Stormworld

Stormworld is a drama television series which first aired on Canadian TV channel Space on March 18, 2009 with a repeat broadcast in August 2009, and aired in Australia on the Nine Network in 2009.

Notable Characters

Jason (Andrew Jenkins) – an athletic, high-energy, positive person who has strong leadership qualities. Lee is his best friend, also from Earth and arrived on Stormworld at the same time. Jason is the pilot of the boat named Cougar. In the final episode he decides to stay behind with Flees and Ogee and become leader of The Settlement. Lee (Calum Worthy) – an intelligent, savvy and logical individual with a strong scientific mind. He arrived on Stormworld with his best friend, Jason. Lee wants very much to return to Earth, which he does in episode 26. Flees (Valentina Barron) – arrived 7 years ago with her father, an engineer, after their small aircraft was drawn through a vortex from Earth. Flees' father disappeared four years after their arrival on Stormworld when he went out kayaking. Now 15 years old, she has continued an ongoing search to find her missing father for the past 3 years. In her searching, she has acquired an excellent knowledge of geography of Stormworld. Luce regards Flees as an older sister. Ogee (voiced by Andrew Kavadas) – an extremely clever talking bowling ball. Khelioz (Lim Kay Tong) – also known as The Navigator. On his home world of Maren, Khelioz was a fisherman. On Stormworld he is a trader with a small sailing vessel who is trying to collect information to learn where the portal is for people to return to their home planets. His methods are often viewed as being sneaky or self-serving.

Episodes

Stormworld consists of 26 episodes The series aired weekly on Wednesdays, over the course of 7 months in 2009 between the months of March and September.

International syndication

Production

The series was shot in Australia and Canada in 2008. Post-production sound and effects was done by Kojo Productions, who sued the production company for more than $265,000 in 2010 for unpaid invoices.

Critical response

When it premiered in Canada, it was called a "a hyper-flimsy sci-fi offering" with "cheesy low-budget special effects". Andre Jenkins, Calum Worthy, and Valentina Barron were all nominated for the Best Performance in a TV Series at the 2010 Young Artist Awards with Worthy winning the award for leading young actor in a drama series.

References

External links

Stormworld at the Australian Television Information Archive Blackmagic Design provides Stormworld graphics

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