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Exclusive: Sheila McCarthy, who can currently be seen in Sarah Polley’s Oscar-nominated film Women Talking, has signed with Atlas Artists for management.

McCarthy appears opposite Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, and Ben Whishaw in Women Talking, nominated for two Oscar nominations including Best Picture. For her role as Greta, McCarthy was awarded the Career Achievement Award at the 2022 Denver Film Festival and shares in the Film Independent Spirit Awards’ Robert Altman Award, given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast.

Over a four-decade career, the Toronto-born McCarthy is a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing and Lotus Eaters. She also received two Canadian Television Awards for Sesame Street and Emily Of New Moon, among other honors.

McCarthy recently wrapped her first short film in the director’s chair, Russet Season, and starred in Little Black Dress,...

This article contains spoilers for Russian Doll season 1.

It’s trippy to think that Russian Doll premiered on Netflix all the way back in 2019—the day before Groundhog Day, no less. It was of course fitting timing for the high-concept television series from Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, and Amy Poehler about New York City video game designer Nadia Vulvokov (Lyonne), stuck in a time loop where she keeps dying over and over, only to reawaken at her 36th birthday party to the sounds of Harry Nilsson’s “Gotta Get Up.” As with many series, the pandemic delayed production on season 2, but it’s finally returning to the streamer on April 20.

With Nadia and fellow looper Alan Zaveri (Charlie Barnett) seemingly achieving closure for their respective timelines, their time travel—or, as Nadia calls it, time imprisonment—is going to be markedly different on this go-round. But first let’s refresh...

“Russian Doll” creator Leslye Headland had some strong words for her fellow white women at this week’s Variety Inclusion Summit. During a panel discussion that also included “Vida” creator Tanya Saracho and “Queen Sugar” producer Carla Gardini, Headland stopped the proceedings to call out what she saw as the white (pun very much intended) elephant in the room.

“I think white women need to kind of step up their game, to be quite honest,” Headland said. “Sorry, but I’m calling you bitches out. You really do. ‘Cause like, I couldn’t agree more with everything these women are saying, but I’m also seeing the silent killer, which is a lot of white women at the top who are kind of reinforcing a lot of old ideas.”

Headland added that many white people lack the language to explicitly demand diversity in their writers’ rooms, casts, and production staffs.

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “Russian Doll” and the “Emily of New Moon” books.]

“Fucking clues abound,” Natasha Lyonne’s character Nadia says in one of the iterations of her life in Netflix’s “Groundhog Day”-esque “Russian Doll.” One of those biggest clues to Nadia’s macabre, existential adventure lies in the young adult novel “Emily of New Moon.”

In the series, Nadia dies over and over as tragic accidents befall her, but she always resets alive and well in the same bathroom during her 36th birthday party. In the fifth episode, she makes an attempt to try to correct past wrongs and reconnect with her ex-boyfriend by giving a copy of the book “Emily of New Moon” to his teenage daughter. Written by Lucy Maud Montgomery, the same author as the “Anne of Green Gables” series, this book also centers on a young orphan girl in turn-of-the-century Prince Edward Island.

“Everybody loves Anne, but I like Emily. She’s dark,” says Nadia.

Congratulations to good looking Kris Lemche. The actor has landed himself a new role on a new TV show for CW, which is a reboot of Tales from the Dark Side. He will be the main star of the show Newman, who finds himself dealing with events that revolve around the darkside. The show will likely premier next season as the network works on filling up their casting que of the show.

Talk about a different role for the former Emily of New Moon and Joan of Arcadia star. Kris has an impressive resume that does not highlight enough success for his talent. Hopefully CW and Tales from the Dark Side roles will fix that record for him. He needs a lot more acclaim for what he has brought to the work of TV and while CW may be a better fit, we also do not want to forget his fun roles.

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By Harvey F. Chartrand

Michael Moriarty, who starred in such classic films as Who’ll Stop the Rain and Pale Rider, exiled himself to Canada in 1995, following a nasty confrontation with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in a Washington, D.C. hotel room. Moriarty was invited along with network television executives and producers to hear Reno’s views on censorship of TV violence. Law and Order, one of the least violent shows on television, was cited as a major offender. Incensed by Reno's campaign to “forcibly end violence on television and trample on rights of free expression as guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution,” Moriarty quit the series and left the U.S. in protest. He has been a landed immigrant in Canada ever since. Why the fateful encounter with Reno led to a radical (and seemingly overnight) transformation of Moriarty’s...

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.

A few weeks ago, the release date of the two first seasons of Emily of New Moon was revealed. The first season will be released next week on April 20, and the second season on May 18. Moreover, Alliance Home Entertainment, a Canadian distributor, also announced that the third season of this drama will come out on June 22.

Obviously, the TV series is an adaptation of a novel written by Lucy Maud Montgomery who is best known for Anne of Green Gables, a classic of Canadian literature.

As in Anne of Green Gables, the novel/TV series Emily of New Moon takes place in Prince Edward Island, an Atlantic province of Canada, at a time when the world was making a transition between the 19th and 20th centuries. The story is centred on Emily Starr (Martha MacIsaac), an ophan who has been living in the town of New Moon with her rigid...

According to the folks at TVshowsondvd.com, Emily of New Moon, a TV series that was aired on CBC from 1998 to 2000, will come on DVD. While the first season will hit the shelves on April 20, the second season will have its turn on May 18.

Obviously, the TV series is an adaptation of a novel written by Lucy Maud Montgomery who is best known for Anne of Green Gables, a classic of Canadian literature.

As in Anne of Green Gables, the novel/TV series Emily of New Moon takes place in Prince Edward Island, an Atlantic province of Canada, at a time when the world was making a transition between the 19th and 20th centuries. The story is centred on Emily Starr (Martha MacIsaac), an ophan who has been living in the town of New Moon with her rigid aunt Elizabeth (Susan Clark), her timid aunt Laura (Sheila McCarthy) and her cousin Jimmy (Stephen McHattie). Besides,...

Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.

So this week we have Glee, which is releasing Volume 1 of their first season before the first season is even over. Most shows don't do this, but Fox feels they can capitalize on the popularity of the show and the popularity of the soundtrack. FlashForward is doing the same thing before the rest of their season launches in January, though I don't think that they will have the same success as Glee.

And to answer your question, no, I'm not sure what Emily of New Moon is either. Here's the IMDb page for it. It has nothing to do with Twilight.

Emily of New Moon - Season 2 Glee - Season 1, Vol. 1 Spaceballs - Totally Warped-Up Adventures Time Warp - Season 2 The United States of Tara - Season 1 The Waltons - Season 1 and 2 set Whale Wars - Season 2

 

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