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Vérité Films names Amy Cameron Head of Development, Drama and Scripted Television Toronto (March 26, 2012) - Vérité Films has appointed production executive, screenwriter, author and award-winning journalist Amy Cameron as Head of Development, Drama and Scripted Television. “Amy’s key focus will be developing a slate of hour-long drama series,” said Virginia Thompson, President of Vérité Films. “It’s great to have a writer and story editor of Amy’s caliber on our team.  There’s no doubt...

By WENDY DALLIAN, Vancouver Observor InSecurity is one of CBC’s hottest new shows and I had the great fortune of talking with two of the talented and hilarious actors, Vancouver Island’s Natalie Lisinska (as Alex Cranston) and Vancouver’s Richard Yearwood (as Benjamin N’udu). WD: Can you tell us a little about the show? NL: InSecurity is a parody of the spy genre and the existing archetype of the American hour long procedural drama: Law & Order, Alias, 24. I feel like it sort of...

By BRIAN LILLEY, Toronto Sun - Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA - CBC launched a new show this week, spoofing the world of spies, and it's garnering an audience of at least one group of people in Ottawa – our own spies at CSIS. “The entertainment industry has had a long fascination with the intelligence business, and that's perfectly legitimate. We, too, think our work is pretty interesting,” said CSIS spokeswoman Isabelle Scott. “That said, screenwriters don't always get it right.” The...

CBC’s spy comedy a breath of fresh air By DENETTE WILFORD, TV Guide I popped in the InSecurity screener into my laptop without knowing anything about it. Based on the title, I figured it was either a been there, done that tale of a group who worked at some sort of security firm, or the trials and tribulations of a character lacking self-worth. I couldn’t have been more wrong. And I couldn’t have been happier. As I laughed and laughed (to the point of tears), my co-workers were...

By JAMES BAWDEN, James Bawden Blog InSecurity is CBC's latest attempt to find a replacemet for the rapidly aging sitcom Little Mosque On The Prairie. This decidedly hilarious spoof of such TV spy series as 24 premieres on CBC Tuesd. Jan. 4 at 8:30 p.m. and should not be missed. Shot mostly in Regina, the half hour series focuses on the fictional National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) and stars Natalie Lisinska (Young People Fucking) as rookie agent Alex Cranston, a lush...

InSecurity re-imagines Canada as a superpower By BRIAN GORMAN, Edmonton Journal ON SCREEN: INSECURITY TUESDAY; CBC - - - If you want to parody spy shows and movies, re-imagining Canada as a world power goes a long way toward establishing the right tone of insanity. As series co-creator Kevin White says, InSecurity -debuting Tuesday, Jan. 4, on CBC Television - is set in "a superpower that is tricking the world." "We all thought that was a pretty funny idea," he says....

Public broadcast to air homegrown spy-fi comedy that spoofs TV's secret agent genre. By ETAN VLESSING, The Hollywood Reporter TORONTO -- Most Canadians know their little-known spy agency is a joke, so the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) isn’t letting that go to waste. The public broadcaster is set to debut in early January InSecurity, a spy-fi sitcom about bungling Canadian secret agents trying to liquidate terrorists from Ottawa as part the fictional National Intelligence and...

By ETAN VLESSING, Playback Well, we can dream, can’t we? Canada has a vast, dark intelligence network as befits a superpower, and valiant efforts to save the world just get thwarted by bungling characters and sloppy execution. That’s the premise behind the upcoming CBC spy-fi comedy InSecurity, from Corner Gas creative Kevin White, Virginia Thompson and Robert de Lint. “It’s a bit of a comic book world we’re trying to create. Why not?,” says Kevin White, of Company Name Here...

By KATE TAYLOR, The Globe and Mail In an Ottawa lab, two government agents are submitting a piece of pizza to rigorous computerized testing – until one of them gives up and just eats the day-old slice. Its tandoori flavour can mean only one thing: It’s the Bombay Burn from Sanjay’s Real Italian. The pair rush over to the pizzeria and attempt to extract information from an obstructionist employee by threatening to kill her with a plastic pizza protector. The CBC is hoping you will find this...

Remy Girard's role in new CBC spy spoof is a rare case of one linguistic group getting a chance to discover a star from the other one By BRENDAN KELLY, The Gazette Following my column last week about the lack of anglos on local French TV, a number of folks responded by noting that English-Canadian TV isn't much better when it comes to representing francophone Quebec. And they are absolutely right. Dramas and sitcoms from the ROC (Rest of Canada) hardly ever feature francophones,...

Isabelle Hontebeyrie / 7Jours Dès le 4 janvier, Rémy Girard se transforme en Claude Lesage, alias «The Conoisseur», un ancien de la GRC devenu agent secret. Et attention, ça va rigoler! Ils sont six agents. Six à faire partie de La National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), basée à Ottawa – le tournage s’est déroulé à Regina –. «Ils se prennent très au sérieux, mais ils sont très poches. Ils finissent toujours par réussir leurs opérations, mais, parfois, c’est vraiment par...

Tricon Films & Television, one of North America’s fastest growing production and distribution companies has acquired the international rights to InSecurity, a 13-part action-comedy series set to debut on CBC Television in January 2011. The series is about the men and women of the fictional National Intelligence and Security Agency who keep the world safe…ish. “We’re thrilled to be working with Virginia Thompson, Robert de Lint and Kevin White - a team who have proven themselves to be...