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Tequila Nightclub featured in television series Tammy Robert Saskatoon Express
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Blair Anton (left to right), Simon Papadopoulos and Bryan (Chunk) Pawlachuk of Tequila Nightclub are featured in a six-part documentary series (Photo Supplied) Pawalachuk’s decision to hire another seasoned veteran from the Saskatoon nightclub scene in an attempt to breathe new life into Tequila and get that elusive door lineup snaking back down the street. Pawlachuk knows nothing comes easy in his business. “It’s hard work in and success out,” he said. “If you don’t personally put in the hard work you won’t see a good return. The first year your bar is a bit of a novelty, so it’s a freebie year. Three or four years in you’ve got to make changes, revamp. Every year you’re dealing with a new crop of customers — those turning 19.” “I don’t think I’d want to see it the day before everyone else,” said Pawlachuk, who will watch the series premiere for the first time with everyone else when it airs on City TV Saskatchewan on Oct. 23 at 10 p.m. An encore presentation will air Oct. 25 at 10 p.m. The series is also available at citytv.com/saskatchewan.
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joined Pawlachuk as a managing partner. Both were fans of reality television, so the premise for filming the show was born f you’ve experienced one night over a brainstorming a wicked night out at a Saskatoon night spot, you’ve dinner with Fahrenheit Film director and producer, Antonio witnessed all kinds of drama and hilarity play out beyond the Hrynchuk. The beleaguered nightclub brim of your glass. Saskatoon production company Fahrenheit property, located at the corner of 33rd Street East and Alberta Films has captured some of Avenue, has seen its fair share of that mayhem in a six-episode, party genres come and go. Both 30-minute documentary series door counts and revenue levels shot in Saskatoon’s Tequila ebb and flow with the heat and Nightclub (formerly Ryly’s) the snow, the university season The show, titled Nightclub and the ongoing fair-weather Confidential, is set to launch popularity contest that has this week on Roger’s City defined the Saskatoon nightlife Saskatchewan television scene since, well, the Saskatoon network. The series gives the nightlife scene existed. viewer a glimpse behind the “You’re going to see the velvet rope, chronicling the trials and tribulations of Tequila good, the bad and the ugly,” explained Pawlachuk. “It really owners Simon Papadopoulos is not a rags-to-riches story, and Bryan (Chunk) Pawlachuk though I think you’re going as they do everything they can to hope that it is. Nightclub to rock the big-city club scene in our still-growing little Prairie Confidential is about the trials and tribulations of running metropolis. a business. Dealing with the “I started working at weather, the runoff spending nightclubs when I was 19: first brought about by the booming as security, then as an upsideSaskatchewan economy — down (shooter) guy,” said including those with new money Pawlachuk. “From shooters who want to be treated like I moved on to bartending, which I did for 10 years, before royalty.” When Tequila opened its finally managing and eventually doors in 2010 business was purchasing Ryly’s.” booming. But inevitably things It didn’t take long for Pawlachuk to realize he couldn’t began to decline. Season One JW11115.j21 be both bar owner and manager. of Nightclub Confidential James Enter Simon Papadopoulos, who opens with Papadopoulos and
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