Durham County (TV series)

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Durham County
Format Drama
Crime
Thriller
Created by Janis Lundman
Adrienne Mitchell
Laurie Finstad Knizhnik
Starring Hugh Dillon
Justin Louis
Hélène Joy
Laurence Leboeuf
Cicely Austin
Sonya Salomaa
Greyston Holt
Kathleen Munroe
Patrick Labbé
Joel Keller
Claudia Fern
Jean-Nicolas Verreault
Country of origin Canada Canada
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 13 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time 45 minutes
Production company(s) Back Alley Durham Films
Back Alley Film Productions
Durham Productions
Muse Entertainment Enterprises
Broadcast
Original channel The Movie Network
Movie Central
Global
Ion Television
Original run May 7, 2007 – present
External links
Official website

Durham County is a Canadian television drama series produced by Back Alley Films and Muse Entertainment.

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[edit] Premise

The series stars Hugh Dillon as Mike Sweeney, a homicide detective from Toronto who moves his family to suburban Durham County to start over after his partner is killed and his wife Audrey (Hélène Joy) is diagnosed with breast cancer. However, he soon discovers that his neighbour and childhood nemesis Ray Prager (Justin Louis) may be a serial killer.

[edit] Airings

The series premiered on The Movie Network and Movie Central in May 2007. The first season subsequently aired on Global in the 2007-08 television season. In Canada, the first season came out on DVD on September 9, 2008.

On September 7, 2009, the series began airing on ION Television, which reaches more than 94 million U.S. television households.[1] The network has secured all U.S. television, digital media rights, internet streaming and video-on-demand rights for the program.[2] It will be the first original series to air on the network since 2004, when it cancelled the Canadian/American coproduction Sue Thomas F.B.Eye.

Showcase has begun airing season one again in Canada. The first episode aired March 20, 2009. Sequential episodes are scheduled for Fridays at 2:00PM and 8:00PM ET/PT.[3]

The show's second season entered production in fall 2008, and was scheduled to air on TMN and Movie Central on July 13, 2009.[4] The second season began airing in the United States on ION Television on October 19, 2009 and the third season had begun principal photography as of October 13, 2009[5]

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Durham County episodes

[edit] Cast

[edit] Crew

[edit] Awards and nominations

The series has received 13 Gemini Award nominations[6], including five wins:

  • Best Writing in a Dramatic Series: Laurie Finstad Knizhnik
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role: Justin Louis
  • Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role: Helene Joy
  • Best Direction in a Dramatic Series: Holly Dale
  • Best Sound in a Dramatic Series: Andrea Higgins, Brad Thornton, Keith Elliott, Lee De Lang, Mario Auclair, Jill Purdy.

In addition, the show was nominated for four Director's Guild of Canada Awards, winning two and taking home the CFTPA's Indie Award for "Best Dramatic Series." The program was also recognized with nominations from the Writer's Guild of Canada, ACTRA Montreal and the Leo Awards.

[edit] References

  1. ^ ION Television Acquires the Award-Winning Original TV Series Durham County, January 6, 2009.
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ [2]
  4. ^ Durham County Season Two. TVEh?, May 26, 2009.
  5. ^ http://www.durhamcounty.ca/
  6. ^ http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini23/proglist.cfm?titid=12952

[edit] External links

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