{"id":2206,"date":"2016-12-21T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/another-season-of-kims-convenience-for-cbc\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:45:24","slug":"another-season-of-kims-convenience-for-cbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/another-season-of-kims-convenience-for-cbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Season of Kim\u2019s Convenience for CBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO: CBC has renewed the comedy series <em>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em> for a 13-episode sophomore season.<\/p>\n<p>The CBC original series is produced by\u00a0Thunderbird Entertainment\u00a0in association with\u00a0Soulpepper. Season two will debut\u00a0on CBC in fall 2017. Based on the Soulpepper production of Ins Choi\u2019s award-winning play, <em>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em> tells the story of the\u00a0Kims, a Korean-Canadian family that runs a convenience store in downtown Toronto. It follows Mr. and Mrs. Kim and their two grown kids, Jung and Janet. The series airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on CBC.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Ivan Fecan and co-created by Choi and Kevin White, <em>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (<em>Shoot The Messenger<\/em>,<em> Degrassi: The Next Generation<\/em>), Jean Yoon (<em>Orphan Black<\/em>,<em> The Expanse<\/em>), Simu Liu (<em>Blood and Water<\/em>,<em> Taken<\/em>), Andrea Bang (<em>Camp Death III: The Final Summer<\/em>), Andrew Phung (<em>Adventures of a Pizza Guy<\/em>) and Nicole Power (<em>Anne of Green Gables<\/em>).\u00a0\u2028\u2028The series is executive produced by Fecan, Tim Gamble, Alexandra Raff\u00e9,\u00a0Leslie Lester, Albert Schultz, Choi and White, with Sandra Cunningham and Robin Cass (Strada Films) serving as supervising producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadians have fallen in love with the Kims,\u201d said\u00a0Sally Catto, the general manager of programming at CBC. \u201cThe series has struck a chord among viewers of all ages with its unique perspective and its authentic, relatable and hilarious take on family relationships. We couldn\u2019t be more thrilled with how CBC audiences have responded to the series and its talented cast, and look forward to partnering with Thunderbird and Soulpepper to bring fans a second season in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of us at\u00a0<em>Kim\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0have loved making this show and are enormously gratified that it has connected with audiences so viscerally,\u201d said Fecan. \u201cWe can&#8217;t wait to start work on season two.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO: CBC has renewed the comedy series Kim\u2019s Convenience for a 13-episode sophomore season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[136,274,275,276],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-cbc","tag-kims-convenience","tag-soulpepper","tag-thunderbird-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Another Season of Kim\u2019s Convenience for CBC - TVCANADA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/another-season-of-kims-convenience-for-cbc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Season of Kim\u2019s Convenience for CBC - TVCANADA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TORONTO: CBC has renewed the comedy series Kim\u2019s Convenience for a 13-episode sophomore season.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/another-season-of-kims-convenience-for-cbc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVCANADA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-21T16:45:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-12-21T16:45:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/09\/KimsConvenience-CBC-1216.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/another-season-of-kims-convenience-for-cbc\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/another-season-of-kims-convenience-for-cbc\/\",\"name\":\"Another Season of Kim\u2019s Convenience for CBC - TVCANADA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-21T16:45:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-21T16:45:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/another-season-of-kims-convenience-for-cbc\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/another-season-of-kims-convenience-for-cbc\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/another-season-of-kims-convenience-for-cbc\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Another Season of Kim\u2019s Convenience for CBC\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/\",\"name\":\"TVCANADA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\",\"name\":\"Sara Alessi\",\"description\":\"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. 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