''Gavin Crawford's Wild West'' is a Canadian television special, which aired on
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, p ...
in July 2013. ''Wild West'' stars
Gavin Crawford
Gavin Crawford (born 2 April 1971) is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for ''The Gavin Crawford Show'' and ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes''. He currently hosts the panel show, ''Because News'', on CBC Radio One.
Early life
Crawford was bo ...
as six distinct characters, each representing a different aspect of the society of the Canadian province of
Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...
, in a
mockumentary
A mockumentary (a portmanteau of ''mock'' and ''documentary'') is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events, but presented as a Documentary film, documentary. Mockumentaries are often used to analyze or comment on current event ...
format. The characters include:
*Katherine Adams, a pompous
socialite
A socialite is a person, typically a woman from a wealthy or aristocratic background, who is prominent in high society. A socialite generally spends a significant amount of time attending various fashionable social gatherings, instead of having ...
in
Calgary
Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in C ...
organizing a charity fundraiser;
*Lyle Carlyle-Chang, a gay cattle rancher in Cochrane resisting his husband Andy's (
Andrew Cheng
Andrew Cheng Kar-foo () (born 28 April 1960 in Hong Kong) was a Hong Kong politician and solicitor. He is a former Democratic Party member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories East geographical constituency. ...
) suggestion that they revive the failing business by promoting it to tourists as a
dude ranch
A guest ranch, also known as a dude ranch, is a type of ranch oriented towards visitors or tourism. It is considered a form of agrotourism.
History
Guest ranches arose in response to the romanticization of the American West that began to occur ...
;
*Donald Demchuck, a newly elected member of the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alberta, Canada. It sits in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. Since 2012 the Legislative Assembly has had 87 members, elected first past the post f ...
from
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Central Alberta ...
whose constituency assistant Liz (
Anita Majumdar
Anita Majumdar is a Canadian actress and playwright. She is best known for her role in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC television film ''Murder Unveiled'' for which she received the Best Actress award at the 2005 Asian Festival of Firs ...
) is at her wit's end managing his incompetence;
*Jessica Jones, an
Australia
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n expatriate working as a massage therapist in Banff;
*Trevor Valgardson, a surly teenager in Taber whose widowed mother ( Marypat Farrell) and uncle (Brendan Wall) are perennially exasperated with his delusion that he's a vampire;
*Conrad Whitehead, a trucker in
Fort McMurray
Fort McMurray ( ) is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significa ...
who is planning to break up with his girlfriend Shannon (
Kaniehtiio Horn
Kaniehtiio Alexandra Jessie Horn ( Batt; ; born November 8, 1986), sometimes credited as Tiio Horn, is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role in the television film '' Moccasin Flats: Redemption'' and ...
).
Originally announced as a planned series in 2011, it was left in limbo by funding cuts to the CBC in 2012, and only the pilot was completed although five more unfilmed episodes had been written before the CBC dropped the project."Gavin a gay time" ''
NOW
Now most commonly refers
to the present time.
Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to:
Organizations
* Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization
* National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization
* Na ...
'', June 21, 2012. In 2014, Crawford told Toronto's ''
NOW
Now most commonly refers
to the present time.
Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to:
Organizations
* Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization
* National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization
* Na ...
'' that he had explored the possibility of reviving the series for a different network, although no firm details were announced and no revival has taken place as of 2019.
The special garnered five
Canadian Screen Award
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CBC News
CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC ...
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, p ...