Arctic Air (TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Ian Weir |
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| Theme music composer | Tim McCauley |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 35 (list of episodes) |
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| Production company(s) | Omnifilm Entertainment |
| Distributor | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
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| Original network | CBC Television |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | January 10, 2012 – April 8, 2014 |
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| Website | www |
Arctic Air is a Canadian drama television series that began airing on CBC Television on January 10, 2012. The series was canceled on March 17, 2014, due to government budgetary cuts.
Arctic Air is about a Yellowknife-based maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. The owners are Mel Ivarson, an old school bush pilot; Krista Ivarson, Mel's daughter; and Bobby Martin, the son of Ivarson's deceased partner. Episodes focus on interpersonal conflicts between the characters as well as dramatic flying missions with their aging fleet of Douglas DC-3s, de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otters and other aircraft. Each episode has one or more flying missions.
In some episodes, the production crew used Buffalo Airways' hangar in Yellowknife as backdrop.
Entertainment One released the complete first season on DVD in Canada on November 20, 2012. Season 2 was released on January 7, 2014. The third and final season was released on October 14, 2014.
According to CBC, the total audience for the first episode was just over 1 million viewers.
CBC Television released 5 mini-episodes online, titled Man of the North as supporting material to the first season of the series. These webisodes were each 2–3 minutes in length.
In support of the show's second season, an online game was launched on its official website, entitled Arctic Air Adventure.
A series of short clips, available exclusively through the series page on the CBC website, were produced to complement the second season finale. This online content was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award, in the Best Cross Platform Project, Fiction, category.
For the third series of the show, additional content was provided through the show's page on the CBC website, which included additional scenes, and supporting material such as photographs taken by characters, phone conversations and additional graphics related to each episode.
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