Sophie (TV series)

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Sophie
Genre sitcom
Created by Richard Blaimert
Starring Natalie Brown
Sebastian Spence
Amy Lalonde
Jeff Geddis
Mimi Kuzyk
Sara Botsford
Chantelle Chung
Catherine Bérubé
Country of origin Flag of Canada Canada
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 13 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 Jocelyn Deschênes
Running time 30 minutes (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel CBC
Original run January 9, 2008 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile

Sophie is a Canadian television sitcom starring Natalie Brown as Sophie Parker, a harried single mother and talent agent. The show is an English language adaptation of the French language Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin. The show premiered on CBC Television on January 9, 2008.

The show was created by Richard Blaimert and its executive producer is Jocelyn Deschênes, the same creative team behind the original SRC series. It was the CBC's second attempt in as many years to create an English adaptation of a successful series from its French sister network, following the less successful Rumours.

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[edit] Characters

  • Sophie Parker (Natalie Brown) is a businesswoman and single mother, who runs her own talent agency. Just hours after being told by a psychic that she was about to have the worst year of her life, her boyfriend Rick ran off with her best friend Melissa while Sophie was still pregnant with what she and Rick thought was Rick's baby. Soon afterwards, she gave birth and discovered that baby Robbie couldn't be Rick's child after all: he's black. It turns out Robbie was conceived in a one-night stand Sophie had with Andre (played by Lyriq Bent in flashbacks), whom she met in a cab in New York City but hasn't had any contact with since.
  • Rick Ryder (Sebastian Spence) is Sophie's ex-boyfriend and former business partner, who now runs his own competing talent agency which stole most of Sophie's clients. Despite the end of their relationship, however, they can't seem to get away from each other, in part because Sophie's mother is constantly plotting to reunite them. His continued presence in Sophie's life also complicates her efforts to find a new boyfriend — in one episode, he accidentally sees Melissa giving Sophie's current love interest a few pointers on how Sophie likes to be flirted with, mistakes him for someone Melissa is seeing behind his back, and later punches him in the face at a gallery show.
  • Melissa Bryant (Amy Lalonde) is Sophie's former best friend and Rick's current girlfriend. A bit ditzy, she still thinks of Sophie as a dear friend — even helping her to line up dates and begging her to dogsit — and is unaware of how much she hurt Sophie by stealing Rick. She dotes on her dog like a baby, sometimes giving it more attention and TLC than she gives Rick.
  • Matt Scott (Jeff Geddis) is Sophie's gay best friend and confidant. Although in a relationship with Verner, a Swiss immigrant, he is not entirely committed to it and also has an eye for Bernard, a waiter at the café where he and Sophie hang out.
  • Judith Parker (Mimi Kuzyk) is Sophie's manipulative, control freak mother. She is determined to reunite Sophie and Rick, faking a suicide attempt so that she can insist that they take care of her together and deliberately interfering when Sophie dates anyone who isn't Rick.
  • Estelle Burroughs (Sara Botsford) is a pretentious and flighty actress who affects a Received Pronunciation English accent, and the only client of Sophie's agency who didn't defect to Rick's new firm. She was also the mistress of Sophie's late father for many years, complicating her professional relationship with Sophie.
  • Ophelia Burroughs (Chantelle Chung) is Estelle's teenage daughter, whom Estelle adopted from China.
  • Bridget (Catherine Bérubé) is Sophie's scheming receptionist, constantly trying to angle her way into a more senior job with the agency.
  • Christian Parker (Tyler Hynes) is Sophie's younger brother. Recently paroled from prison, he is determined to exploit his family connections to launch his own reality show.

[edit] Episodes

See List of Sophie episodes.

[edit] Production

On February 5, 2008, it was announced that Sophie will be joining the ABC Family lineup in the United States, where it is slated for a 2009 airing[1][2]

On March 7, 2008 it was announced that CBC has ordered another season of the show. [3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ From The Hollywood Reporter (February 5, 2008)
  2. ^ From The Futon Critic (May 2 2008)
  3. ^ "CBC axes Hockey Wives, jPod", Globe & Mail, March 8, 2008.

[edit] External links

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