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''Gavin Crawford's Wild West'' is a Canadian television special, which aired on CBC Television in July 2013. Originally announced as a planned series in 2011,〔("CBC to pilot two more" ). ''Playback'', May 20, 2011.〕 it was left in limbo by funding cuts to the CBC in 2012,〔("Wish List not going forward, CBC passes on eOne drama pilot" ). ''Playback'', April 20, 2012.〕 and only the pilot was completed although five more unfilmed episodes had been written before the CBC dropped the project.〔("Gavin a gay time" ). ''NOW'', June 21, 2012.〕 In 2014, Crawford told Toronto's ''NOW'' that he has explored the possibility of reviving the series for a different network, although he has not announced firm details to date.〔"Almost Famous". ''NOW'', March 6, 2014.〕 ''Wild West'' stars Gavin Crawford as six distinct characters, each representing a different aspect of the society of the Canadian province of Alberta, in a mockumentary format. The characters include: *Katherine Adams, a pompous socialite in Calgary organizing a charity fundraiser; *Lyle Carlyle-Chang, a gay cattle rancher in Cochrane resisting his husband Andy's (Andrew Cheng) suggestion that they revive the failing business by promoting it to tourists as a dude ranch; *Donald Demchuck, a newly elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from Edmonton whose constituency assistant Liz (Anita Majumdar) is at her wit's end managing his incompetence; *Jessica Jones, an Australian expatriate working as a massage therapist in Banff; *Trevor Valgardson, a surly teenager in Taber whose widowed mother (Marypat Farrell) and uncle (Brendan Wall) are perennially exasperated with his delusion that he's a vampire; *Conrad Whitehead, a trucker in Fort McMurray whose girlfriend Shannon (Kaniehtiio Horn) announces that she's pregnant just as he's planning to break up with her. The special garnered five Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards, including nods for Best Comedy Series or Program, Best Actor in a Comedy Series or Program (Crawford) and Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series or Program (Cheng).〔("Canadian Screen Awards: Orphan Black, Less Than Kind, Enemy nominated" ). CBC News, January 13, 2014.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gavin Crawford's Wild West」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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