Comment réagirait Montréal aujourd’hui face à l’apparition d’une épidémie de variole ou d’une autre maladie mortelle ? Un regard lucide et surprenant sur le récit du déclenchement d’une future pandémie, ses probabilités ainsi que ses possibles effets.
Great News! The Yorkton Film Festival has announced the first round of our 2012 GSA nominations and Extraordinary Canadians has been nominated for three awards. EC: Rudy Wiebe on Big Bear is nominated in category of best Documentary Biography EC: John Ralston Saul on Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin is nominated in category of best …
Excerpt from John Doyle’s Weekend Viewing Extraordinary Canadians Sunday, 8:30 p.m., CITY-TV This series, one of those all-too-rare explorations of Canadian history and culture on TV these days, has prominent Canadian figures dwelling for 30 minutes on the life and achievements of important figures from our past. On this one, Adrienne Clarkson looks at Norman …
Oct 27, 2011 Robin Shanks for iVillage.ca Montreal director Karen Cho brings three extraordinary Canadians into your home this fall. Citytv, OMNI Television and The Biography Channel are airing a 12 week series, Extraordinary Canadians, featuring some of the country’s most influential people. Cho, who directs three of the 12 segments (which profile Norman Bethune, …
October 24, 2011 Bill Brownstein for Postmedia News Canadians tend to shy away from superlatives, particularly when describing ourselves. We’re generally a bashful people and leave the bravado and bragging to our neighbours to the south. So we know something special beckons when a couple of homegrown TV execs outdo themselves in calling their new …
Oct 21, 2011 Bruce DeMara for The Toronto Star Eccentric genius, recluse, hypochondriac. Canadians may think they know who classical music legend Glenn Gould is. Mark Kingwell begs to differ. Kingwell, an author and associate chair of philosophy at the University of Toronto, will offer a more textured view of Gould as the series Extraordinary …
Friday, October 21, 2011 Cassandra Szlarski for The Canadian Press TORONTO From the very beginning, TV producer Kenneth Hirsch knew it would take extraordinary measures to adequately profile the lives of 18 extraordinary Canadians. His plans would not be limited to a TV broadcast — it would involve books, tours, DVDs and an immersive online …
We are excited to announce the upcoming launch of Extraordinary Canadians on Citytv and Biography. Starting in 2012, the episodes will also be broadcast in Mandarin, Hindi and Italian on Omni. Thanks to everyone who worked hard on the series!