The Human Equation: Interview with Bomb Girls’ Meg Tilly

Source - The Morton Report

During World War II every able-bodied person helped in the fight against the enemy. While the men served on the front lines, the women did whatever necessary back home to support the troops. The popular Canadian-made TV drama Bomb Girls follows the stories of four women working in a Canadian munitions factory while the conflict continues to unfold overseas.

Antonio Cupo - The “Bomb Girls” Boy on Living a Normal Life

Source - Huffington Post

If you look at Antonio from far away, he appears super machismo. When you look closer and deep into his eyes, you see that he's a very approachable, normal guy, working hard to earn a living while entertaining us at the same time.

Bomb Girls’ Meg Tilly Takes Home Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress

Source - Newswire

TORONTO, March 4, 2013 /CNW/ - Global's award-winning original series Bomb Girls hit the mark at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards taking home a number of trophies including Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for Meg Tilly (@Meggamonstah). The series, which has garnered recognition both in Canada and the U.S., including nods from ACTRA, the Writers Guild of Canada and the illustrious Gracie Award for Outstanding Drama, makes its highly anticipated return with all new season 2 episodes beginning on Monday, March 25 - 9pm ET/PT.

WGC screenwriting awards nominees unveiled

Source - Playback

The Writers Guild of Canada announced the nominees on Thursday for its 17th annual awards, including nods for the writers behind Bomb Girls, My Babysitter’s a Vampire, Still and Picture Day.

Why You Should Be Watching ‘Bomb Girls’

Source - Toronto Standard

Canadian television has had a bad rap for a very, very long time. Long plagued with poor production values and excessive, cheesy Canadiana, not even Canadians wanted to watch it. But thanks to desperate need for content on five million cable networks and more funding (often through co-producing with other countries), Canadian TV has really hit his stride

Meg Tilly: the actress talks about her new book and her hit show, Bomb Girls

Source - PostCity.com

There are many nouns that can be used to describe Meg Tilly: actress, writer, Oscar nominee, survivor. Now there’s a new one to add to the list: Torontonian. After a decade away from the spotlight, writing books in rural British Columbia — a life U.K. tabloid The Daily Mail termed a “sometimes eccentric seclusion” — Tilly is in Toronto and back on our screens.

Internal struggles highlighted on ‘Bomb Girls’

Source - The Loop

At first, I didn’t have much to say about Wednesday night’s episode of Bomb Girls. Things happened, it wasn’t overly exciting and it ended.

But, in retrospect, there was an overarching theme to the show that made it interesting. The Leafs were winning! Well that, and the fact that while WWII was raging on overseas, battles were also happening in Canada and within individuals.

Who’s in, who’s out? The TV and film nominees for the Canadian Screen Awards

Source - The Globe and Mail

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There are still nominations for TV shows that got cancelled after one season; there are still nominations for films that few Canadians have heard of let alone seen, but the new Genie-Gemini awards mash-up aims to give the domestic screen industry some badly needed red-carpet glamour.

Nominees for 11th annual ACTRA awards unveiled

Source - Playback

Canadian actors from homegrown series including Copper, Bomb Girls and Flashpoint are among the nominees for the 11th annual ACTRA Awards, announced by ACTRA Toronto Thursday.

Surprise CanCon hit Bomb Girls returns for a second shift with high hopes and new nuance

Source - National Post

The canteen at Victory Munitions is empty and quiet. A poster promoting war bonds is on the wall. Michael MacLennan, one of the executive producers of Bomb Girls, suddenly arrives for his interview on a scooter. A manual-powered scooter, like the kind kids use, but adult-sized. It’s one of the best ways to traverse the expansive set in Toronto’s southwest end. Between the bomb factory floor, the office area, the hospital, the nightclub, various residences, not to mention all the parts of a television production that never appear on camera, the Bomb Girls set, all housed in the shell of a 1940s-era furniture factory, would wear out a lot of shoes if you walked it. Thus the scooter.

‘Bomb Girls’ shares stories of a different time

Source - Toronto Sun

Bomb Girls focuses on a group of women working at a munitions factory. The main cast includes Meg Tilly as stern shift matron Lorna Corbett, Jodi Balfour as eager-to-help socialite Gladys Witham, Ali Liebert as the tough yet vulnerable Betty McRae, and Charlotte Hegele as the resilient Kate Andrews.

‘Bomb Girls’ shares stories of a different time

Source - Toronto Sun

There's a question I have about Bomb Girls. And I'm not sure how to ask it without unintentionally coming across as insulting to real people who lived through World War II.

It has to do with attitude.

Bomb Girls Season Two Adds Powerful Ammunition to Global’s Winter Lineup

Source - Newswire

TORONTO, Nov. 27, 2012 /CNW/ - Last winter's #1 new Canadian series is back! Global is proud to announce the highly anticipated return of Bomb Girls season two premiering on Wednesday, January 2 - 8pm ET/PT.

The critically acclaimed original miniseries was an instant hit from coast to coast when it debuted earlier this year, averaging 1.3 million viewers per episode on Global and becoming the highest rated drama in the country for its timeslot.

Reelz Will Air Season Two of WWII Drama ‘Bomb Girls,’ With Rosie O’Donnell Set to Guest Star

Source - Indie Wire

ReelzChannel, which launched as a network dedicated to programming about movies in theaters and on VOD, has been making forays into acquired scripted programming -- ones that have included the Stuart Townsend spy series "XIII" (on which Roger Avary is working). "Bomb Girls," another Canadian show, premiered on the network in September, a drama set in Toronto during World War II as a group of women work in a munitions factory, their jobs both a way to help the war effort and to get independence.

Bomb Girls take cover in US

Source - C21 Media

US cable network Reelz has picked up the second run of Canadian wartime drama series Bomb Girls.

Reelz will air the 12x60′ season in the first quarter of next year. The series is set during the Second World War and centres on women who risk their lives in a Canadian munitions factory.

ITV finds a home for Bomb Girls

Source - C21 Media

UK diginet ITV3, traditionally the home of classic British drama, has picked up Canadian wartime scripted series Bomb Girls.

MIPCOM Spotlight: Muse Distribution International

Source - Worldscreen

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CANNES: Set against the backdrop of the 1940s during World War II, Bomb Girls from Muse Distribution International re-creates the experiences of women who traded in their lives baking pies in the home for making bombs in munition factories.

Imavision Scores North American DVD & Digital Rights for Bomb Girls

Source - Worldscreen

Bomb Girls, produced by Muse Entertainment and Back Alley Film Productions, has been picked up by Imavision for DVD and digital distribution in the U.S. and English- and French-speaking Canada.

Ladies, Please: ‘Bomb Girls’ Follows the Dramas of Women Working in a Munitions Factory During World

Source - Indie Wire

Like most period dramas on television, the Canadian series "Bomb Girls" (which premiered on ReelzChannel last night and airs Tuesdays at 10pm) doesn't inhabit its timeframe so much as it wears it like a habit. Set during World War II at a Toronto factory that manufactures bombs, it takes a setting specific to its moment in time

Michael Seater boards Bomb Girls’ second season

Source - Playback

Michael Seater has joined the cast for the second season of Bomb Girls for Global Television.

Muse Entertainment and Back Alley Film Productions are shooting 12 new one hours of the period drama in Toronto through mid-December.

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Bomb Girls land in Netherlands

Source - C21 Media

The distribution side of Muse Entertainment has sold its fledgling drama Bomb Girls into the Netherlands and the Balkans following its recent second-season order from Canada’s Global TV.
 

Ajax explodes with Bomb Girls pride

Source - Durhamregion.com

The town hosted a viewing party for the show's first season finale, complete with creators, producers and talent from the show, as well as real-life bomb girls and an interactive DIL exhibit featuring photos, documents,
 

Bomb Girls is renewed for second season

Source - Toronto.com

Bomb Girls, a six-part miniseries about women working in a Canadian munitions factory during World War II, has been renewed by Shaw Media. Shaw says the show has drawn an average 1.2 million viewers since it premiered