Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will come to Canada as part of a three-day royal tour from May 17 to May 19, 2022.
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Canadian Screen Week continues, with the Canadian Academy announcing more winners of 2022 Canadian Screen Awards.
So far, awards have been presented for the winners in the Sports Programming, Digital & Immersive, Broadcast News and Documentary & Factual categories, and Wednesday’s announcement revealed this year’s winners in the Children’s & Animation and Lifestyle & Reality categories.
Wednesday’s big winner was “Canada’s Drag Race”, which took home six Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Reality/Competition Program of Series.
READ MORE: Canadian Screen Awards: Winners Announced In Sports Programming, Digital & Immersive Categories
Other notable winners include “Corner Gas Animated (winner of Best Animated Program or Series), “Mary Makes It Easy (Best Lifestyle Program or Series) and ET Canada, which took the CSA for Best Entertainment News Program or Series.
Canadian Screen Week takes place April 4-10, with the Cinematic Arts Awards held on April 8 and the main event — the Canadian Screen Awards — on April 10 at 8 p.m. ET, televised on CBC.
The complete list of Wednesday’s winners can be seen below:
THE CHILDREN’S & ANIMATION AWARDS, PRESENTED BY SHAW ROCKET FUND, SUPPORTED BY 9 STORY MEDIA GROUPBest Performance, Animation (Sponsor | WildBrain) “The Bravest Knight” CBC (CBC)(Big Bad Boo Studios) – RuPaul
Best Writing, Animation “Happy House of Frightenstein” – “Hide and Go Eek” Family Jr. (WildBrain) (Headspinner Productions Inc.) – Ken Cuperus, Sandy Jobin-Bevans
Best Sound, Animation “PAW Patrol” – “Moto Pups: Pups vs the Ruff-Ruff Pack” TVOKids (TVO) (Spin Master Entertainment) Richard Spence-Thomas, Timothy Muirhead, Mitch Connors, Luke Dante, Kyle Peters, Ryan Ongaro, Patton Rodrigues
Best Original
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will come to Canada as part of a three-day royal tour from May 17 to May 19, 2022.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe up-and-coming Canadian filmmaking trio behind the Sundance movies “Turbo Kid” and “Summer of 84,” are directing “We Are Zombies,” a comedy based on Jerry Frissen and Guy Davis’ cult comic book series “The Zombies That Ate the World.” Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell and François Simard started shooting the movie on March 29 across various locations around Montreal, Canada, with a young cast led by Alexander Nachi (“Clash”), Megan Peta Hill (“Riverdale”) and Derek Johns (“Moonfall”). Kinology, the Paris-based banner whose credits include Leos Carax’s film “Annette,” has secured international sales to the movie and will unveil a promo teaser at Cannes.
The Invictus Games are returning to Canada.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle were in The Hague this week at the Invictus Games and on Friday, the final day of the event, the Duke made a surprise announcement about the future of the tournament.MORE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have first public hug during Invictus Games - best photosThe father-of-two revealed that the 2025 games will take place in Vancouver and Whistler in Canada.WATCH: Prince Harry discusses his and Meghan Markle's visit with the QueenIn the announcement, Harry said: "Ladies and gentlemen, Invictus is heading back to North America and this is a very, very good thing."Revealed: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's weekend plans following surprise Windsor visitMORE: Why Prince Harry and Meghan's visit to the Queen on Maundy Thursday was so significantThe location is close to the hearts of the celebrity couple who previously lived on Vancouver Island in Canada in their $14million mansion. The husband and wife duo first attended the games together in 2017During their trip to the Netherlands, Harry and Meghan caught up with a number of members of the Canadian team including retired Warrant Officer from the Canadian Armed Forces, Joanne Bradley.Recalling her meeting with Harry and Meghan, Jo told HELLO! Canada: "Prince Harry came across as very genuine."This is his Games and he's really here for the athletes.
Wet Leg have announced a string of 13 headline shows for cities in the US, Canada and Mexico, bridging the gap between a handful of festival sets and their trio of gigs supporting Florence + The Machine.Following their appearances as this year’s Lollapalooza, Mo Pop and Osheaga festivals, the Isle of Wight duo will take to the Phoenix Concert Centre in Toronto, Canada on Monday August 1. They’ll head to Vancouver next, playing the Commodore Ballroom that Thursday (August 4).After another handful of festival sets – including Outside Lands in San Francisco, as well as the Netherlands’ Lowlands – Wet Leg will return to theatres for gigs in San Antonio, New Orleans, Orlando, Atlanta, Louisville, St Louis, Kansas City, Abiquiu, Salt Lake City and Phoenix.
Wilson Chapman editorNikki Rodriguez has been cast as the lead in the upcoming drama series “My Life With the Walter Boys,” Netflix has announced.Based on the popular Wattpad book by Ali Novak, “My Life With the Walter Boys,” the series stars Rodriguez as Jackie Howard, a 15-year old girl who loses her family in a tragic accident. She moves to Colorado to live with her mother’s old friend, who has 10 children of her own. Sarah Rafferty and Marc Blucas will play Jackie’s new guardians, veterinarian Dr.
Rosalía has today (April 18) shared details of a world tour – check out the dates below.The ‘Motomani World Tour’ will be Rosalía’s first world tour and will see her travel to 15 countries for a 46-date run.The tour begins in July in Almería, Spain at Recinto Ferial de Almeria and will then make stops in Barcelona, Madrid, Mexico City, São Paulo, Santiago, New York, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Amsterdam, London and more before wrapping in Paris at the French capital’s Accor Arena.Tickets for the tour go on sale on April 22 and 10am local time. You can buy tickets for the shows here.ROSALÍA – MOTOMAMI WORLD TOUR 2022 DATES:JULY06 – Almería, Spain – Recinto Ferial de Almeria09 – Sevilla, Spain – Estadio La Cartuja12 – Granada, Spain – Plaza de Toros14 – Malaga, Spain – Marenostrum16 – Valencia, Spain – Auditorio Marina Sur19 – Madrid, Spain – WiZink Center20 – Madrid, Spain – WiZink Center23 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi24 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi27 – Bilbao, Spain – Bilbao Exhibition Centre BEC29 – A Coruña, Spain – The ColiseoAUGUST01 – Palma, Spain – Son Fusteret14 – Mexico City, Mexico – Auditorio Nacional17 – Guadalajara, Mexico – Auditorio Telemex19 – Monterrey, Mexico – Auditorio CitiBanamex22 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – Tokio Marine Hall25 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Arena Movistar28 – Santiago, Chile – Movistar Arena31 – Bogota, Colombia – Movistar ArenaSEPTEMBER03 – La Romana, Dominican Republic – Altos De Chavon Amphitheater09 – San Juan, Puerto Rico – The Coliseo15 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway18 – New York, New York – Radio City Music Hall19 – New York, New York – Radio City Music Hall23 – Toronto, Canada – Budweiser Stage26 – Washington, D.C. – The Anthem28 –
Mike Bossy, one of hockey’s most prolific goal-scorers and a star for the New York Islanders during their 1980s dynasty, has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 65.
It’s not known as well as it was in Canada, but during the 80s and 90s, “The Kids In The Hall” was one of the most beloved sketch comedies up North, the heir apparent of SCTV. Consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson, “The Kids In The Hall” aired for five seasons from 1988 to 1995, then there was the 1996 movie, “Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy,” but besides reunion tours, one-offs, and the 2010 “Death Comes to Town,” mini-series, that was basically the extent of the ‘Kids,’ members found success in Hollywood and scattered around in different projects (Dave Foley was notably the first breakout star who had a long run on the American sitcom “NewsRadio”).
Prime Video announced The Kids in the Hall is set to premiere on May 13 followed by the companion docuseries The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks on May 20.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterAmazon has commissioned a new Canadian original comedy series titled “The Sticky,” Variety has learned.The series is inspired by the true story of “The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.” The English language half-hour series will be set in Quebec.It revolves around Ruth Clarke, a tough, supremely competent middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. Especially now that that very bureaucracy is threatening to take away everything she loves: Her farm, her comatose husband, and her right to manifest destiny.
ET Canada’s very own Roz Weston is adding “author” to his already-impressive resume.
Naman Ramachandran Blue Ant Media’s Saloon Media has entered into an agreement with A+E Networks to produce a Canadian version of Primetime Emmy nominated series “Hoarders.”“Hoarders: Canada,” is the first-ever format commission for the series outside the U.S. The A+E Networks series “Hoarders” has had 13 seasons beginning 2009.
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese streaming service Youku has acquired two seasons of Amazon Prime Video’s Canadian live-action series Dino Dana.
Canadian Screen Week continues, with the Canadian Academy announcing more winners of the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards.
RuPaul is expanding even more internationally!
Michael Bublé is teaching the world about Canadian cuisine.
The Rose frontman Woosung is set to embark on a tour of North America and Europe next month in support of his upcoming EP, ‘Moth’.Woosung teased his upcoming concert, titled the ‘Moth EP Showcase Tour’, on his Twitter account earlier this week. According to the announcement, the singer will visit European cities such as Paris, London and Berlin, before heading to North America for shows in both the US and Canada.Tickets are set to go on sale on April 7.
The 2022 Canadian Screen Awards kicked off on Monday, announcing the winners in Broadcast News and Documentary & Factual– which was hosted by ET Canada’s own Sangita Patel.
One of the most popular fan-favourite performers on the current season of “American Idol” has been Nicolina Bozzo, the Toronto student who blew away the judges with her impassioned performance of Billie Eilish’s “Everything I Wanted” during Hollywood Week’s genre challenge.