{"id":2818,"date":"2016-07-12T09:40:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T09:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/07\/12\/thunderbird-announces-start-of-production-on-kims-convenience\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T09:40:21","slug":"thunderbird-announces-start-of-production-on-kims-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/07\/12\/thunderbird-announces-start-of-production-on-kims-convenience\/","title":{"rendered":"THUNDERBIRD ANNOUNCES START OF PRODUCTION ON KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (July 12, 2016)<\/strong> \u2013 Thunderbird, in association with Soulpepper, is pleased to announce\u00a0that production is underway in Toronto on 13 episodes of new half-hour comedy KIM\u2019S\u00a0CONVENIENCE<\/strong>, based on the Soulpepper production of Ins Choi\u2019s award-winning hit play. The\u00a0series will premiere this fall on CBC.<\/p>\n

KIM’S CONVENIENCE<\/strong> is the funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family who\u00a0run a convenience store in downtown Toronto. The series centres around Mr. and Mrs. Kim\u00a0(‘Appa’ and ‘Umma’), who immigrated to Toronto in the ’80s to set up shop near Regent Park,\u00a0and their two grown kids, Jung and Janet. The world of KIM’S CONVENIENCE<\/strong> is real, colourful\u00a0and urban – a diverse landscape of people and places – with the Kim family at its core, as they\u00a0find humour in their everyday lives running the store.<\/p>\n

Produced by Ivan Fecan and co-created by Ins Choi and Kevin White, the series stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Shoot The Messenger, Degrassi: The Next Generation<\/em>) as Appa, Jean Yoon (Orphan\u00a0Black, The Expanse<\/em>) as Umma, Simu Liu (Blood and Water, Taken<\/em>) as Jung, Andrea Bang (Camp\u00a0Death III: The Final Summer<\/em>) as Janet, Andrew Phung (Adventures of a Pizza Guy<\/em>) as Kimchee,\u00a0and Nicole Power (Anne of Green Gables<\/em>) as Shannon.<\/p>\n

Executive Producers on KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE<\/strong> are Ivan Fecan, Tim Gamble, Alexandra Raff\u00e9,\u00a0Leslie Lester, Albert Schultz, Ins Choi and Kevin White. Supervising Producers are Sandra\u00a0Cunningham and Robin Cass.<\/p>\n

About Thunderbird<\/u><\/strong>: Thunderbird is a rapidly growing Vancouver-based TV and film production\u00a0company with offices in Los Angeles, Toronto and London. Thunderbird produces award winning\u00a0programming for Canadian and International broadcasters. The Thunderbird group of\u00a0companies has multiple divisions including, scripted development, theatrical distribution,\u00a0production, animation, and a joint venture with Lionsgate, Sea to Sky Entertainment, which is\u00a0dedicated to creating content for the US and International market.<\/p>\n

About Soulpepper:<\/u><\/strong> Located in its multi-venue home, the Young Centre for the Performing Arts\u00a0in Toronto\u2019s Distillery Historic District, Soulpepper is Toronto\u2019s largest theatre company.\u00a0Founded and guided by artists, under the leadership of Artistic Director Albert Schultz and\u00a0Executive Director Leslie Lester, Soulpepper has an integrated mission which includes: industryleading\u00a0youth outreach initiatives; the Soulpepper Academy, Canada\u2019s only multi-year paid\u00a0professional training program for theatre artists of all disciplines; and a year-round diverse\u00a0repertory season which is grounded in the classics and committed to the creation of new works,\u00a0new forms, and innovative practices.<\/p>\n

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

CBC:<\/strong>
\nTwitter:<\/strong> @cbc<\/p>\n

KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE:<\/strong>
\nTwitter: <\/strong>@KimsConvenience
\nInstagram:<\/strong> KimsConvenience
\nFacebook:<\/strong> Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/p>\n

For more information or to arrange an on-set interview, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Schwartz (prprcommunications)
\nUnit Publicist, KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE
\n416-873-0096 or\u00a0prprcommunications@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

For Thunderbird, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicola Pender\u00a0<\/strong>
\nDirector of Media &\u00a0Marketing
\n604-683-3555 or\u00a0nicola@thunderbird.tv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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