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Cocktails for a Cause with Jillian Harris

by Rebecca Bollwitt

Jillian Harris (The Bachelorette, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) will be hosting a fundraising event on June 17th benefiting Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver. Despite her move to Chicago and her new role as a designer on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Jillian will be attending this event in Surrey, BC and showing her support for Big […]

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2010 Leo Awards This Weekend

Comments 3 by Rebecca Bollwitt

The 12th annual Leo Awards celebrating achievements in BC film and television will take place tonight and tomorrow at the Westin Bayshore. I interviewed the President of the Awards, Walter Daroshin for my new weekly events column for TV Week online. “We suggest that [the industry] just take one little pause for a weekend, once […]

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The Hour Filming in Vancouver This May

Comments 6 by Rebecca Bollwitt

This morning it was announced that CBC’s The Hour (with host George Stroumboulopoulos) will be coming to Vancouver to do two shows May 18th and 19th. The show is filmed before a live studio audience so that means they need some Vancouverites to come fill the seats. You can sign up for free tickets through […]

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Women in Film Festival 2010

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This weekend is the 20th annual Women in Film & Television Festival. Each year there are screenings, workshops, and plenty of social opportunities to mingle with movers and shakers from the West Coast. Photo credit: wexnercenter on Flickr As proven by Kathryn Bigelow’s Academy Award for Best Director on March 7th, women thrive in front […]

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Tony Parsons Joins CBC Vancouver

Comments 13 by Rebecca Bollwitt

At a press conference at the CBC Vancouver broadcast centre this afternoon it was announced that legendary BC anchor Tony Parsons would be co-hosting the local supper-hour newscast. Tony Parsons, who I grew up watching on BCTV, anchored his final newscast on Global TV’s News Hour in December of 2009. Around that time but published […]

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