Sophie (TV series)
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Sophie is a Canadian
Canada
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 television sitcom starring Natalie Brown
Natalie Brown (actress)
Natalie Brown is a Canadian actress who grew up in Timmins, Ontario. Brown landed her first print campaign for Bonne Bell when she was sixteen and went on to become the Heinz Ketchup girl. She modeled for Noxema and Max Factor. She studied fine arts at York University in Toronto...

 as Sophie Parker, an unmarried single mother and talent agent. The show is an English-language
Canadian English
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 adaptation
Adaptation
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 of Télévision de Radio-Canada
Télévision de Radio-Canada
Télévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in French as Société Radio-Canada. Headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT...

's show Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin
Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin
Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin is a Canadian television comedy-drama series, which premiered on Radio-Canada in 2006...

. The show premiered on CBC Television
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 on January 9, 2008.

The show was created by Richard Blaimert and its executive producer
Executive producer
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 is Jocelyn Deschênes, the same creative team behind the original series. It was the CBC's second attempt in as many years to create an English adaptation of a successful series from its French sister network, following the less successful Rumours
Rumours (TV series)
Rumours was a Canadian television sitcom, that aired on CBC Television. The show starred David Haydn-Jones and Amy Price-Francis as Ben Devlin and Sarah Barnaby, co-editors of a women's magazine in Toronto. The cast also included Sadie Leblanc, Jennifer Dale, Stephanie Mills and Lucinda Davis.Based...

.

In February 2008, it was announced that the show had been bought by ABC Family
ABC Family
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, part of Disney-ABC Television Group
Disney-ABC Television Group
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 in the United States
United States
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. The network signed on for the first 13 episodes, as well as an option for the second season of the show.

On March 27, 2009, the show was cancelled by CBC due to low ratings.

Characters

  • Sophie Parker (Natalie Brown
    Natalie Brown (actress)
    Natalie Brown is a Canadian actress who grew up in Timmins, Ontario. Brown landed her first print campaign for Bonne Bell when she was sixteen and went on to become the Heinz Ketchup girl. She modeled for Noxema and Max Factor. She studied fine arts at York University in Toronto...

    ) is a businesswoman and single mother who runs her own talent agency. Just hours after being told by a psychic that she was about to have the worst year of her life, her boyfriend Rick ran off with her best friend Melissa while Sophie was still pregnant with what she and Rick thought was Rick's baby. Soon afterward, she gave birth and discovered that the baby (named Robert) couldn't be Rick's child after all: he's half black
    Black people
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    . It turns out Robbie was conceived in a one-night stand Sophie had with André (played by Lyriq Bent
    Lyriq Bent
    Lyriq Bent is a Canadian actor that is perhaps best known for portraying Lieutenant Daniel Rigg in Saw II, Saw III, and Saw IV.-Life and career:...

     in flashbacks), whom she met in a cab in New York City
    New York City
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    . At first, she did not have any contact with him and went as far as shredding his business card. But in the first season finale, he would later show up to see her, and upon learning that he was a father, he walked out on Sophie and left her devastated, only to return hours later to see Sophie with her ex-boyfriend Rick at her apartment.

  • Rick Ryder (Sebastian Spence
    Sebastian Spence
    Sebastian Spence is an actor who played the lead role as Cade Foster in the TV series First Wave.Spence is the son of the late playwright Michael Cook and playwright and actress Janis Spence...

    ) is Sophie's ex-boyfriend and former business partner who now runs his own competing talent agency which stole most of Sophie's clients. Despite the end of their relationship, however, they can't seem to get away from each other, in part because Sophie's mother is constantly plotting to reunite them. His continued presence in Sophie's life also complicates her efforts to find a new boyfriend: in one episode, he accidentally sees Melissa giving Sophie's current love interest a few pointers on how Sophie likes to be flirted with, mistakes him for someone Melissa is seeing behind his back, and later punches him in the face at a gallery show. In the first season finale, he almost asked Melissa to marry him, but when that failed he saw Sophie crying over being rejected by André and as they were about to go get a drink, he sees André walking towards the two.

  • Melissa Bryant (Amy Lalonde
    Amy Lalonde
    Amy Ciupak Lalonde is a Canadian-born television personality from Pelham, Ontario. She holds a degree in drama and history from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.Lalonde appears on the television channel SCREAM...

    ) is Sophie's former best friend and Rick's current girlfriend. A bit ditzy, she still thinks of Sophie as a dear friend — even helping her to line up dates and begging her to dogsit — and is unaware of how much she hurt Sophie by stealing Rick. She dotes on her dog like a baby, sometimes giving it more attention and TLC than she gives Rick. In the first season finale, Rick tried to ask Melissa to marry him, only to have the two argue, resulting in Rick leaving and Melissa furious.

  • Matt Scott (Jeff Geddis
    Jeff Geddis
    Jeff Geddis is a Canadian film and television actor, best known for his roles in Sophie and The Latest Buzz. He also played Mike Nesmith in the 2000 TV movie Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story.-External links:...

    ) is Sophie's gay
    Gay
    Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

     best friend and confidant. Although in a relationship with Verner, a Swiss immigrant, he is not entirely committed to it and also has an eye for Bernard, a waiter at the café where he and Sophie hang out, and eventually slept with. In the end, he did confess to Verner and eventually made up by going off to Switzerland
    Switzerland
    Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

     together.

  • Judith Parker (Mimi Kuzyk) is Sophie's manipulative
    Psychological manipulation
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     control freak
    Control freak
    In psychology-related slang, control freak is a derogatory term for a person who attempts to dictate how everything around them is done — "a control freak. Scared to let us have differences"...

     mother. She is determined to reunite Sophie and Rick, faking a suicide
    Suicide
    Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

     attempt so that she can insist that they take care of her together and deliberately interfering when Sophie dates anyone who isn't Rick.

  • Estelle Burroughs (Sara Botsford
    Sara Botsford
    Sara Botsford is a Canadian television and film actress. She is probably best known for her role of Ann Hildebrand in the television series E.N.G. for which she won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role...

    ) is a pretentious and flighty actress who affects a Received Pronunciation
    Received Pronunciation
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     English accent, and the only client of Sophie's agency who didn't defect to Rick's new firm (although Sophie wouldn't be upset if she did). She was also the mistress of Sophie's late father for many years (as Sophie tells Judith about why she was signed to the agency, "She came with the deal. He put it in the will."), complicating her professional relationship with Sophie, but at times comes through for her. In one episode, Estelle played a part in getting Sophie a sought-after client after she recognized Estelle from in a play called Learning Rainbows and was a fan of Estelle. She thinks of herself as a positive force in Sophie's life, which makes one of them.

  • Ophelia Burroughs (Chantelle Chung) is Estelle's teenage daughter, whom Estelle adopted from China
    China
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    . Ophelia has no love for Estelle whatsoever.

  • Bridget (Catherine Bérubé) is Sophie's scheming receptionist, constantly trying to angle her way into a more senior job with the agency.

  • Christian Parker (Tyler Hynes
    Tyler Hynes
    Tyler Jeffery Hynes is a Canadian actor and film maker.Hynes was born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up on a ranch in Russell Ontario. He currently spends his time between home as well as Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and stays part of the year in L.A. He went to elementary school at Mother...

    ) is Sophie's younger brother. Recently paroled from prison, he is determined to exploit his family connections to launch his own reality show depicting his experience as an ex-con readjusting to life "on the outside".

Production

On February 5, 2008, it was announced that Sophie will be joining the ABC Family
ABC Family
ABC Family, stylized as abc family, is an American television network, owned by ABC Family Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company...

lineup in the United States, where it is slated for a 2009 airing. ABC markets the series as "original programming", although earlier seasons have already aired in Canada. The show was pulled from the lineup early in its run due to poor ratings.

On March 7, 2008, it was announced that CBC has ordered another season of the show. The second season started broadcasting on October 1, 2008 and ended on March 23, 2009.
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