Arctic Stars – APTN’s fall programming highlights the real North

By Patrick Quinn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Nation For it’s fall season, APTN is unveiling programming that emphasizes authentic Northern living. While new documentary series like Go North! celebrate traditional Inuit cultural practices and their adaptation across the changing Arctic, award-winning comedy North of North is back for a highly anticipated second season. “This isn’t content made about the North – this is the North telling its own stories,” said Adam Garnet Jones, APTN’s director of TV content and special events. The international success of North of North, commissioned jointly by APTN, CBC and Netflix, demonstrates the wide appeal of Inuit-led content. The streaming platform’s first Canadian original series hit the Top 10 in 33 countries, earned a 100% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, and won nine Canadian Screen…

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