EXCLUSIVE: Fairly Blind, which is predicated on podcaster Jennie Bovard’s expertise as {a partially} blind lady, has landed a second season at Canada’s AMI-tv and AMI+ only a day after Season 1 launch.
Starring Bovard and produced by Jonathan Torrens and Jenna MacMillan, Fairly Blind follows protagonist Jennie Bonang as she offers with points starting from a romantic fall-out to an overbearing roommate, to her dysfunctional household and equally dysfunctional office. To manage, Jennie begins her personal podcast, Low Imaginative and prescient Moments, and enlists the shock assist of a neighborhood celebrity. The ensemble solid contains Jacob Hemphill (Roll With It) as Yves; Jessica Barry (FROM) as Veronica; Dan Barra-Berger (All Entry Comedy) as Steve; and MJ ‘Joanne’ Miller (Diggstown) as Sandy, alongside a cameo look from Avenue Cents co-host Torrens, who additionally directs a number of episodes.
The present is predicated on Bovard’s personal Low Imaginative and prescient Moments podcast and has made Canadian TV historical past, in response to its producer, by being the primary ever comedy starring a blind lead actor upon whom the TV collection is predicated. Bovard shares her expertise navigating the world with low imaginative and prescient and albinism on Low Imaginative and prescient Moments.
“Once I started the Low Imaginative and prescient Moments podcast, it was an opportunity to reframe blindness and albinism, for listeners and myself” mentioned Bovard. “It shortly become a group that shared a typical expertise and located its solution to bond with laughter. I hadn’t dreamed that at some point we’d be filming not just one season, however a second season, primarily based on that podcast.”
Torrential Footage and Membership Purple Productions produce the collection. Season 1 launched yesterday on AMI-tv and AMI+.
