We're All In This Together

The Press Room

TORONTO, ON - May 20, 2009 - Steve Smith, creator and star of The Red Green Show, and Mag Ruffman, Canada's best known handywoman, have teamed up in a unique collaboration to create the new biography, We're All In This Together: Red Green - the man behind the character and vice versa.

The book, released in November of 2008, sold out across Canada in five weeks leaving many fans disappointed when they couldn't get a copy of the book. That's why Steve and Mag are releasing the second printing in time for Father's Day.

Steve and Mag will be appearing in June at Canadian Tire stores to sign books and greet fans in support of the Father's Day program at Canadian Tire.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Red Green Show creator Steve Smith is a national icon, an Order of Canada recipient, a deeply creative thinker and one of the funniest men in the country. His new biography, We’re All In This Together, reveals the thinking behind the comedy, and the intimate details of his life on and off-screen.  

Full of plainspoken wisdom and independent spirit from the man with the second-longest running comedy in the history of television, We’re All in This Together is a fast, thoughtful read that inspires and uplifts.

Steve collaborated on this book with longtime friend and “ToolGirl”, Mag Ruffman - a syndicated newspaper columnist and host of DIY television classics like A Repair to Remember.

Supporting the launch of this innovative new book is 3M Canada, maker of Scotch® Duct Tape. 3M Canada Company is the sole Canadian distributor for the new biography.

To learn more about the book please visit www.WereAllinThisTogether.ca or www.facebook.com/RedGreen

STEVE SMITH

Steve Smith has had a comedy series on the air for more 30 years, beginning with Smith and Smith, a popular variety show that featured Steve and his wife, Morag. His most successful project was The Red Green Show (www.redgreen.com), which he starred in, produced and co-wrote for fifteen seasons. Steve completed 300 episodes of the show along with several TV specials and a feature film. The Red Green Show is a fan favourite on Canadian television and also in the U.S. where it airs on more than eighty Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations.

Steve has received numerous awards and citations from the entertainment industry and is also a recipient of the Order of Canada (2005), Canada’s highest civilian honour.

Steve’s biography, We’re All in This Together (www.WereAllinThisTogether.ca), will be released in November of 2008, co-written with Mag Ruffman. Steve is the author of three other books – Red Green Talks Cars: A Love Story (1997, co-written with Rick Green), The Red Green Book: Wit and Wisdom of Possum Lodge (1997, co-written with Rick Green) and Red Green’s Duct Tape is Not Enough (2002).

Steve, a grandfather, is sort of retired - doing occasional personal appearances, performing in a singing trio, playing a lot of golf, working on his boat and writing books. He is happily married to Morag, his sweetheart for the past 43 and-a-half years.

MAG RUFFMAN

Mag Ruffman is a television producer, writer, actress and building contractor. She spent seven years in a corset as “Olivia Dale” on CBC’s beloved Road to Avonlea, and five seasons in a tool belt as host, creator and producer of the fix-it classic A Repair to Remember (78 episodes) and the Gemini-nominated workshop series Anything I Can Do (52 episodes), which now airs worldwide. She also created and hosted the groundbreaking relationship show Men On Women (44 episodes) for W Network.

Mag’s weblog can be found online at www.toolgirl.com, and a searchable database of her syndicated newspaper articles is available at www.homeenvy.com. Mag’s entertaining home repair videos are online at www.homerenovationguide.com and her newspaper column appears across Canada in CanWest papers.

Mag is also the author of How Hard Can It Be?, a collection of projects and repairs for beginners (McClelland and Stewart, 2003 and Beyond Words, 2005).

Mag is a national spokesperson with Habitat for Humanity Canada and in her spare time she tortures her ego by playing golf.

Mag is fortunate to be married to Daniel Hunter, the same guy she eloped with twenty years ago after having known him for only three weeks. She considers herself wildly lucky in love.