#character: ava bartlett

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Kaley Cuoco

In the Source Link, you will find a *work in progress* gif pack of Kaley Cuoco in Episodes One to Four of the first season of tv series - Based on a True Story.

The amazing Kaley plays female lead - Ava Bartlett, a real estate agent, who is married to Nathan and expecting their first child. She is passionate about true crime. Kaley was pregnant in this project with her first child *Episode one has been finished There are ??? gifs in this pack.

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[heartlandians]

Long-running CBC series Heartland introduces new faces for Season 15

It’s a testament to the gentle leanings of CBC’s Heartland that the character of Katie does not seem to endure a lot of coming-of-age melodrama in her life.

The young teen, who is now played by 13-year-old Calgary actress Baye McPherson, is not completely without strife in the first couple of episodes of the show’s 15th season. But the conflict is pretty benign. She spends the early goings of the season trying to convince her mom Lou (Michelle Morgan), that she and her bestie Parker (played by Ava Tran, a newcomer to the cast in Season 14) are responsible enough to be babysitters. In fact, the two seem rather obsessed with proving this to Katie’s stubborn mother.

“Katie is very, very kind and loves her family a lot, like all Heartland characters,” says McPherson. “I think she can be a little feisty. She takes after Lou in that way. But I think she is really loyal and will do just about anything for her family.”

Beyond her adventures in babysitting, Season 15 will also have Katie and Parker getting into a few other youthful escapades, although McPherson doesn’t want to give spoilers. There might be a bit of conflict between the two best friends at some point. Other than that, the season will feature some nice mother-daughter time between Katie and Lou.

Her character is not new to Heartland fans. But McPherson is a new face on the series, replacing Ziya Matheson in the role this year. McPherson has acted in short films and school plays and danced for Decidedly Jazz Dance Works and Alberta Dance Theatre, but Heartland marks her first major role on television. Luckily, acting runs in the family. McPherson is the daughter of Calgary-based actress Anne Hawthorne. Her older sister, Saylor, is also an actress.

McPherson first became interested in acting when her mother organized some acting classes. Since then, she has studied the craft in Vancouver and Los Angeles. But on her first, nerve-racking day on the Heartland set in High River this summer, McPherson says she was most grateful for the hands-on help she received from her family.

“It was very, very nice to have my mom with me,” she says. “My sister was always helping me with lines and my mom was too and always reminding me to work on my backstory. They were super helpful. It would have been a much more stressful time without them.”

The family ties are a nice touch for such a family-friendly series. McPherson admits she didn’t know much about Heartland until she landed the audition and began to do her homework. But she is part of a tradition for the Sunday-night family favourite. Most seasons find the writers and producers introducing a few new faces. The sudden and dramatic departure of main character Ty Borden (played by Graham Wardle), who died at the beginning of Season 14, was certainly a game-changer for the series. But, for the most part, Heartland’s main cast of Morgan, Amber Marshall as her sister Amy Fleming, Shaun Johnston as their grandfather Jack Bartlett, and Chris Potter as their father Tim has remained steady since Season 1. There have been some well-known actors passing through the ranks as recurring characters over the years, including a pre-Orphan Black Tatiana Maslany as Amy’s romantic rival for Ty and a pre-Arrow Stephen Amell as a polo player. But as the show’s young protagonists aged, Heartland’s producers and writers have also been careful to introduce more permanent young characters to help keep their younger viewers engaged. That has included Georgie (Alisha Newton), who became a main character after arriving as a precocious 12-year-old orphan back in Season 6. Ava Tran’s Parker was introduced in Season 14 as a brainy pre-teen who added some comic relief to an otherwise unusually dark, grief-filled season.

But one of the most reliable ways Heartland has introduced new characters is through kindly probation officer Clint Riley, played by veteran Calgary character actor Greg Lawson. Riley has been a recurring presence on the Bartlett homestead since Day 1, when he brought a troubled Ty to the ranch to meet Grandpa Jack, Amy and Lou. Since then, he has also introduced the troubled Badger (Jack Knight) and the troubled Luke (Lucian-River Chauhan) to the family for similar reform in Seasons 2 and 12, respectively.

In Season 15, Clint returns with a troubled new charge named Logan, played by 17-year-old Drew Davis. Unlike Katie, Logan has some serious teenage baggage to deal with and a character arc that isn’t dissimilar to Badger and Luke’s.

“I don’t want to spoil too much because there is a lot of mystery to the character and how Logan progresses,” says Davis, in an interview from his home near Toronto. “Logan is part of the group home that comes to the ranch and there are a bunch of challenges and mystery throughout the town at that time. He starts to take a liking to horses and, throughout his storyline, there’s this natural tug of whether he’s going to be staying or leaving. His father is in prison, so there’s this constant pull between him feeling ostracized from this new way of life that he is experiencing on the ranch and where he was before.”

Davis comes to Heartland with quite a bit of experience on television in both live-action and voice-over roles, making his debut at the age of five on Rookie Blue before landing stints on the children’s musical Big Top Academy, the tween sci-fi comedy Annedroids and a recurring role on Orphan Black. As with McPherson, acting is a family business for Davis. His younger sister Millie is also a busy actress with credits that include Orphan Black (she and her brother played siblings) and the Odd Squad. Their father, Wayne Davis, is an actor who has starred in The Handmaid’s Tale among other titles. He also runs the CharActors Theatre Troupe with their mother Megan, a summer camp that teaches children and teens performing arts in Thornhill, Ont.

Like McPherson, Davis did not know much about Heartland before landing the audition. But after spending the summer on set, he has some theories about its enduring appeal.

“Everybody can watch it and has some character they can relate to, or a relationship they find interesting within the show,” he says. “I think it’s a nice escape. You have people who live the life on the ranch and the sort of life that Heartland depicts and they enjoy it because they can relate to it. You also have the people, similar to me, that this is very far from anything they have ever experienced. It’s very interesting to see a completely different way of life.”

Heartland airs Sundays on CBC.

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Captain Costume Debut

THURSDAY EDITION

In classic Scavenger Hunt fashion, the Burton Judson Scav captains debuted their stunning costumes this morning at a prestigious breakfast meant to prepare leadership for days to come.

The prompt for this year’s designs:

Scav runs on legendary pieces of shit, and this year we have the once-in-a-lifetime honor welcoming Sonic the Hedgehog (2019) to that noble canon. Dig up those prehistoric DeviantArt accounts, because this year's Captains' Costumes are your very own iconic, unironic Sonic the Hedgehog OCs (DO NOT STEAL). Your Captians should follow the golden rings to Bartlett Trophy Lounge at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday to debut their extravagant hair, adorable ears, and oversized accessories at our very own S.C.A.V. (Sonic Cosplayers Appreciation Venue). Your characters should be of your team's own design - and you better bring the reference sheets to prove it! Gotta go fast.

These photos feature team captains Meredith McDonough and Ava Geenan in true Sonic fashions, as original characters Primrose the Flamingo and Osbourne the Rat.

[thecomedybureau]

Here Are Your 2017 Emmys Comedy Nominees

Today, the nominations for the 2017 Primetime Emmys were announced. For comedy specifically, it’s probably what you expected.

Premium cable and streaming services continue to dominate the Emmys with Netflix and HBO coming out strong. FX also maintains its status as a premium cable network disguised as a basic cable network with its handful of nominations for Atlanta, Better Things, and Baskets. 

Colbert’s Election special and Sam Bee’s Not the WHCD thankfully were bestowed nominations here as well.

One thing that was a delightful surprise is Lauren Lapkus and Ben Schwartz gaining nominations for their performances in The Earliest Show, a web series that followed a morning talk show with one of the hosts going through all the stages of grief.

Take a gander at all the comedy nominees below.

*All comedy nominees are in italics

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES Atlanta, FX Black-ish, ABC Master Of None, Netflix Modern Family, ABC Silicon Valley, HBO Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix Veep, HBO

LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES Pamela Adlon, Better Things, FX  Jane Fonda, Grace And Frankie, Netflix Allison Janney, Mom, CBS Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep, HBO Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish, ABC Lily Tomlin, Grace And Frankie, Netflix

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES Anthony Anderson, Black-ish, ABC Aziz Ansari, Master Of None, Netflix Zach Galifianakis, Baskets, FX Networks Donald Glover, Atlanta, FX Networks William H. Macy, Shameless, Showtime Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent, Amazon

VARIETY TALK SERIES Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, TBS Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, HBO The Late Late Show With James Corden, CBS The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, CBS Real Time With Bill Maher, HBO

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES Vanessa Bayer, Saturday Night Live, NBC Anna Chlumsky, Veep, HBO Kathryn Hahn, Transparent, Amazon Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live, NBC Judith Light, Transparent, Amazon Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live, NBC

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES Louie Anderson, Baskets, FX Networks Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live, NBC Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix Ty Burrell, Modern Family, ABC Tony Hale, Veep, HBO Matt Walsh, Veep, HBO

VARIETY SKETCH SERIES Billy On The Street, truTV Documentary Now!, IFC Drunk History, Comedy Central Portlandia, IFC Saturday Night Live, NBC Tracey Ullman’s Shows, HBO

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM Archer, FX Bob’s Burgers, Fox Elena And The Secret Of Avalor (Sofia The First), Disney Channel The Simpsons, Fox South Park, Comedy Central

UNSTRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM Born This Way, A&E Deadliest Catch, Discovery Channel Gaycation With Ellen Page, Viceland Intervention, A&E RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked, YouTube United Shades Of America With W. Kamau Bell, CNN

HOST FOR A REALITY/REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM Alec Baldwin, Match Game, ABC W. Kamau Bell, United Shades Of America With W. Kamau Bell, CNN RuPaul Charles, RuPaul’s Drag Race, VH1 Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Project Runway, Lifetime Gordon Ramsay, MasterChef Junior, Fox Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, VH1

OUTSTANDING CHARACTER VOICE-OVER PERFORMANCE American Dad!, Dee Bradley Baker as Klaus, TBS/20th Century Fox Television Bob’s Burgers, Kevin Kline as Mr. Fischoeder, Fox BoJack Horseman, Kristen Schaal as Sarah Lynn, Netflix F Is For Family, Mo Collins as Ginny, Jimmy Fitzsimmons, Lex, Ben, Cutie Pie, Netflix Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane as Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, Fox The Simpsons, Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson, Fox

OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES Brown Girls, Open TV Fear The Walking Dead: Passage, AMC.com Hack Into Broad City, ComedyCentral.com Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot, ABC.com

OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM VARIETY SERIES Behind The Voice Epic Rap Battles of History Honest Trailers The Daily Show-Between the Scenes The Star Wars Show

OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM NONFICTION OR REALITY SERIES Creating Saturday Night Live Feud: Bette and Joan: Inside Look Jay Leno’s Garage National Endowment For The Arts: United States of Arts Viceland at The Women’s March

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A SHORT FORM COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES  Ty Burell, Boondoggle Alan Tudyk, Con Man Kim Estes, Dicks Jason Ritter, Tales of Titans Ben Schwartz, The Earliest Show John Michael Higgins, Tween Fest

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A SHORT FORM COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES  Mindy Sterling, Con Man Jane Lynch, Dropping the Soap Kelsey Scott, Fear The Walking Dead: Passage Mindy Sterling, secs & EXECS Lauren Lapkus, The Earliest Show 

OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM ANIMATED PROGRAM Adventure Time, Cartoon Network Disney Mickey Mouse, The Disney Channel Marvel’s Rocket & Groot, Disney XD Steven Universe, Cartoon Network Teen Titans Go!, Cartoon Network

DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY SERIES Donald Glover, Atlanta Jamie Babbit, Silicon Valley Morgan Sackett, Veep David Mandel, Veep Dale Stern, Veep

DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY SERIES Derek Waters & Jeremy Konner, Drunk History Andy Fisher, Jimmy Kimmel Live Paul Pennolino, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Jim Hoskinson, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live

DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL Paul Pennolino, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Glenn Weiss, The Oscars Jim Hiskinson, Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy’s Series Finale: Who’s Going to Clean Up This S—? Jerry Foley, Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best is Yet to Come

WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES Donald Glover, Atlanta Stephen Glover, Atlanta Aziz Ansari & Lena Waithe, Master of None Alec Berg, Silicon Valley Billy Kimball, Veep David Mandel, Veep

WRITING FOR A VARIETY SERIES -Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Jo Miller, Samantha Bee, Ashley Nicole Black, Pat Cassels, Eric Drysdae, Mathan Erhardt, Travon Free, Joe Grossman, Miles Kahn, Melinda Taub & Jason Reich -Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Kevin Avery, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Geoff Haggerty, Jeff Maurer, John Oliver, Scott Sherman, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss & Juli Weiner  -Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jermaine Affonso, Alex Baze, Bryan Donaldson, Sal Gentile, Matt Goldich, Dina Gusovky, Jenny Hagel, Allison Hord, Mike Karnell, John Lutz, Seth Meyers, Ian Morgan, Seth Reiss, Amber Ruffin, Mike Scollins, Mike Shoemaker & Ben Warheit  -The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Barry Julien, Jay Katsir, Opus Moreschi, Stephen Colbert, Tom Purcell, Matt Lappin, Michael Brumm, Nate Charny, Aaron Cohen, Cullen Crawford, Paul Dinello, Ariel Dumas, Glenn Eichler, Django Gold, Gabe Gronli, Daniel Kibblesmith, Michael Pielocik, Kate Sidley, Jen Spyra, Brian Stack & John Thibodeaux  -SNL, Chris Kelly, Sarah Schneider, Kent Sublette, Bryan Tucker, Pete Schultz, James Anderson, Kristen Bartlett, Jeremy Beiler, Zach Bornstein, Joanna Bradley, Megan Callahan, Michael Che, Anna Drezen, Fran Gillespie, Sudi Green, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Rob Klein, Nick Kocher, Dave McCary, Brian McElhaney, Dennis McNicholas, Drew Michael, Lorne Michaels, Josh Patten, Katie Rich, Streeter Seidell, Will Stephen & Julio Torres 

WRITING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL -Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Samantha Bee, Jo Miller, Ashley Nicole Black, Patt Cassels, Eric Drysdale, Mathan Erhardt, Travon Free, Joe Grossman, Miles Kahn & Melinda Taub  -Louis C.K. 2017, Louis C.K. -Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust, Sarah Silverman  -Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy’s Series Finale: Who’s Going to Clean Up This S—?, Jay Katsir, Opus Moreschi, Stephen Colbert, Michael Brumm, Nate Charny, Aaron Cohen, Cullen Crawford, Paul Dinello, Rob Dubbin, Ariel Dumas, Glenn Eichler, Django Gold, Gabe Gronli, Barry Julien, Daniel Kibblesmith, Matt Lappin, Michael Pielocik, Tom Purcell, Kate Sidley, Jen Spyra, Brian Stack & John Thibodeaux -70th Annual Tony Awards, Dave Boone, Mike Gibbons, Lauren Greenberg, Ian Karmel, Ben Winston & Justin Shanes 

WRITING FOR A NONFICTION PROGRAM Amanda Knox, Brian McGinn  Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain  The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, Mark Monroe  Bill Nye Saves the World, Prashanth Venkataramanujam, CeCe Pleasants, Sanden Totten, Mike Drucker & Flora Lichtman  13th, Ava DuVernay & Spencer Averick 

OUTSTANDING INTERACTIVE PROGAM Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Saturday Night Live Multiplatform Experience The Late Late Show with James Corden The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Get the full list of all this year’s Primetime Emmys nominees, including all of the Creative Arts Emmys here.

[heartlandians]

Calgary youth newest cast member of CBC's Heartland

In Season 14 of Heartland, Calgary actress Ava Tran plays a 12-year-old girl named Parker who finds herself the reluctant owner of a horse named Micky.

Ava is a newcomer to the long-running CBC series, continuing the Heartland tradition of introducing new pre-teen characters every couple of years. While Parker is outspoken and passionate, her initial leeriness about horses suggests a certain reluctance to try new things.

This is apparently not a character trait shared by the young actress who plays her. Ava has no reluctance when it comes to riding horses, or apparently much else for that matter. Take, for instance, her quick embrace of acting. While she has been in a few plays at school, most of them had her relegated to the background chorus. Her audition for Heartland was her first real foray into the craft.

“This is actually my first acting role,” says Ava, 12, in a phone interview with Postmedia alongside her mother, Melissa, earlier this week. “No commercials or anything. This is the first thing I got.”

Judging from the episodes sent to the media to preview, it’s safe to say that Ava quickly established herself as a bit of a scene-stealer this season. Parker made a brief appearance in last Sunday’s devastating Season 14 opener, which mostly dealt with the sudden death of main character Ty Borden (Graham Wardle.) But her real introduction will come in Episode 2, which airs this Sunday. Unlike past pre-teen newbies to the Bartlett ranch such as Georgie Fleming-Morris (played by Alisha Newton, who joined the cast in 2013) and Luke Kashani (played by Lucian-River Chauhan, who was in Seasons 12 and 13), Parker is not an angry kid nor does she have a particularly troubled past. But she is complicated as far as pre-teens go. She is a city slicker from Toronto trying to adjust to small-town life in Hudson with her father and new stepfamily. She is also precocious, bookish, passionate about the environment and prone to giving her opinions on all sorts of topics. Through some typical Heartland-ish story tweaks, she will also soon find herself spending a lot of time at the ranch and in close quarters with Lou Fleming (Michelle Morgan), who becomes an initial target of Parker’s political protests due to her new job as the mayor of Hudson.

“She’s a city girl, not at all afraid to speak her mind,” Ava says. “She has strong opinions and isn’t afraid to make herself heard.”

In fact, Ava sees a lot of similarities between herself and Parker. Granted, unlike Parker, Ava has no fear of horses and loves animals in general. It’s probably not much of a spoiler to reveal she will eventually be showing off some riding skills in Season 14, although Ava said some of the scenes required her stunt-double to step in. Before landing the role, she had a bit of experience horseback riding as a Girl Guide.

While she admits she was a bit nervous on Day 1, she said everyone in the cast and crew soon made her feel comfortable and at home when she arrived on set. She works with an acting coach, veteran TV thespian Tom Carey, and says she has also learned valuable tips acting opposite co-stars Shaun Johnston, Morgan and Amber Marshall, who plays lead Amy Fleming.

The admiration is mutual. Marshall says Ava is one of the most prepared actors she has ever worked with, despite being relatively new to the craft.

“She completely blew me away this season,” Marshall says. “She had so much dialogue and tricky dialogue, too. Her character is very wise beyond her years. Ava would come to set, she would know all her lines, she would know what direction she wanted her character to go in. She really impressed us.”

Ava joined a Calgary talent agency in 2019, inspired by a younger sister who had gotten into acting before her.

“She asked for an audition with the same agency that her sister was with,” says Ava’s mother, Melissa Tran. “I humoured her. I wasn’t going to deny her the experience that I had given her sister. Running through the lines with her, I was like ‘Wow, she’s actually quite good.’ They really liked her audition and took her into the agency right away.”

The same agency now represents all three Tran siblings, including Ava’s nine-year-old and six-year-old sisters.

As for her future plans, Ava says she wants to continue acting but would also like to be a flight attendant on the side.

Her friends at school were suitably excited to see Ava on screen for the first time last Sunday, even if it was only in one scene. As with everyone else involved in the show, Ava had to keep the shocking death of Ty a secret. Not a problem. She says she has no trouble staying mum on plot points no matter how curious her friends may get.

“I just tell them, which is kind of obvious, that I’m going to be a new character and not any of the backstory or anything until I’m allowed to,” she says.

Heartland airs Sundays on CBC.

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