Whistler (TV series)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The references in this article would be clearer with a different or consistent style of citation, footnoting, or external linking.

Whistler
Format	Drama
Created by	Kelly Senecal
Starring	David Paetkau Nicholas Lea (season 1) Jesse Moss Amanda Crew Brandy Ledford Brendan Penny (season 1) Haley Beauchamp (season 1) Holly Dignard Adam J. Harrington Kim Hawthorne (season 2) Tamara Hope (season 2) Ingrid Kavelaars Ryan Kennedy (season 2) Diego Klattenhoff (season 2) Tommy Lioutas (season 2) Chris Shyer
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	One Hour (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	CTV
Original airing	(Canada) June 25, 2006 - April 19, 2008 (USA) June 30, 2006 - September 23, 2006

Whistler is a Canadian television drama centering on the aftermath of the mysterious death of a local snowboard legend.

1 Premise
2 Production
3 Television air dates
4 Episode list
5 Cast
6 Music
7 Credits
8 International broadcasters
9 External links
- 9.1 Press releases

[edit] Premise

The show begins when Beck McKaye (David Paetkau of Final Destination 2) returns home from the 2006 Winter Olympics with a gold medal. Upon his death, the show explores the lives of his friends and family — all of whom have stories to tell and secrets to keep.

The secret-keeping locals are the only ones who can answer the terrifying truth of the show's tagline, "What secrets lie beneath the snow?" McKaye's friends and family each have their own stories, as well as secrets they attempt to hide as the show progresses. In particular, Beck's brother Quinn (Moss) must try to solve the mystery of Beck's death.

Following the solution of Beck's death at the end of the first season, the series' second season shifts the focus to the lives and adventures of both returning and new characters. The McKayes, Varlands and Millers have put the pieces of their lives together and are ready to make a new start. Quinn steps out from his brother’s shadow to carve out a name for himself on the mountain, while his mother comes to terms with her past and earns a future for herself. The Varlands fight to overcome their dark history and regain control of Whistler, while the Millers make new discoveries that may upset the balance of power. The show's second season tagline is "What new secrets lie hidden beneath the snow? The truth is hard to find. In Whistler it’s just about impossible."[1]

[edit] Production

Whistler, British Columbia is the co-host for the 2010 Winter Olympics (along with Vancouver), and for this reason, CTV, the network in possession of the broadcast rights to the 2010 Olympics, specifically asked that this series be set in Whistler. Several members of Canada's male snowboarding team come from Whistler — thus the obvious tie-in to the show.

For season one, some of the outdoor shots used in the series were filmed in and around Whistler, but most of the outdoor (and all of the indoor) scenes were filmed at Uphill Studios in Langley, B.C., about 45 km (27 mi) southeast of Vancouver. For season two, significantly more of the outdoor filming was done in Whistler. All of the post-production was done in Vancouver by Rainmaker Post, formerly a division of Rainmaker Entertainment and now a division of Deluxe Entertainment Services.

On August 1, 2006, a lawsuit was filed against CTV by Olympic snowboarder Ross Rebagliati, accusing the network of "misappropriating" his identity with Whistler's main character Beck McKaye. The suit was settled out-of-court on April 24, 2008.[2]

[edit] Television air dates

Whistler premiered on CTV on June 25, 2006, [3], and on The N in the United States on June 30, 2006.

The show aired in Canada on Sunday nights at 10 pm local time until August 14 when CTV announced it was moving the series to Monday nights at 9 pm local time. However, after just one airing in that time slot, CTV returned the series to Sunday nights at 10 pm, effective with the August 20th telecast. CTV aired the final two episodes of season one back to back on Friday, August 25.

From November 25, 2006 to February 3, 2007, CTV rebroadcast the series on Saturdays at 10 pm local time and Sunday afternoons at 4 pm local time. The CTV rebroadcast of the series pilot "Fallen" was an alternate version that included a slightly different opening scene, a different main title segment and some minor editing of a few other scenes.

The N continued to air only one episode a week in the United States, eventually shifting the final five episodes to Saturday mornings at 1 am before completing the series on September 23. The station began re-airing the series on Monday, January 22, 2007 at 5 am but for unexplained reasons omitted airing the first episode "Fallen" and began with the second episode "Out Of The Shadows".

The series also aired on the British youth channel Trouble beginning October 16, 2006 on Monday nights at 9pm and on the Polish catholic channel Puls on Saturday and Sunday evenings at 6:20pm. French language broadcasts of Whistler aired from January 30 to April 29, 2007 on a Canadian cable channel, Séries Plus Tuesday nights at 8pm.

Season 2 began filming on January 8, 2007 and was completed on May 23, 2007. As with the first season, there were 13 second season episodes. These were aired in Canada by CTV beginning on September 29, 2007 on Saturday nights at 9 pm and concluded on December 15, 2007. Repeats began on Saturday, December 28, 2007.

The-N has been confirmed as a co-producer and American rights holder for the second season but has not officially announced when it will air these episodes. [4]

Séries Plus in Canada began airing Season 2 in French on Wednesday nights at 8pm beginning January 9, 2008.

Bulgaria's TV7 aired a dubbed version of season 2 beginning on November 29, 2007 weekdays until December 13, 2007 (actually airing episodes 212 and 213 before they were broadcast in Canada).

[edit] Episode list

101 Fallen
102 Out Of The Shadows
103 Coming Together, Coming Apart
104 Lies And Whispers
105 The Burden Of Truth
106 Will The Real Beck...?
107 In The Air
108 After The Fall
109 The Looks Of Love
110 Gathering Clouds
111 Scratching The Surface
112 Meltdown
113 Unearthed

201 Homecoming
202 Blindside
203 Hazed And Confused
204 End Game
205 Passion Plays
206 Always A Bridesmaid
207 Out Of Bounds
208 Crossroads
209 Family Ties
210 Road Trip
211 The Rules Of Attachment, Part 1
212 The Rules Of Attachment, Part 2
213 Last Run

In addition to the 13 first season broadcast episodes, 13 "webisodes" were also produced for viewing in Canada on the CTV Broadband Network. The same webisodes were also available in the United States on The N's "The Click" website and the Britain's Trouble on-demand website. The webisodes were short scenes that depicted an event that took place either between broadcast episodes or during an episode (but not seen during the episode). Because the webisodes were not given official titles by the producers, CTV and The N used different titles to refer to them on their respective websites.

In addition to the 13 second season broadcast episodes, 10 "webisodes" and 10 "extra scenes" were produced for the CTV Broadband Network, although some of these were eventually not posted.

The full episodes and webisodes/extra scenes can be viewed online (in Canada only) at http://broadband.ctv.ca/primetime/

[edit] Cast

(in alphabetical order)

Talent	Role
Haley Beauchamp	Feeney (Season 1 only)
Amanda Crew	Carrie Miller
Holly Dignard (credited as "Holly Elissa Dignard" in Season 2)	Nicole Miller
Adam J. Harrington	Ryan McKaye
Kim Hawthorne	Jada Temple (Season 2 only)
Tamara Hope	Leah McLure (Season 2 only)
Ingrid Kavelaars	Jen McKaye
Ryan Kennedy	Travis Hollier (Season 2 only)
Diego Klattenhoff	Derek (Season 2 only)
Nicholas Lea	Ethan McKaye (Season 1 only)
Brandy Ledford	Shelby Varland
Tommy Lioutas	John "Griff" Griffin (Season 2 only)
Michaela Mann	Isabelle (Season 1 only)
Jesse Moss	Quinn McKaye
David Paetkau	Beck McKaye
Brendan Penny	A. J. Varland (Season 1 only)
Christopher Shyer	Adrien Varland

[edit] Music

The musical supervision for Whistler is handled by S.L. Feldman and Associates, the same company that supervised the music for Queer as Folk. Season 1 featured music by such Canadian artists as the Dirtmitts (whose song "Ordinary Day" is featured as the series opening track), The Waking Eyes, The Organ, The Stills, Hawksley Workman, Sam Roberts, Pilot Speed, The High Dials, Death from Above 1979, The Dears, The Meligrove Band, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Immaculate Machine, and Autumn Eve. The Canadian punk bank D.O.A. was featured in episode 9, "The Looks of Love," with the songs "I Hate You" and "Liar For Hire." A CD Soundtrack for some of the music used on the show was released in Canada on August 22 and in the United States on September 26, 2006.

Season 2 artists include The Yoko Casionos, Ten Second Epic, Sproll, TV Heart Attack, Kill The Lights, The February March and Jets Overhead. Several of the artists perform "live" on stage in the episodes at the series' Last Run Tavern (previously known as the McKaye Tavern in Season 1).

[edit] Credits

Created by: Kelly Senecal
Developed by: Patrick Banister, John Barbisan, Mindy Heslin, Susan James (season 2)
Written by: Alison Lea Bingeman (season 1), Tony Blake (season 1), Russ Cochrane, Paul Jackson (season 1), Abigail Kinch (season 2), Matt MacLennan (season 2), James Phillips (season 2), Kelly Senecal, Lisa Steele (season 2)
Executive Producers: Patrick Banister, John Barbisan, Tony Blake (season 1), Sam Feldman, Noreen Halpern, Mindy Heslin, Paul Jackson (season 1), Susan James (season 2), John Morayniss, Kelly Senecal, Danny Virtue, Janet York
Co-Executive Producer: Russ Cochrane (season 2)
Producers: Grant Harvey (season 2), Lael McCall (season 2), Janet York,
Co-Producers: Alison Lea Bingeman (season 1), Russ Cochrane (season 1)
Associate Producers: Nick Lea (season 1), Jane Muckle
Executive Story Editors: Matt MacLennan (season 2), James Phillips (season 2), Lisa Steele (season 2)

[edit] International broadcasters

Country	TV Network(s)	Series Premiere	Broadcast Schedule
Canada	Séries+	January 30, 2007	Season 2 begins airing in French on January 9, 2008 at 8:00pm EST.
Canada	CTV	June 25, 2006	Season 2 premiered on September 29, 2007 at 9:00pm EDT and concluded on December 15, 2007
Canada	Atlantic Satellite Network	December 28, 2007	Season 2 premiered on December 28, 2007 at 11:00pm AST (ASN, a satellite service of CTV but not part of the national CTV network, did not air Season 1.)
United States	The N	June 30, 2006	Committed to airing Season 2 but no air dates announced
United Kingdom	Trouble	October 16, 2006	Season 1 aired on Mondays at 9:00pm GMT; committed to airing Season 2 but no air dates announced
Poland	TV Puls	January 6, 2007	Saturdays and Sundays at 6:20pm CET
Latin America	Fox Life	March 12, 2007	Aired Mondays at 10:00pm and then moved to Sundays at 7:00pm
Bulgaria	TV7	November 29, 2007	Aired Season 2 Monday to Friday at 12:15 am and 12:00 pm CET until December 13, 2007
Kenya	Citizen TV	January 21, 2008	Aired Season 2 Mondays at 9:30 pm EAT
France	NRJ 12	February 12, 2008	Aired Season 1 Tuesdays at 8:45 pm and Sundays at 10:15 am CET