Gavin Crawford's Wild West
| Gavin Crawford's Wild West | |
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| Genre | comedy |
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| Directed by | Jacob Tierney |
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| Country of origin | Canada |
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| Production companies | Seven24 Films Temple Street Productions |
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| Network | CBC |
| Release | July 2013 |
Gavin Crawford's Wild West is a Canadian television special, which aired on CBC Television in July 2013. Wild West stars Gavin Crawford as six distinct characters, each representing a different aspect of the society of the Canadian province of Alberta, in a mockumentary format. The characters include:
- Katherine Adams, a pompous socialite in Calgary organizing a charity fundraiser;
- Lyle Carlyle-Chang, a gay cattle rancher in Cochrane resisting his husband Andy's (Andrew Cheng) suggestion that they revive the failing business by promoting it to tourists as a dude ranch;
- Donald Demchuck, a newly elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from Edmonton whose constituency assistant Liz (Anita Majumdar) is at her wit's end managing his incompetence;
- Jessica Jones, an Australian expatriate working as a massage therapist in Banff;
- Trevor Valgardson, a surly teenager in Taber whose widowed mother (Marypat Farrell) and uncle (Brendan Wall) are perennially exasperated with his delusion that he's a vampire;
- Conrad Whitehead, a trucker in Fort McMurray who is planning to break up with his girlfriend Shannon (Kaniehtiio Horn).
Originally announced as a planned series in 2011,[1] it was left in limbo by funding cuts to the CBC in 2012,[2] and only the pilot was completed although five more unfilmed episodes had been written before the CBC dropped the project.[3] In 2014, Crawford told Toronto's NOW that he has explored the possibility of reviving the series for a different network, although he has not announced firm details to date.[4]
The special garnered five Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards, including nods for Best Comedy Series or Program, Best Actor in a Comedy Series or Program (Crawford) and Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series or Program (Cheng).[5]
References
- ^ "CBC to pilot two more". Playback, May 20, 2011.
- ^ "Wish List not going forward, CBC passes on eOne drama pilot". Playback, April 20, 2012.
- ^ "Gavin a gay time". NOW, June 21, 2012.
- ^ "Almost Famous". NOW, March 6, 2014.
- ^ "Canadian Screen Awards: Orphan Black, Less Than Kind, Enemy nominated". CBC News, January 13, 2014.
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- Television pilots not picked up as a series
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