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Congratulations to Michelle Morgan ( @michellemorgan_ ) on her 2025 Canadian Screen Awards nomination for ‘Best Lead Performance – Drama Series’ for her portayal as Lou Fleming in Heartland. @official_heartlandoncbc @thecdnacademy

The Last of Us Season 2 premiere date is official. @HBO Original #TheLastOfUs is coming to @streamonmax on April 13. We’re very excited to see Spencer Lord ( @spennylord ) as ‘Owen.’ Looking good at yesterday’s LA premiere event! #TheLastOfUsHBO, #TheLastOfUs, #StreamOnMax #tlou2

What great timing for a show like this to debut! Our voice actor Ceara Morgana ( @cearamorgana ) is in this extremely talented ensemble. The 10-part animated comedy will debut with an initial two episodes on Crave on May 16, with new episodes to launch Fridays. @cravecanada @atomiccartoons From @hollywoodreporter: Will Arnett’s animated comedy Super Team Canada is set to bow May 16 on Canadian streamer Crave, just in time to ride a surge in Canadian nationalism amid an escalating cross-border tariffs war with the United States. The series about six Canadian superheroes saving the world from giant evil robots has an all-Canadian cast that includes Cobie Smulders voicing the role of Niagara Falls, Kevin McDonald as the Canadian prime minister and Charles Demers as Poutine, a French Canadian crime fighter. Arnett voices the role of Breakaway, a former minor league hockey player who uses his skates, stick and special pucks to fight crime as the unofficial leader of Super Team Canada. The ensemble voice cast also has Brian Drummond, Ceara Morgana, Veena Sood and guest star Jay Baruchel. #animatedseries #canadiancontent

We’re so proud of the ultra-talented Tantoo Cardinal ( @tantoocardinal )! From @hollywoodreporter : Tantoo Cardinal will receive the Equity in Entertainment Award at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Canada gala in Toronto on May 29. The second annual event, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, will see Cardinal, who is of Cree and Métis heritage, receive the honor presented in partnership with the Indigenous Screen Office. Over a 50-year career, Cardinal has film credits that include Dances With Wolves, Killers of the Flower Moon, Legends of the Fall, Black Robe and Hold the Dark. Her TV series credits include Longmire, Echo, Stumptown, Three Pines, Godless, Blackstone, Moccasin Flats and North of 60. Cardinal received the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor, in 2009. The Equity in Entertainment Award, which honors those who reflect and amplify the voices and stories of underrepresented communities, was created in 2016 by The Hollywood Reporter as part of its Women in Entertainment annual event in Los Angeles. Past honorees stateside include Selena Gomez, Kerry Washington, Issa Rae and Amy Pascal. The first Equity in Entertainment Canada Award was presented to Deepa Mehta at the inaugural WIE Canada Awards last year. The upcoming second annual WIE Canada summit will again bring together the Canadian industry across TV, film and music to celebrate and recognize the achievements of women driving the industry forward. #indigenousactor @indigenousscreen #indigenousfilm

We are happy to announce that avid reader and talented performer Michelle Morgan ( @michellemorgan_) is a panellist on CBC’s ‘Canada Reads 2025.’ Canada Reads 2025 will take place March 17-20. This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to change the narrative. Michelle will be championing novel ‘Etta and Otto and Russell and James’ by Emma Hooper. From Michelle: “Hooper’s writing is so poignant and it captures the wonder and the hardships of Depression-era Saskatchewan,” said Morgan in her 30-second pitch on CBC Radio’s Commotion. “And her writing is sparing, and it’s bare-boned and it leaves readers the space to fill in the gaps with our own experiences of love and loss and remembering and forgetting.” You can also catch Michele on beloved series ‘Heartland’ - @official_heartlandoncbc Canada Reads will be hosted by Ali Hassan and will be broadcast on YouTube, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC TV, CBC Listen and on CBC Books.

Great news for all you Virgin River fans. Production has begun on Season 7! Joining the cast this season is the talented Cody Kearsley ( @codykearsley ). Returning are our @sarahdugdale as Lizzie, @themarcograzzini as Mike, with Gwynyth Walsh and John Allen Nelson in recurring roles. Also returning are @gabriellerose9456 , Clare Filipow ( @clarefili ) and Ellie Harvie ( @ellieharvie ). From @deadline: EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s popular romantic drama Virgin River has cast Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Cody Kearsley (Riverdale) in recurring roles for the upcoming seventh season, which has begun production, with Deadline able to share two behind the scenes images from the set in Vancouver featuring most main cast members, including stars Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson (You can see them below). The new season, which will pick up two hours after the end of the Season 6 finale at Mel (Breckenridge) and Jack’s (Henderson) wedding, is expected to premiere in early 2026. Canadian actors Canning and Kearsley will play characters related to an existing and new storyline, respectively, on the series based on Robyn Carr’s novels about the tight-knit community in the remote California town of Virgin River. Link to article here: https://deadline.com/2025/03/virgin-river-cast-season-7-production-begins-photos-1236325600/ @virginriverseries @netflix

New animated series ‘Skillsville’ premieres on @pbskids on Monday, March 3rd. Featuring the voice of Elishia Perosa as ‘Dev.’ From PBS: Welcome to Skillsville! SKILLSVILLE, a dynamic PBS KIDS animated series created by Twin Cities PBS (TPT), will encourage kids ages 4-8 to “power up” the skills they need for future success by depicting the benefits of one of the most popular forms of media—video games. Taking its cue from some of the best elements that gaming has to offer, the fun new series centers on three best friends, Cora (ParCora), Dev (Devosaurus), and Rae (Racer Rae), who love to play together, whether it’s on the playground or in their favorite digital game, “Skillsville.” With each episode, young viewers will enter a world of career possibilities with the goal to hone their life skills, including self-regulation and strategies to help them to feel, focus, organize, remember and think differently. SKILLSVILLE will launch on March 3, 2025 on PBS KIDS in English and Spanish. There is also an official YouTube Channel, Instagram, Facebook, and Website for more fun content featuring the different characters. https://www.youtube.com/@SkillsvilleOfficial https://www.instagram.com/skillsvilleofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/OfficialSkillsville/ https://skillsville.org/ @skillsvilleofficial @sphereanimation #kidstv

Are We Done Now? Written, directed and co-starring Ben Immanuel ( @thebenimmanuel ) will premiere at The Available Light Film Festival on February 8 in Yukon. Also starring are our talents Jay Brazeau ( @jaybbrazeau ), Pascal Lamothe-Kipnes ( @plamkip ), Thomas Nicholson ( @thomasthomasnicholson ), Favour Onwuka ( @itsfavouronwuka ) & ( Camille Sullivan ( @sullivan.camille ). Look for updates about this hilarious and emotionally resonant feature film @AWDN_film Link to trailer and more info here: https://yukonfilmsociety.com/alff/program/are-we-done-now

We’ll have to wait until April, but we’re very excited to see Spencer Lord ( @spennylord ) as ‘Owen’ in Season 2 of The Last of Us. From @entertainmentweekly: The Last of Us season 2 ‘packs quite a wallop’: Creators set the stage for ‘high-calorie, dense episodes’ (exclusive) Audiences will no doubt have intense reactions to the events of season 2, but it’s difficult for the pair to actually talk about what that story entails. Nearly everything could be considered a spoiler. For context, when Naughty Dog released trailers to promote the Part II video game, the studio edited out characters from certain scenes to preserve the surprises. They’re not quite doing that this time around, but every scene that appears in a teaser for season 2 was surgically carved out. And a lot of it has to do with a new character named Abby. Abby isn’t alone, either. Among her crew are Owen (Spencer Lord), a gentle soul and Abby’s closest friend; Mel (Ariela Barer), a doctor and Owen’s girlfriend; Nora (Tati Gabrielle), a military medic; and Manny (Danny Ramirez), a loyal soldier — all of whom struggle with their own past sins and traumas. Link to full article here: https://ew.com/the-last-of-us-creators-set-stage-dense-episodes-season-2-exclusive-8783868 Season 2 of @HBO Original #TheLastOfUs is coming to @streamonmax this April. #TheLastOfUsHBO, #TheLastOfUs, #StreamOnMax