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Category Television - Global Date 2/25/2005 |
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Global Television to support Falcon Beach as a series
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(TORONTO - Friday, February 25, 2005) The Global Television Network announced today that the two-hour Canadian movie drama Falcon Beach, which aired January 29, will be developed into a 13-part, one-hour series. Production will begin this summer.
In qualitative research and after the pilot aired on Global, viewer response has been overwhelmingly positive for the continuation of the series.
"We are delighted by the viewer response to Falcon Beach," said Anne-Marie Varner, Head of Original Production, CanWest MediaWorks. "We are excited about moving forward and developing the production as a 13-part series. It is a reflection of CanWest's ongoing commitment to original drama made in Canada."
"Everybody's trying to find out what happens next to our characters," said producers John Murray and Shannon Farr of Insight Productions, Toronto. "We may have to put security on our writing staff," added producer Kim Todd of Original Pictures in Manitoba. Insight Productions and Original Pictures are co-producers of the series.
Filmed in the cottage community of Lake Winnipeg, Falcon Beach centres on the relationships of a group of young people summering in the fictional lakeside resort town of Falcon Beach. It's about summer. It's about freedom. It's about young adults trying to define themselves for the life ahead. But it's also about two worlds colliding - that of the summer cottagers and that of the townies who live and work in Falcon Beach year round.
The Falcon Beach cast includes Steve Byers, Jennifer Kydd, Ephraim Ellis, Melissa Elias, Devon Weigel and Eric Johnson.
Visit the Falcon Beach website. Enter searchword Falcon Beach at www.canada.com.
For more information, please contact:
Christine Amendola, Media Relations Manager, or
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