Details
Episode:
WINNIPEG ONLY
Union:
Union
Area of media:
Mini-Series
Network:
Limited Series (8)
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
ACTRA + 110% buyout
Deadline:
Nov 5, 2025
Auditions:
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED - Expressions Film Studio
Shooting starts:
Nov 3, 2025
Shooting finishes:
Feb 6, 2026
Shooting locations:
Winnipeg and Area
Cities for response:
Winnipeg
Comments
Winnipeg Only
PLEASE SUBMIT EVEN IF YOU HAVE SUBMITTED AND READ ALREADY
PLEASE SUBMIT EVEN IF YOU HAVE SUBMITTED AND READ ALREADY
Storyline
Based on a true story. In 1977, at a local radio news station in Indianapolis, beloved on-air broadcaster Fred Heckman (Jon Hamm) is facing a tough decision: stay with the home news station that's been his lifeblood the last twenty-two years, or move his family to New York City, where a big job at CBS awaits him. As he ponders his decision, a breaking news story captures the town's attention: volatile TONY KIRITSIS is holding DICK HALL, the president of a mortgage company, hostage with a gun rigged to his head, in protest of the mortgage company's upcoming foreclosure of Tony's commercial property. Tony wants to be heard live on air with Fred Heckman to tell his story. Fred is all for it -- it's the biggest breaking news story in town, maybe the country right now -- but he comes up against pressure from his GM and the FCC. Tony liberally uses of profanity, and there's also the possibility that he just might go ahead and shoot Dick during the live interview. Fred and his colleagues grapple with the dilemma of how to tell a vital news story and still maintain some responsibility to listeners -- and how much power the sponsors, the FCC, and a nervous station manager should have over the airing or dismissing of real news...
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Large Principal | COOKIE | Male 63 - 75 Years old |
Description Can play the role of Male. Cookie can charm his way out of a paper bag. If Cookie is in the room, everyone else plays back up. An old fashioned hustler in the vein of Paul Newman in THE STING/THE COLOR OF MONEY. Ryan Oneal in PAPER MOON, and DANNY OCEAN in OCEAN'S ELEVEN (Clooney and Sinatra). Everyone loves him. Women and men. Cookie is the best kind of huckster. He always has a con going but will make you laugh as he empties out your pockets. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Large Principal | DORIS MARTIN | Female 58 - 65 Years old |
Description Can play the role of female. A wealthy widow who married young and spent her life raising her now grown (well mannered) children. She recently became engaged to Cookie. There might be red flags on this relationship but honestly this is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to Doris. She might have met him in Florida, but his son is the famous Fred Heckman from Indianapolis so that feels like a good sign. Since the moment she met Cookie, Doris has never had so much fun in her entire life. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | SNIPER | Male 28 - 38 Years old |
Description Can play the role of male, the SNIPER lays in wait for a moment to take his shot and end the hostage situation. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | BARTENDER | Male 20 - 35 Years old |
Description Can play the role of male, a BARTENDER attending to Ibby unwittingly sticks his foot in his mouth. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | RIVAL REPORTER #1 | All 20 - 40 Years old |
Description Can play the role of male or female, a RIVAL REPORTER to Ben and WIBC, they are in the scrum trying to get a quote from Chief Gallagher. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | RIVAL REPORTER #2 | All 20 - 40 Years old |
Description Can play the role of male or female, a RIVAL REPORTER to Ben and WIBC, they are in the scrum trying to get a quote from Chief Gallagher. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | PETE HUGHES | Male 25 - 35 Years old |
Description Can play the role of male, PETE HUGHES, Ginny’s farmer-husband, checks in on her at Crestwood since no one has been able to get a hold of her. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | ELK MEMBER | Male 30 - 50 Years old |
Description Can play the role of male, the ELK MEMBER takes a chance and offers to buy Barbara and Ibby a drink, much to his eventual dismay… | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | ONLOOKER | All 20 - 60 Years old |
Description Can play the role of male or female, an ONLOOKER outside Crestwood thinks they get a glimpse of Tony through his papered-up windows. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | DICK HALL (12 yo) | Male 11 - 13 Years old |
Description Can play the role of male, 12 yo DICK sits between his older brothers in the back bench of the family’s 1947 Chevy, watching the media circus surrounding his father M.L. and is dazed by the flashing bulbs of the cameras. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | BILL HALL (14 yo) | Male 13 - 15 Years old |
Description Can play the role of male, BILL in the back bench of the family’s 1947 Chevy, watching the media circus surrounding his father M.L. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | JACK HALL (13 yo ) | Male 12 - 14 Years old |
Description Can play the role of male, JACK sits in the back bench of the family’s 1947 Chevy, watching the media circus surrounding his father M.L. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | MABEL HALL | Female 40 - 70 Years old |
Description | ||