The Lake is a Canadian Prime Video original that takes the audience through the cottage culture of the Canadians and their summertime ritual of bringing people together to live as a community. The eight-episode show created by Julian Doucet is more than just a coming-of-age story. It talks about family bonding, making new friends, resolving old conflicts, and rediscovering yourself.
The Lake begins with a teenager, Billie, forced to spend time with her long-absent birth father, Justin, who is visiting Canada after a hiatus in Australia. Both have their reasons for being with each other. They initially do not get along because it is their first meeting. Thanks to Billie’s amazing parents, she was made aware of her adoption at a young age. Justin joins this trip with his baggage. Justin is gay, and a recent divorcee, and his trip back home is his way to not just spend...
The Lake begins with a teenager, Billie, forced to spend time with her long-absent birth father, Justin, who is visiting Canada after a hiatus in Australia. Both have their reasons for being with each other. They initially do not get along because it is their first meeting. Thanks to Billie’s amazing parents, she was made aware of her adoption at a young age. Justin joins this trip with his baggage. Justin is gay, and a recent divorcee, and his trip back home is his way to not just spend...
- 6/8/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Lauren Holly has joined the second season of Prime Video Canada’s first scripted series, “The Lake,” Variety has learned exclusively.
“The Lake” stars Jordan Gavaris (“Orphan Black”) as Justin, a man who returns home after breaking up with his long-term partner. There, he hopes to reconcile with Billie (Madison Shamoun) the biological daughter he gave up for adoption in his teens. Once home, however, he learns his father left the family lake house to his stepsister Maisy-May (Julia Stiles).
Holly will play Mimsy, Maisy-May’s mother. She is a free-wheeling muse who knows what she likes and how to get it, even if that means altering the truth. Mimsy returns to reconnect with her daughter and turn over a new leaf, however her presence promises to bring chaos to Maisy-May’s ordered life.
The character and traumatic relationship were mentioned at the end of Season 1, after (spoiler alert) Justin...
“The Lake” stars Jordan Gavaris (“Orphan Black”) as Justin, a man who returns home after breaking up with his long-term partner. There, he hopes to reconcile with Billie (Madison Shamoun) the biological daughter he gave up for adoption in his teens. Once home, however, he learns his father left the family lake house to his stepsister Maisy-May (Julia Stiles).
Holly will play Mimsy, Maisy-May’s mother. She is a free-wheeling muse who knows what she likes and how to get it, even if that means altering the truth. Mimsy returns to reconnect with her daughter and turn over a new leaf, however her presence promises to bring chaos to Maisy-May’s ordered life.
The character and traumatic relationship were mentioned at the end of Season 1, after (spoiler alert) Justin...
- 9/30/2022
- by Amber Dowling
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Prime Video’s first scripted Canadian Amazon Original series, The Lake, is getting a second season. Amazon has greenlighted another cycle of the half-hour comedy written and executive produced by Julian Doucet (Killjoys) and executive produced by Karen Troubetzkoy. Michael Souther and Teza Lawrence also executive produce for Amaze (Carter).
Based in part on Doucet’s life experience, The Lake centers on the quintessential Canadian cottage experience. Season 1 began with Justin (Jordan Gavaris) returning from living abroad after a break-up with his long-term partner, in the hope of reconnecting with the biological daughter who he gave up for adoption in his teens. His plans to create new memories with his city-loving daughter Billie (Madison Shamoun) at the idyllic lake from his childhood went awry when he found out his father left the family cottage to his “picture-perfect” stepsister, Maisy-May (Julia Stiles).
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Based in part on Doucet’s life experience, The Lake centers on the quintessential Canadian cottage experience. Season 1 began with Justin (Jordan Gavaris) returning from living abroad after a break-up with his long-term partner, in the hope of reconnecting with the biological daughter who he gave up for adoption in his teens. His plans to create new memories with his city-loving daughter Billie (Madison Shamoun) at the idyllic lake from his childhood went awry when he found out his father left the family cottage to his “picture-perfect” stepsister, Maisy-May (Julia Stiles).
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- 7/13/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Julian Doucet was always told that his life should be made into a movie or TV show after he’d tell anyone his story—he’s a gay man who was just 20 years old when he had a daughter. While he and the baby’s mother gave the baby up for adoption, they remained in her life.
“I always felt a little conflicted about it just because it’s not just my story,” Doucet told me recently over Zoom from his home in Montreal. “It also belongs to her so I kind of wanted to wait until she was an adult in some ways. So when she graduated from university, I kind of was like, ‘Maybe I can do that show now.’”
That show is “The Lake,” Amazon Prime Video’s first scripted Canadian original series that premiered in June. Jordan Gavaris (“Orphan Black”) stars in the eight-episode comedy as Justin,...
“I always felt a little conflicted about it just because it’s not just my story,” Doucet told me recently over Zoom from his home in Montreal. “It also belongs to her so I kind of wanted to wait until she was an adult in some ways. So when she graduated from university, I kind of was like, ‘Maybe I can do that show now.’”
That show is “The Lake,” Amazon Prime Video’s first scripted Canadian original series that premiered in June. Jordan Gavaris (“Orphan Black”) stars in the eight-episode comedy as Justin,...
- 6/26/2022
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Prime is set to drop its very first scripted Canadian comedy TV series. Titled The Lake, the upcoming comedy show is written by Julian Doucet, Vivian Lin, and Lisa Codrington, with direction from Jordan Canning and Paul Fox. Michael Souther and Teza Lawrence, alongside Doucet, are executive-producing the series. In a statement reported by Deadline, the two expressed their excitement over the series and shared inspirations behind the show’s development: “We were inspired by the summers we spent on the lake, which is the basis of the concept that we brought to Amazon,” they said. “We’re excited and really looking
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- 5/11/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
The 32nd annual Inside Out Toronto 2S (two spirit) LGBTQ+ Film Festival, which champions innovative 2Slgbtq+ filmmakers from across the globe, has revealed its full film lineup that will take place both in-person and virtually from May 26 to June 5 in Toronto, showcasing 128 films from 28 countries, including 38 feature films, 3 episodic series, and 7 world premieres.
The announcement was made today by Inside Out’s Interim Co-Heads, Andrew Murphy and Elie Chivi.
The festival’s opening night film will be the Canadian premiere of Gabriel Martin’s critically acclaimed family drama Mars One, which opened the World Cinema program at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and topped several lists of best films seen at the festival.
Mars One explores the hopes and expectations, the anxieties and foibles, of a Brazilian family against the backdrop of the 2018 election of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. Closing the festival will be the world premiere of the...
The announcement was made today by Inside Out’s Interim Co-Heads, Andrew Murphy and Elie Chivi.
The festival’s opening night film will be the Canadian premiere of Gabriel Martin’s critically acclaimed family drama Mars One, which opened the World Cinema program at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and topped several lists of best films seen at the festival.
Mars One explores the hopes and expectations, the anxieties and foibles, of a Brazilian family against the backdrop of the 2018 election of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. Closing the festival will be the world premiere of the...
- 5/6/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Festival to run May 26-June 5.
The Canadian premiere of Gabriel Martin’s Brazil-set family drama Mars One and the world premiere of the first two episodes of Prime Video’s first original Canadian scripted comedy series The Lake bookend the hybrid 32nd annual Inside Out Toronto 2Slgbtq+ Film Festival (May 26-June 5).
Mars One follows the lives and dreams of an impoverished family in Belo Horizonte against the backdrop of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro’s 2018 election victory and opened Sundance’s World Cinema programme at the start of the year.
The Lake is created by Julian Doucet and stars Jordan Gavaris...
The Canadian premiere of Gabriel Martin’s Brazil-set family drama Mars One and the world premiere of the first two episodes of Prime Video’s first original Canadian scripted comedy series The Lake bookend the hybrid 32nd annual Inside Out Toronto 2Slgbtq+ Film Festival (May 26-June 5).
Mars One follows the lives and dreams of an impoverished family in Belo Horizonte against the backdrop of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro’s 2018 election victory and opened Sundance’s World Cinema programme at the start of the year.
The Lake is created by Julian Doucet and stars Jordan Gavaris...
- 5/6/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Prime Video announced The Kids in the Hall is set to premiere on May 13 followed by the companion docuseries The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks on May 20.
More premiere dates and a slew of new Canadian originals were also revealed during the Prime Video Presents Canada showcase event in Toronto on Wednesday.
Here’s a breakdown of what’s ahead:
The Sticky is a half-hour series revolving around Ruth Clarke, a tough, supremely competent, middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity — especially now that Canada’s bureaucracy is threatening to take away everything she loves: her farm, her comatose husband and her right to freedom.
With the help of Remy Bouchard, a pint-sized local blockhead, and Mike Byrne, an aging low-level mobster, Ruth changes her fate — and transforms the future of her...
More premiere dates and a slew of new Canadian originals were also revealed during the Prime Video Presents Canada showcase event in Toronto on Wednesday.
Here’s a breakdown of what’s ahead:
The Sticky is a half-hour series revolving around Ruth Clarke, a tough, supremely competent, middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity — especially now that Canada’s bureaucracy is threatening to take away everything she loves: her farm, her comatose husband and her right to freedom.
With the help of Remy Bouchard, a pint-sized local blockhead, and Mike Byrne, an aging low-level mobster, Ruth changes her fate — and transforms the future of her...
- 4/13/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Prime Video has set its first scripted Canadian Amazon Original series, The Lake. Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black), Julia Stiles and Madison Shamoun star in the half-hour comedy, produced by Amaze (Carter). Set in cottage country, it will film in northern Ontario from August to September for a 2022 launch on Prime Video.
Amazon Studios’ The Lake is part of Prime Video’s investment in Canada. It is the fourth announced Canadian Amazon Original series overall, following the revival of the sketch comedy The Kids in the Hall, docu-series All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs, and and comedy-variety series Lol: Last One Laughing Canada. Since 2015, Amazon Studios has filmed 24 original series and films in Canada, including The Man in the High Castle and Upload in Vancouver, The Boys and The Expanse in Toronto, Tales from the Loop in Winnipeg, as well as parts of Tom Clancy...
Amazon Studios’ The Lake is part of Prime Video’s investment in Canada. It is the fourth announced Canadian Amazon Original series overall, following the revival of the sketch comedy The Kids in the Hall, docu-series All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs, and and comedy-variety series Lol: Last One Laughing Canada. Since 2015, Amazon Studios has filmed 24 original series and films in Canada, including The Man in the High Castle and Upload in Vancouver, The Boys and The Expanse in Toronto, Tales from the Loop in Winnipeg, as well as parts of Tom Clancy...
- 8/5/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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