Exclusive: In a competitive situation between ABC and NBC, the two networks that carried Bill Lawrence’s comedy Scrubs, ABC has nabbed a new half-hour project from Lawrence and Canadian writer Jason Belleville with a script commitment plus penalty. Belleville will write the multi-camera project about a small-town volunteer fire department. Belleville, Lawrence and Jeff Ingold are executive producing, with Warner Bros TV and Lawrence’s studio-based Doozer banner producing. This marks the first U.S. gig for Belleville, who has dual American/Canadian citizenship. In Canada, he most recently co-created, executive produced and ran the single-camera comedy series Almost Heroes and previously worked on hit Little Mosque On The Prairie and Testees, which was licensed in the U.S. by FX. This past summer, UTA-repped Belleville came to Los Angeles for a series of meetings and sat down with Lawrence and his development executive Ingold. The three hit it...
- 10/5/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Each day during the Toronto International Film Festival, Notable.ca and Julian Brass will be covering the hottest events and celebrities, brining us from the red carpet to the VIP areas. Keep checking back for more and for the Notable.ca Tiff Party Guide click here.
One of the biggest Tiff 2011 industry tickets this year was the Cfc (Canadian Film Centre) Barbeque, an annual celebration that saw some of Canada's top and emerging talent mixing with film and television heavyweights as Midway State played a top-notch set to entertain. Notable.ca's Julian Brass was walking the grounds and interviewing some of our favourite Canadian celebs at this relaxed Fest party that really celebrates our own country's accomplishments. Aaron Ashmore ("Warehouse 13"), Meghan Heffern ("Almost Heroes"), Lyriq Bent ("Rookie Blue"), and Nathan Ferraro (Midway State) all checked in with Notable to bring us up-to-date on their latest projects. Check out the stars after the jump!
One of the biggest Tiff 2011 industry tickets this year was the Cfc (Canadian Film Centre) Barbeque, an annual celebration that saw some of Canada's top and emerging talent mixing with film and television heavyweights as Midway State played a top-notch set to entertain. Notable.ca's Julian Brass was walking the grounds and interviewing some of our favourite Canadian celebs at this relaxed Fest party that really celebrates our own country's accomplishments. Aaron Ashmore ("Warehouse 13"), Meghan Heffern ("Almost Heroes"), Lyriq Bent ("Rookie Blue"), and Nathan Ferraro (Midway State) all checked in with Notable to bring us up-to-date on their latest projects. Check out the stars after the jump!
- 9/13/2011
- by Julian Brass, Notable.ca
- Cineplex
Edmonton.s Meghan Heffern is a fast rising young star currently working three TV shows with a side helping of film work. She has a unique gift for comedy, as seen in the Showcase series Almost Heroes. She.s clothing store manager Candi who uses her .power. to subjugate her employees, even at minimum wage. She lets loose as a snarky, sassy and mean-spirited, who is not rocket scientist material. Still Heffern gives her something likeable so that we can delve past the surface bossy boots and find a relatable and pretty funny heart. Last summer Heffern starred in the IFC horror thriller The Shrine, as an intern on an investigative research trip to Poland who gets mixed up with...
- 7/29/2011
- by Anne Brodie
- Monsters and Critics
If you’re anything like this TV Addict, odds are fairly certain that you spend an inordinate amount of time scratching your head over some of the shall we say more curious decisions TV Networks make when it comes to some of your favorite shows. But what about the actors involved in the shows themselves? As one might imagine, having starred in Battlestar Galactica, the short-lived pilot-turned-internet-phenomenon Nobody’s Watching and NBC’s less-than-successful Knight Rider reboot, actor Paul Campbell has a unique perspective on such matters. One that he was only too happy to share during a recent one-on-one promoting Almost Heroes, a new original comedy series that recently premiered on Showcase in Canada.
As a young actor you made the decision to leave Battlestar Galactica fairly early on for a larger role on a potential pilot that didn’t end up getting picked up. Do you ever look...
As a young actor you made the decision to leave Battlestar Galactica fairly early on for a larger role on a potential pilot that didn’t end up getting picked up. Do you ever look...
- 6/15/2011
- by theTVaddict
- The TV Addict
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