{"id":2819,"date":"2016-07-12T09:58:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T09:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/07\/12\/production-on-thunderbirds-kims-convenience-begins-for-cbc\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T09:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T09:58:59","slug":"production-on-thunderbirds-kims-convenience-begins-for-cbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/07\/12\/production-on-thunderbirds-kims-convenience-begins-for-cbc\/","title":{"rendered":"PRODUCTION ON THUNDERBIRD\u2019S KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE BEGINS FOR CBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greg David \/ TV, Eh?<\/em><\/p>\n

Thunderbird, in association with Soulpepper, is pleased to announce that production is underway in Toronto on 13 episodes of new half-hour comedy KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE, based on the Soulpepper production of Ins Choi\u2019s award-winning hit play. The series will premiere this fall on CBC.<\/p>\n

KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE is the funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family who run a convenience store in downtown Toronto. The series centres around Mr. and Mrs. Kim (\u2018Appa\u2019 and \u2018Umma\u2019), who immigrated to Toronto in the \u201980s to set up shop near Regent Park, and their two grown kids, Jung and Janet. The world of KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE is real, colourful and urban \u2013 a diverse landscape of people and places \u2013 with the Kim family at its core, as they find 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) as Appa, Jean Yoon (Orphan Black, The Expanse) as Umma, Simu Liu (Blood and Water, Taken) as Jung, Andrea Bang (Camp Death III: The Final Summer) as Janet, Andrew Phung (Adventures of a Pizza Guy) as Kimchee, and Nicole Power (Anne of Green Gables) as Shannon.<\/p>\n

Executive Producers on KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE are Ivan Fecan, Tim Gamble, Alexandra Raff\u00e9,\u00a0Leslie Lester, Albert Schultz, Ins Choi and Kevin White. Supervising Producers are Sandra Cunningham and Robin Cass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greg David \/ TV, Eh? Thunderbird, in association with Soulpepper, is pleased to announce that production is underway in Toronto on 13 episodes of new half-hour comedy KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE, based on the Soulpepper production of Ins Choi\u2019s award-winning hit play. The series will premiere this fall on CBC. 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