Category Archives: Lost Girl

Analyses of most episodes. Cast news, and general show information.

LOST GIRL CAST NEWS

Posted on by May 3, 2017
Katie Boland, Eric Roberts, and Gail Harvey

Katie Boland, Eric Roberts, and Gail Harvey in Sudbury for NEVER SAW IT COMING

Eric Roberts (Bo’s dad in LOST GIRL Season Five) is Wendell Garfield, and Katie Boland (The Morrigan’s assistant in LG episode 2.6) is his daughter in the suspense thriller NEVER SAW IT COMING, based on the 2013 novel by Linwood Barclay (who also wrote the screenplay) about a fairly successful fradulent psychic (Keisha Ceylon, played by Emily Hampshire) who gets close enough to the truth with her fakery to make a kidnapper nervous. (In the book, Garfield is targeted by Ceylon after she reads about the mysterious disappearance of his wife, who went shopping one day and never returned.) Maria del Mar (Donna in Fae Gone Wild) is also in the cast, and the film is directed by Gail Harvey, who directed five LOST GIRL episodes. NEVER SAW IT COMING began production in Sudbury, Ontario at the end of March and is expected to be completed by late summer.

Meghan Heffern

Meghan Heffern as a shy suicide fae in the LOST GIRL episode Fae-de to Black

Meghan Heffern (Tabitha in in Fae-de to Black) is Julia and Steven Yaffee (Earl in School’s Out) is Marlow in BEST SELLING MURDER, the tale of Hannah, a once celebrated novelist who makes a comeback with a pulp crime serial that posts new chapters to subscriber’s devices every week. The initial release is a modest success but the work becomes a massive hit after a real life murder happens that is strikingly similar to Hannah’s story. The original title was SERIALIZED, but it aired in France last month with the title Abonnée au crime, and now has been re-titled BEST SELLING MURDER and will air in the US Wednesday 5 April at 4pm on Lifetime Movie Network. A trailer is available on Vimeo

Anthony Sherwood (Light Fae Elder in two Season 5 LG episodes) will be Marcus Flynn in the seventh episode of TAKEN, titled “Solo”. Also, Rob Archer (Kenzi’s friend Bruce) will appear as a trucker, and Simon Northwood (Key Guardian in The Ceremony) will show up as a bearded tourist. The series is the origin story of Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson’s character in the Taken film trilogy). In the episode, Bryan (Clive Standen) is taken during the team’s efforts to thwart a weapons operation, and the team attempts a daring rescue. “Solo” is due to air on Monday 10 April at 10pm on NBC.

Jessica Huras

Jessica Huras as Leandra in episode 1.12
of BEING ERICA (2009)

Jessica Huras (The Morrigan’s receptionist) has an as yet unspecified role in DELTA VENUS a drama which follows four female millenials struggling with such things as monogamy, heteronormativity, submission, and sexual discretion. The film’s four writer/directors (Sofia Banzhaf, Nicole Dorsey, Karen Harnisch, and Kristin Lapensée) are all from Toronto, and all four also appear in the film. Harnish said that the film will deal with the tropes that have become synonymous with millenials. “…ubiquity of social media, recreational abuse of prescription and hard drugs, a prevalence of mood disorders, to name a few examples, are all addressed in Delta Venus. We wanted to veer from the characterization of the “Millenial” as affectless and entitled; instead striving to trace and trouble the social origins underlying these stereotypes.” Among the perks offered on the DELTA VENUS Indegogo Page is a digital download of Co-Director Sofia Banzhaf’s novella Pony Castle.

LOST GIRL CAST NEWS

Posted on by August 8, 2017
Naomi Snieckus

Naomi Snieckus as Bobbi Galka on MR. D – Tuesdays at 9:30 on CBC

Naomi Snieckus has launched FIRECRACKER DEPARTMENT, a podcast designed to spotlight women in the entertainment industry. In Episode one, Snieckus interviewed character actor Jayne Eastwood. Her guest for the second episode was Annie Murphy of SCHITT’S CREEK, and, in Episode Three (due out 13 March) she will talk to Tommie-Amber Pirie, who also appeared on LOST GIRL. (Pirie is currently Claire Webb in the CBC drama MICHAEL EVERY DAY.) Snieckus told Steve Gow of Toronto Metro News: “A firecracker is someone who is unabashed, somebody who is unapologetic. They’re bright and loud and bold and they’re all the women that I talk to.” New episodes of FIRECRACKER DEPARTMENT happen every Monday on iTunes.

Tammy Gillis

Tammy Gillis as Claire in John Barnard’s film MENORCA, which will next screen at Cinequest in San Jose on 10 March at 4pm

Tammy Gillis will be Lindsay in TINY HOUSE OF TERROR, which stars Nazneen Contractor and Francia Raisa as two sisters, one of whom (it hasn’t been revealed which yet), sells her large, high-tech house (after the mysterious disappearance of her husband) and buys a smaller place that is definitely low-tech, and in the middle of nowhere. Her new lifestyle quickly becomes life-threatening. TINY HOUSE OF TERROR completed filming in Kelowna, B.C. at the end of February, and should air later this year on Lifetime.

THE ARRANGEMENT premiered on E! on 5 March. (The first episode is free from iTunes.) According to IMDB, Gillis will be Jen in Episodes five and six of that series. Episode five is scheduled to air 2 April at 10pm.

scene from Love of My Life

Hannah Anderson, Katie Boland, Hermione Norris, Anna Chancellor, and John Hannah in a scene from LOVE OF MY LIFE

And Gillis also appears in JUST DESERTS, the fifth film in Hallmark’s MURDER SHE BAKED series. Hannah Swensen (Alison Sweeney) is thrilled when she is chosen as a guest for the first Eden Lake Dessert Bake-Off, but when fellow judge, Coach Boyd Watson (Douglas Chapman), is found murdered, Swensen once again takes it upon herself to find the killer. JUST DESERTS will premiere on The Hallmark Channel on 26 March at 9pm.

The latest film by Joan Carr-Wiggin, LOVE OF MY LIFE, is a dark comedy about a woman named Grace (Anna Chancellor) who discovers she might have only five days to live. The film has four LOST GIRL alumni in its cast. Grace’s two daughters are played by Katie Boland (Evony’s assistant in It’s Better to Burn Out Than Fae Away) and Hannah Anderson (Bo’s stepmother in Like Hell Part II). Scott Cavalheiro (Tamsin’s hookup in When God Opens a Window) plays a character called Will, and Naomi Snieckus (the Banshee’s agent in Fae Day) is someone named Lorna. Filmed in Sault Ste. Marie, LOVE OF MY LIFE can be purchased (or rented) on iTunes, but only in the UK.

Ali Liebert in Collider

Ali Liebert does some dimensional tripping and meets herself in the 2016 short film COLLIDER, which is available on YouTube.
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Ali Liebert will be Detective Nickole Bilson in TEN DAYS IN THE VALLEY, which is about Jane Sadler (played by Kyra Sedgwick), an overworked television producer and single mother whose young daughter goes missing in the middle of the night. Nickole Bilson is described as “blue collar and plain-spoken”, a tough and experienced detective who often assists on the Sadler case. Written by Tassie Cameron (co-creator of ROOKIE BLUE), the series is currently in production and will premiere on ABC sometime later this year.

Liebert is also Hannah in AUTUMN IN THE VINEYARD, which stars Rachel Leigh Cook and Brendan Penny, and is about a dispute over the ownership of a vineyard that results in romance. The film will next air on The Hallmark Channel 12 March at 1pm.

LOST GIRL CAST NEWS (Greg Bryk, Tammy Gillis, and Allie MacDonald)

Posted on by August 8, 2017
Allie MacDonald as Lillian Gish in THE FIRST

Allie MacDonald as Lillian Gish and Adam Fergus as Mary Pickford’s husband Owen Moore in Jennifer DeLia’s upcoming Pickford biopic THE FIRST

Allie MacDonald will be Edie Soames, a young woman whose suffering seeks an outlet in brutal violence, in the last five episodes of CARDINAL, a six-episode miniseries based on Giles Blunt‘s award-winning mystery novel Forty Words for Sorrow. John Doyle, writing about CARDINAL for The Globe and Mail, called MacDonald’s performance “fiercely good”, and went on to say that CARDINAL :…is about duality. The two cops, Cardinal (Billy Campbell) and Delorme (Karine Vanasse), opposites yet united. One’s an Anglo, the other is Québécois. There is Cardinal’s personal life and his public life. There is a series of contrasts between couples who are bound together for different reasons.” Directed by Daniel Grou (who also directed the award-winning series 19-2), and filmed in North Bay, Ontario, CARDINAL premiered on CTV in Canada on 25 January. It will be released in Sweden on 15 February.

Tammy Gillis in MENORCA

MENORCA, starring Tammy Gillis as the restless soccer mom Claire, will be screened at Cinequest at the Century 20 Theatre in Redwood City, California. Showtimes are: 1 March at 9:25pm, 2 March at 4:45pm, 4 March at 10:35pm, and 10 March at 4pm.

UNLEASHING MR. DARCY, a modern version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with Cindy Busby as Elizabeth, and Gillis as Jenna Scott (Elizabeth’s older sister) will be released on DVD on 2 May (pre-order not yet available). The film will next air on The Hallmark Channel on 9 February at 8pm.

Greg Bryk as the murderous Cobbs Pond in the Netflix series FRONTIER

Greg Bryk (WYNONNA EARP’s Jack the Ripper) stars as Jack Davis, an architect’s husband, in HIGH RISE RESCUE, the story of Beth Davis (played by Catherine Bell), a successful architect who receives news while on a business trip that her family is trapped on the 55th floor of a towering inferno that she designed. Beth returns to Chicago and sneaks into the burning building in an effort to get them out. Filmed in Hamilton, Ontario, HIGH RISE RESCUE should be released later this year. — Bryk is also Cobbs Pond in FRONTIER, an intense depiction of the North American fur trade in the early nineteenth century. The six episode first season of that aired last year on DISCOVERY CANADA, and can currently be streamed on Netflix in the US. (The cast of FRONTIER also includes Raoul Max Trujillo, who played LOST GIRL’s season two uber-villain The Garuda, and Shawn Doyle, who was Isaac Taft, LOST GIRL’s big bad in season three.)