PeopleWatching

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PeopleWatching
GenreAnimation
Created byWinston Rowntree and Geoff Lapaire
Voices ofHannan Younis, Bracken Burns, Natalia Bushnik, Jon Blair, Andy Hull, Jonathan Langdon, Ermina Perez, Frederick Gietz, Kate Conway, Chantale Renee, Scott Garland
ComposersDavid DeDourek, Brian Rivlin
Country of originCanada
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes28
Production
ProducerGeoff Lapaire
Production companiesLapaire Productions and Cutting Class Media
Original release
Network CBC Gem
Release2017 (2017) 
present

PeopleWatching is a Canadian animated web series, which premiered in 2017. [1] Created by Winston Rowntree and Geoff Lapaire, the series follows a group of people in their 20- to 30-somethings in various scenarios, they deal with the everyday struggles, problems and neuroses that go along with life. The show depicts humorous observations on the absurdities of modern life. [2]

Produced by Geoff Lapaire, Cutting Class Media and Lakeside Animation. The show's voice cast includes Natalia Bushnik, Hannan Younis, Jon Blair, Bracken Burns, Ermina Perez, Frederick Gietz, Kate Conway, Andy Hull, Jonathan Langdon and Chantale Renee. [2] Season 3 (2025) includes the talent of rising actor, Harrison Browne.

The series was distributed in the United States on Cracked.com, and in Canada on CBC Gem.[ citation needed ]

The series won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Digital Program or Series, Fiction at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018. [3] In the same year, Hannan Younis received a nomination for Best Actress in a Web Program or Series. At the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, Rowntree was nominated for Best Writing in a Web Program or Series.

Season 1Episode Names
S1.E1Why Speed Dating Is Terrible
S1.E2Why Non Religious Confessionals Should Be a Thing
S1.E3Why Dating with Depression Is So (Bleeping) Hard
S1.E4How Humans Will Eventually Beat Death
S1.E5How 'Friends' Invented the Friendzone
S1.E6Why Your Favorite Artist Doesn't Want to Meet You
S1.E7The One Self Help Group We'd Actually Join
S1.E8The Importance of Reaching Out to Old Teachers
S1.E9Watching a Movie at Home Vs the Theaters
S1.E10Why Nostalgia Is Total Bull
Season 2Episode Names
S2.E12017
S2.E2Hanging Out With My Brother
S2.E3Homeless People Bother Me
S2.E437
S2.E520's
S2.E6Prejudice
S2.E7The Women Men Don't See
S2.E8The Museum of Alternate Realities
S2.E9Love
S2.E10Hope In Every Box
Season 3Episode Names
S3.E1Almost...
S3.E2Turbodate!
S3.E3Ask For Janis.
S3.E4I Hate You.
S3.E5Us And Them.
S3.E6Performance.
S3.E7Dirt.
S3.E8Together

References

  1. Sam Gutelle, "Cracked Engages In “People Watching” In Its New Web Series". TubeFilter, February 21, 2017.
  2. 1 2 People Watching, Independent Production Fund, One World Animation, 2017-02-15, retrieved 2025-11-11
  3. Debra Yeo, "The Amazing Race Canada and Murdoch Mysteries are repeat Golden Screen Award winners". Toronto Star , March 9, 2018.