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Metropia (TV series)

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132:. One of the show's regular settings was the Hot Spot, a café decorated with the work of real Toronto-area artists whose pieces could be purchased from the show's website, and another was Bang, a nightclub at which a real Toronto-area musician or band would perform a song on each Friday night episode. 318:
delivers a whole lot of gorgeous characters making for a whole lot of hotness and plenty of juicy plot threads. The language can be raw and the hookups are frequent, but there's also sweetness and a natural ambiance among the large ensemble cast. Watching this sudsy reflection of our very own boho
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A total of 90 episodes of the show were produced before the show was cancelled in 2006. The show continued to air for some further time in repeats on Omni Television, and was later rebroadcast nationally on
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from 2004 to 2006. The series focused on the lives and loves of a group of racially and sexually diverse young men and women living in
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called it one of the worst new shows of the year, claiming that it was "so inept it could set race relations back an entire century".
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Jim Bawden, "Acting gods smile on her; Jessica Heafey basking in having landed two television roles at the same time".
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modestly praised the show as "a showcase for a dozen up-and-coming young Toronto actors".
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culture is a delight even if it does qualify as a guilty pleasure." Jim Bawden of the
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The show received mixed reaction from critics. Henrietta Walmark of
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The show originally aired weeknights at 10:30 p.m. on
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Joel Rubinoff, "A naughty sock, a nipple and a nerd".
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Joel Rubinoff, "All the hipness of a stuffed bear".
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2000s Canadian LGBT-related drama television series
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Index

Canada
Omni Television
soap opera
Omni Television
Toronto
Ontario
interactive television
OMNI 2
OMNI 1
Super Channel
FX
Walter Alza
Claudia Besso
Robin Brûlé
Kristin Fairlie
Danielle Hampton
Jessica Heafey
Silver Kim
Kerry LaiFatt
Gino Marrocco
Tracy Michailidis
Barna Moricz
Zainab Musa
Zaib Shaikh
Yasin Sheikh
Jake Simons
Sugith Varughese
Mishu Vellani
Wes Williams
Dharini Woollcombe

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