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The official logo for the Showcase TV Series Lost Girl
Promotional poster for the Showcase TV Series Lost Girl

Lost Girl is a Canadian developed and produced television series which premiered in the 2010 season on the television channel Showcase. There are rumours that the might be carried by the CW network in the United States, though that has not been confirmed by a press release as yet.

The story revolves around a Succubus named Bo, played by Anna Silk. She attempts to contain her succubus needs, help those in need, and discover her true past.

The series is developed and produced by Prodigy Pictures. The executive producers are Jay Firestone, Paul Rapovksi, Plato Fountidakis, Michelle Lovretta and Peter Mohan. Michelle Lovretta is also the Creator/Writer for the series and the series is also co-written by Peter Mohan. The series producer is Wanda Chaffey.

On July 10th, 2010, a note in a Toronto Star article indicated that the first episode would premiere in Canada on the Showcase television network September 12, 2010.[1] Additionally on August 9th, the website Channel Canada.com confirmed that the series would be shown at 9 PM Eastern.[2]

At the beginning of August 2010, a website for the series at http://lostgirlseries.com/ was opened to the public. It contained a short trailer for the series and a summary of information on the series and the characters. On August 20th, an interactive comic book was also to be available that would be serving as a lead-in to the series and characters for viewers. It also was expected to have a forum for viewers to interact with the cast and crew.

Series Data

  • Series Name: Lost Girl
  • Production Year: 2009-2010 (In Production)
  • Number of Episodes: 13
  • Length: 60 Minutes (Including commercials)
  • Director: John Fawcett
  • Writer: Michelle Lovretta
  • Country of Production: Canada
  • Company: Prodigy Pictures
  • Television Channel: Showcase Television (Canada)
  • Language: English
  • Filming Locations: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • First Aired: 2010
  • Series Premiere: September 12, 2010

Plot

The series focuses on Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Bo was raised by her human family, unaware of her Fae roots, and taught to believe that sex of any kind was inherently evil. Bo discovers her powers after a traumatizing sexual encounter, leaves home, and sets out on her own, ‘feeding’ whenever the urge becomes too overwhelming. After leaving a victim in an elevator after saving a young girl from him, Bo is captured by the Fae, who take her in and reveal to her that she is a succubus. Bo is then forced to choose sides, between the Dark or Light clans of the Fae. She refuses, choosing instead the side of humans. She then leaves the Fae and attempts to find her real mother and understand her origins.[3]

Past Plot Summaries

Michelle Lovretta posted a plot summary of the series on the IMDB, which has a slightly different take on the series than the official news release on it as follows:

Gorgeous and charismatic Bo has discovered a secret: she is not one of us. Part of the Fae, an ancient race of supernatural beings hidden among us, Bo possesses superhuman, sex-fueled strengths - and uses them to protect our kind from hers. A new and sexy hero for the underdog, caught in the middle of her eternally warring people, Bo's greatest challenges remain her own: where did she come from, why is she here, and who can she trust?[4]

That summary was altered soon after to the following by Michelle Lovretta:

Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.

When the official site for the series appeared, a new summary also was listed that explained:

Lost Girl follows supernatural seductress Bo, a Succubus who feeds on the sexual energy of humans. Growing up with human parents, Bo had no reason to believe she was anything other than the girl next door — until she drained her boyfriend to death in their first sexual encounter. Now she has hit the road alone and afraid. She discovers she is one of the Fae, creatures of legend and folklore, who pass as humans while feeding off them secretly and in different ways, as they have for millennia.
Relieved yet horrified to find out that she is not alone, Bo decides to take the middle path between the humans and the Fae while embarking on a personal mission to unlock the secrets of her origin. With the help of her human sidekick, Kenzi, and Dyson, a sexy police detective, Bo takes on a challenge every week helping a Fae or human client who comes to her to solve a mystery, or to right a wrong.

Further plot information released on August 19th, 2010, added some more information to Bo character an situation in the series. It was noted that:

Bo is a succubus. One look, one touch and you’re left breathless, sometimes even lifeless. Laying low and always on the run, Bo is unable to control her urge to feed on the sexual energy of others, leaving a trail of victims in her wake. That is, until the day she comes face to face with the Fae, creatures of legend and folklore living amongst us and intent upon claiming Bo as their own.
The product of a strict upbringing, Bo was raised to believe that sex of any kind was inherently evil. When Bo discovers her mysterious abilities after a traumatizing “first-time”, she leaves home and sets out on her own, ‘feeding’ whenever the urge becomes too overwhelming. After leaving a victim in plain sight, Bo is exposed to the world of the Fae, who take her in and help uncover her true being as a succubus. Forced to choose allegiance, between the Dark or Light clans of Fae, Bo goes rogue, refusing to belong to any world other than human. Adding to her troubles, Bo’s desire to track down her birth mother puts her even more at risk as she searches for her true origin above all else.
Aided by best-friend Kenzi, Bo becomes part vigilante, part mercenary as she takes on a variety of paid jobs, Fae assignments and personal missions. A sticky love triangle involving homicide detective and shape-shifting Fae, Dyson and human doctor Lauren, makes navigating the worlds of Fae and human even trickier.[5]


Main Cast

Promotional image of Anna Silk as Bo from the Showcase Blog
Promotional image of Anna Silk as Bo from the official Lost Girl website


Actor / Actress Role
Anna Silk Bo
Kristen Holden-Reid Dyson
Ksenia Solo Kenzie
Rick Howland Trick



Main Characters

Bo- The Lost Girl

"You can't hide forever especially from yourself"
"They don't own me and i'm not good at being obedient."
Beauty with a body count, Bo is a succubus on the run: from the dark hungers she can't control, and the mysterious "Fae", a strange supernatural people hiding the secrets of her origin and fighting to claim her as their own.

Dyson - The unorthodox detective

"Be smarter, be faster, i think they're underestimating you make them regret it."
Dyson is an ancient wolf warrior who has recently returned from going rogue. Powerful, Stubborn, working undercover for his fellow Fae as a "Human" police detective, Dyson already has his hands full when Bo stumbles into town, adding to his troubles and complicating his life in ways he can't begin to imagine.

Kenzi - Survivor and Thief

"Thief, Grifter, Survivor"
Kenzi is a female Sherlock Holmes with a sweet tooth for fashion and crime. Kenzi is Bo's best friend and nobody's fool. A fierce human with a fierce sense of loyalty and even fiercer sense of humor, Kenzi is the only person Bo can count on to always have her back.

Online Motion Comic

On August 20th, 2010, an online comic was released on the Lost Girl website. It was a series of six episodes, one released per month during the fall 2010 television season that would follow the life of Bo in the period of time before the television series episodes began. Called Lost Girl: The Interactive Motion Comic, it used elements of traditional print comic books and animation and audio effects. Called a motion comic by the producers, it was used to provide a story-telling medium which was hoped would provide information about Bo, Dyson and the other characters from the series, and gain additional insight into the supernatural world of Lost Girl.

The online series can be accessed on the Lost Girl website here.

For more on the individual webisodes, see Lost Girl: The Interactive Motion Comic

Series overview

Season Episodes Originally aired
Season premiere Season finale
1 13 September 12, 2010 December 12, 2010
  • The week of October 10th, 2010 was a reairing of the first four episodes of the series.


Series Opening

A YouTube of the series opening theme and narrative.


Episodes

For a more detailed list see: List of Lost Girl episodes, or click on the individual episode titles for more in depth articles.

Season One Episodes

Episode 1: It's a Fae, Fae, Fae, Fae World
Episode 2: Where There's a Will, There's a Fae
Episode 3: Oh Kappa, My Kappa
Episode 4: Faetal Attraction
Episode 5: Dead Lucky
Episode 6: Food for Thought
Episode 7:
Episode 8:
Episode 9:
Episode 10:
Episode 11:
Episode 12:
Episode 13:

Development and production

On November 16, 2008, Prodigy Pictures issued a press release that they had been commissioned by Canwest Global to produce a pilot for Lost Girl, a drama about a young woman with supernatural powers. The pilot was to be written by Michelle Lovretta who had previously written for the Canadian television series Mutant X.[6]

On August 19, 2009, Canwest Global issued a press release that the Showcase Television channel, a subsidiary of the main company, had picked up the rights to a one hour supernatural drama series. The cast would include Anna Silk, previously in such series as Billable Hours, and Being Erica as filling the lead role of the character Bo in the series. Kristen Holden-Reid, from the series The Tudors as another main character named Dyson, an inhuman cop involved in a love/hate relationship with Bo, and two-time Gemini Award winner Ksenia Solo as a third character named Kenzie, Bo’s street-smart and fiercely loyal human best friend. Also in the cast would be Rick Howland, from the film Bon Cop, Bad Cop as Trick, a friendly saloon keeper with something to hide.[7] The release stated the series' promotional efforts would include an interactive website, graphic novel, and downloadable video game.

On April 7, 2010, Prodigy reported that the green light had been given for a series to be produced to consist of thirteen one-hour episodes.[8] Production on the series began in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the spring of 2010, at sites across southern Ontario and at a small studio in western Toronto.[9] Completion of the series' primary production occurred June 25, and the series was aimed for a September 2010 release date.

On June 22, 2010 Keyframe Digital of Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario reported that they had been given the contract for visual effects on the first thirteen episodes of Lost Girl, referring to it as fantasy/noir.[10]

As part of the promotion of the series, an official site was opened at the beginning of August 2010 at the site lostgirlseries.com. It contained a short trailer for the series, and a summary of information on the series and the characters. On August 20, an interactive comic book was also released that would serve as a lead-in to the series and characters for viewers. It also was expected to have a forum for viewers to interact with the cast and crew before the series actually aired on Showcase. On the same date, a press release indicated that the series cast and crew would be making an appearance at Fan Expo Canada held in Toronto from August 27-29, where they would be answering questions about the series and have promotional items available for watchers of the series as well.[11]


Reception

The pilot received mixed poor reviews, but very good initial ratings. Dan Owen of the Canadian site "Obsessed with Film" gave the pilot episode 1.5/4 stars, finding it "derivative" of other vampire-related series, lacking in character development, and, for a series about a succubus, insufficiently "adult and sexy."[12] Vladislav Tinchev, writer for the German site "Series Junkies" wrote that the series would benefit from "revealing more background information about the represented world," rather than spend time on "clumsy action scenes." But Tinchev pointed out that "Lost Girl is not lost at all, and has immediately won the audience and entertains them well. And there is nothing wrong with that, because TV series need not be world-shaking events."[13]

Canwest released a press release announcing that viewership of the premiere was "over 400,000" for the first airing, and "another 184,000" for the second airing, making it the "highest-rated Canadian scripted series premiere of all time on Showcase."[14]


News Release from Prodigy Pictures of Pilot Completion

PRODIGY PICTURES FINDS LOST GIRL

New Pilot features a sexy, intelligent hero in search of answers
Prodigy Pictures is proud to announce completion of principal photography on the action-packed pilot “Lost Girl.” The pilot stars Anna Silk (Billable Hours, Ghost Whisperer), Kristen Holden-Ried (The Tudors, MVP), Ksenia Solo (Human Trafficking, MVP), and Sarah Allen (Human Trafficking, MVP), and was commissioned by Canwest Broadcasting.

“Lost Girl” focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo (Anna Silk), a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.

“Our intention with this project is to create a new generation of female action hero – one which fuses strength with sexuality and passion with intelligence,” says Jay Firestone, Executive Producer.

Written by Michelle Lovretta (Mutant X, Fat Like Me) and directed by John Fawcett (The Border, Ginger Snaps), “Lost Girl” boasts a creative team with a reputation for taking viewers to the edge with hard-hitting action, fantasy and adrenaline-filled storylines. [15]

Official News Release of Series

Canwest announces series pick up on new one hour drama featuring Anna Silk and Kristen Holden-Reid


Canwest Broadcasting delves deep into the world of fantasy and action as it green lights the daring new series Lost Girl for Showcase. The 13-episode, one hour series will air on the channel in 2010.

A drama loaded with mystery, romance and intrigue, Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo – a Succubus with heart. While Succubi are inhuman women who seduce and feed off their human partner’s sexual energy, Bo is not your average Succubus. Raised in secret by humans, Bo tries to survive in the human, modern world without giving in to her instinctive urge to kill. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its strict regimes, Bo uses her feminine wiles – along with some help from her friends – to fight for the underdog. All the while, she is on a very personal mission to unlock the secrets of her origin and find her birth mother.

Leading the Lost Girl cast is Anna Silk (Billable Hours, Being Erica) as Bo. The gang of monster misfits and human helpers includes Kristen Holden-Reid (the upcoming Ben Hur remake, The Tudors) as Dyson, an inhuman cop involved in a love/hate relationship with Bo – he absolutely hates how much he loves her. Two-time Gemini Award winner Ksenia Solo (Renegadepress.com) stars as Kenzie, Bo’s street-smart and fiercely loyal human best friend. The cast also includes Rick Howland (Bon Cop, Bad Cop) as Trick, a friendly saloon keeper with something to hide.

“Lost Girl is so unique in that it weaves an array of genres – fantasy, romance, action – all the while developing these complicated, intelligent characters and rich storylines. We can’t wait to get started producing this bold and fun series,” said Christine Shipton, SVP Dramatic and Factual Content, Canwest Broadcasting. “With one of the hottest and most dynamic casts coming to television and an exceptional creative team, Showcase viewers can look forward to a sophisticated series chock-full of action-packed twists and turns laced with chemistry-fuelled relationships.”

Lost Girl will also offer a cross platform experience to viewers. Production is currently underway on the development of an interactive website, graphic novel and downloadable video game.

Lost Girl is developed and produced by Prodigy Pictures, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation. The series is executive produced by Jay Firestone, Paul Rapovksi, Plato Fountidakis, Michelle Lovretta and Peter Mohan. Lovretta also serves as Creator/Writer for Lost Girl and the series is also written by Mohan. Lost Girl is produced by Wanda Chaffey.[16]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/article/834420--the-stars-film-among-us
  2. ↑ http://www.channelcanada.com/Article4904.html
  3. ↑ http://www.canwestglobal.com/media/viewNews.asp?NewsroomID=1315
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1429449/plotsummary
  5. ↑ http://www.spoilertv.com/2010/08/lost-girl-new-press-release.html
  6. ↑ http://www.prodigypictures.com/press?news_id=94&uniqid=1238
  7. ↑ http://www.canwestglobal.com/media/viewNews.asp?NewsroomID=1023
  8. ↑ http://prodigypictures.com/press?news_id=107&uniqid=1238
  9. ↑ http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/article/834420--the-stars-film-among-us
  10. ↑ http://archives.awn.com/news/television/keyframe-digital-awarded-visual-effects-13-one-hour-episodes-new-fantasy-noir-series
  11. ↑ http://prodigypictures.com/press?news_id=113&uniqid=1238
  12. ↑ http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/reviews/lost-girl-its-a-fae-fae-fae-fae-world.php
  13. ↑ http://www.serienjunkies.de/news/lost-girl-28494.html
  14. ↑ http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2010/14/c9654.html
  15. ↑ http://www.tv-eh.com/2009/02/18/production-complete-on-lost-girl-pilot/
  16. ↑ http://www.channelcanada.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3304


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