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Jasper, Alberta
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Jasper is a specialized municipality in western Alberta, Canada. It is the centre of Jasper National Park, located in the Canadian Rockies within the Athabasca River valley. Jasper is approximately 362 kilometres west of Edmonton and 290 kilometres north of Banff, Alberta, at the intersection of Highway 16 and Highway 93. The Municipality of Jasper, comprising the Jasper townsite known as the Town of Jasper, governance is shared between the municipality and the federal Parks Canada agency. Jasper National Park was established in 1907, the railway siding at the location of the future townsite was established by Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1911 and originally named Fitzhugh after a Grand Trunk vice president. The Canadian Northern Railway began service to Fitzhugh in 1912, the townsite was surveyed in 1913 by H. Matheson. It was renamed Jasper after the fur trade post. An internment camp was set up at Dominion Park in Jasper from February 1916 to August 1916, by 1931, Jasper was accessible by road from Edmonton, and in 1940 the scenic Icefields Parkway opened, connecting Lake Louise and Jasper. Jasper is located in the Athabasca River valley, at the confluence with Miette River and it lies between the Victoria Cross Ranges, Pyramid Mountain, Maligne Range and Indian Ridge. Jasper is connected to the west via the Yellowhead Highway and the Yellowhead Pass to Prince George, toward the south, the Icefields Parkway leads to Banff and Banff National Park. Located near Jasper are Pyramid Lake and Patricia Lake, as well as Lake Annette, Lake Edith, Lac Beauvert, Maligne Lake, Medicine Lake and other smaller lakes. The Jasper Skytram, which visitors to The Whistlers summit. The Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives is located in the Jasper town site, Jasper experiences a borderline Humid Continental/Subarctic climate. The highest temperature recorded in Jasper was 36.7 °C on 16 July 1941. The coldest temperature recorded was −47.2 °C on 24 January 1916. With a land area of 924.06 km2, it had a density of 5. 0/km2 in 2016. In the 2011 Census, the Municipality of Jasper had a population of 4,051 living in 1,399 of its 1,615 total dwellings, a change of -5% from its 2006 population of 4,265. Statistics Canada subsequently amended the 2011 census results to record a population of 4,432 living in 1,606 of its 1,819 total dwellings, with a land area of 925.52 km2, its population density was 4. 8/km2 in 2011
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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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Being Erica
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Being Erica is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that aired on CBC from January 5,2009 to December 12,2011. Created by Jana Sinyor, the series was announced by the CBC as The Session. It is produced by Temple Street Productions and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide, in Canada, the second season premiered on September 22,2009. Only 12 episodes were produced for the season due to budget cuts at the CBC. On May 11,2010, the CBC announced that Being Erica was renewed for a season of 13 episodes. Soapnet announced that it was picking up the third season as well. Season 3 debuted on September 21,2010, at 9 pm ET, in the United States, Season 3 began aired on Soapnet starting January 26,2011. The shows fourth and final aired in fall 2011. Because the show involves time travel, very young versions of the characters are played at times by different actors, Erica Strange – the protagonist in the series. At the beginning of the series, she is thirty-two, single, Jewish, however, she is an underachiever who has recently been fired from a mindless customer service job because she is overqualified. She has a nut allergy and after drinking a coffee with a nut syrup in she ends up in hospital where she is approached by someone she initially believes to be connected with the hospital. He introduces himself as Dr Tom and says he is a therapist who can help her, once home again, she is convinced poor choices made in her past have made her life a failure and seeks Dr. Toms help to undo many of her mistakes. She has a degree in English literature. During the third season she and Julianne start their own publishing company 50/50 Press, having written short stories throughout her life, Erica aspires to write fiction as an author. In the season 3 finale, Erica passes Dr. Toms test at the end of group therapy, the penultimate episode of season 3 ends with Erica walking down a street in Toronto looking for somebody to give her business card to so they can become her first patient. In the series finale of season 4, Erica successfully completes her doctor training and her office is a quote-plastered artists studio loft with a honeycomb-style bookcase and a tan leather chair behind a large, red desk. Even though she has to bid farewell to Dr. Tom, Dr. Tom Wexlar – Ericas therapist. He has a habit of citing quotations, often to Ericas annoyance, instead of helping Erica directly with her problems when they meet in the past, he is often vague and inscrutable, giving clues that relate to her present-day life
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Ukrainian Canadians
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Ukrainian Canadians is a term that refers to Canadian citizens of Ukrainian descent or Ukrainian-born people who immigrated to Canada. Self-identified Ukrainians are the plurality in several areas of Western Canada. Of the 1,251,170 who identify as Ukrainian, galicians are noted as being among the miners of the British Columbia gold rushes and figure prominently in some towns in that new provinces first census in 1871. Because there is so little documentary evidence of individual Ukrainians among these three groups, they are not generally regarded as among the first Ukrainians in Canada. During the nineteenth century the territory inhabited by Ukrainians in Europe was divided between the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, the Austrian crownlands of Galicia and Bukovyna were home to many Ukrainian speakers. Austrian Galicia was one of the poorest and most overpopulated regions in Europe, emigration on a large scale from Galicia to the Balkans and even to Brazil was already underway by 1891. The first wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada began with Iwan Pylypow and Wasyl Eleniak, who arrived in 1891, Pylypow helped found the Edna-Star Settlement east of Edmonton, the first and largest Ukrainian block settlement. However, it is Dr. Ukrainians from Central Ukraine, which was ruled by the Russian monarchy, also came to Canada – but in numbers than those from Galicia. Approximately 170,000 Ukrainians from the Austro-Hungarian Empire arrived in Canada from 1891 to 1914, as well, the semi-feudal nature of land ownership in the Austrian Empire meant that in the Old Country people had to pay the pan for all their firewood and lumber for building. They also attached importance to settling near to family, people from nearby villages or other culturally similar groups. The ULFTA transformed itself into the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians in 1946, by 1914, there were also growing communities of Ukrainian immigrants in eastern Canadian cities, such as Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton, and Windsor. Many of them arrived from the provinces of Podillia, Volhynia, Kyiv, from 1914 to 1920, the political climate of the First World War allowed the Canadian Government to classify immigrants with Austro-Hungarian citizenship as aliens of enemy nationality. This classification, authorized by the 1914 War Measures Act, permitted the government to legally compel thousands of Ukrainians in Canada to register with federal authorities, about 5,000 Ukrainian men, and some women and children, were interned at government camps and work sites. Most were placed by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and its supporters, the Endowment Council of the CFWWIRF uses the interest earned on that amount to fund projects that commemorate the experience of Ukrainians and other Europeans interned between 1914 and 1920. The funds are held in trust by the Shevchenko Foundation and this was known as Project Сто, and organized by the UCCLA. In 1923, the Canadian government modified the Immigration Act to allow citizens of the Austrian Empire to once again enter Canada –. Around 70,000 Ukrainians from Poland and Romania arrived in Canada from 1924 to 1939, relatively little farmland remained unclaimed – the majority in the Peace River region of northwestern Alberta – and less than half of this group settled as farmers in the Prairie provinces. A few Ukrainian professionals and intellectuals were accepted into Canada at this time and they established a number of new organizations and affiliated newspapers, womens and youth groups, the most prominent of which was the Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine
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University of Victoria
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The University of Victoria is a large public research university located in Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, Canada. The University of Victoria, founded in 1903, is the oldest university in British Columbia and began as Victoria College, the University of Victoria is a non-denominational institution which is mostly centred around the leafy suburbs of Oak Bay. The university consists of more than 20,000 students, including many post-graduate, the University of Victoria is one of the most international universities in Canada, attracting students from around the world. The University of Victoria has also produced several Rhodes Scholars and Gates Scholars in recent years, while its alumni, academically, the University of Victoria is noted for its programs in the Faculty of Law, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, Economics, Political Science, Earth and Ocean Sciences and it is the nations lead institution in the VENUS and NEPTUNE deep-water seafloor observatory projects. The University of Victoria boasts one of the largest financial endowments in Canada, the Victoria Vikes represent the university in a number of competitive sports, including rowing, sailing, rugby, soccer, and basketball. The Vikes have especially long and eminent ties to competitive rowing where it has competed with the University of Cambridge, Sailing is also a popular sport for students at the University of Victoria and the UVic Sailing Club maintains facilities and boats on campus at the nearby Cadboro Bay. UVic consistently ranks as one of the top universities in Canada and it has been the top-ranked comprehensive university in Canada since 2010. In this category, Macleans magazine ranks UVic either first or second for eight consecutive years and it also ranked first nationwide and 20th internationally in the Times Higher Educations ranking of schools under 50 years old. In global rankings, UVic is within the top one per cent of universities around the world and it clocked in its highest ranking at 135 globally in 2010 and has since maintained a strong presence in global ranking charts. UVic has also named as the Canadian Research University of the Year for 12 of the past 14 years by Research Infosource. The university has also been home to more than 40 faculty members who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada since it was founded. Victoria College, which had established in 1903 as an affiliated college of McGill University, gained autonomy. The non-denominational university had enjoyed 60 years of prior teaching tradition at the university level as Victoria College and this 60 years of history may be viewed conveniently in three distinct stages. Between the years 1903 and 1915, Victoria College was affiliated with McGill University, offering first- and second-year McGill courses in Arts, administered locally by the Victoria School Board, the College was an adjunct to Victoria High School and shared its facilities. Both institutions were under the direction of a single Principal, E. B, the opening in 1915 of the University of British Columbia, established by Act of Legislature in 1908, obliged the college to suspend operations in higher education in Victoria. University of British Columbia was created in 1908, a single, public provincial university, it was modeled on the American state university, with an emphasis on extension work and applied research. The president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the two bodies and to perform institutional leadership
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Vancouver
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, the Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver municipality is the fourth most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. In that census, Vancouver was one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the annual TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home, several matches of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place Stadium. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west, Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B. I. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas, 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey, the city takes its name from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave various places British names. The explorer and North West Company trader Simon Fraser and his became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present-day city. In 1808, they travelled from the east down the Fraser River, perhaps as far as Point Grey. The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, a sawmill established at Moodyville in 1863, began the citys long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the shore of the inlet. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed, the mills central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the economy until it closed in the 1920s. The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by Gassy Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property
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Dark Angel (TV series)
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Dark Angel is an American cyberpunk television series that premiered on the Fox network on October 3,2000. Created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee, it starred Jessica Alba in her breakthrough role, set in 2019, the series chronicles the life of Max Guevara, a genetically enhanced super-soldier who escapes from a covert military facility as a child. In a post-apocalyptic Seattle, she tries to lead a life, while eluding capture by government agents. Dark Angel was the first and only produced by the company Cameron/Eglee Productions. The high-budget pilot episode marked Camerons television debut and was promoted by Fox. The first season, which was shown on Tuesday nights in the U. S. received mainly positive reviews and won several awards, Albas portrayal of Max also received mostly positive reviews and several awards. For the second season the show was moved to the less desirable air time of Friday night and it suffered from a ratings drop, averaging 6 million viewers per episode, and was cancelled. A series of novels continued the storyline, and a game adaptation was also released. Ten years later in 2019 the now 19-year-old X5-452, who calls herself Max Guevara, struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters. In a recovering United States which is now more than a Third World nation she tries to live a relatively normal life and evade capture by Manticore. Logan Cale, an underground cyber-journalist with the alias Eyes Only and she initially refuses but accepts after Cale is rendered a paraplegic attempting the assignment he was recruiting her for. A romantic interest buds between the two, while assisting Cale Max also makes a living as a bicycle messenger at Jam Pony, a courier company, along with her friends Original Cindy, Herbal Thought, and Sketchy. Other X5s are periodically introduced, most significantly the unit leader Zack, the Manticore hunt for the escaped X5s is led by Colonel Donald Lydecker. Near the end of the season Lydecker is betrayed by his superior, the more ruthless Elizabeth Renfro. He aids Max and Zack in an assault on Manticore headquarters, Max is badly wounded and captured. Zack, who has also captured, commits suicide to provide Max with his heart. Cale exposes Manticore to the world, Renfro decides to burn the facility to cover up the evidence and is killed in the process. Aided by Joshua, a transgenic with canine DNA, Max escapes the facility and frees the other transgenics including Alec, a fellow X5, when Max is reunited with Cale he immediately becomes ill and almost dies
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Glory Days (2002 TV series)
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Glory Days is an American horror/mystery-based television series broadcast from January to March 2002 on The WB Television Network. The series was created by Kevin Williamson, and stars Eddie Cahill, the series involves novelist Mike Dolan returning to his hometown, where various odd and unpleasant occurrences are happening. Eddie Cahill as Mike Dolan Poppy Montgomery as Ellie Sparks Jay R, after picking up the series, The WB asked Williamson to retool the show and turn it into a mystery series instead. The characters and relationships remained the same but a spin was added. The series was produced by Dimension Television and Outerbanks Entertainment, and filmed at The Bridge Studios in Vancouver, to date, Glory Days has not yet been released on DVD in the United States. It is, however, available on Region 2/PAL DVDs in Europe, in most European countries it is released under the DVD title Demontown with seven episodes edited into three feature-length parts, Demontown, Demontown II, and Demontown III. Each part is available as three separate straight-to-DVD ‘movies’, in the Netherlands, the series is available as a 2-disc DVD set with all three parts included. Glory Days at the Internet Movie Database Glory Days at TV. com
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Earthsea (miniseries)
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Legend of Earthsea is a two-night television miniseries adaptation of the Earthsea novels by Ursula K. It premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in December 2004, in the land of Earthsea, a young wizard named Ged has visions about a girl and doors opening. Meanwhile, King Tygath wants to rule the land and release the Nameless Ones and he sends men to attack Geds village, in search of the wizard of prophesy. Ged learns his first spell from an elderly woman, when the invasion comes, Ged uses a mist spell and lures the invaders over a cliff, saving the village. However, Ged also falls off the cliff, Tygath tries to convince High Priestess Thar to release the Nameless Ones, but she refuses. She is poisoned by Rosa, her attendant who has been tricked by the lover, Kossil. A magus named Ogion arrives at Geds village and revives Ged and he tells Ged his true name and takes him for training, but Ged is too impatient, he is sent to the magic school on Roke. There he meets the bully, Jasper, and befriends a student named Vetch, Ged shapeshifts into a hawk to show off. Jasper then challenges him to raise a spirit from the dead, the demon attacks Ged before being driven away by the Archmagus, who tells him that this Nameless One will hunt Ged down and try to possess him, using Geds power for further destruction. Ged must go somewhere in hiding until he can find its true name, with the help of Jasper, King Tygath takes control of the magic school. He throws a knife at the Archmagus, apparently killing him, with the help of Ogion, Ged confronts the Gebbeth and attempts to drown him using a rock, however, it escapes with Geds likeness and voice. Geds impersonator becomes a murderer, and Vetch, a magus himself, chases Ged until he realizes Ged is not possessed by the Gebbeth and they are attacked by the dragon, Orm Embar, but Ged uses the dragons true name to bind him and ask three questions. He wastes his first question, but with his second, he learns the Gebbeths location, the dragon tells him where to find the two pieces of the Amulet of Peace, which when reunited would save Earthsea, but Ged could have asked the true name of the demon. Meanwhile, Thar appoints a successor, Tenar, and tells her the incantation to release the Nameless Ones, Kossil strangles Rosa and frames Tenar, leading to her imprisonment. Ged and Vetch return to Roke for help in decoding the dragons riddle, the Archmagus survived Tygaths attack and made the real Jasper into a village fool as punishment. He sends Ged and Vetch to unseal the Nameless Tombs on Atuan, but Ged is captured and brought before Thar, in the labyrinth, Ged is locked in the cell next to Tenar. They break free and recognize each other from their visions, Thar realizes her mistake right before her death. Kossil tries to force Tenar to reveal the incantation and fails, so Tygath kills Kossil, Vetch finds the tomb first and is taken by the Gebbeth
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Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
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Bionic Woman is an American science fiction television drama that aired in 2007, which was created by David Eick, under NBC Universal Television Group, GEP Productions, and David Eick Productions. David Eick also serves as producer alongside Laeta Kalogridis and Jason Smilovic. Production of the series was halted due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America causing only eight episodes to be aired, following its failure to be included in the Fall 2008 schedule it was announced that the series was canceled as the result of low ratings. The series revolved around bartender Jaime Sommers, who is saved from death after receiving experimental medical implants, while adjusting to her new bionic powers and raising a rebellious younger sister, Jaime agrees to work for the Berkut Group, a quasi-governmental private organization that performed her surgery. Bartender Jaime Sommers struggles to make ends meet in San Francisco while serving as a mom to her teenage sister. Nearly killed in a car accident, Jaime is saved by a cutting-edge operation – performed by her boyfriend, Will Anthros – that leaves her with advanced bionic prosthetics and implants. With extraordinary new strength, speed, and other artificially enhanced abilities, Jaime begins working for the Berkut Group, in her new life Jaime must learn how to use her new abilities while working to understand the role that she has been thrust into. The story quoted Suzanne Todd as saying, It was later reported that the USA Network was considering airing the series, in October 2006, NBC Universal announced that it was bringing the project back with new producers, and reportedly a radical reworking of the original concept. The series would be written by Laeta Kalogridis and produced by David Eick, Eick commented on the new series saying, Its a complete re-conceptualization of the title. Were using the title as a point, and thats all. Its going to be a meaningful departure, in January 2007, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the series one-hour pilot was given an official greenlight by NBC. On May 10,2007, NBC announced that they had given an early pick-up to Bionic Woman for their fall 2007 schedule, since the rights to the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin were held by other parties, the new series excluded any overt elements from it. This was the same for the character Steve Austin from the Six Million Dollar Man, neither Kenneth Johnson nor Martin Caidin received screen credit on the new series, where they did in the original Bionic Woman. Johnson has confirmed on his website that he had no involvement with the new Bionic Woman series, lindsay Wagner, the original Bionic Woman, also played no part in the new series. Wagner said, On a technical level, it was very good and it was steeped in that old-school thinking. It was like a lot of things today, angry and dark, due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America, production of the series was halted in mid-November 2007, and the regular actors were suspended on half-pay for a period of five weeks. The series has aired all of the episodes that were completed before production halted. Upon the resolution of the strike, an Associated Press story classified Bionic Woman as being on the bubble, NBC later published a report regarding initial series renewals, and no announcement was made regarding whether Bionic Woman would return in the fall
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The L Word
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The series originally ran on Showtime from January 18,2004 to March 8,2009, and subsequently in syndication on Logo and through on-demand services. The show was created by executive producer Ilene Chaiken, other executive producers include Steve Golin and Larry Kennar. Besides Chaiken, writers of the show have included Guinevere Turner, Susan Miller, Cherien Dabis, the pilot episode premiered on January 18,2004. The original six-year run ended with the series airing on March 8,2009. Outside the United States, the series is distributed by MGM Worldwide Television, the L Word was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, at Coast Mountain Films Studio, as well as on location in Los Angeles, California. The studio was owned by and named for Dufferin Gate Productions, the sister company to Temple Street Productions. The main characters throughout the series, and the seasons in which appeared and left, The original code-name for the project was Earthlings. Contemporary use of the phrase the L word as an alias for lesbian dates to at least the 1981 play My Blue Heaven by Jane Chambers, in which a character stammers out, lord God, I never met one before. Season 1 premiered in the United States on January 18,2004, on Showtime, set in West Hollywood, the series first introduces Bette Porter and Tina Kennard, a couple with a seven-year relationship who want to have a child. Tina eventually becomes pregnant through artificial insemination but has a miscarriage during episode 1.09, Luck, Later in the series, Bette develops an affair with Candace Jewell. The pilot introduced a coming out/love triangle storyline involving Tina and Bette’s neighbor, Tim Haspel, his girlfriend, Jenny Schecter. Marina is part of Tina and Bette’s circle of friends, and owns the neighborhood café, The Planet, which serves as the groups hang-out and focal point for the show. In the first season, Dana falls for a chef named Lara Perkins whose sexuality is questioned by the group until Lara has an unexpected meeting with Dana in the locker room. At the end of the season, Tina sees Bette and Candace touching hands, Tina and Bette break up, with Tina living at Alices and Bette stays in their home. Season 2 began airing on Showtime on February 20,2005 and it starts by unveiling to the viewers a secret Tina is keeping from everyone, she successfully became impregnated after a second insemination. Tina and Bette are still apart, Tina and Bette reconcile during the final episode. The character of Marina was written out of the show, mark makes them part of his latest documentary by setting up hidden cameras in the house to videotape them. During episode 2.09, Late, Later, Latent, Jenny discovers Mark’s tapes, Season 2 introduces a developing affair between Alice and Dana, which becomes public in episode 2.07, Luminous
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CBC Television
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CBC Television is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network that is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6,1952 and its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Almost all of the CBCs programming is produced in Canada, on October 9,2006 at 6,00 a. m. the network switched to a 24-hour schedule, becoming one of the last major English-language broadcasters to transition to such a schedule. Most CBC-owned stations previously signed off the air during the morning hours. Its French counterpart, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, still signs off every night, until 1998, the network carried a variety of American programs in addition to its core Canadian programming, directly competing with private Canadian broadcasters such as CTV and Global. Since then, it has restricted itself to Canadian programs, a handful of British programs, since this change, the CBC has sometimes struggled to maintain ratings comparable to those it achieved before 1995, although it has seen somewhat of a ratings resurgence in recent years. In the 2007-08 season, popular series such as Little Mosque on the Prairie, in 2002, CBC Television and CBC News Network became the first broadcasters in Canada that are required to provide closed captioning for all of their programming. On those networks, only outside commercials need not be captioned, all shows, bumpers, billboards, promos and other internal programming must be captioned. The requirement stems from a human rights complaint filed by deaf lawyer Henry Vlug, the CBCs flagship newscast, The National, airs Sunday through Fridays at 10,00 p. m. EST and Saturdays at 6,00 p. m. EST. This second airing was replaced with other programming, and as of the 2012-13 television season, was replaced on CBCs major market stations by a half-hour late newscast. There is also a news update, at most, on late Saturday evenings. During hockey season, this update is usually found during the first intermission of the game of the doubleheader on Hockey Night in Canada. Other newscasts include parts of CBC News Now airing weekday at 6,00 a. m. weekly newsmagazine the fifth estate is also a CBC mainstay, as are documentary series such as Doc Zone. One of the most popular shows on CBC Television is the weekly Saturday night broadcast of NHL hockey games and it has been televised by the network since 1952. During the NHL lockout and subsequent cancellation of the 2004-2005 hockey season, CBC instead aired various recent and classic movies, branded as Movie Night in Canada, on Saturday nights. Other than hockey, CBC Sports properties include Toronto Raptors basketball, Toronto FC Soccer and it was also the exclusive carrier of Canadian Curling Association events during the 2004–2005 season. Due to disappointing results and fan outrage over many draws being carried on CBC Country Canada, after the CBC threatened legal action, both sides eventually came to an agreement under which early-round rights reverted to TSN. CBC Sports suffered another blow when it was announced that after the 2007 season, the CFL regular season games
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Radio broadcasting
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Radio broadcasting is a unidirectional wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a radio format. Audio broadcasting also can be done via radio, local wire television networks, satellite radio. The signal types can be either analog audio or digital audio, the earliest radio stations were simply radiotelegraphy systems and did not carry audio. For audio broadcasts to be possible, electronic detection and amplification devices had to be incorporated, the thermionic valve was invented in 1904 by the English physicist John Ambrose Fleming. He developed a device he called an oscillation valve, the heated filament, or cathode, was capable of thermionic emission of electrons that would flow to the plate when it was at a higher voltage. Electrons, however, could not pass in the direction because the plate was not heated. Later known as the Fleming valve, it could be used as a rectifier of alternating current and this greatly improved the crystal set which rectified the radio signal using an early solid-state diode based on a crystal and a so-called cats whisker. However, what was required was an amplifier. The triode was patented on March 4,1906, by the Austrian Robert von Lieben independent from that, on October 25,1906 and it wasnt put to practical use until 1912 when its amplifying ability became recognized by researchers. By about 1920, valve technology had matured to the point where radio broadcasting was quickly becoming viable, however, an early audio transmission that could be termed a broadcast may have occurred on Christmas Eve in 1906 by Reginald Fessenden, although this is disputed. Charles Herrold started broadcasting in California in 1909 and was carrying audio by the next year, in The Hague, the Netherlands, PCGG started broadcasting on November 6,1919, making it, arguably the first commercial broadcasting station. In 1916, Frank Conrad, an engineer employed at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, began broadcasting from his Wilkinsburg. Later, the station was moved to the top of the Westinghouse factory building in East Pittsburgh, Westinghouse relaunched the station as KDKA on November 2,1920, as the first commercially licensed radio station in America. The commercial broadcasting designation came from the type of broadcast license, the first licensed broadcast in the United States came from KDKA itself, the results of the Harding/Cox Presidential Election. In 1920, wireless broadcasts for entertainment began in the UK from the Marconi Research Centre 2MT at Writtle near Chelmsford, England. A famous broadcast from Marconis New Street Works factory in Chelmsford was made by the famous soprano Dame Nellie Melba on 15 June 1920 and she was the first artist of international renown to participate in direct radio broadcasts. The 2MT station began to broadcast regular entertainment in 1922, the BBC was amalgamated in 1922 and received a Royal Charter in 1926, making it the first national broadcaster in the world, followed by Czech Radio and other European broadcasters in 1923
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Management
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Management is the administration of an organization, whether it be a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. The term management may also refer to the people who manage an organization, management is also an academic discipline, a social science whose objective is to study social organization and organizational leadership. Individuals who aim at becoming management researchers or professors may complete the Doctor of Business Administration or the PhD in business administration or management, in larger organizations, there are generally three levels of managers, which are typically organized in a hierarchical, pyramid structure. Senior managers provide direction to the managers who report to them. Middle managers, examples of which would include branch managers, regional managers and section managers, middle managers communicate the strategic goals of senior management to the front-line managers. Lower managers, such as supervisors and front-line team leaders, oversee the work of regular employees, in smaller organizations, the roles of managers have much wider scopes. A manager can perform several roles or even all of the commonly observed in a large organization. There are many smaller organizations than larger ones. Views on the definition and scope of management include, According to Henri Fayol, to manage is to forecast and to plan, to organise, to command, to co-ordinate, fredmund Malik defines it as the transformation of resources into utility. Management included as one of the factors of production - along with machines, materials, peter Drucker saw the basic task of management as twofold, marketing and innovation. Nevertheless, innovation is also linked to marketing, peter Drucker identifies marketing as a key essence for business success, but management and marketing are generally understood as two different branches of business administration knowledge. Management involves identifying the mission, objective, procedures, rules and this implies effective communication, an enterprise environment implies human motivation and implies some sort of successful progress or system outcome. As such, management is not the manipulation of a mechanism, not the herding of animals, management does not need to be seen from enterprise point of view alone, because management is an essential function to improve ones life and relationships. Management is therefore everywhere and it has a range of application. Based on this, management must have humans, communication, plans, measurements, motivational psychological tools, goals, and economic measures may or may not be necessary components for there to be management. At first, one views management functionally, such as measuring quantity, adjusting plans and this applies even in situations where planning does not take place. Critics, however, find this definition useful but far too narrow, one habit of thought regards management as equivalent to business administration and thus excludes management in places outside commerce, as for example in charities and in the public sector. More broadly, every organization must manage its work, people, processes, technology, nonetheless, many people refer to university departments that teach management as business schools
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The CW
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Entertainment division of Time Warner, former majority owner of The WB Television Network. The CW name is a derived from the first letters of the names of its two parent corporations. The network made its debut on September 18,2006, after its two predecessors, UPN and The WB, respectively ceased independent operations on September 15 and 17 of that year. The CWs first two nights of programming – on September 18 and 19,2006 – consisted of reruns, the CW marked its formal launch date on September 20,2006, with the two-hour premiere of the seventh cycle of Americas Next Top Model. As of 2008, the programming lineup was intended to appeal mainly to women between the ages of 18 and 34, although starting in 2011 the network increased in programming that appeal to men. The CW is also available in Mexico through affiliates located near the Mexico–U. S, in both countries, some CW affiliates are receivable over-the-air in border areas depending on the stations signal coverage. UPN and The WB both began just as the Fox network had started to secure a foothold with American television audiences, the two networks launched to limited fanfare and generally mediocre to poor results. However, over the subsequent 11 1⁄2 seasons, both were able to air several series that became quite popular, in the eleven years that UPN and The WB were in operation, the two networks lost a combined $2 billion. CBS chairman Leslie Moonves explained that the name of the new network was formed from the first letters of CBS and Warner Bros, joking, like both UPN and The WB, The CW targets its programming towards younger audiences. CBS and Time Warner hoped that combining their networks schedules and affiliate lineups would strengthen The CW into a major broadcast network. The CW launched with a premiere special/launch party from the CBS-produced Entertainment Tonight at Warner Bros, when Top Model made its network premiere on September 20,2006, The CW scored a 3.4 rating/5 share in the Nielsen household ratings. It scored a 2.6 rating among Adults 18–49, finishing fourth in that age demographic, on May 9,2008, The CW announced that it would lease its Sunday lineup to production company Media Rights Capital. With no first-run programming available to run on Sundays as a backup, the network added reruns of The Drew Carey Show and Jericho, the CW has generally struggled in the Nielsen ratings since its inception, primarily placing fifth in all statistics tabulated by Nielsen. On several occasions, The CW has even been outrated by Spanish language network Univision and this had led to speculation within the industry that CBS, Time Warner or both companies could abandon the venture if ratings did not improve. Executives with CBS Corporation and Time Warner also emphasized their commitment to the network and this, in turn, resulted in the discontinuance of the Sunday late afternoon repeat block that The CW inherited from The WB through its use of the predecessor networks scheduling model. Maatta began reporting to Pedowitz as a result of the appointment as network president. Pedowitz revealed that the target demographic of the network would not change. The network also ordered more episodes of its series and ran them consecutively through the first week of December, starting on September 12
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Life Unexpected
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Life Unexpected was an American drama television series that aired for two seasons from 2010 to 2011. It was produced by Best Day Ever Productions and Mojo Films in association with CBS Productions, Television and broadcast by The CW. Created by Liz Tigelaar, who served as a producer with Gary Fleder and Janet Leahy, the series starred Britt Robertson, Shiri Appleby, Kristoffer Polaha. Set in Portland, the story follows Lux Cassidy, a teenager who was given up at birth and has spent her life in foster care who finds her biological parents Nate Bazile, wishing to become emancipated, Lux is instead given in to their custody. While Life Unexpected received mostly positive reviews, it struggled in the ratings and was cancelled by The CW in 2011, the show has since been released on DVD, and it is available on Netflix as well as Amazon Video streaming services. Lux Cassidy had been through the care system for almost her whole life. Cate Cassidy had given birth to her while at age 16, due to heart problems as a baby, and countless surgeries, she was not a desirable candidate for adoption, and instead ended up in the foster care system and in and out of group homes. Just before her 16th birthday, Lux is petitioning the court to become an emancipated minor and she first finds her father, Nate Bazile, operator of the Open Bar, a business he operates out of a building given to him by his father. Baze lives a semi-fraternity boy lifestyle above the drinking establishment with two roommates, Math, a school teacher and Bazes childhood best friend, and Jamie. However, even when he signs the papers, Baze discovers that he is bonding with his newfound daughter. He introduces Lux to her mother Cate Casidy, co-host of the Morning Madness drive time show at Portland radio station K-100 and Bazes former one-night stand from high school. Lux has been listening to Cates voice on the radio as long as she can remember, eventually, Cate wants to be a part of Luxs life, and she shows that she really does care. When a judge decides that Lux isnt ready for emancipation and unexpectedly grants temporary joint custody to Baze and Cate, Cate, due to her job as a radio host, and the fact that she has a suitable house, is given primary custody of Lux. As the series progresses, though, Baze becomes more responsible, and works harder to get the bar and he eventually succeeds in this by setting aside a corner of his loft as a bedroom for Lux. Due to their bond, Baze, the one that was considered to perhaps be more of a slacker, had proven that when the chips are down, he inevitably comes through for Lux, giving her support. Cate, despite constantly disappointing Lux, still means well and her radio show is produced by Alice, who often serves as her confidante. Ryan, in some ways jealous and insecure because of Bazes constant presence in his fiancees life, Ryan, finally fed up with Bazes continual interference, breaks it off with Cate. Eventually though, Ryan and Cate reconnect, and their engagement is back on and he also relents a bit towards Baze after the two have drinks and Baze explains that all he is to Cate is the father of Lux, and nothing else
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Rookie Blue
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Rookie Blue is a Canadian police drama television series starring Missy Peregrym and Gregory Smith. It was created by Morwyn Brebner, Tassie Cameron and Ellen Vanstone. The police drama premiered on June 24,2010, at 9,00 p. m. Eastern/8,00 p. m. Central, on July 17,2013, ABC and Global announced that Rookie Blue was renewed for a fifth season. Season 5 premiered on May 19 on Global, on June 19 on ABC, globals early premiere marked the first time that the series aired on separate dates in Canada and the U. S. On October 16,2015, it was announced that Rookie Blue had completed its run after six seasons, and I thought, what if you were feeling just like that—but with a gun. Set in Toronto, the series follows the lives of five rookie cops from fictional 15 Division who have just graduated from the academy. They must learn not only to deal with their duties as police officers and they are first responders and they are about to learn that no amount of training prepares you for life. To serve, protect and. is usually used in the room before shift starts by the cop leading the reunion. It always has a significant meaning in the plot or context. The one they use more often though is to serve, protect and it has been described as Greys Anatomy in the world of rookie cops. The series is set in Toronto, though, similar to Flashpoint and Orphan Black and these are however recognizable, as is the case with Jameson Avenue in Parkdale, the location of a call-out in the pilot episode. Missy Peregrym portrays Andrea Andy Grace McNally, the series protagonist and she is driven by the desire to do the right thing even if it means not following procedure. Her father, Tommy McNally, was formerly a homicide detective before he burned out, as a result, McNally carries her fathers baggage, trying to prove herself. Andy is the most positive person on the job—because she knows first-hand where the job can take you and her mother, Claire, is a social services worker who abandoned them when Andy was a teenager. She studied Sociology/Psychology before becoming a cop and she was an A student, after having shot her first person on the job, she is confused and runs to him, intending to sleep with him in order to stop thinking. Before it progresses too far, she walks out on him and she later becomes engaged to Callaghan but breaks up with him after he sleeps with his ex-girlfriend, Detective Jo Rosati. She finally admits that she has feelings for Swarek, but by the time she is ready to tell him he has left on an undercover mission. In the beginning of season 3, Andy returns from a trip after her three months suspension and gets her job back as well as restarting her relationship with Swarek
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Wyvern (film)
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Wyvern is a 2009 Canadian-American made-for-television horror film produced by RHI Entertainment that premiered in the United States on the Syfy Channel on January 1,2009. Written by Jason Bourque and directed by Steven R. Monroe, the film stars Nick Chinlund as Jake Suttner, a trucker who must stop a wyvern from eating the residents in the small town of Beaver Mills, Alaska. It was released in Region 1 on DVD on August 18,2009 and it was also released under the alternative title Dragon. In Japan, it is titled Jurassic Predator, the small Alaskan town of Beaver Mills is located just north of the Arctic Circle, meaning that the sun does not set during the summer solstice. As the town prepares for its celebration of this event, a wyvern is awakened by the melting of the ice caps. Jake, a handyman fixing the cafe where a waitress named Claire works, hurts his hand and David, while driving back to town, David is attacked by the wyvern. The next morning, Sheriff Dawson and Jake hear gunshots and find Haas, Colonel, who has seen the Wyvern, goes to town to warn the citizens, but they disbelieve him, and he goes to kill it. Dawson radios to his Deputy Susie to watch the town, Dawson finds his friend dead, and returns. At the town, the wyvern kills Susie and several other people, Jake, Claire, Haas, and the eccentric Edna take shelter in the cafe. Later, Vinyl, who runs the radio, and Farley, another citizen. Sheriff Dawson is killed by the wyvern, Jake and Claire track the wyvern into the woods, where they find the Colonel, and discover the wyvern is killing anyone on the Interstate. Farley is injured trying to get supplies, the wyvern then uses David, still alive, as bait to draw people from the cafe. Jake goes to him, and Farley distracts the wyvern to save them. David tells the group the Wyvern has eggs, and dies of his injuries, the survivors decide to electrify the nest, but the wyvern kills Haas. Jake takes a left on the side of the road and, using the eggs as bait. Jake, Claire, Colonel, Vinyl, and Edna try again to radio for help, David Yates Don S. Davis as Colonel Travis Sherman Wyvern at the Internet Movie Database Wyvern at AllMovie Dread central review
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Assault on Wall Street
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Assault on Wall Street is a 2013 action thriller film written and directed by Uwe Boll, and starring Dominic Purcell. Director Uwe Boll was inspired by a song by Distant 2nd called Murder on Wall Street and he began work on the film in 2010 and did a lot of research into the 2007–08 financial crisis. Around this time, Boll spoke with victims and people affected by the crisis, in the midst of 2008 financial crisis, a portfolio-manager instructs his employees to neglect the best-interest of clients in order to increase company profits. Meanwhile, Jim Baxford, a soldier and armored car driver, lives with his wife, Rosie. Rosie is in the process of recovering from a brain tumor. Their health insurance has reached its limit, and Jim finds that he is unable to afford her treatment. He decides to cash in the pension he earned from serving in the military, in addition, he finds himself in a $60,000 lawsuit as a result of bad real-estate investments conducted by his rogue financial adviser. Jim frequently lunches with a colleague in the car business. However, the attorney he hired claims that he is unable to do anything, Jim becomes frustrated at the loss of his money and his inability to pay for his wifes treatment and their mortgage. Because of his situation, his employer reluctantly fires him. Rosie feels guilty for the strain that her illness has put on Jim and, unable to cope. Jim blames Wall Street financiers for ruining his life, one by one, he kills those that have wronged him. Meeting with his friends at lunch, Jim casually admits to them that he is the Wall Street murderer, the three laugh it off, convinced hes joking. Sitting at Jeremys desk, Jim tells Jeremy why he is targeting him, of his corruption, Jim shows him a picture of his wife and tells Jeremy hes the reason his wife is dead. Shortly as SWAT begins to approach the office, Jim puts the gun on the table, Jeremy grabs the gun when Jim gets to two, bragging about how he won. Not caring, Jeremy pulls the trigger, only to realize that the gun is empty, just then, SWAT smashes the window and shoots Jeremy dead. Jim pretends to be an innocent wounded victim, having shot in the arm by a security guard earlier, and is escorted away by SWAT. A few minutes later, Jim stands in the lobby of the office building and he watches emergency personnel come and go, having just been treated for the gunshot wound to his arm
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Suddenly (2013 film)
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Suddenly is a 2013 thriller film directed by Uwe Boll, with a screenplay by Raul Inglis and starring Ray Liotta. It is a remake of the 1954 film of the same name. Baron and his men fool the local cops except for Deputy Todd Shaw, Todd served with Ellens late husband in Iraq, and has developed romantic feelings for Ellen, who rebuffs his advances. Todd visits Ellens house and becomes suspicious of Baron, but no one will listen to the ravings of a drunk, the assassins cause Ellens father to die of a heart attack, but her young teenage son Pidge escapes the house to fetch help. Once Todd discovers Barons plan, he not bother calling it in and is captured. The third assassin catches Pidge as he flags down local electrician Judd, the electrician electrocutes the third assassin, and Baron kills his remaining partner for having second thoughts. Todd jumps Baron, the lone surviving assassin, as he shoots at the President with a sniper rifle, Pidge shoots Baron as he is about to kill Todd. Todd discovers that there was a fifth conspirator communicating via text messages with Baron
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Reasonable Doubt (2014 film)
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Reasonable Doubt is a 2014 Canadian crime thriller film directed by Peter Howitt and written by Peter A. Dowling. The film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic Cooper, Erin Karpluk, Gloria Reuben and Ryan Robbins. Following the trial, Mitchs worst fears come true when he realizes that his actions freed a guilty man, lowe as Judge Mckenna Kelly Wolfman as Dr. Brown The production of the film began on November 19,2012 and shot in Winnipeg, Canada. It was also shot in Chicago and shot over twenty seven days, in May 2013, Lionsgate Films picked up the rights of distribution in the United States and Voltage Pictures distributed the film internationally. The film holds a 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with a rating of 3. 2/10. Reasonable Doubt at the Internet Movie Database
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The Portal (film)
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The Portal is a Canadian sci-fi, fantasy, comedy short film directed and written by Jonathan Williams. The short film stars Tahmoh Penikett and Erin Karpluk, the short film has been adapted into an ongoing web series titled Riftworld Chronicles, which has won numerous awards. A dimension-traveling wizard gets stuck in 21st century Toronto because cell phone radiation interferes with his magic, with his home world on the brink of war, he seeks help from Kim, a travel agent who he mistakes for a great sorceress. Without his powers to prove his identity, she has trouble taking him seriously, but finally agrees to reveal the secrets of our world in exchange for a lunch date. Tahmoh Penikett as Alar, a dimension-traveling wizard Erin Karpluk as Kim, a travel agent The Portal is a short film, on June 20,2014 the Independent Production Fund announced that they would fund The Portal along with 16 other digital drama series. The webseries that has spun off the short is titled Riftworld Chronicles. New episodes will be produced based upon number of clicks on YouTube and/or on the official website, there are a few notable differences between the short film and the series, the latter of which does not simply take off from where the short film ends. Rather, both are different takes on the same premise, in the series, however, as of episode 8, she has never left our world and, while some intimate tension has occurred between them, still thinks of Alar as a harmless lunatic. The short film will be available to watch online in November. On October 29,2014 the short film was available online at riftworldchronicles. com. ca
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Jeremiah (TV series)
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Jeremiah is an American-Canadian post-apocalyptic action-drama television series starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner that ran on the Showtime network from 2002 to 2004. The series takes place in a future wherein the adult population has been wiped out by a deadly virus, developed by Babylon 5 creator J. Aside from the names of the two characters, the general personality of the protagonist, and the post-apocalyptic setting, there are no similarities between the comics and the series. The series ended production in 2003, after the management of Showtime decided they didnt want to be producing science fiction programming anymore, episodes for the final half of the second season did not begin airing in the United States until September 3,2004. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the year is 2021,15 years after a plague has killed nearly everyone over the age of thirteen. Two young men, Jeremiah and Kurdy, meet up and join forces with those inside Thunder Mountain, Jeremiah is searching for the Valhalla Sector where his father may still be alive. With Kurdys help, Jeremiah and Simon escape, but Simon is fatally wounded in the process, the second half of Season 1 primarily deals with the efforts of Jeremiah and Thunder Mountain to stop Valhalla Sector. Season 2 deals with the conflict between the unifying survivor communities under Thunder Mountain, and the advancing Army of Daniel. Although a third season was considered, series creator J. Michael Straczynski made it clear if the show ran a further season he would have nothing to do with it. The show concluded with the end of the second season resolving most plot threads, most of the characters are survivors of the virus who are now in their late twenties or younger. The inspiration for the show came from a European graphic novels by Belgian artist Hermann Huppen, first published in 1977. Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, the CEO of Platinum Studios, a company specializes in comics-to-film properties translations. Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski stated it was a show with Jeremiah. Shooting began in Vancouver, Canada in the fall of 2001, actors Luke Perry, from Beverly Hills 90210, and Malcolm Jamal-Warner, from The Cosby Show, were cast in the leads. Straczynski had prepared a five-year series, everyone on cast and crew, including Grant Rosenberg, the second seasons co-executive producer, were willing to have continued. In January 2004, MGM Home Entertainment released season 1 of Jeremiah on DVD, Season 2 was released on DVD as a burn on demand from Amazon in March 2010. The series episodes are available as digital purchases on Amazon, Hulu. After having been designed by Morrigan Press, Mongoose Publishing published Jeremiah, star Trek, The Original Series, Episode 08, Miri
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Carrie (2002 film)
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Carrie is a 2002 American teen television film and loosely based on the novel Carrie by Stephen King. It is the film adaptation of the novel, following the 1976 version. The film premiered on NBC on November 4,2002, the film was intended as a backdoor pilot for a potential television series and the ending of the novel was changed accordingly, but no follow-up series was ever produced. Several people are being interviewed in a station, including a high school student, Sue Snell. Detective John Mulcahey is investigating the disappearance of high school student Carrie White and these interviews are interspersed with flashbacks to previous events. The film then features a flashback of two weeks before the prom at Ewen High School, Carrie is a shy and withdrawn girl tormented by the popular girls, Christine Chris Hargensen and Tina Blake are especially vicious. After gym class, Carrie has her first period in the shower, the other girls swarm the shower and taunt her. Hearing the commotion, Ms. Desjarden comes into the shower, later, Principal Morton decides to send Carrie home, but calls Carrie the wrong name Carrie corrects him repeatedly, finally yelling as his desk suddenly moves several inches. As Carrie gathers her belongings to leave, she is the victim of a joke at her locker. On her way home, Carrie is accosted by a boy on a bicycle, whose joke goes wrong when he flies off his bike. When she reaches home, Carrie has a flashback to her own childhood before entering the house, carries fanatically religious mother, Margaret White, who considers menstruation a sign of sexual sin, locks Carrie in her prayer closet as punishment. The next day, Ms. Desjarden gives the girls a weeks detention for their bullying, if they skip the detention, they face suspension and refusal of their prom tickets. After Chris father John Hargensen, a lawyer, unsuccessfully attempts to get her prom ban rescinded, meanwhile, Carrie discovers she has telekinesis, the ability to move or control objects with her mind. Carrie has an episode in class and, when she goes home. Sue, trying to atone for tormenting Carrie, asks her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, when Carrie tells her mother about the prom invitation, Margaret forbids her to go, Carrie uses her powers to finally confront her mother, and Margaret seemingly gives in. As prom night approaches, Chris and Billy prepare their revenge on Carrie when they find out that Carrie is on the Prom Queen ballot, on the day of the prom, Tina switches the ballots, and Carrie and Tommy are declared the Prom King and Queen winners. As Tommy and Carrie take their place onstage, Chris, who has been hiding with Billy in the rafters, pulls a rope to tip a bucket, Chris and Billy run, when Chris releases the rope, the bucket falls on Tommys head, knocking him out. Carrie goes into a trance and telekinetic mayhem ensues
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Taken (miniseries)
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Taken, also known as Steven Spielberg Presents Taken, is a science fiction miniseries which first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2002. The executive producers were Leslie Bohem and Steven Spielberg, as a result of the decades-long storyline, not a single actor or character appears in every episode of the series. Reception was positive, and the series won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries, when the show was launched, the Sci-Fi Channel used the simultaneous establishment of the organization Coalition for Freedom of Information in its promotion campaign. Both the Sci-Fi Channel and the Coalition for Freedom of Information are clients of Washington, D. C. public relations firm PodestaMattoon, the Artifact is a mysterious device connected to the aliens. The Artifact was initially on one of the ships flying over Earth on July 2,1947, but the ship collided with a spy balloon and crashed. The Artifact itself was thrown clear of the ship and left half-buried in the ground and it was found and retrieved by Sue, a local woman who was the estranged girlfriend of ambitious Air Force Captain Owen Crawford. Sue, seeing the small scrap of metal had alien writing on it and hoping it would rekindle her relationship with Owen, Owen, who is being phased out of the investigation into the crashed alien spaceship, brutally murders Sue. Owen then shows the Artifact to his superior, Colonel Thomas Campbell, over the next 50 years, the Artifact remains in the possession of the Crawford family, and acts as the guide to each members efforts to understand the aliens mission on Earth. The Artifacts true nature isnt revealed until 2002, when the head of the Project, Mary Crawford and it has been continuously recording the events of the aliens experiments over the decades since its arrival on Earth. When the hybrid Allie Keys departs with the aliens, the Artifact is teleported away with them, the aliens placed implants in an area of the brain that made it impossible to remove without killing or inflicting critical brain damage on the person. The implants remained undiscovered until 1962, when Russell Keys head was x-rayed to determine the cause of his seizures. The doctors treating him initially believed it was a tumor, but his son Jesse, suspecting it might be related to the aliens, demanded he have the same x-ray, and a similar implant was discovered. Hoping to find a way to neutralize the implants and be free of the interference, Russell. Russell, in private, offered up his implant in order to save his son from grave harm, Owen accepted, and Russell was escorted to a secret surgery facility. Upon his arrival, Russell realized Owen had betrayed him, but he was overpowered by the guards, the projects doctor successfully removed the implant from Russells brain. Seconds later, it was revealed that the implant exerts some form of negative effect on human minds. The scientists and guards were driven insane, one guard fires his machine gun at nearby oxygen tanks, causing the entire trailer to explode, killing Russell, Kreutz, and all within. Learning from their mistakes, the UFO Project took precautions while retrieving and analyzing more implants from other test subjects or from their corpses, eventually, a sophisticated tracking system was created by Doctor Chet Wakeman, which was used with great effect in tracking down abductees
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The Dead Zone (TV series)
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Stephen Kings Dead Zone is an American/Canadian science fiction drama television series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show was commissioned for UPN, but the network later dropped the show. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for its first five seasons, the sixth and last season was billed as The season that changes everything and production was moved to Montreal. The Dead Zone was expected to be renewed for a season, however, due to low ratings and high production costs the series was canceled in December 2007. Some rumors spread that Syfy would pick up the series after it was canceled by USA, rumors of a made-for-TV movie have all but faded with time. Small-town teacher Johnny Smith is involved in a car accident that leaves him comatose for six years. Johnny also learns that his fiancée, Sarah, gave birth to his son in the following the accident. With the help of Sarah, her husband Walt, and physical therapist Bruce, however, his attempts to do good are complicated by intermittent visions of apocalyptic events brought about following the future election of congressional candidate Greg Stillson. Anthony Michael Hall — John Robert Johnny Smith Nicole de Boer — Sarah Anne Bracknell-Bannerman John L. Adams — Bruce Lewis Chris Bruno — Sheriff Walter T, Walt Bannerman Connor Price — John Johnny JJ Bannerman/Smith David Ogden Stiers — Rev. An encounter with a trickster in the first episode makes it clear Johnny already has some psychic abilities. Sarah Bracknell Bannerman — Johnnys former fiancée, and the mother of his son, Sarah married Walt Bannerman during Johnnys coma, and the two are raising J. J. together. Sarah knew Johnny when they were children, and later taught at the school as him. Sarahs mother died when she was a teenager, which strained her relationship with her father, at the end of season 5, Sarah was pregnant with Walts child. At the beginning of season 6, she gives birth to Walts daughter, Sheriff Walt Bannerman — The relationship between Johnny and Walt is initially very rocky, as Johnny often feels that Walt stole Sarah from him. However, since then as Johnny displays his powers more and more often in law enforcement situations, Johnny becomes an asset to Walt, and the two become friends. The name Walt Bannerman is a combination of the names George Bannerman and Walt Hazlett, in the novel, George Bannerman was the sheriff, at the beginning of season 6, Walt is killed in a fire at the Faith Heritage Chapel. However, he continued to pop up throughout the season in visions, flashbacks, Bruce Lewis — A physiotherapist who helps Johnny regain his strength after his coma. Bruce is an open-minded spiritual junkie as a result of a religious upbringing by his pastor father and he is Johnnys best friend and frequently his voice of reason, and may very well be the reason for the divergence in this series when compared to the novel or 1983 movie
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10.5 (miniseries)
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10.5 is a 2004 disaster film directed by John Lafia which aired as a television miniseries in the United States on May 2,2004 and May 3,2004. The plot focuses on a series of earthquakes along the United States west coast. 10.5 was widely ridiculed by both reviewers and geologists, nevertheless, it received respectable Nielsen ratings, the first part of the miniseries aired on May 2,2004 and the second one aired on May 3. A sequel,10.5, Apocalypse was aired on May 21,2006, the film begins in the Seattle, Washington area with increasingly severe earthquake activity. A quake of magnitude 7.9 is measured at the Earthquake centre, U. S. President Paul Hollister and FEMA Director Roy Nolan are informed about the situation. A magnitude 8.4 earthquake opens a crack which engulfs an entire train east of Redding, as a result, Governor Carla Williams, who has just seen her daughter and ex-husband off on a camping trip, agrees to help the Governor of Washington. Amanda Williams and her father Clark Williams arrive at a town named Browning and they discover a car with a dead family inside, and are nearly trapped in quicksand. Roy Nolan constructs a task force of the best geologists and seismologists, including Dr. Fisher, Dr. Hill mentions her Hidden Fault theory, and is eventually given permission to prove it. She and Dr. Fisher visit a lake, where they see some animals that died from carbon monoxide poisoning, back at the Task Force Center, Dr. Hill predicts that the next quake will be near San Francisco, California. It is deemed too risky to evacuate the entirety of San Francisco, after that Dr. Hill predicts the next quake will happen at the San Andreas fault, which would wipe out the West Coast in its present shape killing 50 million people on the way. Dr. Hill hypothesizes that they could weld the fault shut by letting it experience immense heat, the President after some deliberation follows Nolans advice to execute Dr. Hill´s plan and allows the placement of the nuclear warheads. Additionally he gives the order to evacuate the entire West Coast in case it fails, five of the six nuclear bombs have been successfully installed, but during the installation of the sixth an earthquake occurs, and a warhead is lost. Nolan tries to set it manually, but is pinned by the warhead, the Williams find a truck carrying survivors, and they are transported to Tent City, which has been set up for the refugees. In a wounded San Francisco, Carla Williams and her assistant Rachel are trapped under a wall, Carla survives, but Rachel is killed. Deciding that nothing can be done about the lost sixth warhead, Dr. Hill decides to continue with the fault welding plan, the sixth is activated by Nolan who manages to reach the control panel just in time, but is himself incinerated. It seems to work, until Dr. Hill, concerned about southern California, observes a river flowing backwards, the last warhead was not deep enough when it exploded and Southern California is still in danger. Shortly after, an earthquake occurs. Eventually the crack reaches Tent City and peaks at 10.5, when the earthquake stops, the survivors see that the southwestern coast of California has been cut away, forming a new island
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Killer Instinct (TV series)
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Killer Instinct is an American crime drama television series filmed in Vancouver that originally aired on the Fox Network. The pilot episode aired on September 23,2005, and the episode aired on December 2,2005. Fox ordered 13 episodes, only nine of which were broadcast in the United States, the series also been broadcast in France, New Zealand, Croatia, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, and Poland. Johnny Messner plays Detective Jack Hale of the San Francisco Police Department, Hales reputation is also worsened by the infamy of his father, a self-confessed serial killer currently serving life in prison. The gruesome nature of his fathers crimes combined with Hales attitude have led many of his co-workers to wonder if he will one day become a killer himself. Nonetheless, it is this strong familiarity with serial killers that leads to Hale being recruited by the Deviant Crimes Unit, the Deviant Crimes Units mission is to track down the perpetrators of unusual crimes within the city. Each new crime spree is investigated by the head of the unit, in addition to Hale and Cavanaugh, the DCU employs Detective Danielle Carter, whose analytical nature clashes both with the impulsive Hale and the subjective nature of their shared mission. Jack Hale Marguerite Moreau as Det, ava Lyford Kristin Lehman as Det. Danielle Carter Chi McBride as Lt. Matt Cavanaugh Ramon De Ocampo as Harry Oka Jessica Steen as Dr. Francine Klepp Benita Ha as Riley Byron Lawson as Det, lee The last four episodes were unaired in the United States and premiered in the UK on Five. Killer Instinct at the Internet Movie Database Killer Instinct at TV. com
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Supernatural (U.S. TV series)
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Supernatural is an American fantasy horror television series created by Eric Kripke. It was first broadcast on September 13,2005, on The WB, starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the two brothers as they hunt demons, ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural beings. The series is produced by Warner Bros, Television, in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision. Along with Kripke, executive producers have been McG, Robert Singer, Phil Sgriccia, Sera Gamble, Jeremy Carver, John Shiban, Ben Edlund, former executive producer and director Kim Manners died of lung cancer during production of the fourth season. The series is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia and surrounding areas and was in development for nearly ten years, as creator Kripke spent several years unsuccessfully pitching it. The pilot was viewed by an estimated 5.69 million viewers, originally, Kripke planned the series for three seasons but later expanded it to five. The fifth season concluded the main storyline, and Kripke departed the series as showrunner. The series has continued on for more seasons with new showrunners, including Sera Gamble, Jeremy Carver, Robert Singer. The series was renewed for a season, which premiered on October 7,2015. With its eleventh season, Supernatural became the longest-running American fantasy series, the series was renewed for a twelfth season, which premiered on October 13,2016. On January 8,2017, The CW renewed the show for a thirteenth season, before bringing Supernatural to television, creator Eric Kripke had been developing the series for nearly ten years, having been fascinated with urban legends since he was a child. Although he had envisioned Supernatural as a movie, he spent years unsuccessfully pitching it as a series, Kripke wanted it to be a road trip series, feeling that it was the best vehicle to tell these stories because its pure, stripped down and uniquely American. These stories exist in small towns all across the country. As he had written for The WB series Tarzan, Kripke was offered the chance to pitch show ideas to the network. However, the network disliked his tabloid reporter idea, so Kripke successfully pitched his idea of the characters being brothers. He decided to have the brothers be from Lawrence, Kansas, because of its closeness to Stull Cemetery, when it came time to name the two lead characters, Kripke decided on Sal and Dean as an homage to Jack Kerouacs road-trip novel On the Road. However, he felt that Sal was inappropriate for a main character and it was originally intended for the brothers last name to be Harrison as a nod to actor Harrison Ford, as Kripke wanted Dean to have the devil-may-care swagger of Han Solo. However, there was a Sam Harrison living in Kansas, so the name had to be changed for legal reasons, combining his interest in the Winchester Mystery House and his desire to give the series the feel of a modern-day Western, Kripke settled on the surname of Winchester
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Snowglobe (film)
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Snowglobe is a 2007 television film starring Christina Milian, Josh Cooke, Matt Keeslar, Luciana Carro and Lorraine Bracco. The film was produced by ABC Family and first aired on December 15,2007 in their 25 Days of Christmas programming block, angela loves Christmas more than anything. However, her family does not share her love for the holiday at all, when she is about to break down because of her family, she receives a snowglobe in the mail. When she opens up the snowglobe, she is transported into the world inside and she discovers she can return to her world by going down a small path in the small forest at the edge of the village, and can return whenever she winds up the snowglobe. After a long set of visits to the globe, she gets trapped inside. Snowglobe was filmed in Springbank, and Calgary, Alberta from July to August 2007, Snowglobe was released on Region 1 DVD in the United States on October 7,2008. The movie received favorable reviews. On Netflix, Snowglobe received overwhelming positive reviews and currently has a rating of 3.8 stars. Snowglobe at the Internet Movie Database
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The Guard (TV series)
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The Guard is a Canadian drama television series portraying the life of the Canadian Coast Guard along the British Columbia Coast. The show primarily revolves around the four characters, Miro Da Silva, Laura Nelson, Andrew Vanderlee. There is also a supporting cast, including Gordon Michael Woolvett, who worked with Bacic previously on Andromeda, and Eve Harlow. The show focuses on both the professional and personal lives of the characters, confronting issues such as addiction, post traumatic stress disorder. It was picked up by Ion premiering March 13,2010, by late April, it was put on hiatus on the basis that it did not find a broad enough audience on the network, explained a spokesperson. It subsequently aired for a period on the ION Life digital channel, while there is agreement that 22 episodes of The Guard have been produced, the organization into seasons has provided some controversy. Originally, Halifax Film announced a first season consisting of 7 episodes, Halifax announced on 9 October 2008 that season 2 would consist of 15 episodes beginning on 29 October 2008. In the final press kit, it states, The Guard returns with a new season of 15 one-hour episodes on October 29 in its new timeslot Wednesday at 10 PM on Global TV. However, in this same press kit, Halifax Film opts to relabel the episodes for marketing purposes in other markets so that season 1 consists of 13 episodes, many television viewers, however, regard the most appropriate organization to consist of three seasons. The first season consisting of 7 episodes was shown in the period 22 January 2008 to 4 March 2008 and this was followed by a hiatus of 7.5 months where no new programs were shown. The second season consisted of 7 episodes in the period 29 October 2008 to 10 December 2008. Again, there was a hiatus, this time for five months, until a third season. No further new episodes were shown after this date, globalTV press release - Global Television Premieres an All-New Canadian Original Production The Guard The Guard at the Internet Movie Database The Guard at TV. com GuardFans. com
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Flashpoint (TV series)
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Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11,2008 on CTV. In the United States, the originally aired on CBS, then aired on Ion Television. The series was broadcast on the Canadian French-language network V in Quebec, the series was created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern and stars Hugh Dillon, Amy Jo Johnson, David Paetkau, Sergio Di Zio and Enrico Colantoni. It was announced January 25,2011 that Ion Television had acquired all rights to the held by CBS including the option to continue production. After the fourth season of Flashpoint concluded, a season was ordered. On May 1,2012, the announced that the fifth season would be the last of the series. The series finale aired on December 13,2012, the show focuses on a fictional elite tactical unit, the Strategic Response Unit, within a Canadian metropolitan police force. The SRU are tasked to resolve extreme situations that regular officers are not trained to handle, including hostage-taking, bomb threats, although the team is seldom seen doing so, they do sometimes discuss the day job of serving high-risk arrest warrants. Equipped with high-tech tools and a cache of weapons and explosives, members use negotiation tactics and intuition to try to avoid the use of deadly force, the outcome of a given situation is often determined by a split-second decision, hence the shows title. Ruth Marshall left the series after Season 1 and Mark Taylor left after the episode of Season 2 after his character, Lou. During Amy Jo Johnsons maternity leave, she was replaced by Jessica Steen. Steen left the main cast in the episode of Season 2, Part 1. Taylor was replaced by Olunike Adeliyi, who portrays Leah Kerns as of the episode of Season 2. In season 4, episode 5, Michael Cram, known as Wordy, Cram was replaced by Clé Bennett, portraying Rafik Rousseau. This character left by the first episode of Season 5, two episodes later, Adeliyis character returned to Team One. In an interview, the creators stated that they liked to cast only Canadians in Flashpoint. The latter two both reside in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Bass holds dual Canadian-U. S, Flashpoint began life in 2005 as a part of a CTV project that encouraged actors to submit scripts to the network. The original Flashpoint script was for a two-hour TV movie, cTVs interest in the project led to Flashpoints being reworked as a regular CTV series, which was approved in mid-December 2007
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Republic of Doyle
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Republic of Doyle is a Canadian comedy-drama television series set in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador which aired on CBC Television from January 6,2010 to December 10,2014. The show stars Allan Hawco as private investigator and former police officer Jake Doyle and Seán McGinley as his father and they partner as private investigators with Rose Doyle, Malachys second wife, played by Lynda Boyd, in St. Johns. Their cases involve them in all sorts of dealings – not all of them on the side of the law. The show was renewed on April 4,2014, for a sixth, Allan Hawco – Jake Doyle Seán McGinley – Malachy Doyle Lynda Boyd – Rose Miller Krystin Pellerin – Leslie Bennett Rachel Wilson – Dr. A former cop, he works as an investigator with his father, Mal. He is over-protective of his 16-year-old niece, Tinny and he is the second son and youngest child of Mal Doyle and his late wife Emily Ann. He drives a 1968 Pontiac GTO and wears a leather jacket. After years of pursuit, in Season Four he and Leslie Bennett become a couple and he also discovers in Season Five that he has a sixteen-year-old daughter, Sloan. Near the end of the series Sloan reveals to Jake that it was all a scam and she forged the DNA test and isnt actually Jakes daughter. In the series finale Leslie reveals to Jake that she is pregnant and after being shot by Inspector Pickard, Leslie Bennett – Leslie is an Inspector in the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary who is friends/lovers with Jake and gives him information to help with his cases. Leslie is Jakes source of distraction from his cases and personal life and she is a sharp shooter, very intelligent and a great match for Jake. She and Jake have real feelings for other, but seem to show them the wrong way, making their relationship complicated. From season four onwards their relationship has been growing stronger, until a secret from her past resurfaces and she is the mother of two with another baby on the way. Malachy Doyle – Malachy, known as Mal or Skipper and Poppy, is an investigator with his son. He is 56 and has 3 “grown” children, Christian, Kathleen and he also has a granddaughter named Tinny, who is living with him while her mother is away working in Alberta. His wife Rose lives with him, his granddaughter, and his youngest son Jake and he pokes fun at Jakes somewhat unsuccessful relationships with women. He has since discovered he has a second granddaughter, Rose Miller – Rose is Mals wife, stepmother to Jake, Christian, and Kathleen, and step-grandmother to Tinny and Sloan. She works as the office manager/secretary for Doyle and Doyle and she seems to have a love/hate relationship with her husband’s granddaughter Tinny and his son Jake, which has evolved over the series into motherly affection
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Saving Hope
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Saving Hope is a Canadian supernatural medical drama television series starring Erica Durance, and is set in the fictional Hope Zion Hospital in Toronto. The shows premise originated with Malcolm MacRury and Morwyn Brebner, who are credited as creators and executive producer. The pilot was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Saving Hope premiered on June 7,2012 on CTV and NBC. CTV has renewed the series for a fifth and final season, the shows central character is Dr. Alex Reid, a doctor whose fiancé, Dr. Charles Harris, is in a coma after a car accident. The show follows the life of Charlie in his state and Alex dealing with her patients. Dr. Reid is the Chief Surgical Resident while Dr. Harris was the Chief of Surgery until his accident, Dr. Harris recovers at the end of season 1, but in subsequent seasons he is able to see the spirits of comatose and dead patients. The show also stars Dr. Joel Goran, a new orthopedic surgeon, Erica Durance as Dr. Alex Reid, at the start of the series Chief Surgical Resident and Charlie Harris fiancée. Michael Shanks as Dr. Charles Charlie Harris, Chief of Surgery, orthopedic surgeon, daniel Gillies as Dr. Joel Goran, new orthopedic surgeon at Hope Zion and Alexs on and off boyfriend. Huse Madhavji as Dr. Shahir Hamza, Chief of Neurosurgery, julia Taylor Ross as Dr. Maggie Lin, a third year surgical resident on rotation in the hospitals General Surgery department. Kristopher Turner as Dr. Gavin Murphy, a psychiatry resident, wendy Crewson as Dr. Dana Kinney, Chief of Plastic Surgery, who is appointed Interim Chief of Surgery following Charlies coma. Benjamin Ayres as Dr. Zach Miller, an ER doctor, glenda Braganza as Dr. Melanda Tolliver, a friend of Alexs and an ICU doctor. Salvatore Antonio as Victor Reis, an OR nurse and Shahirs longtime boyfriend, K. C. Collins as Dr. Tom Reycraft, a fourth year surgical resident, who in season 1, episode 9 is appointed Chief Surgical Resident in place of Dr. Reid. Joseph Pierre as Jackson Wade, an ICU nurse, michelle Nolden as Dr. Dawn Bell, a cardiologist, later Chief of staff and Charlies ex-wife. Stacey Farber as Dr. Sydney Katz, an OB/GYN, kim Shaw as Dr. Cassie Williams, a book smart intern learning to apply the applications of medication rather than just reading about them. Conrad Coates as Bryan Travers, the executive of Hope Zion. Steve Cumyn as Dr. George Baumann, an anesthesiologist, mac Fyfe as Dr. James Dey, a psychiatry resident. Max Bennett as Dr. Patrick Curtis, a general surgeon, dejan Loyola as Dr. Dev Sekara, a junior resident doctor. Parveen Kaur as Dr. Asha Mirani, a resident doctor
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The Listener (TV series)
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The Listener is a Canadian fantasy drama created by Michael Amo. The series was broadcast in Canada on CTV and was produced by Shaftesbury Films, in conjunction with CTV, the series premiered on CTV on June 3,2009. CTV renewed the series for four seasons, each consisting of 13 episodes, premiering February 8,2011, May 30,2012, May 29,2013. In August 2014, CTV announced that they had cancelled the show, the series finale aired on August 18,2014. Toby is a 28-year-old first year paramedic who never knew his father, ray Mercer, prior to the series first episode. While he crosses the city of Toronto in his ambulance with his partner Osman Oz Bey, Toby helps people in crisis and on the way come to terms with his own past. With the help of Detective Charlie Marks and his on-and-off girlfriend Olivia Fawcett and its a year and a half later and Toby has finally come to terms with his telepathic powers and is still working with his paramedic partner Osman Bey. While assisting with an undercover case investigated by the Integrated Investigative Bureau, Toby reveals his gift to Sgt. Despite her initial skepticism, she realises that Tobys special abilities could be her teams secret weapon, Toby stopped being a confidential informant for IIB after Liz Simmons was killed. He had been having intense headaches that Olivia said could kill him and he finds himself in trouble again after he goes into the bank thats about to be robbed. He makes the decision to go into the bank after withdrawing cash and Michelle, klein finds out about his abilities after he demands to know why Michelle and Dev are so insistent on saving Toby. It isnt until after the guard who was shot tells Michelle personal details about the robbers that he begins to believe it and he makes a deal to start a unit for cases that are either cold and/or cant be solved by normal procedures. Toby joins IIB as a consultant, working for the IIB the majority of the time. Bell Media announced the series was ordered for a season on July 25,2012. It premiered May 29,2013 in Canada, toby’s personal life heats up as his relationship grows with crime reporter Tia Tremblay, who is inexplicably the one person he can’t read. Meanwhile, new director of emergency services Oz Bey realizes that being the boss is harder than he expected, on October 7,2013, CTV renewed the series for a fifth and final season consisting of 13 episodes. It premiered in Canada on Monday, May 26,2014, series star Craig Olejnik said in a ctv. ca finale interview that I think Peter Mohan and the writers did a good job of wrapping up some of the bigger ideas that we have presented. Something comes full circle that people have been waiting for, for a long time, in this season, Michelle becomes the mother of a little girl with her husband Adam, whereas Dev begins to be interested in Alex Kendrick, a new scientist working for IIB
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Killer Women
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Killer Women is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from January 7 to February 18,2014. The series is based on the Argentine crime drama Mujeres Asesinas, the pilot episode was directed by Lawrence Trilling. On May 9,2014, ABC canceled Killer Women after only one season, the series follows the life of Molly Parker, a former beauty queen and daughter of a sheriff who is recently separated from her abusive State Senator husband. She rises to the top ranks of one of the most elite and male-dominated law enforcement establishments, the perpetrators of the episodic crimes she solves are all female. Episode 7 was aired on February 18 as series finale instead of episode 6, as a result, ABC moved up the premiere of the rookie drama Mind Games from March 11 to February 25. Killer Women at the Internet Movie Database Killer Women at TV. com
