{"id":2820,"date":"2016-07-13T09:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T09:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/07\/13\/kims-convenience-comes-to-life-for-small-screen\/"},"modified":"2016-07-13T09:39:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T09:39:44","slug":"kims-convenience-comes-to-life-for-small-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/07\/13\/kims-convenience-comes-to-life-for-small-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim\u2019s Convenience comes to life for small screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jordan Pinto \/ Playback<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thunderbird executive chair Ivan Fecan is executive producing the award-winning play’s transfer to TV, with production underway.<\/h5>\n

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Production is underway in Toronto on CBC comedy series\u00a0Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em>, with\u00a0former media exec and current Thunderbird executive chair Ivan Fecan<\/a> serving as lead producer.<\/p>\n

Produced by Vancouver\u2019s Thunderbird, in association with Toronto\u2019s Soulpepper theatre company, the 13-part series is based on a successful stage play by Korean-born Canadian playwright Ins Choi.\u00a0Thunderbird inked\u00a0a film, TV and digital content development deal\u00a0with Soulpepper in\u00a0January 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Choi, who also serves as an executive producer on the project, began developing the series adaptation with showrunner Kevin White (who also serves as a writer and executive producer on\u00a0Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em>)\u00a0in summer 2014, with CBC greenlighting the project in 2015.<\/p>\n

Fecan, who has formerly held roles as president and CEO of CTVglobemedia,\u00a0VP of creative affairs at NBC and head of English TV at CBC, joined Thunderbird as chair in 2013.<\/p>\n

On working with Fecan, showrunner White told\u00a0Playback Daily\u00a0<\/em>that\u00a0the project is benefitting from his \u201cglobal eye\u201d and hands-on attitude. \u201cHe has a\u00a0strong sense of what works, what the network will need, what will be appealing to audiences, and\u00a0so much experience bringing series to life on a network,\u201d said White.<\/p>\n

Filming on the half-hour series, which is set to bow on CBC this fall, began three weeks ago at Toronto\u2019s Showline Studios. Shooting on the first three episodes is complete, with the remaining 10 to be shot in two-episode blocks. Filming is expected to wrap on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n

Executive producers on the project\u00a0are Tim Gamble, Alexandra Raff\u00e9,\u00a0Leslie Lester and Albert Schultz, as well as Fecan, Choi and White. Sandra\u00a0Cunningham and Robin Cass\u00a0serve as supervising producers.<\/p>\n

The series tells the story of the everyday lives of a Korean-Canadian family who run a downtown Toronto convenience store.<\/p>\n

Kim\u2019s Convenience\u00a0<\/i>stars\u00a0Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Shoot The Messenger, Degrassi: The Next Generation<\/i>), Jean Yoon (Orphan Black, The Expanse<\/i>), Simu Liu (Blood and Water, Taken<\/i>), Andrea Bang (Camp Death III: The Final Summer<\/i>), Andrew Phung (Adventures of a Pizza Guy<\/i>) and Nicole Power (Anne of Green<\/i>\u00a0Gables<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jordan Pinto \/ Playback Thunderbird executive chair Ivan Fecan is executive producing the award-winning play’s transfer to TV, with production underway.   Production is underway in Toronto on CBC comedy series\u00a0Kim\u2019s Convenience, with\u00a0former media exec and current Thunderbird executive chair Ivan Fecan serving as lead producer. 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