Kiefer Sutherland narrates CBC'S Keeping Canada Alive (a snapshot of Canada's health care system)
Kiefer Sutherland narrates CBC'S Keeping Canada Alive, an unprecedented and powerful 24-hour snapshot of Canada's health care system
Canada NewsWire TORONTO, Sept. 16, 2015
Broadcast Premiere Sun., Oct. 4 at 9 p.m./9:30 NT
One of the largest CBC companion online experiences to date
A Force Four Entertainment production in association with CBC and the TELUS Fund
For media kit materials, please visit:
www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/keeping-canada-alive.html
TORONTO, Sept. 16, 2015 /CNW/ - Canada's health care system is one of the most beloved, maligned, and hotly debated institutions in Canada. Imagine having an insider's view of the system from coast to coast, in one day, through the eyes of patients and caregivers. Narrated by Emmy Award-winning Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland, CBC's new factual series Keeping Canada Alive (6 x 60') gives viewers an unprecedented look at the health care system and the powerful emotional stories that take place within it. Over a 24-hour period on May 6, 2015, 60 camera crews descended on more than 40 health and home care locations in 24 Canadian cities to capture a six-part, one-hour television series highlighting 36 emotionally charged and highly intimate stories – from a three-month-old baby having a hole in his heart patched to a terminal cancer patient receiving end-of-life care.
"Our production crew was granted unprecedented one-day access to our health care system, a system that impacts every single Canadian at some point in their lives," says John Ritchie, chief creative officer, Force Four Entertainment. "It is our privilege to give Canadians this never-before-seen snapshot of the moving stories of health care professionals and patients that make our health care system beat in a single 24-hour period."
"The CBC is proud to bring audiences this groundbreaking series that is big in scale yet offers a very intimate and revealing portrait of all that our health care system does in a single day," says Jennifer Dettman, ?executive director, Unscripted Content at CBC. "This show will inspire a national conversation about the institution that touches our lives from the moment we're born to the moment we die?."
The companion online experience, which can be found at
cbc.ca/keepingcanadaalive, is one of the most ambitious to date and features almost 40 hours of extended breakout footage, original content, and more, as well as a 24-hour stream of raw footage which will go live Mon., Sept. 21.
Keeping Canada Alive airs Sundays at 9 p.m./9:30 NT starting Oct. 4 on CBC.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2015/09/16/C7202
You can see a trailer for the show here:
cbc.ca/keepingcanadaalive
