− ORPHAN BLACK stars Critics' Choice Television Award-winner
Tatiana Maslany −
− From Temple Street Productions, Season 2 of the Space and BBC
America original series premieres Spring 2014 -
− Maslany can currently be seen on one of four covers of
Entertainment Weekly for their Comic-Con issue on stands now
−
"What dazzled me most about ORPHAN BLACK this season was
Maslany's performance. If I had an Emmy ballot, she'd be on the
Best Actress list, or at least three of the Best Supporting Actress
spots. Or both. She never phoned in any of her clones. They all
felt remarkably realized." - Jeff
Jensen, Entertainment Weekly
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TORONTO,
July 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - CTV
announced today that it will present the world broadcast premiere
and first-ever network run of the hit conspiracy thriller ORPHAN
BLACK later this summer. The Space original series from Temple
Street Productions, produced in partnership with BBC America, will
be introduced to new viewers on Friday,
Aug. 16 when it begins its first-ever run on a
conventional network, leading to a Season 1 finale on CTV in the
heat of the fall season in mid-October. The 10-episode, one-hour
series will air in primetime Fridays at 9
p.m. ET/PT on CTV (visit CTV.ca to confirm local
broadcast times and on the CTV Mobile channel on Bell Mobile TV.
Season 2 of ORPHAN BLACK was ordered by Space and BBC
America in May, with production on 10 new episodes set to begin
this September in Toronto.
"From the opening scene to the season finale, ORPHAN
BLACK grabs you and doesn't let you go," said Mike Cosentino, Senior Vice President,
Programming, CTV Networks. "A timely CTV encore run will expose
this remarkable Space original series to a whole new audience,
creating more momentum and viewer appetite for Season 2 on
Space."
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BellMediaPR.ca
The CTV broadcast comes following series star Tatiana Maslany's (Picture Day) Critics'
Choice Award win for Best Actress in a Drama Series, and a recent
Television Critics Association Award nomination for Individual
Achievement in Drama. As Maslany's star continues to rise, she is
currently featured on one of four covers for Entertainment
Weekly's Comic-Con issue on stands now. ORPHAN BLACK
cast members Maslany, Jordan Gavaris
(Felix), and Dylan Bruce (Paul),
along with series co-creators Graeme
Manson and John Fawcett will
also be appearing at Comic-Con in San
Diego, with a panel tomorrow evening.
Anchored by Maslany, at its core ORPHAN BLACK (Fridays
at 9 p.m. ET/PT) centres on
English punk and streetwise hustler Sarah who returns home after
being separated from her daughter. But her homecoming isn't exactly
what she expected. After witnessing the suicide of a woman, Beth,
who looks just like her, Sarah takes over Beth's life, including
her job as a cop as well as her boyfriend Paul (Dylan Bruce, NCIS). Sarah soon discovers that
she and Beth are clones, and as she becomes embroiled in the
mystery, she learns that there are more of them out there - all
genetically identical individuals nurtured in completely different
circumstances. As Sarah begins to unravel the mystery surrounding
their identities, she also ends up fighting for her life when an
assassin begins killing the clones one by one.
ORPHAN BLACK also stars Jordan
Gavaris (UNNATURAL HISTORY) as Felix, Sarah's foster
brother, a struggling artist worldly beyond his 23 years; Gemini
Award-winner Maria Doyle Kennedy
(DOWNTON ABBEY) as Mrs. S, Sarah and Felix's hard-nosed working
class foster mother; Kevin Hanchard
(REPUBLIC OF DOYLE) as Art, a veteran detective who works alongside
Beth; Michael Mando (THE KILLING) as
Vic, Sarah's sporadically violent ex; Skyler Wexler (ALPHAS) as Kira, Sarah's
seven-year-old daughter; Matt Frewer
(50/50) as Dr. Aldous Leekie,
an academic with an edge and philosopher of the human organism; and
Evelyne Brochu (MIRADOR) as
Delphine, a student working on her Masters in Molecular and
Cellular Biology who becomes intertwined in the mystery.
In the series premiere of OPRHAN BLACK entitled "Natural
Selection" (Friday, Aug. 16 at
9 p.m. ET/PT on CTV),
Sarah (Maslany) witnesses the
suicide of a stranger who looks just like her, and assumes Beth's
identity. Planning to clean out Beth's savings to buy a new life
for her and her daughter, Kira
(Wexler), Sarah's simple score turns deadly when she finds
out that Beth was caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy,
making Sarah the next target.
ORPHAN BLACK is produced by Temple Street Productions in
association with Space and BBC America. Executive producers are
Ivan Schneeberg and David Fortier (BEING ERICA) at Temple Street
Productions, and co-creators Graeme
Manson (Cube, FLASHPOINT), and John Fawcett (SPARTACUS, THE SECRET CIRCLE).
Manson also serves as writer and Fawcett as director. Production
Executives are Trish Williams and
Gosia Kamela. Corrie Coe is Senior Vice-President, Independent
Production, Bell Media. Catherine
MacLeod is Senior Vice-President, Specialty Channels, Bell
Media. Rick Brace is President,
Specialty Channels and Bell Media Production. Phil King is President, CTV Programming and
Sports. BBC Worldwide is distributing the series
internationally.
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
Twitter:
@BellMediaPR
@CTV_PR
@CTV_Television
@TatianaMaslany
@JordanGavaris
@DylanBruce
@KevinHanchard
@MariaDKennedy - Maria Doyle
Kennedy
@MandoMichael - Michael Mando
Facebook:
facebook.com/ctv
About Bell Media Independent Production
Bell Media has commissioned and co-produced some of Canada's most-watched and most-acclaimed
original programming, while working with the best Canadian
independent producers in the country. Hit CTV series include
ratings success stories SAVING HOPE, THE LISTENER, and MOTIVE, the
#1 new Canadian series of the 2012/13 season. Airing this summer
are relationship comedy SATISFACTION and THE AMAZING RACE
CANADA, a record-breaking
Canadian-produced, complementary version of the hit international
series. To premiere later in the 2013/14 season are the drama
series PLAYED, multi-cam office comedy SPUN OUT, and hit
international format MASTERCHEF CANADA. Among the scripted series on Bell
Media specialty channels are the two-time Emmy®-nominated hit
DEGRASSI, the recently renewed ORPHAN BLACK, and upcoming dramas
BITTEN and 19-2. Bell Media specialty channels are also home to
reality series PANIC BUTTON and BRAVE NEW GIRL, game shows MATCH
GAME and POP QUIZ, and factual series HIGHWAY THRU HELL, and LAST
CAR STANDING, among others. In total, Bell Media ordered 27 new
original Canadian series in 2012, and put 35 scripted projects into
development.
About CTV
CTV is Canada's #1 private
broadcaster. Featuring a wide range of quality news, sports,
information, and entertainment programming, CTV has been
Canada's most-watched television
network for the past 12 years in a row. CTV is a division of Bell
Media, Canada's premier multimedia
company with leading assets in television, radio and digital. Bell
Media is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada's largest communications company. More
information about CTV can be found on the network's website at
ctv.ca.
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