Gavin Crawford's Wild West

Gavin Crawford's Wild West
Genre comedy
Created by
Directed by Jacob Tierney
Starring
Country of origin Canada
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Tom Cox
  • Gavin Crawford
  • David Fortier
  • Jordy Randall
  • Ivan Schneeberg
  • Kyle Tingley
Production company(s) Seven24 Films
Temple Street Productions
Broadcast
Original channel CBC
Original airing July 2013

Gavin Crawford's Wild West is a Canadian television special, which aired on CBC Television in July 2013.

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]

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; and Conrad Whitehead, a trucker in Fort McMurray whose girlfriend Shannon (Kaniehtiio Horn) announces that she's pregnant just as he's planning to break up with her.

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

  1. ↑ "CBC to pilot two more". Playback, May 20, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Wish List not going forward, CBC passes on eOne drama pilot". Playback, April 20, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Gavin a gay time". NOW, June 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Almost Famous". NOW, March 6, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Canadian Screen Awards: Orphan Black, Less Than Kind, Enemy nominated". CBC News, January 13, 2014.

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