January | Growing Up Canuck
This winter season, indulge in nostalgia with the good, the bad, and the awkward stages of growing up Canadian. This collection features moments from childhood through adolescence and high school.
Content Warning:
Some of the projects included in this collection deal with topics that may be distressing. Viewer discretion is advised – please check ratings and warnings on individual selections before engaging.
15/Love
Creators: Karen Troubetzkoy & Derek Schreyer
The show focuses on the lives of hopeful teenage tennis players as they train at the Cascadia Tennis Academy. In this high-pressure environment, the characters struggle through adolescence and romance while trying to become the world champion tennis stars that they and others think they can be.
*Also available on AppleTV.
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Creators: D.J. MacHale & Ned Kandel
There’s nothing like a good ghost story to keep you up at night! Are You Afraid of the Dark? Serves up a winning blend of imagination and suspense along with a twisted cast of wicked warlocks, vengeful demons, and cold-hearted villains. Check it out – if you dare
Braceface
Creators: Melissa Clark, Scott Fellows & Lesley Wolff
All Sharon wants is to hang with her friends and survive the social maze of her first year of high school. She is just like most girls her age with one tiny exception.
Clone High
Creators: Bill Lawrence, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
A group of high-school teens are the products of government employees’ secret experiment. They are the genetic clones of famous historical figures who have been dug up, re-created anew. Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, JFK, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and more are juxtaposed as teenagers dealing with teen issues in the 20th century.
Instant Star
Creators: James Hurst, Miklos Perlus & Linda Schuyler
When Jude Harrison enters a singer/songwriter contest, she knows her stuff will kill, but she’s shocked when she learns she won the whole darn thing. Now, with a recording contract and a soon-to-be released single on the line, Jude’s about to get shaken up worse than a mosh pit at an Evanescence concert. She’s wading through a world bigger than her wildest rock n’ roll dreams.
The Next Step
Creator: Frank van Keeken
The Next Step follows the lives of dancers at The Next Step Dance Studio in their quest to win regional, national and international dance championships.
*Also available on Netflix
Popular Mechanics for Kids
Producer: Jonathan Finkelstein
Based on the famous magazine, this series takes young viewers on a ride to some of the world’s most exciting places where they get a first-hand look and feel of what it takes to operate everything they see. Featuring Jay Baruchel and Elisha Cuthbert.
Reboot
Creators: Gavin Blair, John Grace & Philip Mitchell
In the inner computer world of Mainframe, a guardian program sprite and his friends defend the system from threats from viruses and the User.
Road to Avonlea
Creator: Fiona McHugh
A young girl is sent to live with her mother’s relatives in Prince Edward Island. Set in the early 1900’s, the series follows her adventures, as well as that of her family and the town’s people as she grows up in Avonlea.
Student Bodies
Creators: Alan Silberberg, Judy Spencer & Michael Klinghoffer
“Student Bodies” is the weekly newspaper at fictional Thomas A. Edison High School, where this teenage sitcom takes place. It mixes real-life characters with cartoon segments in between portraying the small but close group of friends behind the publication.
