Global Playhouse, intermittently also known as Bell Canada Playhouse or Bell Canada Global Playhouse, is a Canadian television drama anthology series, which aired on Global Television Network in the 1980s. [1] A coproduction of Atlantis Films and the National Film Board of Canada, [2] the series aired film adaptations of short stories by Canadian writers. [1]
Its most noted episode was The Painted Door, a dramatization of a short story by Sinclair Ross which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 57th Academy Awards in 1985. [3] Other stories adapted for the series included Ross's "One's a Heifer", [4] Mordecai Richler's "Bambinger", [1] Margaret Laurence's "To Set Our House in Order", [5] W. D. Valgardson's "Capital", [6] W. P. Kinsella's "John Cat", [4] Guy Vanderhaeghe's "Cages", [4] Morley Callaghan's "All the Years of Her Life" and "A Cap for Steve", [4] David Walker's "A Good Tree", [4] Isabel Huggan's "Jack of Hearts", and Alice Munro's "Connections". [7]
The series produced 26 episodes overall, which aired monthly from 1984 to 1986, [8] and ended production at the discretion of Atlantis Films rather than being cancelled by the network. [9] All 26 episodes were rebroadcast weekly in the 1986-87 television season. [10]
References
- ^ a b c Rick Groen, "Short is sweet on Global". The Globe and Mail, September 27, 1984.
- ^ Bill Prentice, "Canadians on display in TV drama showcase". The Globe and Mail, September 22, 1984.
- ^ "Oscar Nominations Give Canada the Nod Once More". Cinema Canada (116): 48. March 1985.
- ^ a b c d e "Atlantis completes 2 of Canlit series". Cinema Canada, April 1984. p. 34.
- ^ Rick Groen, "Lofty standards maintained in TV version of Laurence tale". The Globe and Mail, May 23, 1985.
- ^ Greg Burliuk, "Global Playhouse productions score another wistful winner". Kingston Whig-Standard, July 25, 1985.
- ^ Salem Alaton, "The NFB gives some on-the-job training: Learning the tricks of the trade". The Globe and Mail, February 9, 1985.
- ^ John Haslett Cuff, "New tax guidelines may have industry breathing easier". The Globe and Mail, October 30, 1986.
- ^ Sid Adilman, "Trio had its fill of TV quickies". Toronto Star, April 2, 1986.
- ^ Noel Taylor, "In with new, out with old at Global; Network bringing in 13 new shows, dropping some standbys for fall". Ottawa Citizen, September 4, 1986.
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