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Exclusive: Project Runway Canada has rounded out their cast of experts, adding Spencer Badu as a judge and Aurora James as a mentor.

Badu and James will join previously announced host and judge Coco Rocha and fellow judge Jeanne Beker in Bell Media’s Crave reality series competition.

The announcement was made during Bell Media’s Upfront presentation. Badu is a Toronto-based designer known for his genderless streetwear designs. He has won multiple Cafa awards and has had his designs worn by Kendrick Lamar and A$AP Rocky.

James is an author known for her memoir Wildflower. She is also the founder of accessories brand Brother Vellies, vice chair member of the Cfda, and founder of the non-profit Fifteen Percent Pledge, an organization that encourages retailers to pledge at least 15 percent of their shelf space to Black-owned businesses.

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Margaret Atwood recalls MGM’s straight-to-series order in 2016 to adapt her dystopian classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale as a Hulu series as being a touch risky.

“It was a gamble. And the gamble paid off. Anybody approaching me earlier who said we wanted to make a film about The Handmaid’s Tale, I would have said, ‘Who’s going to watch that?’” she told the second annual Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Canada gala at the Ritz Carlton in Toronto on Thursday.

“When it came out, a certain number of people felt it was illuminating because, surely, the United States would never, ever do such things,” the acerbic Canadian author, poet and activist said as she picked up the Icon Award at the Ritz Carlton. She talked about the success in adapting her 1985 dystopian novel just as Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale has reached the climax for its sixth and final season,...

As Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale builds towards its series finale, Margaret Atwood, who wrote the 1985 novel on which the popular TV drama starring Elisabeth Moss is based, will be honored by The Hollywood Reporter at its Women in Entertainment Canada event on May 29 in Toronto.

The Canadian author, poet and activist will receive the Icon Award at this year’s second annual Wie Canada gala ceremony. Atwood wrote the Handmaid’s Tale book on which the Hulu TV series, from creator Bruce Miller, is based. Her follow-up 2019 novel, The Testaments, is currently being adapted as a sequel series.

The Handmaid’s Tale explores the complicated lives of handmaids who are sex slaves forced to give birth for infertile elite couples. Cultural and political observers have noted that the themes and concepts of the Canadian-born author’s celebrated novel are eerily familiar in today’s climate that sees the Donald Trump...

The Sex Lives of College Girls star Amrit Kaur will receive the Breakthrough Award at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Canada gala in Toronto on May 29.

The second annual event will see Kaur receive the honor as a rising star in entertainment and media. Kaur is best known for playing Bela Malhotra on the Max comedy series from creators Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble.

She also starred in the coming-of-age dramedy The Queen of My Dreams from director Fawzia Mirza, playing a Pakistani Canadian girl struggling to bridge the chasm between herself and her mother. Named a rising star at the Toronto Film Festival in 2023, Kaur is a member of Gracemoon Arts Company, an ensemble of actors based in Italy, the U.S. and Canada and which opened an off-off Broadway theatre in New York City in July 2024.

THR’s Wie Canada gala will also see Tantoo Cardinal...

Bell Media’s Crave is reviving Project Runway Canada with a 10-episode order.

The fashion competition has set Coco Rocha as host and judge, with Jeanne Beker joining the judging panel.

Production for the reality TV series is in collaboration with Fashion at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University. Filming is set to begin this summer, and the series will debut on Crave later this year.

“Canada’s fashion culture and industry deserves to be celebrated, and this is the perfect moment to spotlight homegrown designers,” said Carlyn Klebuc, General Manager, Original Programming, Bell Media. “Project Runway is already an iconic franchise, and we can’t wait to give it a distinctly Canadian twist.”

Michela Dimondo, EVP, International Distribution, Fremantle Canada, said: “We are delighted to be working with our partners at Bell Media to launch Project Runway Canada. Project Runway has had a profound effect on the fashion industry...

Apple TV+ today released the trailer for ‘The Super Models’, the highly anticipated four-part documentary event spotlighting the remarkable careers of Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington. The series is set to premiere globally on September 20, 2023.

Each episode features never-before-seen commentary from some of the biggest names in fashion and culture, with contributors including Fabien Baron, Jeanne Beker, Emily Bierman, Tim Blanks, Martin Brading, Paul Cavaco, Carlyne Cerf De Dudzeele, Grace Coddington, Sante D’orazio, Charles Decaro, Arthur Elgort, Edward Enninful, David Fincher, Tom Freston, John Galliano, Garren, Robin Givhan, Tonne Goodman, Michael Gross, Bethann Hardison, Marc Jacobs, Kim Jones, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Rocco Laspata, Suzy Menkes, Isaac Mizrahi, Michael Musto, François Nars, Todd Oldham, Hal Rubenstein, Anna Sui, Annie Veltri, Donatella Versace and Vivienne Westwood.

‘The Super Models’ travels back to the 1980s, when four women from different corners of the world united in New York.

A legendary new trailer for the upcoming four-part docuseries “The Super Models” has been unveiled.

On Wednesday, Apple TV+ released a full-length trailer for the highly anticipated series that features exclusive access to the iconic Supermodels – Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington.

“It wasn’t about fashion. It was about the women. That’s what a supermodel is,” Crawford says as the trailer begins while archival footage of “The Supers” play on screen.

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Cindy Crawford in “The Super Models”. — Photo: Apple TV+ “The Super Models” — Photo: Apple TV+

Then, as the trailer goes on, Turlington notes that shooting the docuseries was the first time the iconic group have reunited “in our 50s” before giving viewers a glimpse of the never-before-seen commentary from some of the biggest names...

“Canada’s Drag Race” is getting a visit from the prime minister.

On Tuesday, the trailer dropped for the new season of the reality competition, dubbed “Canada vs. the World”, which features a very surprising appearance by Justin Trudeau.

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The Canadian prime minister will appear as a special guest on the show, as nine queens from across the globe compete to win the international crown.

On the judging panel will sit “Canada’s Drag Race” season 1 winner Priyanka, along with guest judges Anjulie, Hollywood Jade, Jeanne Beker, Joe Zee, Sarain Fox, and humorist Gary Janetti.

It will also be the first time a world leader has appeared on the “Drag Race” franchise, though U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi...

Justin Trudeau in the Drag Race werkroom? How aboot that!

The Prime Minister of Canada is one of several special guests appearing in the just-released trailer for Canada’s Drag Race: Canada Vs. the World, premiering Friday, Nov. 18 at 9/8c on Wow Presents Plus.

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Brooke Lynn Hytes will serve as the show’s host, judging alongside Brad Goreski and...

An impressive 1.4 million dollars was raised at the tenth annual Artists for Peace and Justice (Apj) Festival Gala, presented by Bovet, held at the Windsor Arms Hotel during the Toronto film festival.

Yannick Bisson, Susan Sarandon, Deb Rennard, Alan Cumming, David Danielle, Marchelle Sellers, Shantelle Bisson, Ben Stiller, Natasha Koifman, Suzanne Boyd

Co-chaired by Natasha Koifman and Suzanne Boyd, the event was co-hosted by an influential team, including Apj board co-chairs Ben Stiller and Susan Sarandon, along with Jackson Browne, George Stroumboulopoulos, Yannick and Shantelle Bisson.

The event kicked off with a live-art “red” carpet led by acclaimed New York-based pop artist Peter Tunney. Inspired by the arrivals moment that the artist created at the inaugural event in the same location in 2009, Peter encouraged high-profile guests to dip their feet in blue paint to transform a canvas with a stencil that read “Grattitude.” The sentiment behind this piece celebrates the...

When it comes to the broader genre of reality programs, I’ve always loved those that you might call social experiments. From the various “decade house” series, or Frontier House, to those that have similarly put people into situations out of time, or at least out of their comfort zone. The CBC has announced a new series, Back in Time for Dinner, which will serve to take a Canadian family through six decades. The show will hit June 14th at 8 p.m. on CBC. Based on the Warner Bros. format that took a British family through similar paces, the series combines food, fashion and culture to turn the Campus family home into a virtual time machine. Each week the family will dive into a different decade, and much like those shows from the decade series, the shock of trying to cope with how things were in earlier times can make for quite the challenge.

After spending much of her career covering red carpets, Jeanne Beker is now the one in the spotlight among Canada’s brightest talents. The former “Fashion Television” host and international fashion icon will be inducted into Canada’s Walk Of Fame tonight at 9 p.m. Et/Pt on Global, an honour that’s particularly special to her. Related: Howie Mandel […]...

Toller Cranston, the Canadian skater who won an Olympic bronze medal during his career, died Saturday in Mexico. He was 65. Toller Cranston Dies Cranston’s death was announced by his longtime friend Jeanne Beker, reported The Toronto Star. No official cause of death has been revealed, though Beker stated that no foul play was suspected. “There was […]

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Contenders for the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards will be able to apply online for the first time following a deal between The Academy Of Canadian Cinema & Television and secure digital media management company Yangaroo.

The Academy’s online application site for television and digital media entries will go live in mid-July, with a mid-August entry deadline for those categories. Film entries will open up in mid-September with a mid-October deadline.

Under the terms of the agreement, the latter will provide, maintain and host a digital awards system for the Academy that will also enable the secure upload of films, television shows, digital media productions, trailers and photos and provide jurors with secure links to streaming video clips.

The Academy’s online application site for television and digital media entries will go live in mid-July, with a mid-August entry deadline for those categories. Film entries will open up mid-September, with a mid-October deadline.

“Yangaroo brings...

Bell Media has confirmed "Fashion Television" (widely known as "Ft") -- a weekly half-hour show that profiles the greatest talents from the worlds of fashion, photography, architecture and design -- has been cancelled.

The show has been on air for over 27 years and has won multiple awards. The series is seen in Canada and around the world -- including Norway, Sweden, Finland and other European countries.

Hosted by Jeanne Beker, the show has become one of the most notable fashion television programs in the industry. And Beker, herself, has become one of Canada's most iconic and influential fashionistas.

In a statement released by Bell Media, officials say they look, "forward to an exciting future with [Beker], including the development of new projects. Bell Media remains committed to the fashion genre and will continue to grow FashionTelevisionChannel to deliver a broader appeal for viewers, advertisers, and distributors."

The statement also thanked founding...

Bell Media has confirmed "Fashion Television" (widely known as "Ft") -- a weekly half-hour show that profiles the greatest talents from the worlds of fashion, photography, architecture and design -- has been cancelled.

The show has been on air for over 27 years and has won multiple awards. The series is seen in Canada and around the world -- including Norway, Sweden, Finland and other European countries.

Hosted by Jeanne Beker, the show has become one of the most notable fashion television programs in the industry. And Beker, herself, has become one of Canada's most iconic and influential fashionistas.

In a statement released by Bell Media, officials say they look, "forward to an exciting future with [Beker], including the development of new projects. Bell Media remains committed to the fashion genre and will continue to grow FashionTelevisionChannel to deliver a broader appeal for viewers, advertisers, and distributors."

The statement also thanked founding...

Producers Michael Rubinoff and Daryl Roth are proud to announce that, after weeks of packed houses and heaps of critical and popular praise, the Toronto production of the award-winning New York smash hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore has been extended by popular demand, and will continue at the Panasonic Theatre with a brand new all-star cast, from September 10 - October 2. Tickets for the extension go on sale Saturday, August 7: 416-872-1212 or www.ticketking.com They also announced that CTV "FashionTelevision" host Jeanne Beker, Barbara Budd (a Stratford actor prior to her long stint as co-host of CBC Radio's "As It Happens") and Gemini, Genie and Dora Award-winning Sheila McCarthy ("Little Mosque," "Emily of New Moon") will star in the September cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, along with two other cast members to be announced.