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Men With Brooms debuts; this is a TV series based on the sort-of-a-hit Canadian movie from a while back which still has a lot of good feeling directed at it despite the fact that it wasn't really amazing or anything. Mostly we think this is because the makers of Brooms were willing to pay for trailer space in front of Lord of the Rings and act like ( Read more... )

M en with Brooms, the 2002 Paul Gross film about a small-town curling legend who returns home and ends up taking a shot at (relative) glory, made less than $5-million at the box office ( Read more... )

The movie Men with Brooms was set in the small Ontario town of Long Bay, and the CBC series of the same name follows suit ( Read more... )

Men With Brooms, and the irony of a hot Winnipeg summer
Patrick White, Globe and Mail, Oct 1, 2010

Traffic slows. Locals walking their dogs stop to look twice. Every parking spot in the neighbourhood is full.

The spectacle is uniquely Canadian. In the middle of sweaty summer day on the Prairies, when every rink town is normally closed for the ( Read more... )

At 6-foot-5-inches tall, Brendan Gall ruefully admits it’s not easy to make curling look graceful when you’ve virtually no experience ( Read more... )

Website for TV show HERE

Paul Gross says there's one significant difference between the movie Men With Brooms and the new TV show Men With Brooms ( Read more... )

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In this picture: Tannis Hogue, Shelly Tyler, Executive Producer Jamie Brown, Actor Brendan Gall, Actress Siobhan Murphy, Flor Marcelino, Ari Lantos, Paul Gross, Louise O'Brien-Moran, Kathy Currie, Tara Walker, Gemma Manangan, Paula Devonshire. CREDIT: Allen Fraser Photography

CBC Television series Men With Brooms (Season 1) wraps up production in ( Read more... )