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Snakes and Ladders (2004)

Snakes and Ladders poster
Country
Canada
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman starts working as an executive assistant in the Canadian Parliament. The series follows her experiences with a cabinet minister in a documentary style.

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What happens

Snakes and Ladders is a Canadian television mini-series created by Wayne Grigsby which aired on CBC Television in 2004. The series starred Amy Price-Francis as Shannon Jennings, a woman who takes a job as an executive assistant at Parliament Hill for a cabinet minister named Audrey Flankman (Catherine Disher). The series was shot in documentary style, and was produced by the same people who produced the series Trudeau. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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