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Haven
Genre	Supernatural drama
Created by	Stephen King
Developed by	Sam Ernst Jim Dunn
Starring	Emily Rose Eric Balfour Lucas Bryant
Theme music composer	Andre Fratto Leah Siegel
Composer	Shawn Pierce
Country of origin	Template:TVUS
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	20 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Laszlo Barna Jim Dunn Sam Ernst Noreen Halpern Matt McGuinness David MacLeod John Morayniss Shawn Piller Michael Rosenberg Lloyd Segan Scott Shepherd
Producers	Charles Ardai (consulting) Stefanie Deoul Ginny Jones Duzak (line)
Production location	Nova Scotia, Canada
Cinematography	Eric Cayla
Editor	Debbie Berman
Camera setup	single
Running time	42 minutes
Production companies	Entertainment One Television Big Motion Pictures Productions Piller Segan Shepherd Shaw Media Universal Networks International
Original release
Network	Syfy
Release	July 9, 2010 (2010-07-09) – present

Haven is a supernatural drama television series loosely based on the Stephen King novel The Colorado Kid. The show, filmed on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, is an American/Canadian co-production. The one-hour drama premiered on July 9, 2010, on Syfy. The series will be the first property to be produced for Syfy Pay channels around the globe, excluding Canada and Scandinavia. On October 7, 2010, Haven was renewed by Syfy for a 13 episode second season, which began airing on July 15, 2011.

Plot

Shrewd and confident FBI Special Agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) has a lost past and an openness to the possibility of the paranormal. When she arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine, on a routine case, she soon finds herself caught up with the return of The Troubles, a plague of supernatural afflictions that occurred in the town at least once before. If that was not enough to draw her in, she also finds a link that may lead her to the mother she has never known.

Cast

Main cast:

• Emily Rose as Audrey Parker, the show's protagonist. She has quit the FBI to help investigate and deal with Haven's Troubles.
• Lucas Bryant as Nathan Wuornos, of Haven PD. He assists Audrey in dealing with The Troubles.
• Eric Balfour as Duke Crocker, the port town's smuggler, who is frequently involved in the investigations.
• Nicholas Campbell as Garland Wuornos (Season 1), Haven's hard-nosed chief of police, a veteran of The Troubles.

Recurring cast:

• Richard Donat as Vince Teagues and John Dunsworth as Dave Teagues, the editors of the Haven Herald. Vince is an artist and Dave a photographer.
• Stephen McHattie as Ed Driscoll, Haven's preacher. He has a very unsympathetic approach to The Troubles.
• Maurice Dean Wint as Senior FBI Agent Howard. He is a mysterious figure who is not who he seems to be.
• Mary-Colin Chisholm as Eleanor Carr (Season 1), Haven's bossy EMT.
• Michelle Monteith as Julia Carr (Season 1), a love interest of Duke's, daughter of Eleanor.
• Anne Caillon as Jess Minnion (Season 1), an animal rights activist and love interest of Nathan.
• Kathleen Munroe as Audrey Parker (#2) (Season 2), who claims to be the real Audrey Parker.
• Vinessa Antoine as Evidence "Evi" Ryan (Season 2), a character who knows Duke's shady past. She is also his love interest.
• Edge (Adam Copeland) as Dwight Hendrickson (Season 2), a mysterious Haven resident and a former Army Ranger who is the town's electrician and handyman. He helps clean up the effects of The Troubles.
• Jason Priestley as Chris Brody (Season 2), a handsome but anti-social marine biologist and son of the late mayor.

The opening credits sequence

The opening sequence contains hints and suggestions regarding the background to the events portrayed in the Haven series. The following list outlines the various clues to be seen in the sequence.

• A flash of lightning, then more overcast skies over the Haven lighthouse
• A ship's porthole, then a sailing ship with an old photo of a woman superimposed
• Woodcuts of an old sea port
• The Herald of Haven (date indistinct, perhaps in the 1650s): "The most revered Flagg to elaborate on the proper devices & most godly mechanisms for the examination and discovery of wytches"
• An old line image of a bonneted woman in custody
• Fast moving shore scene through a ship's window
• Headline of the Haven Herald (Tuesday, February 18, 1725): "Ship breaks up in calm seas"
• A chart displaying a tree of names, the earliest of which date back to before 1800
• A maze symbol on a stone and a ritualistic concoction
• A woodcut of a mermaid with her tail wrapped around a worried young man in the water
• A ship's compass and a blurred sextant
• Headline of the Haven Herald (Thursday, October 13, 1934): "Halleck's Homestead Vanishes Overnight"
• A family praying around a dining table
• Rows of tombstones
• A man in a boat with a seafood trap and a man watching with a young girl
• Headline of the Haven Herald (Thursday, October 13, 1956): "Murder? Police Baffled"
• A house with the sign "Antiques and Collectables"

  

• A room filled with lamps, framed images and many other old items
• A dog on a boat
• People gathered outside the Good Shepherd Church after a funeral service
• A building whose windows show the same glowing figure in different scenes
• A church spire
• The same spire in flames
• Headline of the Haven Herald (Thursday, May 28, 1983): "Who Killed the Colorado Kid?"
• Internet home page for the Haven Herald
• The door of a Haven police car
• Audrey Parker's FBI badge
• A black and white of a lighthouse smouldering (not the same as the Haven lighthouse, though may be intended to be)
• A flyover of the Haven lighthouse during the day, with the series name superimposed.

The tattoo

The tattoo is a recurring symbol in the TV series Haven. It consists of a round maze with a tiny human figure at each compass point. It can be seen during the opening credits sequence. This is the form of a tattoo which was first seen on the forearm of a victim of the Troubles.(Ep.105) When she was young, Vanessa Stanley, a person Troubled with seeing what will kill a person, touched the Colorado Kid and she saw an arm with the maze tattoo coming towards him. She describes the circumstances of Duke Crocker's death in the same manner. This makes Duke very interested in the tattoo. Nathan, who investigated the dead man with the tattoo, draws it for Duke.(Ep.110)

When Duke learns that Max Hansen has the tattoo on his forearm, he becomes apprehensive, believing Hansen to be his would-be killer. When Hansen is swallowed by a crack in the road, Duke is very relieved, thinking that the man who was to kill him is now dead. Julia Carr soon robs him of relief when she shows him a photo of her grandfather who also has the very same tattoo. She takes him off to the graveyard where her grandfather is buried and the maze symbol is engraved on his gravestone. Then, she tells Duke to notice the same symbol on all the gravestones. Later we are shown that, unbeknown to Duke, there is a tattoo on Julia's shoulder that comes and goes.(Ep.113)

Duke has a blackboard set up on his boat. Taped to it are photos of the Colorado Kid crime scene, Max Hansen and the other dead man's tattoo, plus Nathan's tattoo drawing. Three names are chalked on the board, Colorado Kid, Max Hansen and Audrey Parker. He adds Julia Carr's name.(Ep.113)

The fleeting glimpse of the symbol on a stone during the opening credits sequence suggests that there is some ritual associated with it, for a figure of a man moves a container filled with a strange concoction towards the stone. There is a feather used as part of the ritual, perhaps indicating a native American involvement. Haven's original name is Tuwiuwok, a Mi'kmaq name we are told meaning "Haven for God's Orphans".(Ep.101)

Development and production

Haven was originally developed for ABC Television in 2007 by writers Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn, with production company Piller Segan. A series of incidents, including the WGA writer's strike, put the series on hold until ABC eventually passed on the project. Piller Segan pursued other avenues to for the project, ultimately seeking to create an international partnership.

In September 2009, E1 Entertainment announced it was working with Stephen King to develop a television series based on his novel The Colorado Kid. The entertainment company ordered the concept straight to series, with thirteen episodes planned. In November, Syfy announced it had acquired the series.

The pilot episode was written by Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn. In February 2010, Emily Rose was cast in the lead role of Audrey Parker. Eric Balfour and Lucas Bryant came on board in late March.

Canadian broadcaster Canwest Global Communications acquired rights to the series in March.

In April 2010, Adam Kane signed on to direct the pilot. Production began April 20 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and surrounding areas. Filming occurred primarily in Chester, Nova Scotia (including using the local arena as a studio) and throughout the south shore of the Canadian province, including Lunenburg, Halifax, and Mahone Bay.

The series premiere, "Welcome to Haven", aired on Syfy in the U.S. on July 9, 2010, and on Showcase in Canada on July 12. The show became available to other international markets in October 2010.

On October 7, 2010, Syfy announced that the series has been renewed for a second season of 13 episodes.

Broadcast

Haven has been syndicated for broadcast in several countries worldwide, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan and Portugal.

Home Video release

Entertainment One released season 1 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in Region 1/Region A on June 14, 2011.

In Region 4, Beyond Home Entertainment released the first season on DVD in Australia on June 1, 2011.

Homage to Stephen King

Allusions to the works of Stephen King are built into Haven. According to the official Syfy Haven website, "Haven, based on the Stephen King novella, The Colorado Kid, features other notable Stephen King references on the show each week." Street names in Haven reflect King's work. The name of the town of Haven is derived from King's novel, Tommyknockers. Even the office of the Haven Herald is at 217 King Street. The allusions may be rather obvious to Stephen King aficionados, while others will find them quite obscure. Some of those references are listed here below.

• In the opening sequence, a newspaper article on "The Most Revered Flagg" is a reference to Randall Flagg, a recurring villain in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Randall Flagg is also the villain in Stephen King's novel The Stand.
• In the episode "Ain't No Sunshine" the shadow that kills people is called the Dark Man. Randall Flagg is often referred to as "The Dark Man" in The Stand. King also wrote a poem about Flagg called The Dark Man. Syfy explains about Flagg, "One of the villain's many talents is the ability to become a shadow that can't be seen by the normal eye."
• Derry and Derry Road are mentioned in the episode "Fur". Derry is the fictional town where the events in It take place.
• The episode "As You Were" contains several references to King's novel The Shining, starting with the storyline (a group of people are trapped in an abandoned, isolated hotel with a murderous, supernatural entity). The 1980 film version is referenced several times in the props and set, including a fire axe and a bright red tricycle. In the same episode, Audrey Parker receives a copy of the novel Misery Unchained ("signed by the author just before that lady chopped off his foot"), a reference to King's novel Misery.
• In the episode "The Hand You're Dealt" a Troubled person has the ability of Pyrokinesis, a reference to King's novel Firestarter. In the same episode a character describes lobster monsters that came out of the water which is a reference to the "lobstrosities" in King's second book in the Dark Tower series.
• Max Hansen, we learn in the episode "Spirals", was released from Shawshank Prison, a fictional prison in Maine which was the scene of King's novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
• In "A Tale of Two Audreys", there is a little boy in a yellow rain slicker outside the church chasing a newspaper boat that he set in the stream in the gutter and chased until it fell down into a stormdrain on Witcham Street which he then sticks his right arm down into and then screams, the same as George Denbrough did in the opening chapter of It. Also derived from It, episode "Fear and Loathing" revolves around a Troubled person who unwillingly takes the form of a person's worst fear, and appears as a clown to Audrey #2.
• In the episode "Love Machine", machines start to come to life and kill people, a direct reference to King's short story Trucks and also to King's novel Christine.
• In the episode "Roots", one of the Troubled persons was able to overcome a murderous plant. A similar plot was used in the unpublished serial "The Plant".

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External links

• Official website
• Haven at IMDb
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• Haven (TV series)
• 2010 American television series debuts
• 2010s American television series
• English-language television series
• Television programs based on Stephen King's works
• Horror fiction television series
• Paranormal television
• Syfy original programs
• Television series produced in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Television shows set in Maine
• Showcase network shows