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as ...

. The series was a sequel of sorts to Shaftesbury's prior ''

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 orig ...

'', which dramatized six short stories by another Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood. A third series, which would have dramatized short stories by

Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro (; ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move f ...

, was planned but did not materialize. The series was a Gemini Award nominee for Best Drama Series at the 19th Gemini Awards."CBC-TV miniseries Human Cargo leads 2004 Gemini list". ''

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'', October 26, 2004.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shields Stories, The 2000s Canadian drama television series 2004 Canadian television series debuts 2004 Canadian television series endings Television series by Shaftesbury Films 2000s Canadian anthology television series W Network original programming