Being Erica
| Being Erica | |
|---|---|
First season intertitle
|
|
| Also known as | 'The Session' |
| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Created by | Jana Sinyor |
| Starring |
Erin Karpluk Michael Riley Tyron Leitso Vinessa Antoine Reagan Pasternak Morgan Kelly John Boylan Kathleen Laskey Joanna Douglas Adam MacDonald Paula Brancati Sarah Gadon Sebastian Pigott Devon Bostick Laurence Leboeuf Adam Fergus |
| Opening theme | "All I Ever Wanted To Be" performed by Lily Frost |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 49 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | David Fortier Ivan Schneeberg Aaron Martin Jana Sinyor |
| Location(s) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Camera setup | Panavision |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Temple Street Productions |
| Distributor | BBC Worldwide |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBC |
| Original release | January 5, 2009 – December 12, 2011 |
Being Erica is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that aired on CBC from January 5, 2009 to December 12, 2011. Created by Jana Sinyor, the series was originally announced by the CBC as The Session, but was retitled Being Erica before debuting in 2009. It is produced by Temple Street Productions and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide. The show stars Erin Karpluk as Erica Strange, a woman who begins seeing a therapist to deal with regrets in her life, only to discover the therapist (Michael Riley) has the ability to send her back in time to actually relive these events and even change them.
In Canada, the second season premiered on September 22, 2009. Only 12 episodes were produced for the second season due to budget cuts at the CBC. On May 11, 2010, the CBC announced that Being Erica was renewed for a third season of 13 episodes. Soapnet announced that it was picking up the full third season as well. Season 3 debuted on September 21, 2010, at 9 pm ET, on CBC Television. In the United States, Season 3 began aired on Soapnet starting January 26, 2011.
The show's fourth and final season aired in fall 2011. Although the show was never officially cancelled by the CBC, Sinyor told TV Guide during the fourth and final season run that the series had reached a natural conclusion and she had no plans to write or produce a fifth season.
Because the show involves time travel, very young versions of the characters are played at times by different actors.
Erica Strange (Erin Karpluk) – the protagonist in the series. At the beginning of the series, she is thirty-two, single, Jewish, and well-educated. However, she is an underachiever who has recently been fired from a mindless customer service job because she is overqualified. She has a nut allergy and after accidentally drinking a coffee with a nut syrup in she ends up in hospital where she is approached by someone she initially believes to be connected with the hospital. He introduces himself as "Dr Tom" and says he is a therapist who can help her. Once home again, she is convinced poor choices made in her past have made her life a failure and seeks Dr. Tom's help to undo many of her mistakes. As the series progresses, she gains confidence in herself and her choices, dates and finds love, and gets promoted to junior editor at a publishing house, from which she eventually gets fired in the penultimate episode of the second season. She has a master's degree in English literature. During the third season she and Julianne start their own publishing company 50/50 Press and become good friends in the process. Having written short stories throughout her life, Erica aspires to write fiction as an author. In the season 3 finale, Erica passes Dr. Tom's test at the end of group therapy and becomes a trainee doctor. The penultimate episode of season 3 ends with Erica walking down a street in Toronto looking for somebody to give her business card to so they can become her first patient. In the series finale of season 4, Erica successfully completes her doctor training and becomes an official doctor. Her office is a quote-plastered artist's studio loft with a honeycomb-style bookcase and a tan leather chair behind a large, red desk. Even though she has to bid farewell to Dr. Tom, the now Dr. Erica remains connected to him through his daughter Sarah who becomes her first official patient. In the episode "Adultescence", a twelve-year-old Erica Strange is played by teen actor Samantha Weinstein; Rachel Marcus plays a young Erica in the episode "Fa La Erica"; Grace Arianna Kirby plays a childhood Erica in the series finale "Dr. Erica".
...
Wikipedia