It all started in 1988 with an obsession: Canadian comic Carolyn Taylor, now known as one of the stars and co-creators of “Baroness Von Sketch Show,” was a “closeted 15-year-old” watching Olympic figure skating in her aunt’s living room. She recalls Katarina Witt performing a free skate to “Carmen” in an iconic red costume. At the very end, Witt performatively lay down on the ice — and Taylor just wanted to lie next to her.
“It was one of those foundational moments,” Taylor tells Variety. “But then I went on with my life, and didn’t pursue skating or Olympics in any capacity.”
Fast forward to 2016. Taylor was driving in the car with her girlfriend when Whitney Houston’s 1992 song “I Have Nothing” came on the radio. “It was as if I had heard it for the first time,” she recalls. She had a vision of “a professional pairs, gold medalist skating routine,...
“It was one of those foundational moments,” Taylor tells Variety. “But then I went on with my life, and didn’t pursue skating or Olympics in any capacity.”
Fast forward to 2016. Taylor was driving in the car with her girlfriend when Whitney Houston’s 1992 song “I Have Nothing” came on the radio. “It was as if I had heard it for the first time,” she recalls. She had a vision of “a professional pairs, gold medalist skating routine,...
- 9/22/2023
- by Amber Dowling
- Variety Film + TV
“Baroness von Sketch Show” star Carolyn Taylor will front a new unscripted comedy series for Canadian streaming service Crave, produced through Catalyst and Blue Ant Studios.
The six-part comedy series has been commissioned by the Bell Media-owned SVOD, and is produced by Catalyst — the Toronto-based development and funding company focusing on women-centric content — and Blue Ant Studios as part of a strategic partnership to develop female-generated programming for the global marketplace.
Taylor is best known as one of the stars and co-creators of CBC’s comedy hit “Baroness von Sketch Show,” which aired across five seasons from 2016 to 2020. Starring four female comedians, the satirical sketch comedy offered clever takedowns of contemporary culture through the female gaze. Some of the show’s most famous skits include “Private Vagina,” “Mom Says Hello” and “Not All Men.”
The new series, which is still untitled, is slated to premiere on Crave in 2023. Blue Ant International...
The six-part comedy series has been commissioned by the Bell Media-owned SVOD, and is produced by Catalyst — the Toronto-based development and funding company focusing on women-centric content — and Blue Ant Studios as part of a strategic partnership to develop female-generated programming for the global marketplace.
Taylor is best known as one of the stars and co-creators of CBC’s comedy hit “Baroness von Sketch Show,” which aired across five seasons from 2016 to 2020. Starring four female comedians, the satirical sketch comedy offered clever takedowns of contemporary culture through the female gaze. Some of the show’s most famous skits include “Private Vagina,” “Mom Says Hello” and “Not All Men.”
The new series, which is still untitled, is slated to premiere on Crave in 2023. Blue Ant International...
- 10/11/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
In a month, Scott Hamilton will learn whether the tumor lurking in his brain has grown, or whether the “little critter” – as the ice skater wryly calls it — is “behaving itself.” Waiting for such news could easily keep a guy up at night, but for the Olympic champ it’s almost an afterthought.
After all, between preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics broadcast, getting ready for a book launch (his third book, Finish First: Winning Changes Everything, is out Feb. 6) and organizing an annual cancer benefit in Nashville this month, “I’ve got too much to do every day to worry,...
After all, between preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics broadcast, getting ready for a book launch (his third book, Finish First: Winning Changes Everything, is out Feb. 6) and organizing an annual cancer benefit in Nashville this month, “I’ve got too much to do every day to worry,...
- 11/15/2017
- by Eileen Finan
- PEOPLE.com
Now a retired figure skater, Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan rarely gets to lace up her ice skates these days, but she returned to ice with Et's Nischelle Turner.
For Nischelle, this was her first time on the ice ever and she couldn't ask for a better teacher.
Pics: Check Out These Sexy Winter Olympians
"Bend and push your foot out," Nancy instructed. "That'll stop you."
"Well, we'll see," Nischelle joked.
Even Nancy's 6-year-old daughter Nicole got in on the act. Judging by the way she zipped around Trump Rink in Central Park, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Nancy told us that her two boys Matthew, 16, and Brian, 9, also know their way around the ice, and they will join their mom and sister for ABC's Musselman's Apple Sauce Family Skating Tribute show, airing Sunday.
The family-themed skating show, co-hosted by 1992 Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi and three-time U.S. champion...
For Nischelle, this was her first time on the ice ever and she couldn't ask for a better teacher.
Pics: Check Out These Sexy Winter Olympians
"Bend and push your foot out," Nancy instructed. "That'll stop you."
"Well, we'll see," Nischelle joked.
Even Nancy's 6-year-old daughter Nicole got in on the act. Judging by the way she zipped around Trump Rink in Central Park, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Nancy told us that her two boys Matthew, 16, and Brian, 9, also know their way around the ice, and they will join their mom and sister for ABC's Musselman's Apple Sauce Family Skating Tribute show, airing Sunday.
The family-themed skating show, co-hosted by 1992 Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi and three-time U.S. champion...
- 11/21/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Tomorrow, Lifetime will air The Gabby Douglas Story, a heart-tugging film about the 16-year-old gymnast who moved far away from her family and trained her whole life to become the 2012 All-Around Olympic champion. This is wonderful for Gabby Douglas, who was endearing and triumphed and certainly deserves her own very cheesy biopic. But you know who else deserves a cheesy biopic? The many Olympians listed below. Make them all, Hollywood! We deserve inspiring human-interest stories every year — not just during the Olympics. Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov (figure skaters, 1998, 1994) should get a … biopic.But like a really weepy, Nicholas Sparks–style biopic, because this story (spoiler alert) is devastating. Short version: Gordeeva and Grinkov met as teenagers; they skated for the Ussr; they fell in love, got married, had a baby, won the gold medal in Lillehammer in 1994, and then … Sergei collapsed on the ice...
- 1/31/2014
- by Amanda Dobbins,Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
Battle of the Blades is a skating competition series that airs on CBC Television, and apparently, it's got quite a bit of a following up there. It's sort of like the new U.S. series Skating with the Stars, save that there aren't any outside stars involved -- everyone involved is a professional figure skater.
Strangely enough, though the U.S.'s Skating with the Stars is only beginning tonight, Battle of the Blades wrapped its second season up tonight, crowning the "Russian Dream Team" Ekaterina Gordeeva and Valeri Bure the winners of the competition. Here's the press release from CBC:
Toronto – November 22, 2010 – After eight weeks of incredible performances, tremendous showmanship and the promised blood, sweat and tears - the final decision came from Canadian voters who declared thatEkaterina “Katia” Gordeeva and Valeri Bure are this season’s winners on Battle Of The Blades.Despite their Russian heritage and American residency,...
Strangely enough, though the U.S.'s Skating with the Stars is only beginning tonight, Battle of the Blades wrapped its second season up tonight, crowning the "Russian Dream Team" Ekaterina Gordeeva and Valeri Bure the winners of the competition. Here's the press release from CBC:
Toronto – November 22, 2010 – After eight weeks of incredible performances, tremendous showmanship and the promised blood, sweat and tears - the final decision came from Canadian voters who declared thatEkaterina “Katia” Gordeeva and Valeri Bure are this season’s winners on Battle Of The Blades.Despite their Russian heritage and American residency,...
- 11/23/2010
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
Toronto -- With a Russian format sale for its "Battle of the Blades" series so far eluding Insight Productions, the Canadian producer has a novel way to encourage a deal: Stack the second season for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reality TV competition series with Russian skaters.
The sophomore run casts Russian figure skaters Violetta Afanasieva and Olympic champion Ekaterina Gordeeva to help teach former National Hockey League players graceful dance routines.
And former NHL great Valeri Bure, the "Russian Pocket Rocket," will also partner up with a former figure-skating ballerina on the homegrown elimination-style reality series.
The Russian casting for "Battle of the Blades" follows Insight Productions in March signing up Swedish format distributor Sparks Network to handle international sales of the Canadian ice skating competition series.
Insight and Sparks Network are betting interest in turning local ice hockey heavyweights into Lycra-clad dancers is more likely to come from nations...
The sophomore run casts Russian figure skaters Violetta Afanasieva and Olympic champion Ekaterina Gordeeva to help teach former National Hockey League players graceful dance routines.
And former NHL great Valeri Bure, the "Russian Pocket Rocket," will also partner up with a former figure-skating ballerina on the homegrown elimination-style reality series.
The Russian casting for "Battle of the Blades" follows Insight Productions in March signing up Swedish format distributor Sparks Network to handle international sales of the Canadian ice skating competition series.
Insight and Sparks Network are betting interest in turning local ice hockey heavyweights into Lycra-clad dancers is more likely to come from nations...
- 9/7/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Without any surprises, one of the most popular Canadian reality shows is back. For that matter, the Toronto Star revealed yesterday the identity of the competitors for the second season of this show that has been compared to Dancing with the Stars.
Here's the concept of Battle of the Blades: this reality pairs up eight retired NHL players with eight female figure skaters. Each week, each team will have to perform a choreography on Sunday nights live in Toronto. The next day, three team facing elimination will compete. At the end of this result day, the public's choice will be revealed. With that said, the winning team gets to donate $100,000 to a cause of their choice.
For this year, the Toronto Star revealed that participants, among the hockey players, include Theoren Fleury, Kelly Chase, Russ Courtnall, Valeri Bure, P.J. Stock, Patrice Brisebois, Todd Warriner and Georges Laraque.
As for the female figure skaters,...
Here's the concept of Battle of the Blades: this reality pairs up eight retired NHL players with eight female figure skaters. Each week, each team will have to perform a choreography on Sunday nights live in Toronto. The next day, three team facing elimination will compete. At the end of this result day, the public's choice will be revealed. With that said, the winning team gets to donate $100,000 to a cause of their choice.
For this year, the Toronto Star revealed that participants, among the hockey players, include Theoren Fleury, Kelly Chase, Russ Courtnall, Valeri Bure, P.J. Stock, Patrice Brisebois, Todd Warriner and Georges Laraque.
As for the female figure skaters,...
- 9/7/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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