It ran for 26 episodes over two seasons on CBC and WTN from October 5, 2000, until January 20, 2002, and was syndicated in the United States on WAM!, in the United Kingdom on Channel 5, and in Finland on Yle TV1.
[1] The series resolves around 17-year old Canadian Kale Stiglic (Cara Pifko)[2] who creates a zine about her life in suburban Toronto with her friends Ross Korolus (Justin Peroff), Mary-Elizabeth Penrose (Jeanie Calleja), and Dalal Vidya (Vik Sahay).
Our Hero was created by John May and Suzanne Bolch who also had writing credits on all but two episodes.
Along with Karen Lee Hall the three formed Heroic Film Company, a Toronto production company that is mainly focused on creating youth oriented television programming.
Some still and Super 8 photography for the zine sequences was shot with a very small crew along the city's streets.