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  • Call Me Mother’s Dallas Dixon Dishes On Season 2 & The Power Of Drag

    Call Me Mother’s Dallas Dixon Dishes On Season 2 & The Power Of Drag

    Speaking with PRIDE the host teases working with drag icons and which queen he’d like to call mother.

    Hosting Call Me Mother is a perfect gig for Dallas Dixon, who has returned for the sophomore season of the drag reality TV competition series. For one thing, he’s a lifelong fan of the art of drag, who fondly recalls escaping his small town to go visit drag shows in Toronto, where he found himself fascinated by the artistry on display. But it also takes a lot of charisma and energy to stand out among a group of drag queens, but fortunately Dallas has a seemingly endless supply of both.

    For those initiated with the OutTV series, up-and-coming drag queens and kings compete for the title of “First Child of Drag”, but to do so they first have to earn their spot in one of the drag houses led by three icons of drag: Peppermint (House of Dulcet), Crystal (House of Glass), and Barbada de Barbades (House of Harmonie), who each mentor the queens they select to join their families.

    Read more on Pride.com.

     

  • Watch the First 15 Minutes of Call Me Mother Season 2

    Watch the First 15 Minutes of Call Me Mother Season 2

    The first 15 min of Call Me Mother season two are here, and we couldn’t be more excited about this upcoming cycle!

    Just like the first season, Call Me Mother will once again feature Crystal as the mother of the House of Glass, Barbada de Barbades as the mother of the House of Harmonie, and Peppermint as the mother of the House of Dulcet.

    Crystal describes the House of Glass as “fashion, subversion, punky aesthetics. The perfect Venn diagram of hot, dangerous, and sweaty.” Barbades wants her drag children in the House of Harmonie “to become amazing superstars.” While Peppermint believes that the House of Dulcet is all about “art, activism, and compassion.”

    The first step on Call Me Mother season two is the audition process, which consists of three phases: Look (where the mothers watch the contestants walk the showcase in their best drag fashion), Talent (where the contestants must perform a talent show number), and Tea (where the contestants plea their cases to the mothers and explain why they deserve a spot in the competition). During each of these phases, a few auditioners will be adopted into the three different houses on the show… but some drag artists won’t make it past this first round of the competition.

    You can watch the exclusive first 15 minutes of Call Me Mother season two below.

    Read more on out.com.

  • Dragula winner Landon Cider joins Call Me Mother season 2 as permanent judge

    Dragula winner Landon Cider joins Call Me Mother season 2 as permanent judge

    The drag king boards the OutTV competition’s panel alongside season 1 mentor Farra N Hyte, the mother of RuPaul’s Drag Race star Brooke Lynn Hytes.

    Daddy is headed to Call Me Mother.

    EW can exclusively reveal that The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula season 3 winner and world-renowned drag king Landon Cider will join the cast of the show as a permanent mentor for season 2.

    Cider will advise the contestants — the full roster of which EW exclusively revealed earlier this month — alongside returning mentor Farra N Hyte, the leader of the House of Hytes and drag mother to RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11 runner-up and Canada’s Drag Race host Brooke Lynn Hytes.

    Landon and Farra will oversee the drag kings, queens, and nonbinary artists as they navigate weekly challenges and performances among the houses of the show’s resident mothers: RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Crystal, RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9 star Miss Peppermint, and drag legend Barbada de Barbades.

    “As a fan of Call Me Mother season 1, I’m incredibly honored to bring a kingly perspective to the judging panel this season, and to share this experience with the beautifully talented Farra N Hyte,” Landon said in a statement. “I can’t wait for you all to see these creative artists grow on and off the competitive stage.”

    Read more on Entertainment Weekly.

  • EW – Call Me Mother season 2 cast of drag queens, kings, and nonbinary artists is here to serve

    EW – Call Me Mother season 2 cast of drag queens, kings, and nonbinary artists is here to serve

    EW exclusively reveals the new cast set to compete for RuPaul’s Drag Race stars Miss Peppermint, Crystal, and legendary performer Barbada.

    A new generation of legendary children is ready to shake what their mamas gave them on Call Me Mother season 2.

    EW can exclusively reveal the 15-strong cast of Canadian drag queens, kings, and nonbinary performers set to appear on the second season of OutTV’s reality competition series, which also welcomes back returning house mothers Miss Peppermint (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Crystal (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK), and legendary performer Barbada de Barbades to oversee the contest.

    The roster includes a queen who hilariously describes herself as the “fashion slut princess of Toronto,” while another participant works as a television weather reporter by day.

    Read more on Entertainment Weekly.

  • Go Button Media Doubles 2022 Production Slate and Promotes Key Execs

    Go Button Media Doubles 2022 Production Slate and Promotes Key Execs

    Toronto-based prodco Go Button Media has promoted four team members amid plans to double its production slate to record numbers for this year.

    Key promotions announced Monday (Jan. 10) include Robin Webster from director of development to VP of development and casting, and Sarah Hewitt from manager of development to director of development.

    Webster and Hewitt will drive the development of new IP and talent for the business, including the recently announced series Forgotten Frontlines (Super Channel Fuse), Colossal Machines (Super Channel Fuse), Mysteries of The Ancient Dead (Super Channel Fuse), Call Me Mother season two (OUTtv), and Secret Societies: In The Shadows (Super Channel Fuse).

    Stephanie Baird – who has worked on Go Button’s Secret Nazi Bases (UKTV, CBC’s documentary Channel), The Animal Within (Autentic, Spiegel TV Wissen, NTV), Phantom Signals (Science Channel, Super Channel), A World Without NASA (CBC’s documentary Channel, CuriosityStream) and Call Me Mother – is being bumped up from line producer to director of production. She’ll oversee the company’s production slate both in Canada and internationally.

    Previous post supervisor Rebecca Costa has been promoted to director of post-production and will supervise the expansion of the company’s edit team, post schedules, network deliveries and systems.

    Go Button says its slate of confirmed  factual and entertainment productions for 2022 is its largest and most varied yet for domestic and international clients — and more than double the number of hours produced in 2021 — with returning series including Call Me Mother and new titles including Mysteries of The Ancient Dead.

    Last month Edmonton-headquartered Super Channel extended its partnership with Go Button for four new factual series.

    “As Go Button continues to find international success and growth, we are thrilled that this outstanding team of production professionals, who have been with us since our earliest projects, will continue to drive the company into a thriving 2022 and a dynamic new chapter of production and partnerships,”

    Go Button founders and executive producers Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan said in a statement.

    Read more on Playback Magazine and Realscreen.com.

  • OUTtv renews most-watched original Call Me Mother for second season

    OUTtv renews most-watched original Call Me Mother for second season

    Canadian LGBTQ+ channel and streamer OUTtv has renewed Call Me Mother, its competition reality series in which renowned drag performers adopt and mentor the next generation of drag talent.

    The show, hosted by Dallas Dixon, sees contestants battle it out over the course of eight weeks for the title of First Child of Drag and various prizes. Drag mothers Miss Peppermint, Crystal and Barbada served as mentors in the first season, each one overseeing a different ‘house’ and deciding which performers stay in the competition.

    Produced by Toronto-based Go Button Media and OUTtv in association with RedFlame TV, the format made its debut in October and has gone on to become OUTtv’s most watched original series.

    Read more on C21 Media.