Terminal City | |
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Created by | Angus Fraser |
Starring | Gil Bellows Paul Soles Jane McLean Bill Mondy Michael Eklund Katie Boland Adam Butcher Ross Birchall Nico McEown Maria del Mar Nakul Kapoor Andrew McIlroy |
Country of origin | Canada |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Angus Fraser Jayme Pfahl Gordon Mark (producer) Harold Lee Tichenor (consulting) |
Production location | Victoria, British Columbia |
Running time | 50 mins. |
Original release | |
Network | The Movie Network Movie Central |
Release | October 17 – December 19, 2005 |
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Angus Fraser, a native of Vancouver, [1] was the director-creator, with Rachel Talalay also brought in as a director. [2] As the writer, Fraser was partly inspired by a close call his mother had with cancer, and his own near-death experience when he was stabbed in the heart as a bouncer. [1] Originally conceived as a feature film, Terminal City was filmed in Victoria, British Columbia in 76 days and won 11 Leo Awards plus 2 nominations.
Fraser's plot follows a family woman who finds she has cancer and becomes the star of a reality show simultaneously. [3]
Timeout says the show "prominently counts reality TV among its subjects, but its chief concerns—marriage, family and mortality—are timeless ones that are given fresh urgency by the way screenwriter Angus Fraser approaches them from odd angles." [4]
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