Star Anna Paquin Executive Produces Original Series, Alongside Creators Jane Maggs and Adrienne Mitchell, with Janis Lundman, Michael Prupas, Morwyn Brebner and Jesse Prupas
WGN America announced today that it has acquired the U.S. rights to the compelling original drama series “Bellevue,” starring Academy® and Golden Globe® winner Anna Paquin (“True Blood,” “Roots”), who executive produces alongside creators/showrunners Jane Maggs (“The Offering”) and producer/director Adrienne Mitchell (“Bomb Girls,” "Durham County”). The eight-episode, one-hour drama is produced by Muse Entertainment and Back Alley Film Productions and also stars Shawn Doyle (“House of Cards,” “Fargo”) and Allen Leech (“Downton Abbey,” The Imitation Game). “Bellevue” will premiere in early 2018 on WGN America.
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Anna Paquin’s run on True Blood as Sookie ended in 2014, but American audiences can expect to see her lead another show very soon. WGN America has acquired the rights to the Paquin-lead series Bellevue, the network announced Monday. After its February debut in Canada, the original series commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will premiere on its new network in early 2018.
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The cable network is transitioning out of scripted originals and into low-cost acquisitions. WGN America 2.0 is starting to take shape. The cable network, which is exiting the scripted originals space, has acquired linear rights to Canadian drama Bellevue, starring Anna Paquin. Fresh off canceling all of its scripted originals — including the well-rated critical darling Underground — WGN America is turning instead to low-cost acquisitions like the Muse Entertainment drama, which marks its first pickup since seeing network president Matt Cherniss exit.
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The series Bellevue, which debuts Monday, Feb. 20, on CBC, is set in a small town in northern Canada where the residents have dark secrets. The TV series for which Paquin is best known, True Blood, also was set in a small town, Bon Temps, Louisiana, which just happened to be crawling with vampires.
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TORONTO– Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin of 'True Blood" fame says she didn't deliberately set out to work so much in her birth country – Cnanada – in the past year.
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Let’s get this out of the way right now. Bellevue isn’t a feel-good drama. You won’t walk away from it whistling and snapping your fingers. You may very well want to retreat to a corner, curl up and rock slightly. It’s CBC’s darkest drama, akin to fantastic shows from the UK and Netherlands likeHinterland, Shetland, Broadchurch, The Fall and Wallander. And that’s exactly why you should be tuning in.
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On Monday, February 20, 2017 the much anticipated, edgy and eerieBELLEVUE will make its network premiere. CBC's new mystery thriller, created by Newfoundland native Jane Maggs along with Adrienne Mitchell, tells the tale of "a brazen cop always at odds with her hometown who unravels the disappearance of a transgender teen with the help of a dangerous mystery man."
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It's very good, an atmospheric, well-acted drama. In its favour, it has a distinct Canadian gothic sensibility – it's about decay, a mining town gone to seed, and it's about hockey, religion, revenge, death, loss, the mystery held by the reservation outside of town, the mystery held by a closed mentalhealth treatment centre outside of town and the mystery held in the dense woods around town. Also, it's about transgender teens.
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It's very good, an atmospheric, well-acted drama. In its favour, it has a distinct Canadian gothic sensibility – it's about decay, a mining town gone to seed, and it's about hockey, religion, revenge, death, loss, the mystery held by the reservation outside of town, the mystery held by a closed mentalhealth treatment centre outside of town and the mystery held in the dense woods around town. Also, it's about transgender teens.
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Canadian-born actress and mother to four-year-old twins, Anna Paquin discusses her return to the small screen playing a single mom and detective in mystery series.
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Sometimes life is all about finding that one person willing to take a chance on you and give you a real shot to succeed. For writer Jane Maggs, that person was director and executive producer Adrienne Mitchell, with whom she co-created the upcoming CBC drama series Bellevue starring Anna Paquin. The women served as co-showrunners on the eight episode series, premiering Monday, February 20 at 9 p.m., about a missing transgender teen from a small blue-collar town. Paquin’s Detective Annie Ryder is the cop leading up the investigation and in the process, is confronted with her mysterious past as she tries to get answers. Allen Leech (Downton Abbey) plays Annie’s on and off again ex, while Shawn Doyle (The Expanse, Frontier) costars as Annie’s boss, Police Chief Peter Welland.
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Allen Leech (Downton Abbey) and Shawn Doyle (House of Cards) also star
CBC, Muse Entertainment and Back Alley Film Productions today announced that Academy® and Golden Globe® award-winning actress Anna Paquin (True Blood, Roots, Margaret, Alias Grace) will star in BELLEVUE, a new 8 x one-hour drama series premiering on CBC in winter 2017. Actors Allen Leech (Downton Abbey, The Imitation Game, Rome) and Shawn Doyle (House of Cards, Big Love, Fargo) will star alongside Paquin in the series. Created by exciting new voice Jane Maggs and veteran producer/director Adrienne Mitchell, BELLEVUE is commissioned by CBC and produced by Muse Entertainment (The Kennedys, Tut) and Back Alley Film Productions (Durham County, Bomb Girls). Filming begins September 19 in and around Montreal.
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Nancy Tartaglione - August 29, 2016
True Blood alum Anna Paquin has been set to star in Bellevue, an eight-part detective drama set in a blue-collar Canadian town. Actress-turned-writer Jane Maggs and producer/director Adrienne Mitchell co-created the series which will also starDownton Abbey‘s Allen Leech and Shawn Doyle (House Of Cards). Muse Entertainment (The Kennedys) and Back Alley Film Productions (Bomb Girls) are producing for Canadian broadcaster the CBC. Shooting starts September 19 in Montreal.
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The 'True Blood' alum continues her return to series regular television opposite co‐stars Allen Leech and Shawn Doyle. True Blood and Roots alum Anna Paquin has nabbed the lead role in the Canadian transgender crime drama Bellevue. The Oscar‐winning actress will star opposite Allen Leech (Downton Abbey, The Imitation Game) and Shawn Doyle (House of Cards). Paquin will play detective Annie Ryder unraveling the truth.
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Allen Leech and Shawn Doyle also star
CBC, Muse Entertainment and Back Alley Film Productions just announced that Academy Award and Golden Globe award-winning actress Anna Paquin (True Blood, Roots, Margaret, Alias Grace) will star in Bellevue, a new one-hour drama series premiering on CBC in winter 2017. Actors Allen Leech (Downton Abbey, The Imitation Game, Rome) and Shawn Doyle (House of Cards, Big Love, Fargo) will star alongside Paquin in the series.
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True Blood and Roots alum Anna Paquin has nabbed the lead role in the Canadian transgender crime drama Bellevue. The Oscar-winning actress will star opposite Allen Leech (Downton Abbey, The Imitation Game) and Shawn Doyle (House of Cards). Paquin will play detective Annie Ryder unraveling the mystery of a transgender teen who goes missing in a small town, with foulplay suspected.
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TORONTO - Oscar-winning Winnipeg native Anna Paquin will star in a new CBC-TV mystery drama called "Bellevue" next year. The public broadcaster says the New Zealand-raised star, who won an Oscar for "The Piano" and starred on "True Blood," will play a detective named Annie who investigates the disappearance of a transgender teen.
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Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin, best known for True Blood and theX-Men films, will star in the new CBC-TV mystery drama Bellevue. The Canadian-born, New Zealand-raised actress will play the central role in the upcoming drama about a police detective conducting an investigation in her small, blue-collar hometown.
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True Blood and Downton Abbey stars head mystery series Bellevue alongside Shawn Doyle.
True Blood’s vampire muse and Downton Abbey’s chauffeur made good will star in a new drama commissioned by the CBC. Canadian actor Shawn Doyle (House of Cards) will star alongside True Blood’s Anna Paquin and Downton’s Allen Leech in Bellevue, a mystery series set in a small bluecollar town.
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The eight-parter goes to camera next month in Montreal
CBC has commissioned a new one‐hour series, Bellevue, which goes to camera next month in Montreal. The eight‐part drama, due to air on CBC in winter 2017, is produced by Muse Entertainment (The Kennedys) and Back Alley Film Productions (Durham County) and is set to begin filming on Sept. 19. The series, which will star Anna Paquin (True Blood) in the lead role, is created CFC Writers’ Lab graduate Jane Maggs and Back Alley cofounder Adrienne Mitchell. When a transgender teen goes missing in a small blue‐collar town, detective Annie Ryder (Paquin) is forced to cast doubt on people she has known her entire life, as she tries to unravel the case.
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The True Blood bombshell headlines as a brazen cop in a sleepy town in the eight-part thriller Bellevue.
It’s been a good week for CanCon: Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale is getting its own TV treatment, and now Anna Paquin is returning home to flex her acting chops. The CBC announced today that the Winnipeg-born Academy Award–winner has signed on to star in Bellevue, a new eight-part drama series from the network, co-starring Allen Leech (Tom Branson from Downton Abbey) and Shawn Doyle (House of Cards heart surgeon Alan Cooke).
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OTTAWA: Anna Paquin (True Blood, Roots,Margaret, Alias Grace) is set to star in Bellevue, a new 8×1-hour drama premiering on CBC in winter 2017. Allen Leech (Downton Abbey, The Imitation Game, Rome) and Shawn Doyle (House of Cards,Big Love, Fargo) will star alongside Paquin in the series. Set in a small blue-collar town, Bellevuecenters on Detective Annie Ryder (played by Paquin), who must unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of a transgender teen.
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O canal canadense CBC anunciou a encomenda de oito episódios para a primeira temporada de Bellevue, série policial criada por Jane Maggs eAdrienne Mitchell (Bomb Girls). Situada em uma pequena cidade do interior do Canadá, a história acompanha os trabalhos da detetive Annie Ryder (Anna Paquin, de True Blood), cuja personalidade a coloca constantemente em atrito com os moradores da região.
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Anna Paquin aus True Blood hat eine neue Serienrolle. In Kanada wird sie für CBS in der neuen Serie Bellevue mitmischen. Der Achtteiler geht im Winter 2017 auf Sendung und sie spielt eine taffe Detektivin, die in ihrer verworrenen Heimatstadt einen Vermisstenfall lösen muss.
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