FRIDAY NIGHT FORUM
Being Jana
Jana Sinyor, creator/writer of Being Erica,
CBC’s hottest new television series
Toronto-born mother
of two created a
character with the
ability she wishes
for herself: to go back
and re-live moments
in time
THEY ARE BOTH 32-year-old Jewish women liv- the positions they tanulle toward the issues and summer campnull her Bat nullitnullahnull and other
ing in Toronto. But that’s where the parallels dilemmas that confront us all with wornullnull formative life moments in her past.
end between Erica Strange and Jana Sinyor. family and relationships. nullt doesn’t always solve her present day
The former is the title character of the nullegretsnull Erica has a few. nulln factnull the prem- mishigasnull but the gimmicnull wornulls with the
hit television series Being Erica. Sinyor is ise depends on it. Thannulls to her therapist null viewers. nullow in its second seasonnull Being Erica
its enullecutive producernull who conceived and the mystical nullr. Tom null Erica gets the nullthis- is one of nullBnull’s most popular Tnull seriesnull it is
created the shownull and who puts the words could-only-happen-on-T null opportunity aired in the null.S. and 3null other countriesnull and
into Erica’s mouth every weenull to go bacnullin time to re-live and reverse it garnered nullnull nullemini nullward nominations
nullf there is anything else they also sharenull it is those bad choices she once made at schoolnull in 2nullnullnull.
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