Karen K. Burrows
TV and stage producer, developer, occasional writer (Corner Gas Animated, Jeremy & Jazzy, Governor General's Performing Arts Awards, Louise Lives Large). Fan of things. Used to lift heavy shit; now you can ask me how rehab's going. she/her 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
- The sun! Was up! The whole way here!!!
- oooooomg it's only -5, I think I can maybe... walk to the gym??
- Oh, cool! Michie Mee performed for Maestro Fresh Wes when he got a GGPAA in 2024... and she killed it.
- Saint John-based hip-hop artist Maestro Fresh Wes featured on Canadian stamp #NewBrunswick Other Black History Month stamps honour hip-hop stars Michie Mee and Muzion www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsHugo eligibility post! “The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
- My recent bugbear is brakes (car has those!) v breaks (car should not have those!).
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsI have recently been informed that the motto of the USS Athena, the campus of Starfleet Academy, is "wisdom begins in wonder" and I am having a moment.
- It's very small in the grand scheme of things, but when I'm reaching out to Americans about the GGPAAs, I usually use the Kennedy Center Honors as a quick comparable. WELP.
- Genuinely did not recognise Scott Moir in this ice dance doc, my goodness
- Went down a small skating wiki hole and did you know Ekaterina Gordeeva used to coach at West Edmonton Mall. What a life journey.
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- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsA quiet that roars: Lesley Manville and Robert Icke took me through the creation of a monologue in Icke's "Oedipus" that elicits the most thrilling sound to be heard in a theater: that of an electrified silence. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/t...
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsThe thing that bothers me so much about Carney's joke about greenlighting the Heated Rivalry show is that it furthers the narrative that it's a needle in a haystack. Anyone who reads Canadian books and watches Canadian film knows that we could have dozens more HRs with enough funding.
- Reposted by Karen K. Burrows"What does it all add up to? Is Carney the most conservative prime minister the Liberal party has ever elected? Some Liberals and some Conservatives think so." #GiftLink 🎁 www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
- Told ya. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsHalifax! There is a trial of an inhaled vaccine for COVID that you can enrol in right now!
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsReporters! Every time a politician talks about Heated Rivalry, please follow-up with a question about declining arts and media funding in Canada.
- Utterly shocked by Catherine O'Hara's death. It's one of the highlights of my career to have produced her tribute for the 2021 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards, with the incredible Noah Reid. youtu.be/vOWn4CUsFak?...
- Bet you five internet dollars this means they shifted the eligibility window to let the hockey show qualify. (Absolutely no judgement in that observation; they've done it before and it's smart marketing)
- Vancouver weeps
- Writers room in Los Angeles, but shooting in London. Great. www.gateworld.net/news/2026/01...
- I looked at my weather app wrong this morning and thought -23 was the high rather than the low, and there's not much to be pleased about but at least THAT'S not true. I have lived places where it could have been.
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsPlease enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
- WHAT, AMAZING
- HO-LEE SHIT. They're actually going to do it… They're actually going to make a Sex Criminals show. Holy shit. o_o www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/k...
- I wish I liked Carney's politics even half as much as his speeches, but man, it does mean something that we have a PM who will make these jokes and take these pictures. (Will Heated Rivalry get the industry some actual attention and funding??? Because THAT would be impressive.)
- sorry, WHAT
- "Treason": BC Premier Eby reax to Financial Times report that separatists w/ Alberta Prosperity Project met w/ Trump officials 3x since April and will again next month seeking $500b line of credit to “bankroll the province” if independence referendum passes www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
- It fills my gay little heart with joy to be dealing with broadcaster notes on how to make sure our non-binary character is respected 🏳️🌈
- Reposted by Karen K. Burrowsper the other site
- I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
- Welp, television has peaked, we can all go home now
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsJust started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
- I am so sick of these guys.
- BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford’s @OntarioPCParty has banned the media from covering its convention this weekend in Etobicoke. Very unusual for party confabs to be completely closed to journalists. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
- ...truly I cannot go back to London for another show this soon, but. Lesley Manville in Les Liasons Dangereuses.
- I honestly don't know enough to judge this one for me :P Opinions? www.idrlabs.com/dungeons-dra...
- I am deeply unsurprised (though I think the only reason my druid score is that high is that I care about climate change). www.idrlabs.com/dungeons-dra...
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsOne of the absolute best to do it and one of my personal favorites. RIP, Sal Buscema. comicbookclublive.com/2026/01/26/s...
- I get a meal kit delivery service and they couldn't deliver today, which is EXTREMELY valid but meant going to the store after the gym - except I couldn't get off the streetcar at the store because the back two doors were completely blocked by hip-deep snow! So I am eating tomorrow's lunch today.
- And of course I was only on the streetcar because no one has shovelled their sidewalks - it was treacherous enough walking to the gym when it was still light out. I have lots of grace for the city after this storm but I do think we should be able to walk and take transit!
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsTransit for the win.
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsToronto!
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsFULLY here for Star Trek’s new queer power couple
- There’s so much to hate and be infuriated by about this, and I do and I am, but the sheer level of pathetic attained by ‘I hope they leave hockey alone!!1!’ is just sending me
- I generally avoid reposting this shit but something about this one got me.
- FLANNEL SHEETS TIME (The building, and I, usually run too hot. But tonight I might even close the window, too.)
- Also, Gina Yashere is such a goddamn delight on #StarfleetAcademy I'm watching standup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCqS...
- I am so incredibly delighted by Nahla Ake and everything she chooses to be. #StarfleetAcademy
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsThis was my only viral Tweet.
- No love for STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT WITH BIG NATURALS??
- ...omg
- I was not.
- Trust me, we're tryin' 😅
- For CBC Arts, I wrote about why I think Canada needs to revel in the beauty of its weirdest impulses www.cbc.ca/arts/canadia...
- I try really hard not to actually listen to footage of Trump speaking but uh... did he... did he really say people call him 'daddy.' I'm not sure I want the answer.
- I'm far from convinced Carney's walking his talk yet, but it is good to hear the talk - baldly, and also laid out in multisyllabic words that engage with history, philosophy, and cultural analysis.
- Here is the full text of Carney's speech. Very much worth reading. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsWe’re doing this. It’s a way to fund original scripted comedy from some really great people - with more lined up in the wings - and if it works, this could be a UK industry game changer.
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsI'm furious about this, as I am about Willow. Going forwards, creators have to start getting some kind of "physical copies will be available for six months before and after the show is pulled from streaming" clause normalized. A big name, like Shonda Rhimes, will have to go to bat for us.
- Netflix is about to abandon one of the greatest reboot series of all time. Yes, I know it's a license issue but I have a feeling, sadly, it's also an LGBT thing too. 😔 Watch this great series while you still can. #sheraandtheprincessofpower
- Reposted by Karen K. BurrowsNot for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:
