Urban Angel

Urban Angel is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBC Television from 1991 to 1993.[1] Based on the memoirs of real-life Canadian journalist Victor Malarek, the show starred Louis Ferreira (credited as Justin Louis) as Victor Torres, a crusading journalist for the Montreal Tribune.[2]

Urban Angel
StarringLouis Ferreira
Country of originCanada
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes16
Production
Running time60 minutes
Release
Original networkCBC Television
Original releaseOctober 29, 1991 (1991-10-29) –
1993 (1993)

Although the series was made by the same production firm behind the 1988 film Malarek, for the purposes of the television series they chose to create a fictionalized character rather than portraying the real-life Malarek, both to give them more leeway to write original stories not derived from Malarek's book and because they had selected Ferreira, who is of Portuguese descent and could not believably have portrayed a character with a Ukrainian surname, as the lead actor.[2]

The series aired in the United States as part of CBS's late-night Crimetime After Primetime line up.

The show's cast also included Paula de Vasconcelos, Vittorio Rossi, Dorothée Berryman, Vlasta Vrána, Arthur Grosser, Ellen David, Dean Marshall, Michael Rudder, Macha Grenon and Sophie Lorain.

References
  1. "Montreal is missing from the programming map". The Gazette, December 3, 2010.
  2. Rita Zekas, "Avenging angel". Toronto Star, February 2, 1991.


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