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Lost Girl (TV series)
Lost Girl produced by Prodigy Pictures. The series follows the life
of a succubus named Bo, played by Anna Silk, as she
learns to control her abilities, help those in need, and dis-
cover the truth about her origins. The show received pos-
itive initial reviews, and was renewed for a second season
two months after its premiere.[1] As of December 2011,
the show has been renewed for a third season.[2]
Genre Supernatural drama
Mystery Plot
Crime
Written by Michelle Lovretta Season 1
Directed by John Fawcett Main article: List of Lost Girl episodes (Season 1)
David Winning Bo is a succubus who grew up in an adoptive human fam-
ily, unaware of her non-human nature and of the Fae
Starring Anna Silk
Kristen Holden-Ried world. Her succubus powers only become apparent to
Ksenia Solo her when she accidentally kills her first love by drain-
Zoie Palmer ing him of his life energy, an act which forces her to flee
Rick Howland her home. Bo exchanges her previously normal life for
Country of origin Canada one without family or friends, moving from place to place
whenever she kills again.
Language(s) English In the pilot episode, Bo saves a human girl named
No. of seasons 2 Kenzi; the two quickly become friends and Kenzi decides
they should team up to create a Fae/Human detective
No. of episodes 28 (List of episodes)
agency. Confronted by the Fae elders with having to
Production choose a side ("Light" or "Dark"), Bo declares herself neu-
tral, deciding to side with humans after Kenzi risked her
Executive Jay Firestone
producer(s) Paul Rapovski life to find what had happened to Bo for her own sake
Plato Fountidakis where most of the Fae simply saw her as another factor
Michelle Lovretta on the board. Throughout the season, Bo learns more
Peter Mohan about the Fae world and herself while she searches for in-
Location(s) Toronto, Ontario, Canada formation about her origins. Along the way, Bo also de-
velops romantic relationships with both Dyson, a wolf
Running time 45 minutes shifter police detective and Lauren, a human doctor.
Production Prodigy Pictures
company(s) Season 2
Broadcast Main article: List of Lost Girl episodes (Season 2)
With the world of Fae in chaos following Bo’s explosive
Original channel Showcase
reunion with her mother, Bo must learn to "play the
Picture format HDTV 720p game" and navigate the inner workings of the Fae World
in order to protect those who have helped to protect
Original run September 12, 2010 (2010-09-12) –
present her.[3] Bo finds her resolve to stay free challenged, and is
forced to question her own morals and beliefs. While Bo
External links grows stronger and learns more about who she really is,
Website relationships will be tested and passions will ignite, but
answers will not come easily.[4]
Lost Girl is a Canadian supernatural crime drama televi-
sion series that premiered on the Showcase Television
network in September 2010. The series is developed and
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Cast Light Fae, his true allegiance is to Trick rather than
the Ash. He is in love with Bo- the two occasionally
engaging in sexual trysts while Bo was learning
about her powers so that she could feed without
killing- and is best friends with Hale, his Fae
detective partner, although his love for Bo caused
him pain because he cannot express it openly due to
the issues surrounding her mysterious background.
In the season one finale, he sacrificed his love for Bo
to give her the strength to defeat her insane mother
The cast at a Fan Expo Canada seminar on the show. From left: as part of a deal with the Norn, leaving him with the
Rick Howland, Ksenia Solo, Anna Silk, Zoie Palmer, Kristen memory of their relationship but unable to feel his
Holden-Ried and K.C. Collins old passion for her. He has since made efforts to
remain friends with Bo, which was initially awkward
Main cast as Bo tried to win him back. After being reunited
with his old love Ciara, they began a relationship,
• Anna Silk as Bo –- A succubus, she has the power to
which is hampered by Dyson’s reluctance to reveal
steal people’s life force through their mouths with a
his encounter with the Norn and the price he paid.
kiss, to bewitch people with a touch, and to feed
• Zoie Palmer as Lauren -– Owned by the Ash, she
from sexual energy during intercourse. Though at
serves as a doctor and scientist for the Light Fae. Her
first she could not feed without killing, she has since
position earns her the respect of the Light Fae,
learned to control her powers. She can only seem to
despite being human. She was bewitched by Bo
go a few days without feeding before the drive
during their first meeting and has since fallen in love
overcomes her. Absorbing power from other Fae can
with her. She has extensive knowledge of the
increase her strength, although her ’default’ power
different types of Fae and their abilities. In the first
level when feeding from humans has not been
season, she taught Bo how to control her powers. It
established. She is best friends with Kenzi and is
was later revealed that she has a human girlfriend
romantically involved with both Lauren and Dyson.
named Nadia who is being kept in stasis because she
When Lauren’s life was threatened and she was
contracted a disease that humans are normally
rendered near death, she displayed a strange,
immune to while on a humanitarian mission with
extremely powerful alternate persona, which
Lauren. The Ash offered Lauren the help of the Fae
drained the life from multiple individuals at a
curing Nadia, in exchange for her servitude,
distance of several meters and declared that "there
explaining why he "owns" her. With Bo’s help, she
will be no more dark or light, only me". She has been
discovers that she was tricked by the Ash: Nadia was
given a vision of the future in which she kills Trick,
cursed by a Fae to have the seeming of the disease in
who refers to her as "Ysabeau".
order to induce her to accept servitude, so the Ash
• Ksenia Solo as Kenzi -– Bo’s best friend and sidekick-
could use her medical expertise to help the Fae.
declared as Bo’s ’property’ to allow her to participate
When she discovers this, she goes to the new Ash
in Fae society-, despite being a normal human, who
and demands he release Nadia, discarding her
suggested Bo use her neutrality to her advantage to
allegiance when he refuses. After being imprisoned
become a private investigator. A scam artist who
by the Ash, and with the progression of a string of
displays kleptomanic tendencies, she can speak
Fae murders with which he requires her assistance,
Russian fluently and possesses excellent street-
he arranges to free Nadia. Lauren renews her vow of
smarts. Despite their differences, she and Bo quickly
servitude in payment, this time for life, not aware
became close, Bo choosing humanity rather than Fae
that it was Bo who actually removed the curse (Bo
because Kenzi risked her life to find out what had
acting under the false impression that if she tells
happened to Bo during her ’trial’ where the Fae
Lauren the curse will return, this time permanently).
seemed to consider Bo just another factor in their
• Rick Howland as Fitzpatrick "Trick" McCorrigan –-
game. She frequently acts as the comic relief. Her
He is the owner and bartender of the only Fae pub in
family is apparently highly connected. She
town, The Dal Riata, which is neutral ground where
frequently assists and/or vexes Hale.
Dark and Light Fae can go freely. Trick is very
• Kristen Holden-Ried as Dyson -– A wolf-shifter and a
powerful; a Blood Seer, he has the ability to alter fate
detective in the human world. Even in human form
by writing in his own blood. Once known as the
he is quite strong and possesses a very acute sense of
Blood King, he is on equal terms with the Fae elders,
smell. He is several hundred years old and very
though few are aware of his true self. Compared to
knowledgeable about Fae politics. A member of the
other Fae (who have contempt for humans), he is
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very tolerant and even fond of humans, even trading her former husband’s inheritance, but is not
away his most prized possession to help save Kenzi’s conscious of this with regard to those around her.
life. He is extremely reluctant to use his blood • Athena Karkanis as Nadia -- Lauren’s human
powers, as they always carry a price. girlfriend. It turns out that it was the former Ash
who ordered the cursing of Nadia, with the goal of
Recurring cast gaining Lauren’s service in the fight against some
• K.C. Collins as Hale –- Dyson’s colleague and another sort of Fae-ravaging plague. In the episode "Masks",
Fae undercover agent in the police force. He is a she wakes up from the curse.
siren, able to render humans and even other Fae
unconscious or fascinate them with his whistle, so Development and production
that they will docilely follow him. Hale is good
friends with Kenzi, especially since they are both On November 16, 2008, Prodigy Pictures issued a press re-
sidekicks to an "alpha dog." Like Trick and Dyson, he lease that they had been commissioned by Canwest Glob-
is relatively fond of humans. al to produce a pilot for Lost Girl, a drama about a young
• Emmanuelle Vaugier as Ebony Florette Marquis, the woman with supernatural powers. The pilot was to be
Morrígan –- The leader of the Dark Fae and possibly written by Michelle Lovretta who had previously written
the only one of her kind. She runs a talent agency in for the Canadian television series Mutant X.[6]
the human world, where she represents young On August 19, 2009, Canwest Global issued a press re-
musicians and artists, feeding off their talent and lease that the Showcase Television channel, a subsidiary
energy. She appears as a sexy young woman with a of the main company, had picked up the rights to a one
brusque attitude, assumes that Bo is lying and insists hour supernatural drama series. The cast would include
that she should be killed. Anna Silk, previously in such series as Billable Hours, and
• Cle Bennett as the Ash –- The leader of the Light Fae Being Erica as filling the lead role of the character Bo in
prior to and during the first season. He appears as a the series. Kristen Holden-Ried, from the series The Tu-
quiet, aristocratic man with a soft voice, who thinks dors as another main character named Dyson, an inhu-
more of the future than the Morrigan does. He hoped man cop involved in a love/hate relationship with Bo,
to bring Bo into the Light Fae, and uses Lauren to try and two-time Gemini Award winner Ksenia Solo as a
to manipulate her. He is badly injured by an assassin third character named Kenzi, Bo’s street-smart and
sent by Bo’s mother, and is in a coma at the end of fiercely loyal human best friend. Also in the cast would
the first season. It is later revealed that he be Rick Howland, from the film Bon Cop, Bad Cop as Trick, a
manipulated Lauren into serving him, arranging to friendly saloon keeper with something to hide.[7] The re-
have a Fae Witch Doctor place a curse on her lease stated the series’ promotional efforts would include
girlfriend Nadia and then offering Lauren helping in an interactive website, graphic novel, and downloadable
curing her ’disease’ in exchange for her servitude. video game.
• Vincent Walsh as the Ash -- A Fae named Lachlan On April 7, 2010, Prodigy reported that the green-
who wins the now-vacant position of the Ash; smug, light had been given for a series to be produced to consist
sexy, dangerous, charismatic and a formidable force of thirteen one-hour episodes.[8] Production on the series
in his own right. Power-hungry, he is a stickler for began in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the spring of 2010,
rules.[5] at sites across southern Ontario and at a small studio
• Lina Roessler as Ciara -- An old love of Dyson’s. In the in western Toronto.[9] Completion of the series’ primary
past, a Fae king wanted her for his own and sent her production occurred June 25, and the series was aimed
husband, Dyson’s best friend, to die so he could claim for a September 2010 release date.
her. Dyson attempted to save him, but was unwilling On June 22, 2010 Keyframe Digital of Niagara-On-The-
to pay the Norn’s Price. Dyson prepared to attack the Lake, Ontario reported that they had been given the con-
king for his actions, but was convinced to simply tract for visual effects on the first thirteen episodes of
leave by the remained of their pack, who would have Lost Girl, referring to it as fantasy/noir.[10]
been honor bound to stop him, and did not see her As part of the promotion of the series, an official
again. They are reunited after her husband’s death, site was opened at the beginning of August 2010 at lost-
and quickly begin the romance they could not have girlseries.com. It contained a short trailer for the series,
before due to her marriage. She is upset that no one and a summary of information on the series and the char-
will tell her what happened between Bo and Dyson. acters. On August 20, an interactive comic book was also
While she is initially treated frostily by Bo and Kenzi released that would serve as a lead-in to the series and
(which she fails to notice), Bo eventually comes to characters for viewers. It also was expected to have a fo-
consider her a friend. She is extremely rich due to rum for viewers to interact with the cast and crew before
the series actually aired on Showcase. On the same date,
a press release indicated that the series cast and crew
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Season Episodes Originally aired DVD release date
Season premiere Season finale Region Region Region 4
1 2
1 13 September 12, December 12, 2010 (2010-12-12) N/A N/A November 23,
2010 (2010-09-12) 2011
2 22 September 4, 2011 N/A N/A N/A N/A
3 13[17] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
would be making an appearance at Fan Expo Canada held
in Toronto from August 27-29, where they would be an-
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