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Diverted
''Diverted'' is a 2009 CBC made-for-TV miniseries. The film was directed by Alex Chapple based on the screenplay by Tony Marchant. ''Diverted'' is a fictionalized account inspired by what actually happened to the people of Gander, Newfoundland, and the passengers and crews on the airliners diverted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) during the 9/11 attacks in Operation Yellow Ribbon. Plot On September 11, 2001, as information seeps out about the 9/11 attacks on the US, the FAA begins directing all remaining aircraft in the air to nearby airports, completely clearing the skies. A total of 38 transatlantic flights at or near their "point of no return" (also known as the "point of safe return") are diverted to the nearest airport in Canada, Gander, Newfoundland. The anxious passengers leaving on business and vacation trips have no idea why their flights are being sent to a remote town in Canada. With wild rumours spreading, one British airliner's crew tells the passen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Yellow Ribbon
Operation Yellow Ribbon (french: Opération ruban jaune) was commenced by Canada to handle the diversion of civilian airline flights in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001 on the United States. Canada's goal was to ensure that potentially destructive air traffic be removed from United States airspace as quickly as possible, and away from potential U.S. targets, and instead place these aircraft on the ground in Canada, at military and civilian airports primarily in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and British Columbia. Yukon, New Brunswick, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Northwest Territories, and Quebec also took in aircraft so that any malicious or destructive potential threats could be better contained and neutralized. None of the aircraft proved to be a threat, and Canada hosted thousands of passengers who were stranded until U.S. airspace was reopened. Canada commenced the operation after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), implementing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Suchet
Sir David Courtney Suchet''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007'' ( ; born 2 May 1946) is an English actor known for his work on British stage and television. He portrayed Edward Teller in the television serial ''Oppenheimer'' (1980) and received the RTS and BPG awards for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in the British serial '' The Way We Live Now'' (2001). International acclaim and recognition followed his performance as Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in '' Agatha Christie's Poirot'' (1989–2013), for which he received a 1991 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nomination."The Actor Behind Popular 'Poirot" '' The Christian Science Monit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Marchant (playwright)
Tony Marchant (born 11 July 1959) is a British playwright and television dramatist. In 1982 he won the London Critics' Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for ''The Lucky Ones'' and ''Raspberry''. In 1999 he won the British Academy Television Awards Dennis Potter Award for services to television. His television work includes the acclaimed '' Holding On'' (1997), ''Never, Never'', starring John Simm and '' Take Me Home''. Early life Marchant, whose father was a printer and mother a school dinner lady, was born and raised on a council estate in Wapping in the East End of London, which he has described as, "a very hard, heavy place to live sometimes." He has stated that while estates have changed since he grew up on one, the poverty is still the same and it hasn't gone away. He was educated at St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath and went on to become a London boxing champion and a member of the England boxing squad. Inspired by, "the DIY ethic of the Jam and the Clash," he got ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Majumdar
Anita Majumdar is a Canadian actress and playwright. She is best known for her role in the CBC television film '' Murder Unveiled'' for which she received the Best Actress award at the 2005 Asian Festival of First Films. Personal life The daughter of Bengali immigrants from India, Majumdar grew up in Port Moody, Canada. She did not speak English until the age of six. She is trained in several forms of classical dance, including Bharata Natyam, Kathak and Odissi. Majumdar graduated from the University of British Columbia where she earned degrees in English, Theatre and South Asian Languages. In 2004, she graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada. Career She first came to attention with her one-woman play ''Fish Eyes'' in which she played three different parts. She was cast as Davinder Samra in the CBC television film ''Murder Unveiled''. In the film she plays a fictionalised version of Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, a Canadian Sikh beautician who was murdered by her famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawn Ashmore
Shawn Robert Ashmore (born October 7, 1979) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles as Bobby Drake / Iceman in the ''X-Men'' film series, Jake Berenson in the television series '' Animorphs'', Agent Mike Weston in the television drama series '' The Following'', Eric in the horror film ''The Ruins'', Sam Spencer in the American Broadcasting Company, ABC series ''Conviction (2016 TV series), Conviction'', Wesley Evers in the American Broadcasting Company, ABC series ''The Rookie (TV series), The Rookie'', and Lamplighter in the Amazon Prime Video superhero series ''The Boys (TV series), The Boys''. Ashmore also plays the main character, Jack Joyce, in the 2016 video game ''Quantum Break'', as well as Conrad in 2019's ''The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, Man of Medan''. He is the identical twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore. Early life Ashmore was born in Richmond, British Columbia, the son of Linda (née Davis), a homemaker, and Rick Ashmore, a manufacturing engi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come From Away
''Come from Away'' is a Canadian musical, with book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein. It is based on the events in the Newfoundland town of Gander during the week following the September 11 attacks, when 38 planes, carrying approximately 7,000 passengers, were ordered to land unexpectedly at Gander International Airport. The characters in the musical are based on (and in most cases share the names of) actual Gander residents and stranded travellers they housed and fed. The musical has been received by audiences and critics as a cathartic reminder of the capacity for human kindness in even the darkest of times and the triumph of humanity over hate. After being workshopped in 2012 and first produced at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, in 2013, it went on to have record-breaking runs at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California, and the Seattle Repertory Theatre in 2015, at the Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., and the Royal Alexandra Theatre i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liisa Repo-Martell
Liisa Repo-Martell is a Canadian actress and artist. Her parents Satu Repo and George Martell were founding editors of ''This Magazine Is About Schools'', an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as ''"This"''. Liisa grew up in Toronto and attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in the mid-1980s. Her Gemini award was for her 1998 performance in ''Nights Below Station Street''. She has had two other Gemini nominations for appearances on '' This is Wonderland'' and '' Flashpoint''. She played Mrs. Genest, estranged wife of Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin) in the 2006 '' Jesse Stone: Night Passage'' made-for-TV-movie.credits from Jesse Stone: Night Passage movie In February 2012 the ''National Post'' called Repo-Martell, and her husband, actor and theatre-director Chris Abraham, a ''"Toronto theatre power couple"''. She currently portrays Reginald Hargreeves wife Abigail in seasons 1, 3 & 4 of The Umbrella Academy ''The Umbrella Academy'' is an American comic boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Buchanan (actor)
Colin Buchanan (born 1966) is a Scottish people, Scottish actor who is best known for playing Detective Peter Pascoe in the BBC television series ''Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV Series), Dalziel and Pascoe'' which commenced in March 1996 and ran until June 2007. Career Buchanan's breakthrough television role came in the detective series ''A Touch of Frost'' in 1994 playing Constable Austin in three episodes. In 1996 he commenced playing DS (later DI) Peter Pascoe in ''Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series), Dalziel and Pascoe''. Buchanan has also appeared in comedy drama television series ''All Quiet on the Preston Front'' (later called ''Preston Front''), ''The Bill'', ''Between the Lines (TV series), Between the Lines'', ''Dangerfield (TV series), Dangerfield'', ''Heartbeat (UK TV series), Heartbeat'', ''Space Island One'' and ''Brief Encounters''. Buchanan had a supporting role in the feature movie ''Red Hot (film), Red Hot'' (1993) also starring Donald Sutherland and Balthazar Getty, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Malone (actor)
David Gregory Malone (born October 19, 1948 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian impressionist and actor. Wyndham Wise"Greg Malone" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', November 21, 2012. He is well known for the ''CODCO'' television series and his impersonations of Barbara Frum, Jean Chrétien, and Queen Elizabeth II. Career Prior to CODCO, Malone wrote and performed in a number of shows for CBC Television, including '' The Wonderful Grand Band'', '' The Root Seller'' and '' The S and M Comic Book'', and appeared in the film '' The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood''. After the death of his ''CODCO'' co-star Tommy Sexton in 1993, he devoted some years of his life to raising awareness of HIV and AIDS, including writing, directing and appearing in a training film for health care professionals. He also directed a docudrama film, ''The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland'', in which he appeared as Sir Richard Squires, and acted in the films '' Rare Birds'', '' Extraordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Chapple
Alex Chapple is a Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ... director and writer. Filmography External links * Canadian television writers Canadian television directors Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{canada-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gander, Newfoundland And Labrador
Gander is a town located in the northeastern part of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, approximately south of Gander Bay, south of Twillingate and east of Grand Falls-Windsor. Located on the northeastern shore of Gander Lake, it is the site of Gander International Airport, once an important refuelling stop for transatlantic aircraft. The airport is still a preferred emergency landing point for aircraft facing on-board medical or security issues. When the U.S. closed its airspace soon after the September 11 attacks, Gander International Airport took in 38 aircraft and accommodated nearly 6,700 evacuees from Olympic Airways, Air France, Lufthansa, British Airways, Alitalia and more. Most of the streets in Gander are named after famous aviators, including Alcock and Brown, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, Marc Garneau and Chuck Yeager. History Gander was chosen for the construction of an airport in 1935 beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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