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Interview: Lost Girl’s Anna Today Shaw Media announced casting and Silk production details for Global Television’s 1 Girl 5 Gays returns Sept 9 original drama series, Bomb Girls. Starring on MTV Oscar® nominated actress Meg Tilly (Agnes of Holmes Inspection returns God, The Big Chill), the series begins TV, eh? tonight on HGTV production in Toronto on September 12 and tv_eh runs through November 16, 2011. Commissioned by Shaw Media’s original content team and produced by Muse TV, eh? podcast episode 59 – “Play Fitzy For Me” Entertainment/Back Alley Films, the six-part, http://t.co/VGxwDrj one-hour series is scheduled to premiere on 31 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite Global in January 2012. New tonight: Combat Set in the 1940s, Bomb Girls tells the Hospital season finale on remarkable stories of the women who risked Global – “Do No Harm” http://t.co/AzQKVIy their lives in a munitions factory building 31 minutes ago · reply · retweet · bombs for the Allied forces fighting on the favorite European front. The series delves into the #FF thanks and back to lives of these exceptional women from all walks of life – peers, friends and rivals – who smooth talker @wcdixon find themselves thrust into new worlds and changed profoundly as they are liberated and funnyman from their home and social restrictions. @danspeerin 3 days ago · reply · retweet · favorite “Bomb Girls is rich with historical significance, stemming from the efforts of Canadian women during the Second World War, and we are proud to spotlight the groundbreaking RT @Flashpoint_TV: New airdate in the US will be bravery of these unsung heroes through this new Global original,” said Barbara Williams, announced very soon. Senior Vice-President, Content, Shaw Media. “With its fresh-faced cast, seasoned 3 days ago · reply · retweet · favorite production team, intriguing storylines and unflappable characters, this six-part series is a dynamic addition to our midseason slate.”

Bomb Girls stars Meg Tilly as Lorna, a supervisor at the munitions factory with two sons on the front; Jodi Balfour (The Sinking of the Laconia) as Gladys, a wealthy socialite who Join the conversation becomes a bomb girl despite her parents’ disapproval; Charlotte Hegele (Murdoch Mysteries) as Kate, a preacher’s daughter with a golden voice who’s running from her fundamentalist father; Ali Liebert (Hellcats) as Betty, a fast-talking girl from the Prairies Facebook responsible for training the bomb girls; Anastasia Philips (Skins) as Vera, whose life is Find us on Facebook forever changed by her work on the assembly line; Lisa Norton (72 Hours: True Crime) as Edith, a forlorn mother of two youngsters; and Antonio Cupo (L’Ombra del destino) as TV, eh? Marco, an Italian-born factory worker who is banned from the army because of his ethnic background. Like 189

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