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CBC UNVEILS FIRST ROUND OF COMPETITORS FOR THE ALL-NEW SECOND SEASON OF CANADA'S SMARTEST PERSON ON OCTOBER 4

 

Participants in the season premiere include a rapper, teenager, diversity executive and new mom HEARTLAND star Amber Marshall makes special guest appearance in premiere episode, other Season 2 celebrity judges also include Perez Hilton, Alan Thicke, Dan Levy, Mark McEwan, Mary Walsh, Scott Russell and more

CBC’s ultimate competition series, CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON returns for its second season on Sunday, October 4 at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT), hosted by Jessi Cruickshank and featuring an all-new roster of competitors and exciting celebrity guest judges. Thousands of Canadians applied and underwent a series of rigorous tests for the chance to compete in this epic intelligence showdown. Each week, a diverse group of Canadians including a CFL player, cheerleader, Youtube star, matchmaker, police officer and more battle it out for the chance to be crowned “Canada’s Smartest Person.”

 

In the season premiere, 16-year-old wunderkid Maya Burhanpurkar of BarrieON, rapper Anthony Craparotta (aka iLLvibe) of Toronto, ON, diversity executive Richard Pinnock from Montreal, QC and new mom Jessica Joy of Golden, BC go head-to-head, competing for a spot in the finale and their chance to take home the coveted title. Amber Marshall star of CBC’s hit family-drama HEARTLAND is the season’s first celebrity guest star.

 

CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON is an innovative, original competition series based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Each week, four participants compete in a series of challenges in six areas of intelligence (linguistic, logical, visual, physical, musical and social) that redefines smart. This season features even more action-packed competition marked by bigger, bolder, mind-bending challenges that push participants to their limits. It also includes an all-star line-up of celebrity judges including CBC sports host Scott Russell, comedian Mary Walsh (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, actor Alan Thicke (Unusually Thicke), choreographer Sean Cheeseman, comedian Steve Patterson (The Debaters), actor Dan Levy (Schitt’s Creek), sports anchorDan O’Toole (Fox Sports), singer Jully Black, Toronto International Film Festival artistic directorCameron Bailey, chef Mark McEwan and the Art Gallery of Ontario’s, Sean O’Neill ( Crash Gallery).

 

Each week, viewers can play along in real-time with the ground-breaking CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON app, available for iOS and Android devices. The app syncs to every broadcast allowing viewers to participate with each challenge in the show in real time. During the week, viewers can try their hand at a series of bonus challenges and new this season, is Head2Head, which allows players to dual against their family and friends.

 

CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON airs Sundays at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) on CBC-TV beginning October 4.

 

Find CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON online:

 

Website: cbc.ca/smartestperson/

 

Twitter: @CanadasSmartest #SmartestPerson

 

Facebook: facebook.com/canadassmartestperson

 

Instagram: @CanadasSmartest

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About Media Headquarters Media Headquarters is a leading Canadian television and digital media production company founded in 1999 by Executive Producer Robert Cohen. The company is widely recognized for producing popular series and original formats for worldwide markets. Media Headquarters has won numerous Gemini Awards, been nominated for an Emmy® Award and consistently makes the Realscreen ‘Global 100’ List celebrating the world’s best non-fiction producers. Media Headquarters’ slate includes factual entertainment, documentary, dramatic and children’s programing. For more information visit www.mediahqs.net.

 

About CBC/Radio-Canada CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada’s national public broadcaster and one of its largest cultural institutions. The Corporation is a leader in reaching Canadians on new platforms and delivers a comprehensive range of radio, television, internet, and satellite-based services. Deeply rooted in the regions, CBC/Radio-Canada is the only domestic broadcaster to offer diverse regional and cultural perspectives in English, French and eight Aboriginal languages.

 

A space for us all is CBC/Radio-Canada’s new strategy to modernize the public broadcaster and ensure that it continues to fulfill its mandate for Canadians and for future generations. Through to 2020, it will increase its investment in prime time television programming, and continue to create radio programs of the highest quality, while promoting the development of digital and mobile platforms and content.

 

For more information including series synopses, press releases, hi-res images, video clips and bios, please visit the CBC Media Centre atcbc.ca/mediacentre. Follow CBC’s publicity team on Twitter @CBC_Publicity.

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For more information or media requests, please contact:

 

Cathleen Saville publicist, CBC Publicity Cathleen.saville@cbc.ca 416.205.7976 (office)

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