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Call Me Fitz
''Call Me Fitz'' is a Canadian television series produced by E1 Entertainment, Amaze Film & Television, and Big Motion Pictures. The half-hour comedy stars Jason Priestley as Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, a morally bankrupt used-car salesman whose consequence-free life is complicated by the arrival of do-gooder Larry ( Ernie Grunwald), another salesman who claims he is Fitz's conscience. The series is co-produced by Movie Central (western Canada) and The Movie Network (central/eastern Canada), for airing on those two channels and their jointly owned channel HBO Canada (Canada wide). The first thirteen-episode season of the show premiered on HBO Canada in September 2010, with subsequent seasons premiering in September 2011, 2012, and October 2013. The series was filmed in New Minas, Nova Scotia. Synopsis The show stars Priestley as Richard Fitzpatrick, a used-car salesman walking a fine line of acceptable behaviour on the lot alongside a new salesman, do-gooder Larry, who cl ...
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Black Comedy
Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss, aiming to provoke discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience. Thus, in fiction, for example, the term ''black comedy'' can also refer to a genre in which dark humor is a core component. Black comedy differs from ribaldry#Blue comedy, blue comedy—which focuses more on topics such as nudity, Human sexual activity, sex, and body fluids—and from obscenity. Additionally, whereas the term ''black comedy'' is a relatively broad term covering humor relating to many serious subjects, ''gallows humor'' tends to be used more specifically in relation to death, or situations that are reminiscent of dying. Black humor can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics h ...
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Banff World Media Festival
Founded in 1979, the Banff World Media Festival (formerly known as the Banff World Television Festival) is an international media event held in the Canadian Rockies at the Banff Springs Hotel, Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The festival is concerned with world television and digital content and its creation and development, and is owned and operated by Brunico Communications. As well as honouring excellence in international television, professionals from around the world participate in seminars, master classes, and pitching opportunities. Film directors, screenwriters, and producers from Public Broadcasting Service, PBS, BBC, NHK, Arte, Channel 4, American Broadcasting Company, ABC, Sony Pictures, HBO, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, National Film Board of Canada, NFB, Spanish Broadcasting System, SBS, and many other broadcasters and production companies attend the annual event. The festival provides a global platform for industry members to discu ...
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Screener (website)
Zap2it was a website and digital media company that provided television program listings information for areas of the United States and Canada. Founded in 2000 by Tribune Media Services, the site has been owned by Nexstar Media Group since 2019. Zap2it also syndicated its listings data to a number of broadcasting and multimedia companies (such as Disney and Sinclair Broadcast Group), pay television providers (such as Wave Broadband, Cox and Dish Network) and publications (such as ''The New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', and ''The Washington Post'') for use online and in interactive programming guides. Tribune Media began shutting down the editorial content on the website in 2017, and by 2020, only the TV listings section remained. Around March 25, 2025, Zap2it was taken offline permanently. History Tribune Media Services first began to offer online listings services as a content provider to the online services Prodigy in the late 1980s and America Online in the ...
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Annapolis Valley
The Annapolis Valley is a valley and region in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located in the western part of the Nova Scotia peninsula, formed by a Trough (geology), trough between two parallel mountain ranges along the shore of the Bay of Fundy. Statistics Canada defines the Annapolis Valley as an economic region, composed of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Annapolis County, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Kings County, and Hants County, Nova Scotia, Hants County. Geography The valley measures approximately in length from Annapolis Royal and the Annapolis Basin in the west to Wolfville and the Minas Basin in the east, spanning the counties of Digby County, Nova Scotia, Digby, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Annapolis and Kings County, Nova Scotia, Kings. Some also include the western part of Hants County, Nova Scotia, Hants County, including the towns of Hantsport and Windsor, Nova Scotia, Windsor even further to the east, but geographically speaking they are part of the ...
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Anne Openshaw
Anne Openshaw is a Canadian actress from Surrey, British Columbia. She is most noted for her recurring role as Alice Fitzpatrick in the television series ''Call Me Fitz'', for which she was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015."Canadian Screen Awards ’15: Performance categories"
'' Playback'', January 13, 2015.
She had a leading role as Kathleen Ford-McNeal in the 2007 television miniseries '' Across the River to Motor City'',Vinay Menon, "Br ...
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Amy Sloan
Amy Kathleen Sloan is a Canadian-American actress. She was born in Gladstone, Manitoba, raised in Whitehorse, Yukon and graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada. Filmography Film Television Stage *''All My Sons -'' Ann Deever Geffen Playhouse *''How the Light Gets In'' - Grace Wheeler. Boston Court Awards and nominations For her work on the TV series ''Call Me Fitz'', episode "Are You There God? I Need to Speak to Frank", Sloan was nominated at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in the category of "Best performance by an actress in a featured supporting role or guest role in a comedic series"."Yukon's Amy Sloan up for Canadian Screen Award" by Stephanie Waddell, ''Whitehorse Star The ''Whitehorse Star'' was a newspaper in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. History The newspaper was founded in 1900 about a year after the Klondike Gold Rush ended. The paper was originally called the ''Northern Star'', by was later changed to th ...'' (31 Jan, 2014) Retrieved from Refere ...
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Jonathan Torrens
Jonathan Ormond Torrens (born October 2, 1972) is a Canadian actor and television personality best known for his co-hosting of ''Street Cents'', his talk show ''Jonovision'', and his role as "J-Roc" in the popular Canadian mockumentary ''Trailer Park Boys''. In October 2009, Torrens began hosting '' TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens'', a comedic newsmagazine program broadcast on the TVtropolis network. In January 2014, he teamed up with fellow Canadian Jeremy Taggart to create the Taggart and Torrens Podcast. They discuss everything from sports to politics and offer a unique perspective on current issues. Early life Torrens was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. As a child, he lived in Sherwood where he attended Sherwood Elementary School. He made his first stage appearance there in Grade 1. In 1983, after first attending Charlottetown Rural High School in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, he moved to Halifax with his family, where he attended St. Patrick's High Scho ...
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Huse Madhavji
Husein "Huse" Madhavji (pronounced Ma-dav-gee; born July 19) is a Canadian actor and television personality. He is best known for his role as Dr. Shahir Hamza on the medical drama ''Saving Hope'' and as the former face of Star! Canada’s Entertainment Channel. Early life Madhavji grew up in London, Ontario in an Indian Gujarati family who were Ismailis. He graduated from the radio and television arts program at Ryerson University Career Madhavji moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba to take on his first on-air position as an anchor/reporter for A-Channel. Later he moved to Northern California and was a live feature reporter for a short-lived show called ''Good Evening Sacramento'' before moving over to ''Good Day Sacramento'' for KMAX-TV. After a couple of years working in the United States, Madhavji returned to Canada to host Star!'s national show ''Star! Daily'' in Toronto along with Dina Pugliese, including Canada’s New Year’s Eve Bash. In 2007 CTV Globemedia acquired CHUM, and ...
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Joanna Cassidy
Joanna Cassidy (born Joanna Virginia Caskey; August 2, 1945) is an American actress and former model. She began working as a model in the 1960s and made her professional acting debut in 1973, appearing in the thriller films ''The Laughing Policeman (film), The Laughing Policeman'' and ''The Outfit (1973 film), The Outfit''. She later starred in the films ''Bank Shot'' (1974) and ''The Late Show (film), The Late Show'' (1977), the short-lived television series ''The Roller Girls'' (1978), and ''240-Robert'' (1979). In 1982, she played replicant List of Blade Runner characters#Zhora Salome, Zhora Salome in the science fiction film ''Blade Runner''. Cassidy starred in the political thriller film ''Under Fire (1983 film), Under Fire'' (1983), winning a Sant Jordi Award for Best Actress in a Foreign Language Film, as well as receiving a nomination for the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress. From 1983 to 1984, she starred opposite Dabney Coleman in the NBC comedy se ...
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Cast Of Call Me Fitz In 2011
Cast may refer to: Music * Cast (band), an English alternative rock band * Cast (Mexican band), a progressive Mexican rock band * The Cast, a Scottish musical duo: Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis * ''Cast'', a 2012 album by Trespassers William * ''Cast'', a 2018 album by KAT-TUN Science and technology * Casting (metalworking) ** Cast iron, a group of iron-carbon alloys * Cast (geology), a cavity formed by decomposition that once were covered by a casing material * Cast, visible piles of mineral-rich organic matter excreted above ground by earthworms * Cast of the eye, a condition in which the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object * Orthopedic cast, a protective shell to hold a limb in place, for example to help in healing broken bones * Cast (computer science), to change the interpretation of a bit pattern from one data type to another in computer programming * Urinary cast, tubules found in urine * Google Cast, a protocol built into the Google C ...
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Charlie Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He is known as a leading man in film and television. Sheen has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 1994, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Charlie Sheen followed in the footsteps of his father Martin Sheen in becoming an actor. He starred in many successful films such as ''Red Dawn'' (1984), ''Platoon (film), Platoon'' (1986), ''Wall Street (1987 film), Wall Street'' (1987), ''Eight Men Out'' (1988), ''Young Guns (film), Young Guns'' (1988), ''The Rookie (1990 film), The Rookie'' (1990), ''The Three Musketeers (1993 film), The Three Musketeers'' (1993), and ''The Arrival (1996 film), The Arrival'' (1996). In the 2000s, when Sheen replaced Michael J. Fox as the star of American Broadcasting Company, ABC's ''Spin City'', his portrayal of Ch ...
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RTÉ
(; ; RTÉThe É in RTÉ is pronounced as an English E () and not an Irish É ()) is an Irish public service broadcaster. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on 31 December 1961, making it one of the oldest continuously operating public service broadcasters in the world. It is headquartered in Donnybrook in Dublin, with offices across different parts of Ireland. RTÉ is a statutory body, overseen by a board appointed by the Government of Ireland, with general management in the hands of a committee of senior managers, currently an interim leadership team, headed by the Director General. RTÉ is regulated by Coimisiún na Meán. It is financed by the television licence fee and through advertising, with some of its services funded solely by advertising, while others are funded solely by the licence fee. The current network consists of 4 main TV chan ...
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