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Tatiana Maslany Canada’s favourite clone on Orphan Black and international acclaim

Why Canada is booming in a borderless business

Going Global: Canadian producers on taking their content to the world Contents

2 Canadian TV Scene: drama the Big Picture

4 Opening Credits: A Message from the Editor The Canadian Media Producers Association is Canada’s leading trade 5 Be a Canadian association for independent producers, representing more than 350 Television Critic— companies engaged in the production and distribution of English-language See the World television programs, feature films and digital media. The CMPA works on behalf of members to promote and stimulate the Canadian production industry. Our goal is to ensure the continued success of Canada’s Television Genres independent production sector and a future for content that is made by Canadians for both Canadian and international audiences. 10 Drama

33 Comedy

42 Unscripted

64 Children’s & Youth

78 Foreign Location & Service Production p. 10

Feature Interview COMEDY UNSCRIPTED Tatiana Maslany p.8

Going Global: Canadian Producers on Taking Their Content to the World

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1 Canadian TV Scene: The Big Picture Industry Success Measures

$7.1 billion in production volume CMT’s Yukon for Sale helps new homeowners in 91% of indigenous the Great White North producers write and Polar Sea 360º direct their own projects $3.2 billion in export value profiles northern communities in one of Canada’s first Virtual Reality TV loves the 148,500 jobs Reality docs North – Ice Pilots, Ice Road Truckers, remember Arctic Air? Canada has 54 audiovisual

Timber Kings is seen in co-production treaties and MOUs 162 countries

OLN’s Polar Bear Town brings tourists to Churchill

Fort MacLeod, High River and Didsbury French-language fiction Cold Water Cowboys feature in Fargo production up 40% pits Newfoundland and The term Saskatchewan in 2014/15 Labrador fishermen Hollywood North has Motion Picture Industry against the North Atlantic been used since 1970 Association membership includes 96 members and 17 companies

British Columbia: Heartland surpasses Street Legal Saskatchewan 32% as Canada’s longest- Republic of Doyle of Canada’s TV government declares still playing in at least running drama April 13 as and film QUEBEC: 11 countries around Corner Gas Day the world production VANCOUVER 23% Anne of Green Gables ONTARIO: of Canada’s TV and film is being adapted into a TV movie and a TV series The W Network, production in 2016/17 originally launched as 38% WTN, turns 21 of Canada’s TV and film Trailer Park Boys B.C. is hotspot pumps $12M production Quebeckers watch 60% for VFX in into Truro Sudbury new TV made-in-Canada TV TV and film production hotspot thanks to Letterkenny and What Would Sal Do? Discovery Canada’s first-ever original series Frontier is shooting APTN broadcasts in in St. John’s English, French and many Schitt’s Creek is Aboriginal languages shot in Goodwood MONTREAL

Acting legend Donald Sutherland The Book of Negroes TORONTO was born and raised mini-series heightens in Saint John interest in Nova Scotia’s Haven pumped rich black history TV show Suits hired $1M/year into the 272 vendors from economy of Chester Mississauga is the 1968 40 Ontario communities birthplace of IMAX in 2015

2 3 Independent producers are the ultimate risk takers. Consider that only one in four productions that go into development actually make it to the screen. And for those that do, it’s the producer who not only has to raise the financing (with budgets often totaling tens of millions of dollars), but also engage and manage all of the cast and crew, and who has the ultimate responsibility for delivering a great show, on-time, and on-budget – well, it’s that kind of entrepreneurial drive that fuels an industry that generates more than $7 billion a year in economic activity and almost 150,000 jobs across Canada.

It gets better: last year, Canadian producers created 700 television series and 103 theatrical feature films on location in every region in the country. On top of that, Canadian directors, actors, writers, cameramen, caterers, taxi drivers, and hotels supported foreign location shooting here, producing another 115 television shows, 111 theatrical feature films and 53 movies of the week, mini-series, and pilots. satellite to Canada where digital effects are added by Toronto’s Canada’s impeccable reputation is recognized worldwide. We now have audiovisual Mr. X Inc. co-production treaties and Memoranda of Understanding with 54 countries. In “I cannot emphasize how much 2014, that translated into 68 co-production projects with many partners, including they’ve brought to our show,” France, the U.K., Germany, Australia and Ireland. In addition, Canadian producers says O’Sullivan. He puts Mr. X’s sold our top-performing shows for roughly $3.2 billion in international pre-sales and special-effects wizards “right distribution advances. up there” with George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic. Those figures are impressive. But what stands out for me is how the content we A similar arrangement was produce naturally reflects Canada’s places and its people, giving us a deeper and worked out with South Africa richer sense of ourselves, and fostering pride in who we are as a nation. Yet, here and Canada during production at home we obsess about how to ensure the discoverability of our own “Made in of The Book of Negroes. The Canada” content, and worry that the vast catalog of Canadian-produced stories will Canadian producers behind be buried in the avalanche of content available on Netflix, AppleTV, and the other CBC’s X Company -- Stephanie Internet-based broadcasters that seem to be taking over the world. Morgenstern and Mark Ellis (Flashpoint)—shoot their very Without a doubt, we all need to be thinking creatively about how to ensure pride of Canadian spy story in Budapest, place for our content in an age of seemingly limitless choice. At the same time, what with key scenes this season also you are holding in your hands is a concerted attempt to refocus the conversation Be a Canadian television shot on the beaches where so and look closely at the successes we perhaps take for granted in our industry. Yes, many Canadian soldiers died in for every hit, there is at least one miss – just like in Hollywood. But the variety of Dieppe. productions listed in this 2nd edition of Indiescreen is an impressive chronicle of the critic—see the world. That’s part of the story. The prodigious efforts of hundreds of producers who find and nurture an idea, concept or other is how the world is story and transform it into compelling content for the small or big screen. That’s been my life the past Canada’s Temple Street coming to Canada. nine years. As a Toronto-based Productions, Irish executive Make no mistake--the falling Our ultimate goal is simple. We want Indiescreen to become an indispensable guide freelance writer, I’ve had the producer Morgan O’Sullivan Canadian dollar has helped. So to the best English-language independently produced content – content by and for great fortune to have been based his production on what have provincial efforts to lure Canadians (and on an unprecedented scale, for international audiences as well). To invited to sets and interview he calls “The Tudor Model.” The business. that end, this edition builds on last year’s edition by adding kids programming, and talent in places as far-flung as former CBC series The Tudors “Beyond the incentives?” incorporating some well-known voices from the industry. Next fall, we will further Budapest and Buenos Aires, was shot in Ireland using a mix said The CW president Mark expand Indiescreen with a special edition that will include Canadian theatrical Dieppe and Dublin. of Irish and Canadian actors Pedowitz when asked why he feature films and documentaries. The experience has helped and directors. shoots so many of his network’s me realize that television is a Vikings is produced in shows in Canada. Besides the While we may not have captured all indie Canadian productions now on the air or borderless business. The other association with Shaw Media. new superhero series DC’s in development—and producers being producers, they will let us know if we missed eye-opener: Canadians are The historical drama features Legends of Tomorrow, The their show!—we believe we have included many of the programs that resonate today everywhere in this industry. Canadians Katheryn Winnick Flash, The 100 and long- with Canadian audiences. They are worth checking out. That is especially true when it and Alexander Ludwig and, in running Supernatural—in its 11th comes to historical epics. It really past seasons, Jessalyn Gilsig season—all shoot in Vancouver. As we near Canada’s 150th birthday, what could be cooler than tuning in to watch does take two or three nations to and Donal Logue. Canadian “They have great crews there,” stories that were shot in our vast and storied backyard, by people you may know, bring those stories to life. director Ken Girotti has helmed says Pedowitz. “[The late] about a country we love and are proud to call home? Take the TV alliance between several episodes. Stephen Cannell deserves great Canada and Ireland on the While the series is shot over credit for doing what he did.” Sincerely, popular Showcase drama three large sound stages near Three decades ago, Stephen Reynolds Mastin, President and CEO Vikings. Joining forces with Dublin, the dailies are sent by J. Cannell set up a base in Canadian Media Producers Association

4 5 Vancouver, cranking out “It wasn’t exactly like putting out works by David Cronenberg idea what you’re getting into.” Ottawa and raised in Montreal, Media initiative in downtown American network hits such as the band back together,” says and Sarah Polley. “What I think Chopra lucked out when the Goon star, producer and Toronto. Rogers Media has 21 Jump Street, Wiseguy and creator and executive producer is beautiful is that, when we winter came unusually late to director is passionate about invested $100 million in a The Commish. He pretty much Chris Carter. He noted some work together in anything I Montreal this season. Not so three things: “cinema, Canada broadcast centre and has hired created an industry that is still Vancouver crew members had produce, I feel the crew happy lucky was Billy Bob Thornton, and hockey.” 180 Canadians to develop, cast thriving today. retired. One woman who began and blooming.” who survived a real Calgary Baruchel gets a little cranky and produce the next generation A guy as busy as Cannell her career as a camera trainee In the past, Canadian cities winter while shooting the first when people suggest Canada of shows for the next generation today is executive producer did some day work on the mini- have stood in for New York season of Fargo. can’t make world-class of viewers. Greg Berlanti. He’s currently series, effectively beginning and Chicago, Los Angeles and That colder-than-usual winter television. “This is the system Lyriq Bent, who was in The overseeing six network and ending her career with The Washington. When the U.S. proved challenging for the that gave the world The Kids Book of Negroes and stars in shows. Three of them are X-Files. cable dramas Suits and Covert Arkansas native. in the Hall, that gave the the upcoming CBC drama Shoot shot in Vancouver: Arrow, David Nevins, the president Affairs both shot at a munitions “One night, it went down to 40 world Trailer Park Boys,” he the Messenger, feels Canada is The Flash and DC’s Legends and CEO of Showtime, repeats factory on Toronto’s old below and they wouldn’t allow says. “Corner Gas, Wayne and poised to “explode” as we move of Tomorrow. These are the usual “great crews” mantra Downsview military base, you us to work,” says Thornton. “You Shuster, we’ve always done cool towards a pick ‘n’ pay universe. challenging superhero shows about Canada but he’s a little could cross a hallway to walk figure if a Canadian says it’s up here.” “Amazing things are going with complicated fight scenes, more specific. He notes that between Washington and New too dangerous to go out there, it Baruchel has been working to happen in the next year in very specific costume and Penny Dreadful, the Gothic York. probably is too dangerous to go in Toronto the past two seasons this country,” says Bent, born in design needs and a tremendous horror series starring Eva What’s changed is how places out.” on the FXX comedy Man Jamaica but raised in Toronto. amount of special effects. Green, is shot in Europe but such as Sudbury and Hamilton, His career has taken him “all Seeking Woman. The creator “It’s really going to lay the Are there reasons beyond the the post is done in Toronto Ontario, now stand in for over Canada,” he says. “I love and showrunner, Simon Rich, foundation of an industry here.” falling Canadian dollar and tax including effects by Mr. X. Toronto. Tax incentives have Saskatoon, and I think Calgary is from Chicago. So there is the That’s important as traditional incentives that keeps bringing “Toronto has great special put more money into Sudbury— seems more like the kind of new reality: a Canadian star walls come down and Canada Berlanti back to Vancouver? effects, great editors,” says where New Metric comedies people I grew up around more working on an American show takes its place in the brave new “The crews up there. They Nevins, “and really talented Letterkenny and What Would than any other place in Canada. in a Canadian city. borderless business of television. always deliver above what musicians. Penny Dreadful Saul Do shoot--than nickel I feel real comfortable there.” “What makes a Canadian Canadians have to think not we give them,” says Berlanti. has a full symphony score, mines. Drama shoots have busy project Canadian is something just can I sell this show to CBC “Everything we get back is which is very rare. It would be Montreal is currently stepping schedules. Still, the Oscar we all have to figure out,” says or City but can I sell it to China better. The most shocking thing prohibitive to do that kind of in for Virginia, New York and winner did manage to sneak out Baruchel. “It doesn’t always have and the States. for me when you go up and symphony score in America or Washington on the ABC action for a CFL game. to be Laura Secord running “Look at Drake,” suggests Bent, you look at some of the sets, on Europe.” hour Quantico. The series is “I gotta tell you something,” through the forest. If someone pointing to Toronto’s red-hot average, they are a bit smaller Guillermo del Toro is the shot at Mel’s Cite du Cinema, the says Thornton. “Those is from Canada and they create music phenom. “He’s a smart than some of the sets we have executive producer, director and massive Montreal sound stage Roughrider fans are insane.” in Canada, and the money and guy. He understood that he had [in Hollywood] or elsewhere, writer of FX’s shot-in-Toronto complex that has been home to He was expecting Canadian tax dollars go back into Canada, to put T-Dot on his shoulders and they always make them feel horror series The Strain. several X-Men features. football fans, “to be a little bit that’s Canadian art.” and run with it and he’s doing large. They treat these things The Mexican-born director of The series stars Bollywood more reserved.” Instead, he was Still, there are Canadians a great job of making the world like features.” Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth sensation Priyanka Chopra as a surrounded by folks, “with no in the industry who fear that know who we are. When The X-Files launched says The Strain is his fifth CIA cadet. Chopra, from India, clothes on painted green and decades of service work and “That’s all we all want to do, in 1993, it helped establish production in Toronto and he was warned to bundle up before they had watermelons on their not enough original, Canadian is bring recognition to what Vancouver as a main player raves about the crews, saying signing on for the series. “I want heads. They’re tailgating in content production has left our we’re doing so that the world in North American network they are “unrivalled with the a white, cold, adventurous time,” sub-zero temperatures with no storytellers at a disadvantage. can understand, ‘Hey, look out television production. The recent rest of the world.” she says. “I bought the best clothes on!” Flying in the face of that, as for this, ‘cause that’s what we’re miniseries re-boot returned to Del Toro especially likes the jacket, I have so much winter Jay Baruchel knows Canada and other countries coming with.’” the exact same North Shore way Canadian crews nurture gear. My entire Canadian crew Canadians can party—and make hurdle down the digital rabbit studios where it all began. Canadian productions, singling keeps telling me you have no TV shows—in the snow. Born in hole, is the unprecedented Vice Bill Brioux

6 7 There are times when Then there’s the praise from hard-to-please critics in learning from veterans such as Helen Shaver, who has different countries. “This is Olympic-level, endurance directed episodes of Orphan Black. “She’s one of the best Tatiana Maslany really does acting,” wrote Phelim O’Neill in The Guardian. “It’s like I’ve ever worked with and totally Canadian—I’m so proud watching a long-distance runner do several races all at of that.” wish she could clone herself. once.” For the Season Three launch, The Globe and Mail’s Maslany, who speaks German and French, has Austrian, John Doyle wrote, “Maslany is as adept and awe-inspiring German, Polish, Romanian, and Ukrainian roots. She loves as ever.” Echoed Tim Goodman from The Hollywood shooting Orphan Black in Toronto and enjoys the city’s s fans know by now, Maslany is a one-woman Reporter: “You can’t give Maslany enough credit.” rich multicultural mix. ensemble on Orphan Black. The Temple Street Orphan Black has opened a whole new world to the “Toronto does have a nice international feel to it—lots Production is heading into a fourth season on actress. She’s been invited to come out and play on of accents and plenty of characters from all around the ASpace and BBC America. everything from Saturday Night Live to the outrageous world,” she says. “It’s got that vibe I’ve always loved about The 30-year-old Saskatchewan-native plays Sarah adult animated comedy BoJack Horseman. Toronto—multiculturalism and worldliness.” Manning, as well as a growing army of clones with names “You said the two things that were so exciting for me!” While Orphan Black has opened doors to her, Maslany such as Beth, Alison, Cosima, Rachel, Helena and others. says Maslany. “That’s dream stuff.” shoots down one rumour that was actually posted as fact They all sort of look alike but have distinct and separate Four seasons in, she remains respectful and modest. on her Wikipedia page: she’s not been approached to be in personalities. She’s quick to credit the creators of Orphan Black, the next “Star Wars” feature. Playing all those characters on the Toronto-lensed series screenwriter Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett. “That is so not even remotely true,” says Maslany. “Isn’t leaves her even less time than every other overworked She praises make-up artist Stephen Lynch for helping with Wikipedia the place where people can make up stuff?” series lead. To do this story, for example, Maslany had to all her transformations. “He’s such a huge part of these Still, the force is with Maslany, and, as she’s proven, squeeze a phone interview into a lunch break on the set. characters,” she says. anything can happen. Her early life in Regina must seem Does it get any easier, she’s asked, to slip in and out of all Maslany was born in Regina, was taking dance lessons like a galaxy far, far away. these personalities after four seasons? at age four and got involved with community theatre at If she could travel back in time, what advice would she “I don’t think it ever gets easier,” says Maslany. “Honestly, age nine. Her determination to excel began early as she offer her 12-year-old self? what makes it easier for me is doing a job I’m stimulated worked acting gigs in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and “I think the only thing I would say is just live a little,” says by and challenged by. There’s always something to focus Vancouver around her Regina high school schedule. She’s Maslany, nearing the end of a lunch break where she is yet on as we switch up characters half way through the day.” packed over 50 TV and film credits onto her IMDb profile to have lunch. “I have lived on sets and in acting classes Besides, she says, “What other actor gets to play this dating all the way back to 1997 and the Regina-based most of my life. I’m only now beginning to understand you many parts? It’s just totally unique and I feel so lucky to children’s series Incredible Story Studio. need some balance.” have gotten this chance to learn so much about work and After moving to Toronto in 2007, roles on series such Her musings hit home with this writer, who has seen stamina and creation and being consistently inspired.” as Instant Star, The Listener, Flashpoint and Being years whiz past the screen of his laptop. If only we could In short, Maslany’s still into it, despite running one of the Erica followed. all clone ourselves, it is suggested. most demanding marathons on television. “The stamina As Maslany says, she’s “grown up” on the Canadian “We become obsessed with work and accomplishing thing is just getting up at five in the morning and working acting scene. “It’s interesting to tackle it now as an adult.” things,” says Maslany, “and we forget people are the most 13, 14, 15 hours a day. I couldn’t do it if it wasn’t something I She’s worked a few film roles into her most recent Orphan important part of life.” was excited about.” Black hiatus, including The Other Half with co-stars Tom There have, of course, been rewards. Maslany has Cullen and Henry Czerny. Bill Brioux pretty much collected a trophy for every clone she plays, Working with young Canadian director Joey Kines with praise coming from both sides of the border. She’s on that film was inspirational, says Maslany. “I’m really won a couple of Canadian Screen Awards, a couple excited about the future of Canadian film and TV right of ACTRA awards as well as TCA and Critic’s Choice now because of our young filmmakers,” she says. Television awards. She’s been nominated for an Emmy and Xavier Dolan (Mommy) is another young Canadian a Golden Globe. director she feels is pushing boundaries. She’s also

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Top 10 Dramas * Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast is shot Production company: Take 5 at Cinespace Film Studios in Productions, Whizbang Films 1. Book of Negroes Showcase Toronto, where both Good Returning (Season 4): Summer Witch and Reign are also 2016 2. Rookie Blue produced. The drama has sold Shot in Toronto, Ontario n this modern retelling of the classic extremely well internationally. 3. Murdoch Mysteries Executive producers: John Weber, fairy tale, a young woman, Catherine It was recently announced that Frank Siracusa, Tony Thomas, 4. Saving Hope IChandler, gets rescued by a beastly after a 70-episode run Beauty Paul Junger Witt, Bill Haber, Stuart creature after witnessing her mother’s and the Beast’s upcoming fourth Gillard, Brad Kern 5. Motive violent murder. Years later, now a detective season will be its last. Starring: Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, with the NYPD, Cat takes on a case that 6. Heartland Austin Basis, Nina Lisandrello, leads her to Vincent Keller, a soldier who Nicole Gale Anderson 7. Vikings was believed to have been killed in action. She soon discovers that it was Vincent 8. X Company who rescued her all those years ago, and that he was part of a secret military 9. Remedy experiment to create genetically modified 10. Dark Matter animal-like super soldiers.

dramas in 11 development

Between City with Netflix coming in once Production company: Don the broadcast license was Carmody Television obtained, making this the first Returning (Season 2): 2016 etween is a new science fiction time a foreign-owned, over- Shot in and around Hamilton, series about a pregnant teenager the-top (OTT) content provider Ontario B(Jennette McCurdy) who’s forced has teamed with a Canadian Executive producers: Michael to fend for herself after her small town, broadcaster. It is also the first McGowan, Don Carmody, David Pretty Lake, is infected by a mysterious sci-fi series ever commissioned Cormican, Naveen Prasad disease that kills all inhabitants over by Netflix. Starring: Jennette McCurdy, Ryan 21-years-old. Allen, Jesse Carere, Jack Murray, Between is one of two Canadian sci-fi series Brooke Palsson, Justin Kelly showcased by Telefilm and the Canada Media Fund (CMF) at MIPCOM 2015—the annual TV trade show held in Cannes, France. In Canada the show performed well above its channel average among viewers aged 18 – 34, and reached 3.2 million Canadians in its first season. productions Rogers initially commissioned the series, * Average25 of live viewing plus seven days of DVR playback of most recent10 season airing from January 1, 2015 to January 19, 2016 11 Bitten Space “With the incomparable Production companies: Dark Matter Space Upon hearing the show Production companies: Prodigy Laura Vandervoort at No Equal Entertainment, had been renewed for a Pictures, Dark Horse Entertainment the helm, Bitten was a Entertainment One, Hoodwink second season, Chris Regina, Returning (Season 2): itten is a fantasy-horror series, ferocious drama Entertainment n adrenaline-addled science fiction Syfy’s senior VP of program Summer 2016 based on the New York Times best- from the get-go and Returning (Season 3): series, which producers Paul Mullie strategy, remarked “with Shot in Toronto, Ontario Bselling fantasy-book series Women we are so proud to Spring 2016 Aand Joseph Mallozzi based on their its mysterious premise and Executive producers: Joseph of the Otherworld by the prolific Kelly have seen it make its Shot in Toronto, Hamilton and comic book of the same name. It is about a fascinating characters, Dark Mallozzi, Paul Mullie, Jay Firestone, Armstrong. The story revolves around mark in the television Hespeler, Ontario group of six variously skilled people who Matter has built an incredibly Vanessa Piazza Elena Michaels (Laura Vandervoort), a landscape from its Executive producers: J.B. Sugar, one day wake up on a mysterious starship loyal, passionate and engaged Starring: Marc Bendavid, Melissa photographer and werewolf who’s caught home on Space.” John Barbisan, Patrick Banister, without remembering how they got there, fan base. We look forward to O’Neil, Anthony Lemke, Alex between her human life in Toronto and Tracey Pearce, Tecca Crosby, John Morayniss, and must figure out the meaning of it all another out-of-the-world season Mallari Jr, Jodelle Ferland, Roger her supernatural pack life in upstate Senior Vice-President, Margaret O’Brien, Daegan Fryklind as they go. from this talented creative team.” Cross, Zoie Palmer New York. Specialty and Pay, Starring: Laura Vandervoort, Dark Matter premiered on Syfy in the United The show airs in major territories around Bell Media Greyston Holt, Greg Bryk, Steve States on the same day as Canada. It also airs the world including Germany, Australia, and Lund, John Ralston, Alex Ozerova, on Syfy Australia and Syfy U.K. The series Scandinavia. Season 2 made Space the #1 Sofia Banzhaf premiere pulled 273,000 overnight viewers on specialty network in its time slot across the ages the Space and 1.28 million viewers on the Syfy 25-54, 18-49, and 18-34 key demos. The show has channel in the U.S. been renewed for a third and final season.

Blood and Water OMNI English. Development on Production company: Forgive Me The show is written and Production company: Emotion a second season is already Breakthrough Entertainment directed by Nova Scotia-based Pictures underway. Returning (Season 2): 2016 Super Channel filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald Returning (Season 2): lood and Water is a series that Shot in Vancouver, British (The Hanging Garden). It October 11, 2015 revolves around Josephine “Jo” “It’s part soap opera and Columbia has received positive reviews Shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia BBradley (Steph Song), a detective part high-grade police Executive producers: n intimate drama about a young, including one from Brad Oswald Executive producers: Doug for Vancouver’s Homicide Division who, procedural, compelling Nat Abraham, Diane Boehme, insomniac priest (Mike McLeod) of the Winnipeg Free Press Pettigrew, Thom Fitzgerald despite a recent cancer diagnosis, begins enough to keep you Ira Levy, Michael McGuigan, Awhose sleep is disturbed by erotic who says “the confessional- Starring: Mike McLeod, John investigating the ritualistic murder of glued, and it looks Peter Williamson visions of Saint Sebastian, and who confined dialogue is smart, and Dunsworth, Jane Alexander, Hugh Charlie Xie, the son of a notorious real stunning.” Starring: Peter Outerbridge, harbors a sinful secret that threatens the stripped-down performances Thompson, Olympia Dukakis, estate developer. Needing to uncover the John Doyle, Elfina Luk, Fiona Fu, Simu Liu, his own calling, while he deals with the are seamlessly delivered and Brenda Fricker, Candy Palmater, Xie family’s secrets in order to break the The Globe and Mail Oscar Hsu, Loretta Yu, Osric Chau, sins of his congregate and, in turn, his punctuated with moments of Jeremy Akerman case, Jo is forced to face her past and Russell Yuen, Steph Song community. McLeod won the 2015 ACTRA pure, stark, painful honesty.” inner demons. Award for Best Leading Actor. The show is Canada’s first original, Chinese crime drama and is also Canada’s first trilingual series broadcast in Mandarin, Cantonese and

12 13 Good Witch all Canadian English Specialty Production company: Whizbang Heartland CBC Over its long run the show Production companies: SEVEN24 Networks. It is airing on Films has received 15 wins and 17 Films, Dynamo Films W Network Hallmark in the United States. Returning (Season 2): nominations ranging from Returning (Season 9): Winter 2016 family saga, based on the Heartland best series and best actress to October 4, 2015 “Good Witch is based on Shot in Hamilton, Ontario book series by Lauren Brooke, set best direction and sound for Shot in High River and Calgary, ood Witch is a fantasy comedy- Bell’s beloved character Executive producers: Catherine A in the fictional town of Hudson, multiple awards, including the Alberta drama series, based on the made- Cassie, the raven- Bell, Orly Adelson, Jonathan Alberta, about the Fleming-Bartlett clan DGC and Genie Awards. Other Executive producers: Heather Gfor-TV movie series of the same haired enchantress Eskenas, Frank Siracusa, Craig and their life on the range. The Fleming than regular cast, the show has Conkie, Tom Cox, Jordy Randall, name. Cassie Nightingale (Catherine Bell) who has kept Pryce, Sue Tenney sisters, Amy (Amber Marshall) and guest starred other Canadian Michael Weinberg is an enchanting witch who moves to a audiences spellbound Starring: Catherine Bell, Bailee Lou (Michelle Morgan), cope with their actors such as Tatiana Maslany Starring: Amber Marshall, small town and causes strange things to for seven installments Madison, James Denton, Catherine mother’s death by continuing her dream of (Orphan Black) and Stephen Michelle Morgan, Graham Wardle, happen. of Hallmark’s longest- Disher, Anthony Lemke, Peter caring for abused horses. Amell (Arrow). Gabriel Hogan, Chris Potter, Jessica The show is the highest-rated series for running and highest- MacNeill, Kylee Evans In March 2015, Heartland surpassed Street Amlee, Shaun Johnston, Jessica women ages 25-54 to air on the network in the rated original movie Legal as the longest-running, one-hour, scripted Steen, Nathaniel Arcand, Kerry past decade. It hit a ratings peak of 472,000 franchise of all time.” drama in the history of Canadian television. The James, Alisha Newton viewers on September 17, 2015, making it the W Network ninth season premiere on October 4, 2015, drew highest-rated scripted series for the day across an overnight, estimated 2+ audience of 845,000 CBC viewers.

Hard Rock Medical The show is the first scripted Production companies: Carte Killjoys Space According to one Production company: Temple drama made by TVOntario and Blanche Films, Distinct Features critic, “Killjoys has Street Productions TVO, APTN also airs on NITV, a channel Inc., Title Entertainment just the right mix of Returning (Season 2): Spring 2016 operated by Australia’s Special Returning (Season 3): Fall 2016 illjoys is a space adventure drama guns, high-tech knives, Shot in Toronto, Ontario Broadcasting Service. The show Shot in Sudbury, Ontario series about three bounty hunters assassins, cage fights, Executive producers: David he Hard Rock Medical series is “…pithy, funny and inventive,” Executive producers: Derek Kliving in a distant system called missions to hostile Fortier, Ivan Schneeberg revolves around the tumultuous according to The Globe and Diorio, Tracy Legault, Frank Taylor, the Quad. Accustomed to the usual planets, dark secrets, Starring: Hannah John-Kamen, Tlives of a group of eight medical Mail’s John Doyle. Smith Corindia interplanetary crime fighting lifestyle, tiny robot weapons Aaron Ashmore, Luke Macfarlane students at Boréal Medical School, which Starring: Angela Asher, Rachelle the three vow to remain neutral when a and general space is loosely based on the Northern Ontario Casseus, Mark Coles Smith, Tamara multi-planetary class war breaks out. headbutting thrills to School of Medicine. They give up their Duarte, Kyra Harper, Danielle The first season premiered June 19, 2015 and be the perfect treat for bodies and souls to become the best Bourgon, Christian Laurin, ended on August 21, 2015. During that time Friday nights.” doctors they can be. Stéphane Paquette, Melissa Jane Killjoys on Space reached roughly ten per Charlie Jane Anders Shaw, Jamie Spilchuk, Andrea cent of the Canadian population. It began as of io9 Menard, Patrick McKenna part of Bell Media’s Writer Room Only Drama Development program. Killjoys will also return to Syfy after the first season averaged 1.5 million viewers.

14 15 Motive CTV Series star Kristin Lehman Production companies: 19-2 Bravo The original series aired Production companies: Sphere directs her first episode of the Foundation Features, Lark in French on Radio-Canada Media Plus, Echo Media multi-CSA nominated series Productions in 2011, and premiered in Returning (Season 3): Early 2016 fun and thrilling police procedural this season and Victor Zinck Jr. Returning (Season 4): 2016 fter Montreal police veteran Nick English on Bravo in January Shot in Montreal, Quebec drama series, starring single-mother (The 100), and Karen LeBlanc Shot in and around Vancouver, Barron’s (Adrian Holmes) partner 2014. It was nominated for ten Executive producers: Jocelyn A and working-class-hero Detective (Cracked) are also set to guest British Columbia Ais shot on the job, Ben Chartier Canadian Screen Awards in Deschênes, Luc Châtelain, Bruce Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman), who, in star in recurring roles. Executive producers: Dennis (Jared Keeso), an officer new to town and 2015, receiving the second-most Smith, Saralo MacGregor, Greg each episode, must solve a crime by Heaton, Daniel Cerone, Louise burdened with his own personal demons, nominations of any television Phillips, Carolyn Newman uncovering the criminal’s motive. Clark, Rob Merilees, Erin Haskett, unwittingly pairs up with Barron. The two series behind Space’s Orphan Starring: Jared Keeso, Adrian Motive finished its third season with an Rob LaBelle, Lindsay Macadam, must overcome their personal differences Black. In 2015, Keeso won Best Holmes, Benz Antoine, Mylène average audience of 1.24 million viewers, Ben Brafman for the good of the city. Performance by an Actor in a Dinh-Robic, Laurence Leboeuf, Dan landing the series among the top four most- Starring: Kristin Lehman, Continuing Leading Dramatic Petronijevic, Conrad Pla, Bruce watched Canadian dramas last season. The show Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Role for his work on the series. Ramsay, Maxim Roy aired for two seasons on ABC in the U.S. but it Lauren Holly was not renewed there for 2015.

Murdoch Mysteries CBC Guest stars in Season 9 Production company: Shaftesbury Orphan Black Space characters. I mean strong in Production company: Temple include William Shatner (as Returning (Season 9): that they are complex, flawed, Street Productions Mark Twain), Ed Asner, Kelly October 5, 2015 contradictory, each with their Returning (Season 4): Spring 2016 et in 1890s Toronto and based on Rowan and Downton Abbey Shot mostly in Toronto and rphan Black is a Canadian science own unique voice, world-view, Shot in Toronto, Ontario the series of novels by Maureen actor Brendan Coyle. “It was throughout Ontario fiction series about a con artist and all very human.” Executive producers: Ivan SJennings, Murdoch Mysteries great working with somebody Executive producers: Scott Garvie, Oorphan with a dark past, Sarah Season 3 of Orphan Black Schneeberg, David Fortier, Graeme follows handsome police detective William that you idolized and looked up Noel Hedges, Cal Coons, Peter Manning (Tatiana Maslany), who steals reached 3.8 million total viewers Manson, John Fawcett Murdoch (Yannick Bisson), who uses a to your entire life, never mind Mitchell, Christina Jennings the identity of one of her many clones, on Space, with an average of Starring: Tatiana Maslany, Jordan variety of eccentric and radical (for their your career,” said Bisson of Starring: Yannick Bisson, Hélène Beth Childs, after Beth commits suicide, in 282,000 viewers each week. The Gavaris, Kristian Bruun, Maria time) forensic methods to solve crimes. working with Shatner. “He’s just Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris the hopes of starting a new life for her and premiere broadcast made Space Doyle Kennedy, Kevin Hanchard, The Season 9 premiere opened to 1.29 million as present and just as cool today her daughter, Kira. the most-watched network for Ari Millen, Josh Vokey, Skyler total viewers to remain CBC’s highest-rated as ever.” Orphan Black has won two Canadian Screen total viewers and Adults and Wexler, Joel Thomas Hynes scripted series. The show is also imported to over Awards and a Peabody Award with Maslany Females ages 25-54, 18-49 and 120 territories worldwide. Murdoch Mysteries being nominated for Golden Globes plus an 18-34, among all Canadian originally aired on City but was cancelled by Emmy. Previous seasons are available on specialty and pay and U.S. Rogers Media after Season 5. CraveTV. About the series, star Tatiana Maslany specialty networks. says “I was immediately drawn to the writing of the series because of the strong female

16 17 Q&A with...

What is it about Canada that draws David Cormican so many foreign producers to shoot here? Shouldn’t Canadians be proud that so many productions select David Cormican is EVP, Business Development and Production and a partner of Canada to bring their shows to “life?” It can’t all be because of the Don Carmody Television (DCTV). He was named by The Hollywood Reporter as one of too much, we are in active low Canadian dollar, right? the Next Generation Canada: Class of 2014. development and scripting right now. It will likely be structured The dollar is a huge bonus, as a co-production and we but Hollywood and otherwise are engaged in talks with our continually come to Canada to the second season. We have Japanese friends about how to shoot due to the quality, depth increased our social media make this project a success. and maturity of our crews, the presence in a big way this year competitive and incredibly over last and Jennette’s 7M+ stable labour environments, Twitterbase and 4M+ Instagram Don Carmody Television has just highly-skilled and talented cast followers and 15M+ Facebook launched Shadowhunters, an and crew and the sophistication narrative and engaging drama fanbase is all part of the overall American teen TV series that airs of our incentive programs— that allows for co-viewing, or strategy for awareness. Along on Freeform (formerly ABC Family) which are appealing to just straight up enjoyment, by with our other cast’s social and is an adaptation from the financiers worldwide. Couple an older audience too as our media profiles and pages novel and film franchise Mortal that with world-class producers, series’ characters are forced to however, big or small as they Instruments: City of Bones. Why was breathtaking vistas, cooperative Between is the first Netflix original become adults in a hurry. So are, are all potential new fans Toronto selected to be the location governments and filming series with a Canadian broadcaster millennials and adults alike can of the series and form part of a to shoot this show? locations alongside an industry attached (City), and, more enjoy the program together comprehensive and coordinated leading number of co-production importantly, a big ratings hit. What and feel great about their own engagement with the public. As you are likely aware, the treaties and you have the is it about this series that hits all family still being together! first instalment of the novels recipe to attract film production those marks—conceived and shot was shot as a feature film and from all corners of the globe in Canada, but obviously appeals to You and Don Carmody have also was shot here in Toronto as regardless of the dollar’s a much broader audience? Between stars Jennette McCurdy, optioned the rights for the Canadian well. The books are set in New pricing. an extremely popular American book Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto York and Toronto has a rich actress who rose to fame through which is now in development. How history of doubling as the Big INDIESCREEN Thanks. We’re pretty proud of her Nickelodeon series iCarly and did you come to pick the story, and Apple. When it came time to this series. While it is almost Sam & Cat (she has a few million when can we expect to hear more determining the location of exclusively a millennial cast, Twitter followers). Is this part of the about this exciting project, will it be the series with our partners given that the premise of the formula for success, finding talent shot in Japan? Constantin (out of Germany series is that everyone over (actors or otherwise) who come and L.A.), it came down to the age of 22 has died inside with their own fan base? Does the CBC was aware of our work the ease and success of the the quarantine zone, it was series have a strong social media with NHK and Netflix on previous shoot in Toronto surprising to us to see that promotion machine as well? another English-language and the benefits shooting in our demographics show a co- Japanese project and thought Ontario would provide versus viewing audience with parents. this would make a great follow- that of New York and other I think we have created a world While it is certainly not a up. I managed to get my hands jurisdictions. Suffice it to say, and scenario that hugely appeals prerequisite for joining any of on the book and found I couldn’t Toronto won hands down. to the teen/tween audience. It our casts, it is a huge bonus put it down once I discovered focuses on themes and values of and is another avenue for a personal connection to the family and the new definition of us to market the series and author—having grown up family kids are forced to create engage fans we might not have with his relatives and knowing when they have lost those who otherwise been able to connect these streets, cities, farms and were most important to them. with. We are working with landmarks in Southern Alberta I think these themes resonate the same social media firm we where much of this book’s story with the younger audience. paired up with on Season 1 intersects. While I can’t reveal But it also create a compelling (Innovate By Day) to promote

18 19 Reign CTV Two, E! online streaming on CraveTV. Production companies: Take 5 The Romeo Section CBC Haddock Entertainment has Production companies: Haddock The Season 3 premiere drew Productions, Whizbang Films produced over 150 hours of Entertainment, Terra Films 920,000 overnight viewers. Returning (Season 3): critically acclaimed, award- Premiere: October 14, 2015 eign is an historical fantasy October 8, 2015 pymaster Wolfgang McGee (Andrew winning and popular prime time Shot in Vancouver, British romance series, set in France, about Says one critic about Shot in Toronto, Ontario and Airlie), who also happens to be television currently airing in 143 Columbia Rthe early years of Mary, Queen of the popularity of Ireland San academic, manages a roster of different countries around the Executive producers: Chris Scots, full of sex, castles, visions, arranged the show, it is Executive producers: Laurie seductive espionage assets, referred to world. Haddock, Laura Lightbown, marriages, and highly complex hair “fantastical princess McCarthy, Stephanie SenGupta, as Romeo or Juliet spies, in an ostensibly Stephen Surjik braids. wish-fulfilment” Brad Silberling, John Weber, Frank ideal city with a crime-ridden underworld. “We’re all very excited Starring: Andrew Airlie, Jemmy In Season 3, Queen Mary (Adelaide Kane) Michelle Dean, Siracusa Reviews of The Romeo Section have been to begin shooting, Chen, Juan Riedinger, Eugene struggles to hold on to her power in Scotland Flavorwire Starring: Adelaide Kane, Megan positive, with some comparing the show to HBO thrilled to be back in Lipinski, Stephanie Bennett amidst Queen Elizabeth’s (Rachel Skarsten) Follows, Torrance Coombs, Toby or Netflix-like edgy dramas. John Doyle from Vancouver and digging campaign to sabotage her with the help of a Regbo, Jenessa Grant, Celina The Globe and Mail calls it “a subtly sexy thriller into the depths of an new ally in Queen Catherine (Megan Follows). Sinden, Caitlin Stasey, Anna for grown-ups.” espionage drama,” The series airs on The CW in the United States Popplewell, Alan Van Sprang, says executive producer and the first two seasons are available for Rachel Skarsten Chris Haddock.

Rogue Although the series is shot in Production companies: Saving Hope CTV The series premiered to Production company: Ilana C. Vancouver, B.C., the setting has Entertainment One, Greenroom 1.7 million viewers on June 7, Frank Films, Entertainment One The Movie Network switched from Oakland (Season Entertainment, Momentum Pictures 2014 and ended its third season Returning: (Season 4): 1) to San Francisco (Season Returing (Season 4): aving Hope is supernatural medical as the #1 Canadian drama series September 24, 2015 2) to Chicago (Season 3). The Summer 2016 drama starring surgeon Alex Reid in the key adult demo. Shot in Toronto, Ontario tense police drama series starring ten episodes airing in 2016 Shot in Vancouver, British S(Erica Durance), who enters a state Season 4 introduced new cast Executive producers: Ilana Frank, undercover wife, mother and episodes are the back half of a Columbia of shock after her fiancé, Chief of Surgery members Peter Mooney David Wellington, Lesley Harrison, A detective, Grace (Thandie Newton), “supersized” Season 3 order of Executive producers: John Charlie Harris (Michael Shanks), suffers (Rookie Blue), Dejan Loyola Morwyn Brebner, John Morayniss, who travels deep into the city’s most 20 episodes split over two years. Morayniss, Michael Rosenberg, a car accident and falls into a coma. (The Tomorrow People), and Margaret O’Brien, Adam Pettle threatening crime family in order to The series airs on DirecTV in Nick Hamm, Steven Marrs, Unbeknownst to Dr. Reid, Dr. Harris Parveen Kaur (The Strain). Starring: Erica Durance, uncover the truth behind her son’s the United States and premiered Matthew Parkhill leaves his body and wanders the hospital Michael Shanks, Wendy Crewson, baffling death, which she might have in Australia in August 2015. Starring: Thandie Newton, as a spirit. Michelle Nolden, Benjamin Ayres, inadvertently caused. Cole Hauser, Richard Schiff, Derek Julia Taylor Ross, Huse Madhavji, Luke, Sarah Jeffery, Marton Csokas, Stacey Farber Claudia Ferri, Ian Hart, Michael Murphy

20 21 Sex&Violence OUTtv The show is the highest-rated Production company: Emotion This Life CBC This Life is the third series Production company: Sphere drama in OUTtv’s history. It Pictures produced by Sphere Media’s Media received nine nominations Returning (Season 2): July 20, Jocelyn Deschenes for CBC Premiere: October 5, 2015 ex&Violence is a series that’s focused for the 2015 Canadian Screen 2015 his Life is a drama series based on Television. On October 5, 2015, Shot in Montreal, Quebec on the victims of domestic violence Awards and Carol Sinclair won Shot in Nova Scotia the French series, Nouvelle adresse, This Life opened to 256,000 Executive producers: Richard Sand the people who help them work the 2015 ACTRA award for best Executive producers: Olympia Tby Richard Blaimert, about lifestyle overnight, estimated CBC Blaimert, Jocelyn Deschênes, through the aftermath. Starring a lesbian supporting actor in Season 1. Dukakis, Brad Danks columnist and single mother Natalie viewers. Joseph Kay, Virginia Rankin, police constable (Jennie Raymond), a social Thom Fitzgerald wrote and Starring: Jennie Raymond, Jackie Lawson (Torri Higginson). After being Josée Vallée worker (Jackie Torrens), two therapists directed the original series. Torrens, Olympia Dukakis, Kerry diagnosed with terminal cancer, Natalie Starring: Torri Higginson, Lauren (Edward Terris and Kerry Fox) and a Fox, Johnny Terris, Riley Raymer, must teach her three teenage children to Lee Smith, James Wotherspoon, victim advocate (Olympia Dukakis). Edward Terris embrace the present and prepare for a Stephanie Janusauskas, Julia future on their own. Scarlett Dan, Kristopher Turner, Shawn Doyle, Rick Roberts, Peter MacNeill, Janet-Laine Green, Rachael Crawford

Studio Black! CBC The mini-series premiered Production Company: Picture Versailles “The audacity of the Production company: Incendo over two nights on CBC Plant Limited series has paid off. Productions Maritimes in August 2015 and Premiere: February 6, 2016 Super Channel In telling the story Premiere: November 18, 2015 tudio Black! is a four-part mini- will premiere nationally on Shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia of Louis XIV who, Shot in Versailles and Paris, series based on the stories of rural CBC on February 6, 2016. A Executive producers: Terry with Versailles, was France Sand urban black Nova Scotian second season has already been Greenlaw, Bill MacGillivray ersailles takes place in 1667 shortly the first to create Executive producers: Simon communities in the 1920s. These stories commissioned and will air in the Starring: Adrian Bromfield, Brent after the death of the mother of an international Mirren, David Wolstencroft, Claude were collected by noted folklorist Arthur fall of 2016. Williams, Cavell Holland, Kate V28-year-old king of France, Louis brand, the series is a Chelli, Anne Thomopoulos Fauset. Each standalone half-hour story, MacDonald, Koumbie, Nathan D. XIV. Louis XIV embarks on an mission to compelling property Stars: George Blagden, Alexander filmed in the Black Box of CBC’s Studio 1, Simmons, Stephen M.D. Lawrence build power by constructing the greatest that has succeeded Vlahos, Tygh Runyan, Steve Cumyn, is presented as a stage play. The seven palace in the world – Versailles. But things in winning over the Evan Williams, Dominique Blanc, members of the ensemble cast play a get complicated when money runs low most demanding Amira Casar Stuart Bowman, different character in every story – and and the dusky world of betrayal, lust and broadcasters.” Noémie Schmidt, Anna Brewster, sometimes even play multiple characters. political intrigue captivates the court. Gaspard de Chavagnac, Lizzie Brocheré, Evan Williams, This ten-episode one-hour drama series is a Zodiak CEO. Sarah Winter co-production between France and Canada. The series was greenlit for a second season last September, prior to its premiere.

22 23 Vikings History “As a Canadian, I Production company: Take 5 X Company CBC John Doyle of The Globe Production company: Temple should know not to go Productions and Mail writes: “…. on Street Productions out onto a frozen lake!” Returning: (Season 4): Early 2016 the evidence of the Returning (Season 2): n historical drama, set in Medieval Jessalyn Gilsig on her Shot in Ireland n adrenaline-fueled series about five first two episodes it’s January 27, 2016 Scandinavia, inspired by the sagas character’s sudden demise Executive producers: Michael young men from Canada, America brimming with action, Shot in Dieppe, France and A of Viking Ragnar Lothbrok, a in Season 3 on Vikings Hirst, John Weber, James Flynn, Aand Britain who are recruited to tension delivered with Budapest, Hungary legendary Norse hero, whose wartime Sherry Marsh, Alan Gasmer, Sheila an ultra-secret facility by Lake Ontario, appropriate dollops of Executive producers: Mark Ellis, tactics and cunning help him rise from Hockin, Morgan O’Sullivan where they’re trained to become highly- poignancy and done Stephanie Morgenstern, David farmer to king of Denmark. Starring: Travis Fimmel, Katheryn skilled espionages, and sent off to WWII. with slick confidence.” Fortier, Bill Haber, Ivan Schneeberg In Canada, the series premiered to 1.1 million Winnick, Clive Standen, Gustaf The series was inspired by stories about a real Starring: Évelyne Brochu, Jack viewers and averaged 942,000 throughout the Skarsgård, George Blagden, spy training school located between Whitby Laskey, Warren Brown, Dustin first season. Vikings remained a big hit on Alexander Ludwig, Alyssa and Oshawa, Ontario. James Bond author Ian The series order was bumped Milligan, Connor Price, Hugh Dillon, History, both in the U.S. and Canada, throughout Sutherland Fleming was reportedly trained at the actual from eight to ten episodes for Lara Jean Chorostecki Season 3. spy camp. Season 2. X Company opened to 813,000 estimated, overnight viewers on February 18, 2015.

Recently Retired Drama

Blackstone Continuum

When Calls the Heart One of these wives, Abigail Production company: Believe Stanton (Lori Loughlin) is Pictures Super Channel, CBC welcoming, but Constable Returning (Season 3): Jack Thornton (Daniel December 27, 2015 Lessing)—not so much. Shot near Vancouver, British et in 1910 and inspired by the Production takes place on Columbia book of the same name by Janette a 100-acre farm in the heart Executive producers: Michael SOke, When Calls the Heart follows of B.C.’s wine country. When Landon Jr., Jimmy Townsend, Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a Calls the Heart was a strong Roman Viarus, Francisco Gonzalez, The Book of Negroes Haven young teacher accustomed to high society. performer for CBC during the Brian Bird, Brad Kevoy, Michael She is forced to adapt to a new gritty life summer months, cracking the Shepard when, to her surprise, she’s assigned to 600,000 viewer mark on highly- Starring: Erin Krakow, Daniel teach in a small mining town, Coal Valley, competitive Sunday nights. Lessing, Lori Loughlin, Chelah in the aftermath of a devastating explosion U.S. broadcaster Hallmark Horsdal, Martin Cummins that killed more than a dozen miners and announced a third season will left their wives to fend for themselves. begin in February 2016.

Cedar Cove Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

24 25 Recently Retired Drama (continued) Ava Lee CBC The Devil You Know (TBD)

an Hamilton’s popular Ava Lee crime thriller series drama based the thriller novel by Elisabeth de Iis being turned into a limited TV drama series that A Mariaffi about a rookie reporter who suffered will follow the exploits of a Chinese-Canadian forensic violence in her past and is assigned to the Paul Bernardo accountant who lives in Toronto. The show is being investigation in the 1990s. The project is in script adapted by Karen Walton (Orphan Black, Ginger Snaps). development with screenwriter Karen Walton (Orphan Black, Ginger Snaps).

Olympus Rookie Blue Production company: Strada Films Executive producers: Sandra Cunningham, Robin Cass Production company: New Metric Media Executive producers: Mark Montefiore, Patrick O’Sullivan

Bad Blood City Dirty Red Boys APTN ad Blood is in development as a six-part mini-series Bto be based on the popular non-fiction book Business irty Red Boys is an eight-part one-hour series about or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto’s Last War about the Da Mohawk reservation that sits on an island between Open Heart Strange Empire final years of Montreal mobster Vito Rizzuto’s life. It is the Canada-U.S. border and is overrun with trafficking being adapted by Simon Barry (Continuum) and Michael in drugs, cigarettes, guns, stolen goods and the sex trade. Konyves (Barney’s Version). It was created by writer/producer Sam Egan (Northern Exposure, Continuum) and Jeff Barnaby (Rhymes for Production companies: New Metric Media, DHX Media Young Ghouls). Executive producers: Mark Montefiore, Patrick O’Sullivan, Simon Barry, Michael Konyves Production company: Rezolution Pictures Executive producers: Catherine Bainbridge, Ernest Webb, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick

Remedy Cardinal CTV

ardinal will be CTV’s first book-to-TV adaptation Duality (TBD) Alchemy Showcase Cbased on John Cardinal Mysteries—a series of six bestselling crime novels by writer Giles Blunt. The uality is a Canadian/Mexican co-production about six-part one-hour drama will be adapted from Blunt’s Da team of State Department, CIA, and Mexican sci-fantasy thriller created by producer/writer Karen book Forty Words for Sorrow by award-winning Aubrey intelligence agents who wage war with Latin American upcoming/ AWalton (Orphan Black, Ginger Snaps). This series Nealon (Orphan Black, Saving Hope) who will also act as criminals starring Dougray Scott (Hemlock Grove, in development is a first project in a highly publicized new partnership executive producer and showrunner. The series is set to Desperate Housewives, Taken 3). between marblemedia and Cirque du Soleil Media and star Billy Campbell and Karine Vanasse. It is slated to run will produce thirteen 60-minute episodes. in the 2016-17 TV season. Production company: Odyssey Media Shooting in Mexico City Production company: marblemedia Production companies: Sienna Films, Entertainment One Executive producers: Dougray Scott, Kirk Shaw, Suraj Gohill, Executive producers: Matt Hornburg, Mark Bishop, Jacques Methe drama Executive producers: Julia Sereny, Jennifer Kawaja, Aubrey Chris Philip, Eduardo Clemesha, Jorge Aragon Nealon Starring: Dougray Scott Shooting in Northern Ontario Anne CBC Starring: Billy Campbell, Karine Vanasse 1491: The Untold Story of the Essex County CBC Americas Before Columbus APTN BC has given a series order this Canada/U.K. Cco-production based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Centrepunch CBC irst Generation Films has optioned Jeff Lemire’s beloved Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables. The Fgraphic novel Essex County, and is now in docu-drama mini-series based on the New York series is created and written by Emmy Award winning ATimes bestselling book by Charles C. Mann of the reated by Katie Boland and Calum DeHartog, this development for a new CBC drama series. Aaron Martin Breaking Bad writer/producer Moira Walley-Beckett, series centres around a young woman born into a (Killjoys) is writing the pilot based on the trilogy that same title. It examines the complexity and diversity of who also created Starz’s Flesh and Bone. The series is indigenous peoples in North America prior to Columbus. Cfamily of predominantly male police who discovers follows the lives of a small farming community in expected to air on CBC in 2017. It is written and directed by award-winning filmmaker the ugly truth behind the inner workings of the Toronto southwestern Ontario across generations. Barbara Hager and co-directed by Lisa Jackson. It is police department. Gail Harvey (who is also Boland’s Production company: Northwood Entertainment scheduled to air in 2017 on APTN and ZDF in Germany. mother) will direct the pilot. Production company: First Generation Films Executive producers: Moira Walley-Beckett, Miranda de Pencier, Executive producers: Jeff Lemire, Aaron Martin, Ted Adams, Alison Owen, Debra Hayward Production companies: Straight Shooters Productions, Chris Staros, Christina Piovesan Production companies: Animiki See Digital Production, Arrow Serendipity Point Films Productions Shooting in Toronto, Ontario Shooting in North and South America Starring: Isaac Elijah, Harold Joe, Carmen Thompson

26 27 Q&A with... Karen Walton

Karen Walton is a critically-acclaimed screen and television writer-producer You served as co-executive whose credits include Orphan Black, Queer As Folk, The Many Trials of One producer of Orphan Black for the Jane Doe and the cult film classic, Ginger Snaps. Born in Halifax, she has a first two seasons. What did you BA Honours degree in Drama from The University of Alberta, and is a graduate learn about working on a big hit of the Canadian Film Centre. She lives and works in Toronto. show like that? Did its critical and popular reception take you by surprise? 2015 seems to have been an You’re best known to your fans as incredibly busy year for you. You’re a screenwriter – you wrote the cult Working Orphan was much like in development on three different classic Ginger Snaps – and have working Queer As Folk back in series: Ava Lee for CBC, The Devil only transitioned to producing in the the day. The thrill of consciously You Know (broadcaster TBD) and last five to six years. What drew you taking risks and finding Alchemy for Showcase. How do you to TV production? audiences are ready, willing juggle all that? and enthusiastically embracing Actually my film and television those risks is why I ever say yes A lot of quality coffee, a lot of careers began in tandem. to anything at all, creatively. I quality time alone with each Treatment for Ginger landed am most proud of being a part project on its own terms, and me my first TV gig, on Straight of anything that shakes up the choosing project partners Up. I was a staff writer at The status quo/formulaic ideas about who respect and support me City when we shot Ginger and what TV might do, versus what in the hair-pulling process The Marilyn Bell Story, etc. the mainstream conformists of making something brand I’m drawn to TV because it settle for, always. new. I plan a day at my desk gets made for a wide audience, like an AD schedules a day of and it is accessible to a wide, Virtually all the productions you’ve production, including allowing international audience. I write to been involved in are Canadian. As a for all the contingencies that shoot, I write to get things made seasoned writer and producer, what bring me closer to — or farther and seen. Films rarely afford keeps you wanting to produce in away from — the best work writers consistent satisfaction Canada? I can possibly do. That’s the that way. governing priority: quality, After experimenting with work outstanding work, what will Television has come to be known and values elsewhere, I’ve found it take to achieve it? Plan as “the writer’s medium” in this that while the resources here accordingly. “Golden Age of TV.” What do you are meagre and the standing think of this new trend? Do you see systems frustrating, we’ve got Can you tell us a bit more about the it as a good thing? the best crews and talent, the projects you have in development? people I want to work with, While eternally thrilled to see the most promise for truly Ava Lee is a limited serial writers finally acknowledged innovative work, right here. thriller about a ‘good girl’ for the essential contributions breaking bad; Ava’s a gay they make to any screen format, INDIESCREEN Chinese-Canadian child of I prefer to focus on more wealth turning international ultimately fruitful developments, debt collector, adapted from like diversity of representation the best-selling novels by Ian among writers, and in what Hamilton. Alchemy is a sexy- we all produce. That’s the real sumptuous original sci-fantasy, game-changer for us all; that’s set in Montreal. Devil is a hair- the real future for television. raising thriller inspired by true events in Ontario’s fascinating recent history with serial offenders and rape culture, based on the astonishing novel by Elisabeth de Mariaffi. 28 29 Fall on Your Knees CBC Hardwood CBC The Lincoln County War (TBD) ReincarNATE (TBD)

four-part mini-series to be based on Ann-Marie etired basketball legend and B.C. native Steve his ten-episode 60-minute TV series project is a atrice Théroux (former eOne executive) has teamed A MacDonald’s debut 1996 novel of the same name. RNash has struck a partnership deal with Insight TWestern action depicting the true life feuds between Pup with Toronto’s Buck Productions to adapt the Sharon Mustos (Flashpoint) acquired the TV option and Productions to develop Hardwood for CBC. The show will rival factions in New Mexico’s Lincoln County during the comic book ReincarNATE into a one-hour supernatural it is being adapted for screen by Adriana Maggs (Rookie be a one-hour drama series about a big city guy who sets bloody and well-documented wars of the 18th century crime drama. The original comic was self-published by Blue, Call me Fitz, Grown Up Movie Star). The story up an elite basketball academy for young people in a rural old west. Legendary characters like Billy the Kid will be Michael Moreci and Keith Burns. It is about a man named follows four generations of a family from Cape Breton, town outside Toronto. Skander Halim (Pretty Persuasion, featured. McDonald likens the series to Deadwood and Nate who has the ability to return to past lives and solve Nova Scotia in the late 19th century. 18 to Life) created the series and is writing the pilot. The Walking Dead, with a focus on world-building and crimes. “It’s a perfect blend of a detective serial and the period authenticity, as well as action and high-stakes risk. supernatural, but steeped in great characters and a Production companies: Shaftesbury, TeamSharon.biz (Variety). D’Oliveira’s Conquering Lion Pictures produced visually rich world. It’s a great mix of Gotham and The Production companies: Insight Productions, Meathawk Executive producers: Sharon Mustos, Christina Jennings Book of Negroes for CBC. Sixth Sense,” said Théroux to Deadline Hollywood. Productions Executive producers: John Brunton, Barbara Bowlby, Steve Nash, Production companies: Conquering Lion Pictures, Shadow Shows Production company: Buck Productions Ezra Holland, Skander Halim The Family Shakespeare (TBD) Executive producers: Damon D’Oliveira, Bruce McDonald, Patrick Executive producers: Patrice Théroux, Sean Buckley Whistler

he Family Shakespeare is in development as a Held (TBD) six-part mini-series and is headed up by former Rio Heat Super Channel T Merciful HBO Canada eOne executive Patrice Théroux. Oscar nominee Shane arblemedia has optioned Edeet Ravel’s psychological Connaughon (My Left Foot) is scripting the series which Mthriller Held. The book centres on a 17-year old girl io Heat is the first Brazil/Canada co-production to be will follow the story of Shakespeare’s struggles between who is kidnapped while on holiday in Greece and placed ova Scotia-based producer Marc Almon has teamed Rproduced since the treaty was signed in November his professional career in London, England and his family in isolation for days before meeting her abductor. Once Nup with award-winning author and Orphan Black 2014. Rio Heat is a 13-part police drama, co-created and back home in Stratford. she meets her kidnapper, she slowly begins to develop story editor Lynn Coady on this eight-episode dramatic written by Canadian Ken Gord and Dean Bornstein. It feelings for him. series. Merciful tells the story of a woman who returns stars Harvey Keitel a former CIA operator who owns Production company: Leif Films to her hometown to plot her revenge after having been the largest private investigation company in the world. Executive producers: Patrice Théroux, Agnes Bristow, John Rhys- being imprisoned for 15 years for the murder of her A two-hour pilot is also being released theatrically by Production company: marblemedia Davies infant child. The series in currently in the development 20th Century Fox Brazil in a number of Latin American stage with Bell Media and HBO Canada. territories. Houdini & Doyle Global Forgiveness (TBD) Production company: Story Engine Pictures Production companies: Tayrona Entertainment, Canazil Executive producer: Marc Almon Entertainment Group oudini & Doyle is a U.K./Canada treaty co-production Executive producers: Stephen Campanelli, Jon Cassar, Ken Gord, roducers Don Carmody and David Cormican Hbased on the unlikely friendship between Harry Dean Bornstein obtained the rights to the best-selling Canadian book P Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. The pilot episode was Private Eyes Global Starring: Victor Webster, Harvey Keitel Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto. The memoir tells the true written by co-creators David Hoselton (House, Over the story about Sakamoto’s grandparents. His grandfather Hedge, Brother Bear) and David Titcher (The Librarian, was a Canadian soldier who became a POW during WW2. rivate Eyes is a ten-episode one-hour drama series The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb). The show will air on FOX Shadows on the Hudson (TBD) His grandmother was born in Canada but her Japanese- in the United States and ITV in the United Kingdom. Pthat showcases a witty crime-solving P.I. (Jason Canadian family was relocated from Vancouver to Alberta Priestley) with drama, humour and romance. He plays after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour. Their story alongside his smart, and feisty partner Angie Everett, oronto-based Wildhorse Studios has partnered with Production companies: Shaftesbury, Big Talk Productions, follows the hardships and lack of humanity both endured, played by Cindy Sampson (Rogue, Rookie Blue). Macmillan Publishing’s in-house film unit to bring Shore Z Productions T and how they found each other and managed to forgive. the 1957 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer to the small Premiere: May 2, 2016 Production company: Entertainment One screen. Set in the late 1940s, the novel examines the lives Executive producers: David Shore, David Titcher, David Hoselton, Production company: Don Carmody Film and TV Premiere: Spring 2016 of Jewish exiles living in New York City post-World War II. Kenton Allen, Matthew Justice, Luke Alkin, Christina Jennings, Executive producers: Don Carmody, David Cormican Shooting in and around Toronto, Ontario Maggie Murphy, and Scott Garvie Executive producers: John Morayniss, Rachel Fulford, Shawn Production companies: Wildhorse Studios, MacMillan Publishers Shot in the U.K. and Canada Piller, Lloyd Segan, Shelley Eriksen, Alan McCullough, Tassie Starring: Michael Weston, Stephen Mangan, Rebecca Liddiard Frontier Discovery Canada Cameron, Kelly Makin, Jason Priestley Starring: Jason Priestley, Cindy Sampson

rontier is Discovery Canada’s first original scripted Fseries, which will also air worldwide as a Netflix original. The six-episode, hour-long series was created by Rob Blackie and Peter Blackie. It follows adventure and drama in the struggle for money and power during the North American fur trade in the late 18th century. Jason Momoa of Game of Thrones is set to star.

Production companies: Take the Shot Production, Factory Backwards Executive producers: Alex Patrick John Vatcher, Perry Chafe Shot in St. John’s, Newfoundland

30 31 Shoot the Messenger CBC Untitled World War II Drama (TBD)

his suspenseful eight-episode one-hour drama ife of Pi star Irrfan Khan is set to star opposite Tfollows a young journalist who witnesses a murder LJonathan Hyde (The Strain) in this international co- and becomes embroiled with urban gangs, politicians, production among Japan, Canada and the Netherlands. business elite and the police. It was created by the The four-part mini-series, based on real events taking Hungry Eyes team of Sudz Sutherland and Jennifer place in the Pacific after World War II, was shot Holness (Guns, Home Again). Elyse Levesque (Stargate on location in Japan and Lithuania. Episodes were upcoming Universe), Lucas Bryant (Haven), Alex Kingston (Doctor directed by Canadian filmmaker Rob King and Dutch Who), and Lyriq Bent (Rookie Blue) star in the series. The helmer Pieter Verhoeff. The project is co-produced by series will air on ITV in the United Kingdom. Netherland’s FATT Productions and Japan’s NHK. 14 comedies Production company: Hungry Eyes Entertainment Production company: Don Carmody Television Premiere: Summer 2016 Executive producers: Takashi Enjo, Naito Shinsuke, Don Carmody, Shot in Toronto, Ontario David Cormican, Hans De Weers Executive producers: Jennifer Holness, Victoria Woods Starring: Irrfan Khan, Jonathan Hyde Starring: Elyse Levesque, Lucas Bryant, Lyriq Bent, Alex Kingston Van Helsing Super Channel

Slasher Super Channel an Helsing is a story about Vanessa Van Helsing, Vdaughter of the famous vampire hunter Abraham lasher is an eight-episode one-hour psychological Van Helsing. Five years into the future, in a world Sthriller series. It stars Katie McGrath (Jurassic World, completely dominated by vampires, Vanessa is comedy Dracula, Merlin) who returns to the small town where humanity’s last hope. Calgary-based Nomadic Pictures she was born and becomes embroiled in murders that (Fargo, Hell on Wheels) is producing 13 hour-long copycat the horrific killing of her parents when she was a episodes. Top 10 Comedies * child. Slasher is written by Aaron Martin (DeGrassi: The Next Generation). Production company: Nomadic Pictures 1. Rick Mercer Report Premiere: Fall 2016 2. Schitt’s Creek Production company: Shaftesbury Shooting in Vancouver, British Columbia Premiere: April 1, 2016 Executive producers: Chad Oakes, Mike Frislev, Neil LaBute, 3. This Hour Has 22 Minutes Shot in Parry Sound and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Simon Barry, Evan Tyler, Dave Brown, Daniel March Executive producers: Aaron Martin, Christina Jennings, 4. Mr. D Scott Garvie 5. Still Standing Starring: Katie McGrath, Brandon Jay McLaren, Wendy Crewson, Wynonna Earp CHCH Steve Byers, Dean McDermott 6. Spun Out fter years on the run and in juvenile detention, the 7. Fool Canada Agreat granddaughter of the legendary Wyatt Earp is Tempting Faith DiNapoli CBC finally coming home. She is not welcome. But when she 8. Young Drunk Punk becomes the town’s only hope of eradicating mysterious empting Faith DiNapoli is a half-hour drama series demons, Wynonna must choose which side of the law 9. Sunnyside Tand adaptation of Lisa Gabriele’s 2002 coming-of- she wants to fight on in order to clear the name of her 10. Sensitive Skin age novel of the same name. The novel takes place in legendary great grandfather once and for all. The Windsor’s Little Italy during the 1980s and centres on show is a 13-episode one-hour series based on the IDW Catholic teenager Faith DiNapoli. Mother Nancy DiNapoli Publishing comic created by Beau Smith. tries to keep her daughter Faith and three siblings in line and her family together after her marriage falls apart Production company: SEVEN24 Films with dramatic ups and downs. Shot in Calgary Premiere: March 28, 2016 Production company: Insight Productions Shot in Calgary, Alberta Executive producers: John Brunton, Barbara Bowlby, Lisa Executive producers: Jordy Randall, Tom Cox Gabriele, Shelley Scarrow Starring: Melanie Scrofano, Tim Rozon, Shamier Anderson, Dominique Provost-Chalkley productions 32 15* Average of live viewing plus seven days of DVR playback33 of most recent season airing from January 1, 2015 to January 19, 2016 Delmer & Marta APTN Fugget About It Teletoon Mohawk Girls APTN, OMNI Rick Mercer Report CBC

spinoff of the award-winning sketch comedy ugget About It is an adult animated sitcom about ohawk Girls is a scripted comedy-drama series ost known for his on-point rants through series, Caution: May Contain Nuts. Comedians a New York Mafia capo Jimmy Falcone and his developed by Tracey Deer and is based on her graffitied alleys, Rick Mercer, the quick-witted ASheldon Elter of Peace River and Howie Miller of Ffamily who move to Regina, Saskatchewan under M2005 documentary of the same name. The Mhost of Rick Mercer Report, invites various Edmonton play Marta and Delmer, a trailer park couple the Witness Protection Program, after Jimmy throws his show is a lighthearted look at the lives of four indigenous political and cultural heads onto his program to discuss who relocate to “big city” Morningside, population of boss out a 19th floor window. The Falcones struggle with women living on the Kahnawake reserve outside Montreal. current affairs. The show is a consistent ratings winner, 40,000, where Marta is hired to host a morning radio a particularly Canadian kind of culture shock. The show pulling a steady million-a-week for a decade. Over a dozen news show, and Delmer does whatever he can to help out. was created from a Pilot Project contest on Teletoon. Production company: Rezolution Pictures seasons, Mercer has gone skating with Hazel McCallion, It also aired in the U.S. as a Hulu exclusive beginning Returning (Season 3): October 27, 2015 got measured for a suit with Don Cherry and bungee Production company: Mosaic Entertainment October 2013. Shot in Montreal and Kahnawake, Quebec jumped off a bridge with “Man in Motion” Rick Hansen. Premiere: March 9, 2016 Executive producers: Tracey Deer, Cynthia Knight, Christina Fon, Shot in Edmonton, Alberta Production company: 9 Story Media Group Catherine Bainbridge, Linda Ludwick Production company: Island Edge Inc., CBC Executive producers: Camille Beaudoin, Eric Rebalkin Returning (Season 3): 2016 Starring: Jennifer Pudavick, Heather White, Maika Harper, Returning (Season 12): October 6, 2015 Starring: Sheldon Elter, Howie Miller Executive producers: Nicholas Taborrok, Jeff Abugov, Vince Brittany LeBorgne, Meegwun Fairbrother, Kyle Nobess, Rachelle Shot before a studio audience in Toronto, Ontario Commisso, Steve Jarosz White Wind, Glen Gould Executive producer: Gerald Lunz Starring: Rick Mercer

Fool Canada CBC Letterkenny Mr. D CBC, City Schitt’s Creek CBC Comedy Channel, CraveTV ool Canada debuted on CBC on June 23, 2015. It ased on Gerry Dee’s life experience as a high school fter soap opera star Moira (Catherine O’Hara) and is modelled on the British/ITN comedy hit Fool teacher (career pre stand-up comic), gym teacher her video store magnate husband Johnny Rose FBritannia. Fool Canada performs hidden camera six-part half-hour sitcom about two friends BGerry Duncan (Gerry Dee) is hired to teach social A(Eugene Levy) lose all their money, they and their pranks and gags on unassuming strangers across living on a farm outside the fictional town of studies at Xavier Academy, a prestigious private school for two spoiled brats, David (Daniel Levy) and Alexis (Annie Canada, thus testing our limits and revealing what it ALetterkenny starring Jared Keeso (19-2) and kids in grades 5 to 12. D’s students often know more than Murphy), move to a small town called Schitt’s Creek. The means to live here now. Nathan Dales. The show is based on Keeso’s Letterkenny he does, and he must fake his way through each class. series was picked up in the United States by the cable The show features host Will Sasso (MADtv, The Three Problems, a five-part web-based series of shorts that Episode One was watched by 1.23 million viewers – CBC’s network Pop, and opened to 1.6 million CBC viewers. Stooges movie) and cast members Craig Lauzon, Sam received millions of views. biggest midseason debut for the 2011-2012 season. Kalilieh, Sara Hennessey and Nigel Downer. Production company: Not A Real Company Productions Production company: New Metric Media Production company: Topsail Entertainment Returning (Season 2): January 12, 2016 Production company: Shaftesbury Premiere: February 7, 2016 Returning (Season 5): January 19, 2016 Shot in Orangeville, Goodwood and Toronto, Ontario Returning (Season 2): Summer 2016 Shot in Sudbury, Ontario Shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia Executive producers: Eugene Levy, Daniel Levy, Fred Levy, Shot in locations across Canada Executive producers: Jared Keeso, Nathan Dales Executive producers: Gerry Dee, Michael Volpe Andrew Barnsley, Ben Feigin Executive producers: Charles Steeveld, Joanna Webb, Jeff Besner Starring: Gerry Dee, Jonathan Torrens, Lauren Hammersley, Starring: Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Daniel Levy, Annie Booth Savage, Bette MacDonald, Naomi Snieckus, Darrin Rose, Murphy, Jennifer Robertson, Tim Rozon, Emily Hampshire Mark Little, Wes Williams, Mark Forward

34 35 Still Standing CBC Sunnyside City Tiny Plastic Men Young Drunk Punk CBC, Super Channel City hybrid reality-comedy series starring actor/ surreal sketch comedy featuring a cast of eccentric comedian Jonny Harris, who in each episode figures. Set in quirky Sunnyside, a fictional town Avisits a different financially-struggling small Abased on Toronto’s Parkdale, where there’s no n this part sitcom, part sketch comedy, Mark Meer, oung Drunk Punk is an equal parts hilarious town, gets to know its residents and quirks, and finally such thing as normal. Norm Macdonald plays the Matt Alden and Chris Craddock star as adult men and nostalgic look at a time when expressing performs a stand up show made up of what’s he’s learned, neighbourhood’s alternate reality version of the Internet: Iemployed to test toys for the fictional Gottfried Ycomplicated teen angst was simpler. It is a semi- proving that in rough times Canadians still know how to a sentient sewer line that answers search queries shouted Brothers Toy and Train Company. The characters work autobiographical take on executive producer Bruce laugh at themselves. Season 1 stunts for Harris include into a manhole cover. in a basement office that looks more like a nerdy frat McCullough’s own Calgary upbringing prior to The Kids being challenged to eat a 20 lb. bag of apples in Berwick, house. The show also has a strong online presence with a in the Hall. N.S.; mounting a 10,000 lb. Harley in Lynton, B.C.; and Production companies: Counterfeit Pictures, Buffalo Gal Pictures mobile game, and a Tiny Plastic Men web series. befriending a yodelling cowboy in Manitou, MB. Premiere (Season 1B): September 27, 2015 Production companies: Accent Entertainment, SEVEN24 Films Shot in Winnipeg, Manitoba Production company: Mosaic Entertainment Returning (Season 2): 2016 Production company: Frantic Films Executive producers: Gary Pearson, Dan Redican, Anton Leo, Returning (Season 4): 2016 Shot in Calgary, Alberta Returning (Season 2): Summer 2016 Shane Corkery, Phyllis Laing, Dan Bennett Shot in Edmonton, Alberta Executive producers: Bruce McCullough, Susan Cavan, Jordy Shot in multiple locations across Canada Starring: Pat Thornton, Patrice Goodman, Alice Moran, Kevin Executive producers: Camille Beaudoin, Eric Rebalkin, Randall, Tom Cox Executive producers: Jamie Brown, Jeff Peeler, Catherine Legge Vidal, Kathleen Phillips, Rob Norman, Norm Macdonald Jesse Lipscombe Starring: Tim Carlson, Atticus Mitchell, Bruce McCullough, Starring: Jonny Harris Starring: Mark Meer, Matt Alden, Chris Craddock Tracy Ryan

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Sensitive Skin HBO Canada This Hour Has 22 Minutes Trailer Park Boys Netflix CBC n award-winning comedy series based on the mockumentary series about the misadventures of Package Deal British show of the same name, about a baby three rowdy Nova Scotian trailer park boys whose Aboomer woman (Kim Cattrall) and her long mock news program featuring satirical sketches Aget-rich-quick schemes often lead them into trouble time husband (Don McKellar) who sell their family home of weekly news, comedy acts, editorials, with a bevy of zany locals. The lead trio has toured with and move into a hip downtown condo to begin their Ahumourous interviews with leading figures, and Guns N’ Roses and Our Lady Peace, singing their anthem, lives again. parody commercials. Think Saturday Night Live, but more “Liquor and Whores.” American rapper Snoop Dog will be Canadian and political. Ratings soared over a million making an appearance in Season 10 of the series in 2016. Production companies: Rhombus Media, Baby Cow Productions viewers for the series’ return in October just prior to the Returning (Season 2): Early 2016 Canadian federal election. Over the years the show has Production companies: Sunnyvale Productions, Swearnet Pictures Shot in Toronto, Ontario won 24 Gemini Awards and 11 Canadian Comedy Awards. Returning (Season 10): 2016 Executive producers: Kim Cattrall, Don McKellar, Bob Martin, Shot in Truro, Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Henry Normal, Hugo Blick Production companies: DHX Media, CBC Executive producers: Gary Howsam, Erica Benson, Norm Bolen, Starring: Kim Cattrall, Don McKellar, Elliott Gould, Nicolas Returning (Season 23): October 6, 2015 Rachel Fulford, Laura Michalchyshyn Spun Out Wright, Colm Feore, Joanna Gleason, Mary Walsh, Clé Bennett Shot before a live studio audience in Halifax, Nova Scotia Starring: John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells, Mike Smith, John Executive producers: Michael Donovan, Peter McBain Dunsworth, Patrick Roach, Lucy DeCoutere, Sarah E. Dunsworth, Starring: Mark Critch, Cathy Jones, Shaun Majumder, Susan Kent Cory Bowles, Michael Jackson, Barrie Dunn

36 37 Q&A with... Catherine Reitman

Catherine Reitman is an actress, comedian, producer, writer and director. She is a graduate of the influential You are working with CBC on both Groundlings improv and sketch comedy troupe in Los Angeles, and has gone on to have roles in countless high-profile of these series. Why was CBC the films and TV series including How I Met Your Mother, Real Wedding Crashers, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I Love right fit for you? You Man, Knocked Up and, most recently, a recurring role on the hit ABC show Black-ish. In 2015, Reitman formed Wolf & Rabbit Entertainment Inc. (with her husband Philip Sternberg) to produce the half-hour, single-camera comedy The CBC is in the middle of a Workin’ Moms for CBC. very exciting transition that I am very grateful to be a part of. When Sally Catto sat down and Workin’ Moms is a show we You are going to star in the show, as discovering her husband has watched Workin’ Moms, she saw are surprised no one thought of well as produce it, along with your been cheating on her with a something really authentic and before! Anyone who experiences husband Philip Sternberg. How hard slew of her friends as well as personal in it. I’m thrilled to be this lifestyle could say it would is it to balance those two roles? her boss. working with someone who can be an excellent drama, as well as And how hard is it to work with your see the beauty and comedy in a comedy. What part of your life husband? Like Workin’ Moms, the series what this experience is, as well and experiences made you choose was inspired by my own life. I as can relate to it. Most of the comedy as the best vehicle for Working with Philip has been had a similar experience with women I communicate with at these stories? incredible. You never want to my boyfriend in college, and the CBC are working mothers disappoint your partner and once again, I found so much themselves, so it was a natural It surprises me that a show you always want to be the best comedy in this dark moment in fit for the show. of this nature has never been version of yourself. When my life, that I really thought it made before, because such you’re living and working with was a great breeding ground for If you had one word of advice for a tremendous amount of the someone that becomes nearly a show about a woman starting someone wanting to break into population has babies and impossible. But through that from the beginning. comedy in Canada, or the US what many these days have to go comes a new kind of beauty in would it be? back to work. In that comes so your relationship. He knows It’s a show I hope to put more much drama that fuels so many what I am capable often more focus into soon. Right now my Perseverance! For every ‘yes’ comedic moments, and I’m than I do, and I’m really grateful attention is really on Workin’ you’re going to get a 1000 ‘no’s’. really excited to bring those to to him for having my back. Moms. I know I’m not the first person audiences. to say it, but I can certainly Plus, your partner never really The show is also bringing you confirm it. For me, the medium of comedy gets comfortable watching you back to some of your family ties to has been a more appealing kiss someone else, so we thought Toronto and Canada. How do you Throughout that process, choice, because I find it’s in the easiest way to nip that in find working in Canada? it’s also really taught me the my darkest moments that I the bud was by playing husband importance of cultivating inappropriately want to laugh. and wife onscreen as well! I love Toronto. I have so many my own voice. I think taking I have had – particularly in this memories there. So much matters into your own hands pregnancy that I’m experiencing You have a second show in of my family lived and still and creating material where right now – a tremendous development at CBC, Starting Over. lives there – aunts, uncles, you and your particular voice amount of drama, and I find Tell us a bit about the show and grandparents and cousins. can shine is the strongest choice that laughing with my partner how you manage taking on two I can’t wait to get into pre- I’ve made in my career and I has gotten me through it and projects at once. production and spread my would urge any other artist – helps me move along. roots there again. Toronto is American or Canadian – to do Starting Over is a tale of a an exceptional city that I so as well. woman literally starting over believe hasn’t gotten its fair from scratch. She has to move due of coverage in television back in with her father and and film, so I’m looking identical twin sister after forward to showcasing it in a beautiful light.

38 39 Darcy (TBD) Michael: Tuesdays & Thursday CBC What Would Sal Do? Super Channel

ased on the life and stand up comedy of Darcy eason 1 of this sitcom, which the National Post called n eight-episode half-hour new age comedy starring upcoming/ BMichael, Darcy is a multi-camera sitcom about two Sa combination of What About Bob? and Frasier, ASal (Dylan Taylor), an entitled underachiever, who in development working-class dads who struggle with money, marriage, starred two very different men with a complex tries for the first time in his life to be a good person after and children. relationship. Michael (Matt Watts), a neurotic mess, saw learning that he’s, you know, the Second Coming of Christ. his psychiatrist Dr. David Storper (Bob Martin) twice a Production company: Project 10 week. Michael viewed Storper as the pathway to sanity, Production company: New Metric Media Starring: Darcy Michael while Storper viewed Michael as his ticket to a lucrative Premiere: Spring 2016 pop psychiatry book deal. Season 2 picks up five years Shot in: Sudbury, Ontario comedy later, with Michael well-established in his new city and Dr. Executive producers: Mark Montefiore, Andrew DeAngelis The Family Business Global Storper struggling to keep his practice afloat without his Starring: Dylan Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Kaniehtiio Horn, Ryan most difficult patient. McDonald, Scott Thompson Baroness Von Sketch Show CBC single-camera half-hour comedy about the famous Production company: Rhombus Media Howie Mandel and his up-and-coming millennial A Premiere: 2016 n all-female sketch comedy series starring four of son, Alex, a comedian who films himself pranking his The Wonderful Wayneys Shot in Ottawa, Ontario ACanada’s top comedians from productions like This best friend Branon (Ely Henry) and uploads the footage Family Channel Executive producers: Bob Martin, Don McKellar Hour has 22 Minutes, Book of Negroes, and The Ron to YouTube. Alex, who lives in his father’s Malibu guest Starring: Matt Watts, Bob Martin James Show. Baroness Von Sketch Show takes aim at all house, hustles to achieve his own fame and success by things contemporary and Canadian, including petty office live-action family comedy series starring Molly using new media in much the same way that his father ARingwald and Jason Priestley as an almost perfect politics, hipster culture, and passive-aggressive parenting. used TV. Howie and his wife Terry (Kate Vernon) worry The four women have been friends for over two decades. My Scottish Family CBC married couple who work hard at raising their five that their son is wasting his life on the internet, while smart, beautiful, and popular kids. Alex tries to prove to them that he’s really a digital Production company: Frantic Films entrepreneur. ased on Gerry Dee’s own experiences growing up Production company: Aircraft Pictures Premiere: Summer 2016 with a Scottish family in Canada, My Scottish Family B Premiere: 2016 Shot in Toronto, Ontario Production company: Entertainment One is a single-camera sitcom that charts the awkward ways a Shot in Toronto, Ontario Executive producers: Jamie Brown, Carolyn Taylor, Meredith Executive producers: Howie Mandel, Tim McAuliffe, Michael proud Scottish family tries to make a home for themselves Executive producers: Tom Saunders, Anthony Leo, Andrew MacNeill, Aurora Browne, Jennifer Whalen Rotenberg in a small Canadian town. Canadian-born Francis Rosen, Bill O’Dowd, Steve Skrovan, Garry Campbell Starring: Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne, MacPhee (Gerry Dee of Mr. D), a Catholic, and his Scottish Starring: Molly Ringwald, Jason Priestley, Simon Cadel, Luke Jennifer Whalen wife, Lizzy Knox, a Protestant, move from Scotland to Bilyk, Katie Douglas, Matthew Tissi, Jake Sim Gold Lamé CBC Canada along with Lizzy’s father and teenage children.

The Beaverton Comedy Central Production company: Project 10 ail Harvey (Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries, Lost Workin’ Moms CBC Executive producers: Gerry Dee GGirl), and actress, writer and producer Katie Boland televised adaptation of the biting satirical website Starring: Gerry Dee (Gerontophilia, Reign) of Straight Shooters Productions comedy about four tough women who struggle to Aof the same name, The Beaverton is a witty weekly have signed a development deal with the CBC for a half- news/variety program that irreverently highlights the Abalance work, life, and child-rearing. The creator, hour soap called Gold Lamé. The show was created and Catherine Reitman, sister of four-time Oscar nominee absurdity of the Canadian condition. Actors playing written by Boland and Katie Ford (Miss Congeniality, The Switch OUTtv reporters and hosts, report on fake stories informed by Jason Reitman and daughter of Canadian movie mogul Prayers for Bobby). The show centres around a smart but Ivan Reitman, hopes that the show “can serve as a real events. The gap between reality and fiction isn’t unknown woman who goes to work for a crazy genius fter Sü, an IT manager, comes out as a transgender always clear. comedic battle cry for women experiencing change who runs a multi-billion dollar clothing empire. Awoman, she soon loses her job and apartment as everywhere.” a result. She is then forced to rebuild her life as an Production company: Pier 21 Films Production companies: Sienna Films, Straight Shooters out trans woman, along with the help of her LGBT Production company: Wolf and Rabbit Productions Executive producers: Laszlo Barna, Jeff Detsky, Paula Productions friends. The series is the first of its kind, boasting a Premiere: Fall 2016 Devonshire, Melissa Williamson predominantly transgender cast. The pilot was funded Executive producers: Catherine Reitman, Philip Sternberg Starring: Emma Hunter, Miguel Riva, Aisha Alfa through Kickstarter. It was then picked up by OUTtv for a Starring: Catherine Reitman six-episode first season. Kim’s Convenience CBC

Beyond Repair (TBD) Production companies: High Deaf Productions, Trembling ased on Ins Choi’s award-winning play of the same You Me Her (TBD) Void Studios name, this new comedy, written by Choi and Kevin B Premiere: 2016 single-camera comedy about the handsome out- White, charts the struggles of a Korean-Canadian family Executive producers: Amy Fox Hannah E. Gordon, Robert nspired by the Playboy Magazine article Sugar on Top Aof-work actor and man-child Nick Barrett and the who run a convenience store in Regent Park, Toronto. nerdy, virgin son he didn’t know he had, Kevin. When Heimbecker, Alex Ince-Cushman Monika Mitchell, Rónán Rillovick, Iby John H. Richardson, this topsy-turvy “polyromantic” Kevin unexpectedly shows up at Nick’s door, Nick must Kirsten Anastasia Wilson comedy centres on a three-way relationship involving Production company: Thunderbird Films figure out how to play a role he’s entirely unprepared for: Starring: Nyla Rose, Amy Fox, Andrea Menard a suburban married couple (Greg Poehler and Rachel Premiere: 2016 that of a father. Blanchard).

Production company: Entertainment One Production company: Project 10 Executive producers: John Scott Shepherd, Peter Jaysen, Alan Starring: Paul Campbell Gasmer, John Morayniss, Gerard Bocaccio Starring: Greg Poehler, Rachel Blanchard

40 41 Big Brother Canada After Dark Slice

ig Brother Canada After Dark is a companion series Bto Big Brother Canada. Viewers get an uncensored unscripted look into the lives of the Houseguests throughout the night. unscripted competition Production company: Insight Productions Returning (Season 4): March 4, 2016 Shot in Toronto, Ontario Executive producers: John Brunton, Sue Brophey, Barbara Bowlby, Eric Abboud, Erin Brock

The Amazing Race Canada CTV Big Brother Canada Side Show Slice

upcoming shows reality competition series that features teams of ig Brother Canada host Arisa Cox teams up with Areal people who compete in gruelling races across BSeason 1 Houstguests Gary Levy and Peter Brown Canada and the world to win half a million dollars in to interview newly evicted Houseguests about their cash prizes. This was, by far, the most-watched Canadian experiences on the show. television program of 2015, drawing an average audience of 2.54 million per episode. Production company: Insight Productions 14 Returning (Season 4): March 4, 2016 Production company: Insight Productions Shot in Toronto, Ontario Returning (Season 4): Summer 2016 Executive producers: John Brunton, Sue Brophey, Barbara Shot throughout Canada and across the world Bowlby, Eric Abboud, Erin Brock Executive producers: John Brunton, Barbara Bowlby Starring: Arisa Cox (host), Gary Levy, Peter Brown

The Bachelor / Bachelorette Canada W Network

reality series based on the American show, The ABachelor . A man must choose from 25 women, each competing for his love. The first two seasons of The competition Bachelor Canada aired on City. The third season, The Bachelorette Canada, which will feature a woman choosing food among 25 men, will air on W Network later in 2016.

home Production company: Good Human Productions Inc. Returning (Season 3): 2016 lifestyle Executive producer: Claire Freeland Starring: Tyler Harcott (host) nature and wildlife

miscellaneous Big Brother Canada Global

risa Cox (E! News) hosts this competition series Canada’s Smartest Person CBC Abased on the Dutch format. Fifteen Houseguests live together in a model home under constant camera rawing from developmental psychologist and surveillance. Each week, they must vote one Houseguest DHarvard Professor Howard Gardner’s theory of off the show, until only one remains to claim the $100,000 multiple intelligences, Canada’s Smartest Person is a grand prize. In addition to three weekly broadcasts, reality TV show. Each week four Canadians compete viewers can also watch the Houseguests live online. at various tasks designed to test their abilities in one or more of Gardner’s intelligence categories: musical, Production company: Insight Productions physical, social, logical, visual and linguistic. Returning (Season 4): March 2, 2016 Shot in Toronto, Ontario Production company: Media Headquarters productions Executive producers: John Brunton, Sue Brophey, Barbara Returning (Season 2): October 4, 2015 Bowlby, Eric Abboud, Erin Brock Executive producer: Robert Cohen Starring: Arisa Cox (host) Starring: Jessi Cruickshank (host) 9342 43 BBQ Crawl Travel + Escape Chopped Canada Food Network

anadian BBQ champion Danielle Dimovski, AKA n each episode, four chefs from across Canada compete C“Diva Q,” roadtrips across the Southern U.S. in search Ito create a delicious three-course meal. For each course of its grilling roots. On the way she competes to win BBQ the contestants are presented with a mystery basket, the titles and stops at renowned BBQ joints for the country’s contents of which they must incorporate into their dish. best ribs, briskets, chicken and pork. One chef gets cut in every round until the last remaining chef claims the $10,000 prize. Production company: RTR Media Returning (Season 2): April 7, 2015 Production company: Paperny Entertainment Shot across North America Returning (Season 3): January 9, 2016 Ice Racer Showdown CMT Executive producer: Vlado Dimovski Executive producers: David Paperny, Audrey Mehler, Starring: Danielle Dimovsk (host) Cal Shumiatcher, Louise Woo battle of ice and egos. In each adrenaline-packed, Starring: Brad Smith (host) Aone-hour episode of Ice Racer Showdown, regular Canadians compete with cab drivers and rowdy truckers Carnival Eats Food Network to see who’s the best driver—on ice. oah Cappe, a novice cook, tours restaurants, festivals, Canada’s Worst Driver Production company: Corkscrew Media Nstate fairs and carnivals all across Canada and the Discovery Canada Premiere (Season 1B): February 2, 2016 United States in search of gastronomically freaky food Executive producer: Scott Henuset options, including frog legs, rattlesnakes, and a doughnut Starring: Clayton Bellamy (host) sundae. Cappe also tries his hand at making some of the ight drivers improve their driving skills at a recipes. Edriver rehabilitation centre by competing in tricky challenges. Unlike the other Worst series, Canada’s Worst Production companies: Alibi Entertainment, Amusing Driver emphasizes the learning process and the science of Productions driving. Returning (Season 2): July 2015

unscripted Shot across Canada and the United States Production company: Proper Television Executive producer: James Hyslop Returning (Season 11): October 26, 2015 Starring: Noah Cappe (host) Executive producer: Philip Dharamraj Confucius Was a Foodie Food Network Starring: Andrew Younghusband (host) Chef in Your Ear Food Network n its first season, Confucius Was a Foodie featured food IChef Christine Cushing traveling across North America Crash Gallery CBC discovering local variations of Chinese cuisine. The ach episode of Chef in Your Ear features a upcoming seven-part second season will explore the Ecompetition between two professional chefs who n each episode of Crash Gallery, three artists are influence of Chinese cuisine in Europe and other parts Bake with Anna Olson Food Network must “compete without cooking”—meaning, both chefs of Asia. Ipitted against each other in novel creative competitions are isolated in their own private booths and must offer designed to test their artistic talents and dexterity. instructions to clueless cook through an earpiece. The Production company: Mark Media enowned pastry chef Anna Olson draws from her chef that instructs the clueless cook to make the best Returning (Season 2): Fall 2016 Production company: Lark Productions Rwell of expertise to teach viewers how to bake dish wins. Shot in North America, Europe and Asia Premiere: October 2, 2015 desserts that range from the simple to the decadent. Executive producers: Theresa Kowall-Shipp Executive producers: Louise Clark, Erin Haskett, Brent Haynes Production company: HLP+Partners Starring: Chef Christine Cushing Starring: Sean O’Neill (host) Production company: Peace Point Entertainment Premiere: August 31, 2015 Returning (Season 2): September 6, 2015 Executive producers: Henry Less, Lee Herberman, Daniel Gelfant Executive producer: Les Tomlin Starring: Greg Komorowski (host), Jordan Andino, Devin Connell, Starring: Anna Olson (host) Food Network Canada’s The Great Dragon’s Den CBC Craig Harding, Rob Rossi, Cory Vitiello Canadian Cookbook Food Network ntrepreneurs pitch to a panel of five rich venture Ecapitalists—the dragons—in the hopes of receiving the arnival Eats host Noah Cappe and Chopped Canada funding required to finance their business ideas. Cjudge Chef Lynn Crawford travel across Canada to discover and document the best of Canadian cuisine to Production company: Sony Pictures Television add to the Great Canadian Cookbook, the largest-ever all- Returning (Season 10): October 7, 2015 Canadian cookbook. Shot in Toronto, Ontario Executive producers: Tracie Tighe, Molly Middleton, Alexandra Production company: Alibi Entertainment Lane, Amy Bourne Premiere: October 2015 Starring: Dianne Buckner, Michael Wekerle, Joe Mimran, Manjit Shot across Canada Minhas, Michele Romanow, Jim Treliving Executive producer: James Hyslop Starring: Noah Cappe, Chef Lynn Crawford

44 45 Four Senses AMI You Gotta Eat Here Food Network

hristine Ha, winner of MasterChef Season 3 and its ost John Catucci is the first to admit that “I’m Cfirst-ever blind contestant, joins Top Chef Canada Hno chef, but I know great food when I eat it.” Season 2 winner Carl Heinrich to create delicious dishes. He travels along the Canadian/American border to For each recipe, the hosts provide detailed instructions visit restaurants that serve delicious, decadent, and tailored specifically for visually impaired viewers. They over-the-top comfort foods. also explore topics such as eye health and accessibility tips for the kitchen. Production company: Eagle Vision Returning (Season 4): September 4, 2015 Production company: Varner Productions Limited Shot across Canada and the United States Returning (Season 3): January 14, 2016 Executive producers: Michael Geddes, Sheldon Teicher Executive producer: Anne-Marie Varner Starring: John Catucci (host) Starring: Christine Ha, Carl Heinrich Buying the View W Network The Incredible Food Race Moosemeat and Marmalade APTN Food Network ach episode of this new series features a house oosemeat and Marmalade brings together Cree unscripted Ehunting couple who will pay top dollar for the number Mbush cook and seasoned hunter Art Napoleon and one item on their wish list: a breathtaking view. With the n each episode two families compete in a series of food guidance of a real estate agent, the couple visits three Ichallenges in the hopes of winning one year’s worth of classically trained chef Dan Haynes as they teach each other about their respective culinary traditions. The series luxury properties, each with a view to die for. Which groceries. The show is hosted by Entertainment Tonight view will seal the deal? Canada’s Rick Campanelli and Chef Corbin Tomaszewski. also airs in the United States and France. home Production company: Our House Media Production companies: Mooswa Films, May Street Productions Production company: Tricon Film & Television Premiere: January 12, 2016 Returning (Season 2): Fall 2016 Premiere: October 28, 2015 Shot in Canada and the United States Shot in Canada and U.K. Starring: Rick Campanelli, Chef Corbin Tomaszewski (hosts) Executive producers: Simon Lloyd, Joe Houlihan Executive producer: Hilary Pryor Backroad Bounty Cottage Life Starring: Art Napoleon, Dan Hayes

MasterChef Canada CTV arty Gebel and Peter “BamBam” Bamford Brojects Cottage Life Mtravel the backroads of Ontario in search of ased on the hit U.K. series, each season MasterChef vintage and antique treasures. In their search to buy uirky brothers Andrew and Kevin Buckles come up BCanada features 16 amateur chefs from across these hidden gems, the duo learns about the story Qwith ingenious ways to rebuild and renovate run-of- Canada vying for the MasterChef Canada trophy and behind the items and how they came to be in the the-mill cottages into mouth-watering dream properties a $100,000 grand prize. The series is a hit for CTV, owners’ possession. equipped with, for example, a bowling alley dock, which averaging over 1.6 million viewers per episode. It will is exactly what it seems. return for a third season in February 2016. Production company: Our House Media Returning (Season 2): October 19 2015 Production company: Farmhouse Productions Production company: Proper Television Shot in rural Ontario Returning (Season 3): October 22, 2015 Returning (Season 3): February 14, 2016 Executive producer: Joe Houlihan Executive producers: Kent Sobey, Andrew Buckles, Howard Ng, Executive producers: Guy O’ Sullivan, Cathie James, Elisabeth Starring: Marty Gebel, Peter Bamford (hosts) Kevin Buckles Murdoch Starring: Andrew Buckles, Kevin Buckles (hosts) Starring: Claudio Aprile, Michael Bonacini, Alvin Leung Buy It, Fix It, Sell It HGTV Canada

n each episode, three “fixers” battle it out to get the Sugar Showdown Food Network Ibest deals at an auction. The fixers then all refurbish the items to give them new life in order to resell them spinoff of Food Network’s Donut Showdown, to buyers at top dollar. In this game of buying low and ASugar Showdown pits three expert bakers selling high, who will buy it, fix it and sell it at the against one another to create delicious and elaborate greatest profit margin? treats. A panel of three judges eliminates one baker each round, until only one is left standing to claim the Production company: Frantic Films $10,000 prize. Returning (Season 2): May 21, 2015 Shot in Winnipeg, Manitoba Production company: Architect Films Executive producers: Jamie Brown, Jeff Peeler, Catherine Legge Premiere: January 6, 2016 Executive producers: Mike Sheerin, Blair Harley Starring: Josh Elkin (host)

46 47 Brother vs. Brother W Network Home Factory HGTV Canada Income Property HGTV Canada

rew, a real estate expert who scouts neglected ome Factory reveals the stories behind everyday ost and renovator Scott McGillivray, a triple threat Dhouses and negotiates the purchases, and his brother Hhousehold objects, making the ordinary look Hexpert in real estate, renovation, and finance, shows Jonathan, a licensed contractor who renovates houses, anything but. Take a tour of the assembly lines, designers homeowners struggling to pay the bills how to create engage in a healthy bit of brotherly rivalry in this reality and production companies that make the things that rental suites in their homes to make a profit. In each series. Both brothers hire separate team members to populate our houses and our world. episode, homeowners choose between two design options, renovate properties in order to increase their value. Team then watch McGillivray and his team of contractors members are cut one by one by the brother who mentored Production company: Cineflix renovate and give their house an affordable makeover. him or her. The last member left wins $50,000. Premiere: April 24, 2015 Colin & Justin’s Cabin Pressure Executive producers: Kim Bondi, Philip Welan Production company: RTR Media Production company: Scott Brothers Entertainment Cottage Life Returning (Season 10): February 26, 2015 Returning (Season 3): June 8, 2015 Shot in Toronto, Ontario Executive producers: Kevin Greene, Steven Lerner, Loren Ruch, Executive producers: Kit Redmond, Scott McGillivray, quipped with a tiny budget, a tiny amount of time, and House of Bryan: The Final Straw Tucker Smith Jenna Keane threatened by thousands of tiny bugs, Scottish design HGTV Canada Starring: Drew Scott, Jonathan Scott (hosts) E Starring: Scott McGillivray (host) duo Colin and Justin scramble to locate their ideal rustic escape and then redesign it completely into a five star, ouse of Bryan’s Sarah and Bryan Baeumler star in three-story log cabin. Well-versed in designing beautiful Cabin Truckers Cottage Life Hthis new series which follows the couple and their urban homes, Colin and Justin find themselves out of place four kids as they continue to renovate their home into in the Canadian wilderness. Bears are involved. something redolent of the 70s. Stress levels rise, and ow do people install cabins and other structures Sarah and Bryan aren’t immune to squabbling, but their Hon the mountain tops, cliffs, or rolling hills? Cabin Production company: Peace Point Entertainment Group characteristic sense of humour never fails to carry Truckers is a window into the complex and often Returning (Season 3): Spring 2016 them through. gruelling business of cabin truckers, who haul cabins Shot in Haliburton, Ontario over winding roads and precarious landscapes, all so that Executive producers: Les Tomlin, André Singer Production company: Si Entertainment families can live in their picturesque dream retreats. Starring: Colin McAllister, Justin Ryan (hosts) Returning (Season 4): October 11, 2015 Executive producer: Elana Safronsky Leave It to Bryan HGTV Canada Production company: Remedy Productions Canada Starring: Bryan Baeumler, Sarah Baeumler Returning (Season 2): 2016 Decks, Docks and Gazebos ontractor Bryan Baeumler renovates disastrous Shot across Canada Cottage Life Executive producers: Carlo Massarella, Toby Dormer Chomes into places that are both functional and stylish. The key word here is functional; the show focuses on oing the upkeep on your cottage is tough work, and homeowners who neglect structural deficiencies in their Dprobably you could use some help. In Decks, Docks homes to focus instead on big-ticket renovations. Bryan and Gazebos, host Jason Lake takes viewers through decides for himself what parts of a home are most in the process of renovating and upgrading one-of-a-kind need of fixing, and homeowners don’t get to see the cottages, decks, docks, and gazebos, from the initial renovations Bryan makes until he’s done. planning to the final construction. Production company: Si Entertainment Production company: Whistlestop Productions Returning (Season 6): January 1, 2016 Returning (Season 2): March 18, 2015 Executive producers: Frank Halbert Starring: Colin Hunter (host) Starring: Bryan Baeumler (host)

Game of Homes W Network I Wrecked My House HGTV Canada Love It or List It W Network

mateur—yet skilled—home renovators compete to win he premise of Love It or List It is simple: a home Carver Kings HGTV Canada osted by the multi-talented and hilarious Steve Aa house and a plot of land on this action-based series. HPatterson, I Wrecked My House is a show where Towning couple must decide whether they keep Each team must compete by renovating a house room by homeowners who’ve wrecked their own homes with their newly renovated home (“Love It”) or sell it and rawing from the hit series Timber Kings, Carver room. Their budget is small, their deadlines are tight, and their poor renovation skills are saved by contractor Dave buy a new home (“List It”). Each episode is hosted by DKings is a show about the unique world of chainsaw their living coordinates even tighter. A team of judges Rannala, in collaboration with a local design company. David Visentin, a realtor, and Hilary Farr, a designer. carvers, who make inspiring works of art not with decides which team moves on, and in the finale episode, Each episode concludes with a kind of morale; Dave Hilary is responsible for designing and renovating the brushes or paint or pens, but chainsaws. Totem poles, viewers get to vote for the winning team. offers the homeowner an expert lesson meant to lessen homeowner’s current home and David is responsible for cabins, wooden animals: these carvers render wood into their helplessness. Then Dave and the design company finding them a new one. almost anything they want. Production company: Great Pacific Media renovate the homeowner’s house into something that Returning (Season 2): April 20, 2016 never fails to blow their mind. Production company: Big Coat Productions Production company: Paperny Entertainment Shot in Toronto, Ontario Returning (Season 6): October 5, 2015 Premiere: April 5, 2015 Executive producers: Mark Miller, Bill Gaudsmith, Kelly Shot in Toronto, Ontario Production company: Mountain Road Productions Executive producers: Audrey Mehler, David Paperny, McClughan Executive producers: Maria Armstrong, Catherine Fogarty Premiere: April 28, 2015 Cal Shumiatcher, Adam Wilkenfeld Starring: Dave Salmoni (host) Starring: Hilary Farr, David Visentin (hosts) Executive producer: Tim Alp Starring: Steve Patterson (host)

48 49 Love It or List It Vancouver Reno My Reno Cottage Life What’s for Sale? Cottage Life W Network ost Dave Depencier visits cottages in and around n insider’s look at the best cabins and lakefront his show follows the same format as Love It or List HOttawa to help to right the wrongs of cottagers who Ahomes on the Ontario market through the eyes of TIt, but it is set in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hosts tried, but failed, to renovate their properties. “rock and roll renovator” Rob Serediuk. In each episode, Jillian Harris, a designer, and Todd Talbot, a realtor, help Rob gives a family a tour of three different properties, home owning couples decide whether to keep their newly Production company: Mountain Road Productions and at the end they choose which one is their dream renovated home (“Love It”) or sell it and buy a new home Premiere: June 3, 2015 vacation getaway. (“List It”). Shot in Ottawa, Ontario Executive producer: Tim Alp Production company: Whistlestop Productions Starting: Dave Depencier (host), Anthony Angelis, Derek Marsden Returning (Season 3): January 12, 2016 Production company: Big Coat Productions Shot in Ontario Returning (Season 3): July 26, 2015 Executive producers: Stacey Hatch, David Hatch Shot in Vancouver, British Columbia Starring: Rob Serediuk (host) Executive producers: Maria Armstrong, Catherine Fogarty Property Brothers W Network Starring: Jillian Harris, Todd Talbot (hosts) dentical twin brothers Jonathan, a licensed contractor, What’s for Sale? With a View Iand Drew, a real estate expert, help families find, buy, and transform fixer-uppers into dream homes. With a Cottage Life strict budget and limited timeline, the brothers must work fast. spinoff of What’s For Sale?, in this series potential Ahome buyers are presented with three dream Production companies: Cineflix, Scott Brothers Entertainment homes—each with a beautiful view—and at the end of the Returning (Season 5): September 14, 2015 episode, they must choose which home to call their own. Executive producers: Gerard Barry, Kim Bondi, Katherine Buck Starring: Drew Scott, Jonathan Scott (hosts) Production company: Whistlestop Productions Premiere: June 24, 2015 Shot in North America Masters of Flip W Network Executive producer: Sam Linton Timber Kings HGTV Canada

anadian husband and wife Dave and Kortney Wilson Ctake old rundown Nashville houses and turn them his documentary series follows the family business into dream homes. With little time and a little budget, the Tknown as the “Timber Kings,” a group of master duo scramble to renovate and flip real estate nightmares log smiths, as they use centuries-old European wood into major profits. techniques to build multi-million dollar log homes under tight deadlines. The homes are then shipped all over the world, from Germany to Canada, the United States to Production company: Rhino Content Scotland. Returning (Season 2): Summer 2016 Shot in Nashville, Tennessee Production company: Paperny Entertainment Executive producers: Bruce Ellis, James Wilkes Returning (Season 3): January 3, 2016 Starring: Kortney Wilson, Dave Wilson (hosts) Shot in Williams Lake, British Columbia Executive producers: David Paperny, Cal Shumiatcher, Adam Open House Overhaul HGTV Canada Wilkenfeld, Audrey Mehler

ll too often homeowners sell their properties in Unusually Thicke: Under Adecrepit states (dated wallpaper, soiled couches) Property Brothers: At Home that undermine their value. Samantha Pynn, an open Construction HGTV Canada Yukon for Sale CMT house junkie and designer, helps homeowners in need W Network of overhauls sell their properties for what they’re really mockumentary/reality/sitcom, Unusually Thicke is n each episode of Yukon for Sale, a different potential worth. “When you’re not selling your home you can n Properties Brothers: At Home, the identical twin Aa genre-bending riot starring Alan Thicke, his wife Ihomebuyer searches for the perfect home in the live however you want to live,” Pynn has said. “But Ibrothers Jonathan and Drew Scott work with their Tanya, and teenage son Carter. Unusually Thicke: Under untamed and often frigid Yukon, where the sky is when you’re selling, it’s time to edit, clean and make the most difficult clients—themselves—by trying to complete Construction, the new season, centres on Thicke and his possessed at night by the Northern Lights. These business necessary repairs.” a renovation of their Las Vegas home just in time for the family doing a renovation project on their home, while people, hunters, recently married couples, and big Scott family reunion. Carter goes off to university. families don’t want a home but a homestead. Production company: RTR Media Premiere: March 30, 2015 Production companies: Cineflix, Scott Brothers Entertainment Production company: Peacock Alley Entertainment Production company: Proper Television Shot in Toronto, Ontario Returning (Season 2): January 12, 2016 Returning (Season 2): September 3, 2015 Premiere: June 13, 2015 Executive producers: Jenna Keane, Kit Redmond, Toni Miceli Executive producers: Gerard Barry, Kim Bondi, Katherine Buck Executive producers: Carrie Hall-Mudd, Alan Thicke Shot in Yukon Starring: Samantha Pynn (host) Starring: Drew Scott, Jonathan Scott (hosts) Starring: Alan Thicke, Tanya Callau, Carter Thicke Executive producers: Amy Hosking, Guy O’Sullivan

50 51 Canadian-headquartered global independent studio Entertainment One (eOne) produces and distributes compelling world-class content across all genres. eOne’s activities in unscripted content include groundbreaking series from Paperny Entertainment and Force Four Entertainment. Paperny Entertainment is an award-winning company that has been operating in Canada for over 20 years, producing some of the & highest-quality unscripted shows here at home including Timber Kings, Chopped, Eat St. The company was Q A acquired by eOne in 2014. with... Cal Shumiatcher WHAT DREW PAPERNY TO Entertainment one?

As the current disruptions in our industry began to evolve, we felt a need to be larger and more internationally connected. We knew that we’d have to be part of a global operation if we wanted to compete effectively and that has definitely come to be the case. eOne’s international reach and expertise, in so many facets of the industry—across film, television, licensing, merchandising, music and digital—have proven to be invaluable as we continue to grow and face a marketplace that continues to consolidate.

Why are unscripted shows so popular in Canada?

That’s a good question and I’m not sure I have the definitive answer. For our part, we strive to find Canadians who lead fascinating and unique lives, and we portray these people in a way that is relatable to a broad cross-section of Canadian viewers.

Certainly we’ve found that Canadians love to see shows about their fellow countrymen, and they will tune in again and again to great Canadian stories. From the Newfoundland fishermen of Cold Water Cowboys, to the B.C. based home builders of Timber Kings, we’re proud to be showcasing the lives of exceptional Canadians.

Many Canadian unscripted shows are also very popular in the United States and internationally. What is it about the nature of the way we produce them that makes them sellable?

I think it comes down to characters in unique locations. People around the world are fascinated by our vast and relatively untamed country. The world we portray in Klondike Trappers—Canada’s North in the dead of winter—has great allure internationally. But these shows are much more than travelogues; they are stories about people. And it’s the people, the characters we showcase, that make our shows popular with audiences.

Then, all creative and technical aspects of the show have to be state of the art. Audiences are very sophisticated and they won’t tolerate substandard production values—it’s a global market and our shows have to stand up to anything else on TV.

What would you say the hardest unscripted show has been for you to produce? IN CONVERSATION WITH CAL SHUMIATCHER, EXECUTIVE It’s a toss up between Klondike Trappers and Cold Water Cowboys. Filming is a technical and time- PRODUCER FOR PAPERNY ENTERTAINMENT, ON UNSCRIPTED consuming process that can only be executed with a great deal of expensive, delicate equipment. This equipment does not like salt water, gale force winds, fifty below zero temperatures or falling through CONTENT AND HOW Entertainment One IS A GREAT FIT FOR thin ice into freezing water. Our crews find these conditions challenging, too!

THEIR COMPANY. When you’re out with a trapper in the North, you’re a hundred kilometres from the nearest road, never mind the nearest community. Just charging batteries is a challenge. At sea in Newfoundland, we find that cameras rust out and become useless after a couple of months—even when protected in under-water housings. But the results are worth it!

Do you have any shows in development for us to watch out for?

It’s a competitive business and our development is confidential. However, we’re particularly excited with the trends we see developing in unscripted. In particular, audiences are craving more authentic, documentary content. We’re seeing a definite swing away from contrived programming and toward real stories about real people. We’ve always tried to tell authentic stories and present real, complex and unique characters in our shows, so we see these market trends playing to our strengths.

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52 53 Mom’s a Medium CMT Say Yes to the Dress Canada W Network armel Baird is a mother who lives on a ranch with unscripted Cher kids, grandkids, animals, and husband. Oh and atch Canadian brides as they meltdown, cry, fight, she’s also a psychic who speaks to the dead and delivers Wand throw tantrums—all in the name of choosing messages from the spirit world. “I think we’re just a the perfect wedding dress. Tyrel Abbott, a fashion normal, average family,” Baird has said, “but I happen to director and wedding consultant, and Rachelle Pollari, Hockey Wives W Network talk to dead people.” On Mom’s a Medium, viewers watch owner of Amanda-Lina’s Sposa Boutique, where this lifestyle Baird help grieving strangers by communicating with season is set, use their expertise to help brides make the their lost ones, while trying to balance her own active right choice, but it’s never an easy one, surrounded by his Canadian documentary series is all about the up family life and personal struggles, too. Tand down lives of the wives and girlfriends of NHL tumult. As one bride put it, “Something happens to you players. New additions to this season include Keshia leading up to your wedding. Drama follows you around.” Production company: Lark Productions Chanté (girlfriend of goaltender Ray Emery), Angela First Dates Canada Slice Returning (Season 2): April 4, 2015 Price (wife of Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Production company: Temple Street Productions Shot in Alberta Price), and Paige Getzlaf (wife of Anaheim Ducks centre Returning (Season 2): January 6, 2016 Executive producer: Erin Haskett opeful singles search for love in this original and captain Ryan Getzlaf.) Shot in Toronto, Ontario Starring: Carmel Baird HCanadian production that captures the excitement, Executive producers: David Fortier, Gerry McKean, Ivan awkwardness and spark of first dates. In each half-hour Schneeberg Production company: Bristow Global Media episode, viewers get to feel like flies on the wall as they Starring: Tyrel Abbott, Rachelle Pollari Returning (Season 2): October 28, 2015 watch a restaurant full of strangers on first dates, as The Other Side APTN Shot across North America captured by over thirty remote-controlled cameras. Some Executive producers: Julie Bristow, Claire Adams, Megan dates sparkle. Others, well, don’t. John Doyle calls First Sanchez-Warner team of paranormal investigators uses technology, Dates Canada a show that “…take[s] us to a special place Starring: Paige Getzlaf, Angela Price, Ashley Booth, Taylor Aintuition, rituals and courage to communicate with of insight and warmth.” Winnik, Rhianna Weaver, Keshia Chanté, Noureen DeWulf, Martine Canada’s most unsettled spirits and help both them and Forget, Maripier Morin, Tiffany Parros, Kodette LaBarbera living people they haunt reconcile their grievances and Production companies: Force Four Entertainment, Remedy find mutual peace. Don’t watch this alone. Productions Premiere: September 1, 2015 The Liquidator OLN Production company: Angel Entertainment Shot in Vancouver, British Columbia Returning (Season 3): 2016 Executive producers: Rob Bromley, Toby Dormer, Gillian Lowrey, Shot in the Prairies John Ritchie ant to learn how to bargain? Watch expert Executive producers: Bob Crowe, Wally Start haggler and trader Jeff Schwarz, owner of W Starring: Jeff Richards, Bill Connelly, Priscilla Wolf, Tom Charles Direct Liquidation, a 30,000-square-foot warehouse in Burnaby, British Columbia, try to become “Liquidation King” by hunting Vancouver and the surrounding areas for bargains on anything from underwear to a statue made of motorcycle parts. Buy low, sell high, keep the merchandise moving: this is Schwarz’s personal Holy Trinity, and he’s as faithful as they come.

Production company: Anaid Productions Storage Wars Canada OLN Returning (Season 4): September 4, 2015 Shot in Vancouver, British Columbia urns out there’s big money to be made in storage; Executive producers: Margaret Mardirossian, Helen Schmidt, who knew? People are willing to go to war for Keely Booth T storages—a bidding war, that is. In each half-hour episode Starring: Jeff Schwarz of Storage Wars Canada viewers follow a group of daring bidders trying bravely, or stupidly, depending Highway Thru Hell Discovery Canada on one’s point of view, to get rich quick by buying repossessed storage units. The process is a lot like the anking as the number one series premiere in stock market: bidders only a get a quick peek inside the RDiscovery Canada’s history, Highway Thru Hell is Paranormal Survivor Travel+Escape units before they decide how to bid, so time is tight and an exhilarating look at the hard reality of truck drivers stress is high. on dangerous—hellish—roads. The show charts the urvivors of paranormal encounters relive their challenges faced by Jamie Davis Motor Truck, a towing Schilling experiences with ghosts, spirits, poltergeists Production company: Proper Television and heavy vehicle rescue company that’s based in both Lac and demonic entities through interviews and dramatic Returning (Season 2): January 8, 2015 la Biche, Northern Alberta and Hope, British Columbia. re-enactments. You might not believe in ghosts—until you Executive producers: Allison Grace, Guy O’Sullivan watch this show. Starring: Roy Dirnbeck, Ursula Stolf, Cindy Hayden, Rick Coffill, Production company: Great Pacific Media Paul Kenny, Bogart Kenny, Don Reinhart Returning (Season 4): September 8, 2015 Production company: Our House Media Shot in British Columbia and Alberta Returning (Season 2): 2016 Executive producers: Mark A. Miller, Blair Reekie, Dan Jackson Executive producers: Simon Lloyd, Joe Houlihan

54 55 underEXPOSED APTN Jade Fever Discovery Canada Polar Bear Town OLN

n this pumped-up TV-documentary series, two ou’ve heard of gold fever, but have you heard of jade ach fall, one thousand seal-starved polar bears migrate Iindigenous extreme sports journalists, photographer Yfever? In Jade Fever, a family of miners, The Bunces, Ethrough the frontier town of Churchill, Manitoba. Mason Mashon and writer Tannis Baradziej--both mine and sell nephrite jade, a green stone, in Jade City, At the same time, the human population jumps from adrenaline junkies--travel the globe to snowboard population 35. Green is the new gold. 800 to 10,000, as tourists in search of bear encounters dangerous backcountry slopes, surf waves, and ride aim to check one thing off their bucket list. Polar Bear helicopters, all in the name of snapping the best pics Production company: Omnifilm Entertainment Town is a half-hour documentary series that follows and stories, which they then pitch to extreme sports Returning (Season 2): Spring 2016 young gun Kelsey Eliasson, a polar bear guide, Dennis magazines. Shot in Jade City, British Columbia Compayre, a polar bear “whisperer,” and Brian Ladoon, Executive producers: Michael Chechik, David Gullason, Brian a hippie-cum-hunter and trapper, as they introduce wide- Production company: Airdog Media Cold Water Cowboys Discovery Hamilton, Gabriela Schonbach eyed tourists to the mesmerizing life of polar bears. Returning (Season 3): January 12, 2016 Canada Executive producers: Peter Strutt, Kevin Pennock Production company: Merit Motion Pictures Klondike Trappers History Premiere: September 22, 2015 old Water Cowboys, also known as Cold Water Executive producers: Phil Fairclough, Merit Jensen-Carr CCaptains, follows the thrilling adventures of a Starring: Kelsey Eliasson, Dennis Compayre, Brian Ladoon fraternity of Newfoundland fishermen—the ones stubborn group of fur trappers, led by 64-year-old legendary enough to have survived the 1992 cod stock collapse—as Atrapper Cor Guimond, risk their lives to hunt the icy wilderness that borders Alaska and the Yukon. they navigate the high swells and colossal icebergs of the Survivorman OLN unscripted North Atlantic in search of crab, shrimp, turbot, herring, Temperatures in this region regularly fall below -40ºC. and mackerel. It’s a tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it, But if the hunters want to support their families, then and these bred-in-the-bone fisherman do it best--and with they must brave the cold. anadian filmmaker and survival expert Les Stroud style, too. Cuses his skills to survive, alone, for up to ten days in nature Production company: Paperny Entertainment the wilderness, in solitary areas to which he brings little to Premiere: October 7, 2015 no food, water, and gear. During filming, Stroud remains Production company: Paperny Entertainment Set in Alaska and Yukon alone and operates all the cameras himself. In the first and wildlife Returning (Season 2): March 10, 2015 Executive Producers: Audrey Mehler, David Paperny, Sarah season, Stroud survived for a week at time. This season Executive producers: David Paperny, Cal Shumiatcher, Audrey Sharkey Pearce, Cal Shumiatcher, Aynsley Vogel he’s “upped the ante” by prolonging his stay to ten days. Mehler, Beth Wichterich Canada in the Rough OLN Starring: Cor Guimond Production companies: Cream Productions, Wilderness Spirit Curse of the Frozen Gold History Productions n Canada in the Rough, Beasley brothers Keith, Kevin, Returning (Season 7): November 7, 2015 Iand Paul hunt animals in the Canadian wilderness. The Executive producer: Les Stroud show both entertains and educates, providing a first-hand urse of the Frozen Gold, an odd mix of adventurers, Starring: Les Stroud look at hunting tactics and protocol, as well as the biology Cbound together by their obsession with gold, try to of the animals and the wilderness. A must-watch for solve the legend of B.C.’s Lost Creek mine, whose undug hunters and all those who are curious about it, too. gold is allegedly worth billions of dollars. The gold they Tornado Hunters CMT search for, “Slumach’s Gold,” has eluded prospectors for Production company: Dancing Buffalo Productions over a century. Some say that Slumach’s Gold is cursed. ornado hunters Greg Johnson, Chris Chittick, and Returning (Season 12): January 2, 2016 Others say it’s fictional. The adventurers only have three Ricky Forbes, a rowdy trio of thrill seekers intent on Executive producer: Thomas Pigeon months before winter comes, so they must act fast. T turning their dangerous love of tornadoes into a viable career, chase tornados across Tornado Valley, in search Production company: JV Productions of the best footage they can get. On their down time Premiere: August 26, 2015 Canada: Over the Edge Smithsonian they flirt with danger in other, more inventive ways: Executive producer: Kirk Hipkiss Channel, Knowledge Network by chasing waterspouts, handling snakes, and learning desert survival skills. Playing With Fire APTN n aerial-documentary that uses state-of-the-art Fool’s Gold Discovery Canada ACineflex camera systems to explore in high definition Production company: Saloon Media Canada’s immense and diverse coastlines and lands, as ach year Canada is host to over 1,000 forest fires. Premiere: October 18, 2015 well as its rich and complex history. Bird’s eye views n Fool’s Gold, a funny eight-part TV series, Ontario- EDespite many technological advancements, the Executive producers: Steve Gamester, Paul Kilback, Michael Kot of remote and gorgeous towns offer viewers never- Iborn entrepreneur Todd Ryznar and his goofy crew of essential weapon against fires is still the initial response Starring: Greg Johnson, Chris Chittick, Ricky Forbes before-seen looks at some of Canada’s most distinct and gold rush rookies search the Straw Lake Beach Mine in crews. Playing With Fire captures the adventures of two historical landmarks, towns, lakes, and forests. the hopes of digging up what they believe to be 15 million such crews from Northwestern Ontario, where drought dollars’ worth of gold. What they lack in experience, they and climate change have turned forests into fires waiting try to make up for in effort. Maybe beginner’s luck will be to happen. Production company: Coastlines 4 Productions their real ticket to wealth? Returning (Season 4): March 8, 2015 Production companies: InterINDigital Entertainment Inc., Executive producer: David Glover Production company: 11 Television inMotion Production Group Returning (Season 2): September 9, 2015 Returning (Season 2): June 4, 2015 Executive producers: Kevin Healey, Chris Hilton, Jesse Fawcett Shot in: Kenora and Sioux Lookout, Ontario Starring: Todd Ryznar Executive producers: Katery Legault, Sarah Fodey

56 57 The Water Brothers TVO Yukon Gold History Escape or Die! OLN

co-adventure brothers, Tyler and Alex Mifflin, travel our gold-mining crews, possessed by gold fever, have anitoba-born Dean Gunnarson, AKA the “World’s Ethe oceans, lakes, and rivers of the globe to explore Fonly four months in Canada’s wild Yukon to uncover MGreatest Escape Artist,” stars in this mind-blowing our relationship to water. the ore that could earn them the big bucks. With their TV series that takes a look at his death-defying stunts savings on the line and their futures up in the air, the and the work and preparation it takes to pull them off. Production company: SK Films miners must scramble to complete what’s an almost Starting in Manitoba, Gunnarson travels to Iceland, Returning (Season 3): April 9, 2015 impossible amount of work in a treacherous landscape Spain, Texas, and Malaysia, among other places. “It’s Executive producers: Jonathan Barker, Jane Jankovic where the midnight sun shines for up to 18 hours a day. going to be real,” Gunnarson has said. “People are going Starring: Tyler Milfflin, Alex Mifflin to see a side of Dean Gunnarson they haven’t seen before.” Production company: Paperny Entertainment Shot in Yukon and British Columbia Daily Planet Discovery Canada Production companies: Farpoint Films, Peace Point Entertainment Wild Catch Cottage Life Executive producers: David Paperny, Cal Shumiatcher, Audrey Group Mehler, Beth Wichterich Premiere: April 14, 2015 daily science magazine show that provides both Executive producers: Kyle Bornais. Les Tomlin xpert Cyril Chauquet travels the globe in search of features and documentaries . Quirky hosts Dan A Starring: Dean Gunnarson Ethe world’s largest and most predatory sea creatures Riskin and Ziya Tong keep viewers up to date on the latest and learn about the cultures that surround them. scientific discoveries. Topics range from nutrition to state- of-the-art gadgets, sports to medicine. Science is a kind of Production company: Fishing Adventurer Productions magic that loses none of its charm when explained. Executive producer: Cyril Chauquet unscripted Starring: Cyril Chauquet Production company: Exploration Production Inc. Returning (Season 21): August 31, 2015 miscellaneous Executive producer: Kelly McKeown Starring: Ziya Tong, Dan Riskin (hosts)

Emergency Slice

Airshow Discovery Canada mergency is a thrilling medical documentary series Ethat takes viewers into the emergency rooms of two of documentary TV series that follows a group of pilots Canada’s busiest hospitals, where medical staff must work Aas they travel across Canada and the United States to rapidly and around the clock to save patients in critical perform in mind-boggling airshows. The pilots deal with condition, knowing all the while that one mistake could Hello Goodbye CBC a variety of difficulties, from mechanical problems to be fatal. The series also offers a tender look at the patients tornadoes, tumultuous weather to crashes. and their loved ones: their worries, regrets, and hopes for ello Goodbye is a window into the emotional a future that for all of them is suddenly uncertain. Hencounters that take place in Toronto Pearson Production company: Great Pacific Media International Airport and the intricate stories behind Production company: Force Four Entertainment Wild Things with Dominic Premiere: January 26, 2015 them. Host Dale Curd speaks with all kinds of people who Premiere: April 16, 2015 Shot in Canada and the United States are waiting for, welcoming, or saying goodbye to their Monaghan OLN Executive producers: Rob Bromley, Gillian Lowrey, John Ritchie Executive producer: Mark Miller loved ones. The themes here are timeless: love, loss, joy, Starring: Jann Arden (narrator) grief. The airport is a nucleus of drama. utdoorsman and actor Dominic Monaghan, who’s Ostarred in Lost and Lord of the Rings, travels the Border Security: Canada’s Front Production company: Pivotal Media world in search of what he calls “some of the most Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH Premiere: January 8, 2016 Line Nat Geo dangerous and elusive creatures known to man.” Knowledge Network Shot in Toronto, Ontario These creatures include mammals, reptiles, and bugs. Executive producers: Simon Watts, Andrea Gabourie Monaghan’s not afraid to get up close and personal with veryday the Canada Border Service Agency must Starring: Dale Curd (host) non-humans. Eencounter and process thousands of travellers on ot for the faint of heart, this documentary medical their way out of and into Canada. Some are regular Nseries offers a graphic look behind the curtain of Vancouver General Hospital, British Columbia’s only level Production company: Apple Ridge Films tourists, travelers, and business people. Others, however, one trauma centre and the second largest hospital in Returning (Season 3): January 5, 2016 are drug smugglers, phonies, and weapon carriers. How Canada. Injuries range from regular to graphic. Patrick Executive producers: Dominic Monaghan, Dave Brady, Kate to tell who’s who? Border Security: Canada’s Front Line Darbyshire of The Province calls Emergency Room “…as Harrison is a TV-documentary series providing a first-hand look at gripping and emotional as any TV medical show—and a Starring: Dominic Monaghan (host) life on the front lines of border security. “Every passenger has a ‘story’,” says Lori Miller, a Border Services Officer, lot more realistic than House.” “it’s our job to dig deeper for the truth.” Production company: Lark Productions Returning (Season 2): Spring 2016 Production company: Force Four Entertainment Shot in Vancouver, British Columbia Returning (Season 4): January 4, 2016 Executive producers: Louise Clark, Andrew Williamson, Murray Executive producers: Rob Bromley, Gillian Lowrey, John Ritchie Battle, Kevin Eastwood

58 59 Hit the Ice APTN Illusions of Grandeur OLN REELSIDE The Movie Network

ndigenous hockey players compete to make their NHL p-and-coming street magician Zack Mirza strives documentary series that offers a behind-the-scenes Idreams come true in this documentary series. Twenty Uto become one of the greats by taking a magic Alook at the TV and film industry and the actors, five of the best, young indigenous players from across pilgrimage to 12 cities in 12 weeks. In each city, Mirza makers and mentors that run it. Episodes feature Canada gather to train in an intense two-week camp focuses on a specific part of his diverse repertoire: Canadian stars like Seth Rogen, Caitlin Cronenberg, where NHL scouts watch from the sidelines. Each hopes escapes, mentalism, illusions, card magic… There are no Sarah Gadon, Stephen Amell, George A. Romero, and to be invited to a junior training camp, while at the same camera tricks here; all of Mirza’s stunts are performed more. time they must learn to play as a team, on and off the ice. live, before real people. Production company: Fifth Ground Entertainment Production company: Nish Media Production company: Peacock Alley Entertainment Premiere: June 4, 2015 Returning (Season 4): 2016 Premiere: April 14, 2015 Executive producers: Raj Panikkar, Chris Szarka, Richard Crouse Executive producer: Jason Brennan Executive producer: Carrie Hall-Mudd Starring: Zack Mirza

How It’s Made Discovery Canada

look at how everyday products and accessories are Megaspeed Discovery Canada Amade. Each episode features three or four products, from the everyday (jeans, cereal) to the unique and ut the pedal to the metal! Megaspeed, an exhilarating luxurious (snowboards, wax figurines.) An off-screen Pone-hour, six-episode series, explores the fastest narrator with a sense of humour, and a fondness for cars and the drivers who race them. Narrated by puns, provides commentary. CP24 BREAKFAST co-host, Steve Anthony, the show investigates all kinds of fast cars, from street legal Production company: MAJ Productions customized street cars to dragsters and race cars. Returning (Season 26): March 16, 2015 Executive producer: Wyatt Channell Production company: Exploration Production Inc. (EPI) Returning (Season 3): January 7, 2016 Rise of the Machines Executive producer: Karen McCairley Discovery Canada Keeping Canada Alive CBC Starring: Steve Anthony (narrator)

he evolution of engineering has fuelled a revolution ow does the health care system operate from Mighty Ships Discovery Canada Tof technology. Rise of the Machines explores the Hmorning to night? Keeping Canada Alive is an science behind the supreme machines and mechanical epic and daring six-part series, narrated by award marvels of today, like drones, which have fundamentally winning actor Kiefer Sutherland, where 60 cameras in he world of underwater ships is as mysterious as the Toceans they travel. Each episode of this documentary transformed modern warfare, the Erickson Air Crane, 24 Canadian cities record a day in the life of Canada’s which can construct 120 giant steel transmissions in a healthcare system. The show provides the most detailed series follows a certain sea vessel and learns about its inner workings and crew. mere eight days, or the Top Fuel Dragster, which can look to date at how Canada’s healthcare system keeps its reach a speed over 500 km per hour. How do engineers population alive. make these machines, and what will they make next? Production company: Exploration Production Inc. (EPI) Returning (Season 8): July 19, 2015 Production company: Force Four Entertainment Production company: Handel Productions Executive producer: Karen McCairley Premiere: October 4, 2015 Premiere: June 22, 2015 Executive producers: Rob Bromley, Gillian Lowrey, John Ritchie Executive producers: Alan Handel, Carlo Massarella Starring: Kiefer Sutherland (narrator)

Vegas Rat Rods Discovery Canada How It’s Made: Dream Cars Mayday Discovery Canada

Discovery Canada ars can be unique works of art. In Vegas Rat Rods, ijackings, disasters, bombings, crashes: Mayday Cingenious mechanic Steve Darnells and his group special season of How It’s Made that offers an His a Canadian documentary series, broadcast all of misfits customize one-of-a-kind, Mad Max-style “rat Ainformed look at the making of luxury cars and their over the world, that investigates and re-enacts real life rods” for each owner. Horseshoe gas pedals, shotguns gorgeous interiors. airtime disasters in order to understand what exactly gearshifts: nothing is too weird or too difficult for these went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again. oddball mechanics to make. You won’t see any cars like Interviews are conducted with survivors of crashes, who Production company: MAJ Productions theirs on the road. offer gripping testimonials, as well as pilots, aviation Returning (Season 3): September 3, 2015 experts, and crash investigators. Executive producer: Wyatt Channell Production company: Proper Television Returning (Season 2): January 7, 2016 Production company: Cineflix Productions Executive producers: Guy O’Sullivan, Jennifer Scott Returning (Season 15): January 4, 2016 Starring: Steve Darnells Executive producer: Alex Bystram

60 61 Destination Detour W Network Konnected.TV APTN, Knowledge School on a Tightrope Bravo Network n Destination Detour, three couples end up in a world his compelling series takes place over the course of Ithey never thought they’d enter, testing their limits, osted by Cree musician Pakesso Mukash, Tone semester as professional Cirque coaches build an upcoming their leniency, and their love. HKonnected.TV is a series that connects with the edgy performer boot camp at an urban school. indigenous peoples of the world, from over 5,000 unscripted Production companies: Highway Entertainment, Insight different groups across 90 countries. Production Companies: marblemedia, in association with Cirque Productions de Soleil Media Executive producers: John Brunton, Mark Burnett Production companies: Groupe PVP, Dundee Road Productions Executive producers: Éli Laliberté, Steven Martin Starring: Pakesso Mukash (host) Taken CBC, APTN Hinges of History (TBD) Arctic Secret Love Nature, aken, a 13-part half-hour series, offers a much needed documentary series, based on the book series of the La Dolce Debbie OWN Canada look at the many missing and murdered indigenous The Smithsonian Channel T Asame name by American author Thomas Cahill, women and girls of Canada. Its goal is to educate viewers which recounts the formative moments in the history of his six-episode documentary follows British-Canadian about the crisis and to generate tips from viewers who rctic Secrets consists of five one-hour documentaries Western civilization. Tinterior designer and television personality Debbie can help in the investigations of the open cases profiled Athat transport viewers to a close-up view of Arctic Travis (From The Ground Up with Debbie Travis) in her in the series. “We want the series to be seen,’ said Monika wildlife including polar bears, muskox, caribou, ringed Production company: Breakthrough Entertainment quest to buy and renovate a Tuscan villa with the goal of Ille, director of programming and scheduling with APTN, and harp seals, and beluga whales. The series talks Executive producers: Dan Birman, Nat Abraham, Ira Levy, transforming it into the ultimate women’s retreat. “not only by the Aboriginal public, but by all Canadians. to biologists and environmentalists about how these Michael McGuigan, Peter Williamson There is somebody out there who knows something,” creatures are adapting to climate change and how the Production company: Whalley-Abbey Media Inuit manage to trap and hunt with thinning ice and Production company: Eagle Vision Premiere: February 16, 2016 changing landscape. Shot in 4K. Home to Win HGTV Canada Shooting in Manitoba

Production companies: White Pine Pictures, Nah Ho Productions osted by ET Canada’s Sangita Patel, Home to Win Love It or List It Vacation Homes Executive producers: Allan Code, Peter Raymont, Andrew (formerly The House That HGTV Built) is a ten- The Wild Canadian Year CBC Munger, Steve Ord H W Network part series where HGTV brings all its home renovation stars together to talk expertise and know-how and anada’s sublime landscape is traversed and captured renovate a regular house into a dream home. The finale second spinoff of the Love It or List It franchise, Cin this five-part legacy wildlife series by state-of- Brojects: In the House Cottage Life will culminate with a one-hour challenge episode where Aeach episode of LIOLI Vacation Homes finds interior the-art film technology, including aerial drones, motion regular people will compete for the house. designer Dan Vickery (Design Star) and realtor Elisa capture equipment, and 6K ultra-high resolution digital ndrew and Kevin Buckles, the creative duo behind Goldhawke battling it out to try to convince a couple to cameras. either stay in their newly renovated vacation home or list ABrojects, are now offering a 13-episode half-hour Production company: Architect Films it in the hopes to find a better property. series where they continue to do what they do best: Premiere: Spring 2016 Production company: River Road Films imaginatively renovate homes and cottages into the kinds Executive producer: Tanya Linton Executive producers: Caroline Underwood, Sue Dando Production company: Big Coat Productions of places most people only dream about. In this series, the Starring: Sangita Patel (host) two brothers turn what used to be a Masonic Lodge into Premiere: Spring 2016 a fantasy retreat equipped with a retractable sleeping Shooting in Ontario and British Columbia platform, a bike bar, and an indoor outhouse, to name a Income Property: On Vacation Executive producers: Maria Armstrong, Catherine Fogarty few highlights. Starring: Dan Vickery, Elisa Goldhawke (hosts) HGTV Canada

Production company: Farmhouse Productions Premiere: Spring 2016 n this first spinoff of the long-running reno show Moving the McGillivrays Executive producers: Kent Sobey, Andrew Buckles, Howard Ng, IIncome Property, Scott McGillivray guides homeowners HGTV Canada Kevin Buckles through the process of buying and renovating a vacation Starring: Andrew Buckles, Kevin Buckles (hosts) rental property. oving the McGillivrays is a ten-part series that follows the McGillivray family—wife Sabrina, Production company: SKIT Media M husband Scott, and their two young daughters—as they Executive producer: Kit Redmond Bryan Inc. HGTV Canada build their dream home. Starring: Scott McGillivray (host)

atch married couple Sarah and Bryan Baeumler Production companies: McGillivray Entertainment Wbuy, renovate and sell homes for profit while Premiere: Fall 2016 balancing a dynamic home life with their four kids. Executive producer: Scott McGillivray Starring: Scott McGillivray, Sabrina McGillivray Production company: Si Entertainment Starring: Bryan Baeumler, Sarah Baeumler

62 63 Degrassi: Next Class Family Channel

he Degrassi franchise’s latest series centres on a Tnew, technologically savvy cohort of post-millennial children’s teens who navigate the complexities of high school life and struggle with problems both timeless and unique to and youth Generation Y. It airs on Family Channel in Canada and on Netflix worldwide. children’s live-action The franchise has spanned more than 35 years and 500 episodes. Degrassi began airing in 1979 and went through many iterations, from The Kids on Degrassi Street to Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High and Degrassi: The and youth Next Generation. Degrassi has won 19 Gemini Awards, Annedroids TVOKids ten Canadian Screen Awards, two Teen Choice Awards, a Peabody Award, and has received four Emmy® Award nnedroids is a CGI/live-action educational TV nominations. live-action Aprogram that follows 11-year-old scientist, Anne, through a series of scientific adventures along with Production companies: Epitome Pictures, DHX Media & animated her human pals, and her four creations and partners in Premiere: January 4, 2016 crime, Pal, Eyes, Hand, and Fangs. The series airs as an Shot in Toronto, Ontario Amazon original series in the United States. Executive producers: Linda Schuyler, Stephen Stohn Starring: Amanda Arcuri, Reiya Downs, Ana Golja, Nikki Gould, Ricardo Hoyos, Ehren Kassam, Andre Kim, Lyle Lettau, Spencer Production company: Sinking Ship Entertainment Macpherson, Eric Osborne, Olivia Scriven, Sara Waisglass, Richard Returning (Season 4): 2016 Walters Executive producers: Matthew J.R. Bishop, J.J. Johnson, Blair Powers Starring: Addison Holley, Jadiel Dowlin, Adrianna Di Liello, Millie Davis, Raven Dauda, Geena Davis

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Game On YTV Bookaboo CBC n the surface, Toby is just like an another awkward ookaboo, the drum playing puppet dog, and his Oteenager... except he has two live news commentators Bcelebrity friends read and review children’s books. following his every move! Featuring Mr. D’s’ Jonathan Each episode features interviews, book guides and songs. Torrens and Samantha Bee of Daily Show fame.

Production company: Ad Lib Films Production company: Sinking Ship Entertainment Premiere: May 4, 2015 Returning (Season 4): March 1, 2016 Shot in Montreal, Quebec Shot in Toronto, Ontario Executive producers: Martin Lund, Ruben Thorkildsen, Steven Executive producers: Martyn Freeman, Carla de Jong, Matthew Westren, Lorraine Richard J.R. Bishop, J.J. Johnson, Blair Powers Starring: Grayson Maxwell Gurnsey, Samantha Bee, Jonathan productions Torrens 4164 65 Gaming Show (In My Parents Lost & Found Music Studios Family The Mystery Files TVOKids The Moblees CBC Garage) Family Channel, Family Channel CHRGD B, Kyla and her aunt Tilly get together every week et in the fictional world of Terra Mova, The Moblees ost & Found Music Studios is a 26-episode, 30-minute Eto solve mysteries of the present and the past. In Sis a multi-platform “Movement Movement” – a kind of one of the episode, Kyla goes to Rideau Hall to meet workout series for kids. With catchy music, much action, esse, Julia and Ian present: a show about video Lmusic-based series. It revolves around a group of aspiring teen musicians who join an elite after-school His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston to imaginative sets and charismatic characters, the Moblees Jgaming, featuring game reviews, competitions, visits uncover this mystery: Who is Canada’s leader? Is it the invite kids to join in on the action, teaching them about to studios and much more! music program. Through auditions, only a few are selected every year to go on a live tour. The show will Queen, the Prime Minister or the Governor General? fitness, exercise, and strategies for avoiding childhood showcase young new talent and musical talent ranges obesity and other health problems. The show teaches kids Production company: Banger Films from pop to rock and hip-hop to R & B. Production Company: Apartment 11 Productions how to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways with Returning (Season 2): September 7, 2015 Premiere: January 24, 2016 movement. Shot in Toronto, Ontario Executive producer: Jonathan Finkelstein Production company: Temple Street Productions Executive producers: Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen Starring: Ethan Burnett, Kyla Madeira, Felicia Shulman Production companies: Boulevard Productions, Shaftesbury Films Premiere: January 8, 2016 Starring: Jesse Sukunda, Ian Duchene, Julia Schwartz Returning (Season 2): 2016 Shot in Toronto, Ontario Shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia Executive producers: David Fortier, Laura Harbin, Ivan Executive producers: Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Katrina Schneeberg, Frank Van Keeken Walsh, Seth A. Goldstein, Amy Sprecher, Benjamin Tollefson, Starring: Keara Graves, Shane Harte, Alex Zaichkowski, Sarah Laurie Miller, William Kohane Carmosino, Levi Randall, Deshaun Clarke, Ella Jonas Farlinger, Starring: Shannon Hamilton, Scott Farley, Chris George, Michelle Maranda Thomas, Alyssa Baker, Rakim Kelly, Olivia Solo, Jeni Bouey, Matt Nethersole Ross, Katrina Hachey, Matthew Bacik, Michael Torontow, Ali Milner

Max & Shred YTV Odd Squad TVOKids

elebrity snowboarder Max Asher forms an unlikely n the live-action Odd Squad, Olive and Otto are members Cfriendship with a science wunderkind named Alvin Iof an agency that uses indirect reasoning and math to (also known as “Shred”) when he moves to Colorado to investigate and solve strange happenings in their town. train for the Winter Cup. Production company: Sinking Ship Entertainment Returning (Season 2): March 7, 2016 Production company: Breakthrough Entertainment Shot in Toronto, Ontario Returning (Season 2): 2016 Executive producers: J.J. Johnson, Timothy McKeon, Adam Shot in Toronto, Ontario Peltzman, Blair Powers, Paul Siefken Executive producers: Joan Lambur, Ira Levy, George Doty IV Starring: Dalila Bela, Filip Geljo, Millie Davis, Sean Michael Kyer Starring: Jonny Gray, Jake Goodman, Saara Chaudry, Emilia McCarthy, Jean-Michel Le Gal, Siobhan Murphy Hi Opie! TVOKids Make It Pop YTV pie, a puppet, is four-and-half-and-three-quarters The Next Step Family Channel Oyears old, and he’s the new kid in kindergarten. ake It Pop follows the adventure of three boarding Follow him as he discovers the world around him. Mschool roommates—Sun-Hi Song, Jodi Mappa and he Next Step is a teen drama series, shot in a Corki Chang—who, along with their deejay friend, form Tmockumentary style, about The Next Step Studio Production company: marblemedia a K-pop group. The trio also performs at live events across A-Troupe dancers. Dance captain Emily (Alexandra Returning (Season 2): September 7, 2015 Canada and have released seven albums to date. Beaton) must prepare her troupe to compete at the Executive producers: Mark J.W. Bishop, Matt Hornburg “Absolute Dance Regionals,” while one member of the Production company: DHX Media squad, Michelle (Victoria Baldesarra), threatens to take Returning (Season 2): January 4, 2016 her place. Look Kool TVOKids Executive producers: Nick Cannon, Steven DeNure, Anne Loi, Family Channel premiered the series on March 8, 2013. Tommy Lynch The premiere had the largest audience of any series on Playdate Family Jr ook Kool is an educational math and geometry series Starring: Megan Lee, Louriza Tronco, Erika Tham, Dale Whibley the channel. Laimed at six to nine year olds. We discover how hat happens to stuffed animals when you Production company: Temple Street Productions geometry is in everything all around us and help host leave them alone? Playdate, a mix of skilled Returning (Season 4): Spring 2016 W Hamza solve a math mystery in each episode! puppeteering and live-action, is a series about the Shot in Toronto, Ontario unexpected adventures that Jacob goes on with his Executive producers: Frank van Keeken, Ivan Schneeberg, Production company: Apartment 11 Productions friends’ stuffed animals when left alone. David Fortier Returning (Season 2): Fall 2016 Starring: Trevor Tjordman, Brittany Raymond, Victoria Executive producer: Jonathan Finkelstein Production company: Sinking Ship Entertainment Baldesarra, Logan Fabbro, Devon Brown, Cierra Healey, Starring: Hamza Haq (host) Premiere: October 2, 2015 Jordan Clark, Samantha Grecchi Executive producers: Matthew J.R. Bishop, J.J. Johnson, Dina Meschkuleit, Frank Meschkuleit, Blair Powers, Christin Simms

66 67 Some Assembly Required YTV Chirp CBC

his teen comedy series, filmed in front of a live hirp, Squawk and Tweet are three best bird friends Taudience in Burnaby, British Columbia, charts the children’s who come up with all sorts of ingenious ways to go adventures of 14-year-old Jarvis Raines (Kolton Stewart), Con imaginary adventures. Chirp, the most daring a typical teenager, who becomes the boss of Knickknack one of the three, sometimes leads Squawk and Tweet into Toys after suing it because a chemistry set blew up his and youth trouble, but they always find a way out. Based on the house. Jarvis hires a group of kids from his high school children’s magazine of the same name, Chirp is a loving to help him run the company. animated look at the power of imagination and play. Production company: Thunderbird Films Production company: Sinking Ship Entertainment Endangered Species Teletoon Returning (Season 3): January 4, 2016 Season 1 Shot in Burnaby, British Columbia Executive producers: J.J. Johnson, Blair Powers, Matt Bishop, hree friends, Merl, the timid squirrel, Gull, the naive Executive producers: Howard Nemetz, Dan Signer, Tim Gamble, Arthur CBC Jain Dickson seagull, and Pickle, the adrenaline-junkie bunny, Michael Shepard T somehow always wind up in dangerous situations, and Starring: Kolton Stewart, Charlie Storwick, Harrison Houde, children’s classic, Arthur, which is based on the book somehow always find a way to pull through. Sydney Scotia, Dylan Playfair, Travis Turner Aseries of the same name by Marc Brown, first aired Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood CBC in 1997 and kids still love it today. Eight-year-old Arthur, Production companies: Nerd Corps, DHX Media the kind-hearted, anthropomorphic aardvark lives in the ased on the Neighborhood of Make-Believe from Season 1 fictional city of Elwood and attends school at Lakewood BMister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the long-running Executive producers: Ken Faier, Asaph Fipke, Chuck Johnson Elementary School. He and his rascally little sister, D.W., TV series hosted and created by Fred Rogers, AKA Mr. learn about family and friendship, and have a lot of fun Rogers, Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood follows Daniel along the way. Tiger and other children from the Neighborhood of Make- Guardians: Evolution APTN Believe. In each episode, viewers learn a “life lesson,” Production company: Oasis Animation aimed to increase emotional intelligence and human Season 20 respect. et 41 million years in the future, Guardians: Evolution Executive producers: Marc Brown, Carol Greenwald, Greg Bailey Sis an action-packed, stock-animated series about a group of idealistic teens as they struggle to rebuild Production company: 9 Story Media Group civilization, which has been destroyed by the apocalypse. Season 3 Camp Lakebottom Teletoon Executive producers: Angela Santomero, Vince Commisso, Production company: Karma Film Inc. Kevin Morrison Season 2 fter boarding the wrong summer camp bus, Executive producers: Doug Cuthand, Anand Ramayya The Stanley Dynamic YTV AMcGee, a 12-year-old mastermind daredevil, ends up at a summer camp called Lakebottom, where he and some friends have the best summer of their lives. Not multi-cam family sitcom with a twist: one of the sons everything is perfect, though. McGee must protect the Inspector Gadget Teletoon Ais animated. Tune in to watch a cartoon son interact camp from his nemesis, Jordan Buttsquat, the spoiled with his family of humans. rotten son of the owner of Camp Sunny Smiles, the rival he dim-witted, cyborg-police inspector, Inspector camp of Lakebottom. TGadget, tries to solve crimes and uncover Dr. Claw, Production company: Amaze Film + Television Gadget’s nemesis, who leads the evil organization called Returning (Season 2): Fall 2016 Production company: 9 Story Media Group “M.A.D.” Gadget is clumsy and clueless, but with the Shot in Toronto, Ontario Season 2 secret help of his niece, Penny, and dog, Brain, he always Executive producers: Ken Cuperus, Teza Lawrence, Michael Executive producers: Vince Commisso, Steve Jarosz, Kevin Gillis, manages to solve the case. Souther, Jocelyn Hamilton, Jamie Piekarz Betsy McGowen, Eric Jacobson Starring: Taylor Abrahamse, Charles Vandervaart, Madison Production company: DHX Media Ferguson, Michael Barbuto, Kate Hewlett Dr. Dimensionpants Teletoon Season 2 Executive producers: Steven DeNure, Mark Gosine, Michael hanks to a pair of “Dimensionpants,” Kyle Lipton, Hirsh, Anne Loi Undercover High YTV Tformerly a regular kid, is now a superhero called Dr. Dimensionpants. Whenever Kyle puts on the special ndercover High is a new kind of hidden camera pants, he gains all the superpowers he wants, plus many Uprank show. Watch Lisa Gilroy performs pranks on responsibilities. Kyle and his unicorn, Philip, travel real life teachers, principals and high school students in through multiple dimensions to stop crooks and bad guys, Toronto. All in good fun, of course! while dealing with the usual troubles that come with growing up. Production company: General Purpose Entertainment Returning (Season 2): August 17, 2015 Production companies: DHX Media, The Factory Backwards Shot in Toronto, Ontario Entertainment Executive producer: Scott Clark McNeil Season 2 Starring: Lisa Gilroy (host) Executive producers: Steven DeNure, Michael Hirsh, Kirsten Newlands, Brad Peyton

68 69 9 Story Media Group also recently secured a number You have to be able to say, I am going to channel of deals in Asia Pacific for kids and family content. A my inner ten year old and not care about all the Q&A global distribution strategy has clearly been a focal things that make me Canadian versus European. with... point for 9 Story from the outset. How does this set you There really should be an ambassadorship when apart from other Canadian companies? you are making shows for kids.

I think we took baby steps. It really was—we have What’s next for 9 Story? done this well, we have capacity to grow, how else are we going to grow? We had been good We are going to look for other companies or in Canada for so long at producing kids content opportunities to produce content. We are going and turning that over to international companies to look at other library opportunities—given for distribution we thought why not just start scale—we recently acquired 350 episodes from our own? We are the closest to the content, so we Mattel—Barney & Friends and Angelina Ballerina can be the best advocates of it because we know which are doing very well for us in distribution. the blood sweat and tears that went into making And, we are going to do more episodes of these it. So it was very logical—and we are in a place iconic brands and then we are looking at more like Canada where there is so much support for brands—things that are recognizable to adults as the creation of the content and so much skill something they watched as kids that they can put around being able to produce quality kids’ content, their children’s in front of and feel comfortable. especially in animation. In 9 Story’s success really a Canadian story? Why does kids and youth programming, in particular, resonate so well internationally? Is it because of the I think in this country, there is a concerted effort evergreen nature of it? that the people who have this ability are supported and have an opportunity to go to the marketplace. Kids’ content does travel and the other thing we And because we are right beside the biggest have noted is we are transitioning from a time market in the world, that involves policy. Policy where content was being pushed to one now has enabled us to move forward and be who we where it is being pulled. What we are seeing as are. You have to be careful because that policy Vince Commisso a result of that new distribution selection process supports economic well-being and that economic is how important kids’ content really has become. well-being has to be reinvested into the company It translates around the world because we don’t and into your endeavours going forward, versus have the cultural differences among ourselves seeing how much money you can make going as children as we do as adults. So, when you show to show. make something for a child, there is something international, if you will—it transcends culture But you combine the policy with the sensibility and that is what makes the content work. But for and our skill and I don’t know of another market Toronto-based 9 Story Media Group stands out as 9 Story Media Group has recently acquired the award- it to be evergreen, it has to work in the market in the world that combines those three things quite a great Canadian success story with more than winning animation studio company, Brown Bag Films, within which you make it and within the markets as uniquely and as effectively as Canada. Those headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Why was this a good 450 creative and production staff, 2,150 hours that you are trying to sell or distribute it. opportunities as a perfect storm of opportunities strategic move for 9 Story and where is this new don’t exist anywhere else. of animated and live action children’s and family opportunity taking your company? But again, I think we have a great view in programming around the world and an increasing Canada—that is our strength: being able to see INDIESCREEN The nature of the move is really a natural distribution presence in international markets. three sides of every argument. And I think that extension of what the business has been in really informs our filmmaking and children’s, so Vince Commisso is Co-Founding Partner, President Canada all along. We have been terrific world that is a big element in why we are able to make and CEO for the organization. market leaders in the country in the development great content that travels around the world, that is of the production and distribution of kids’ evergreen. content. But what you have to do over time is find complimentary factors of production that are in And some of it is great slapstick comedy—Almost other markets that support what you are doing Naked Animals, when we first made it, was a here. So Brown Bag really represented something wacky show, it was a number one show in Canada that we didn’t have. So it just made logical sense. and sold to 160 countries around the world. Then If you look at us now, the acquisition has put us we followed that up with Numb Chucks and Wild one of the largest independents in the world and Kratts. All of those shows did incredibly well for we can do any kind of content 2D, CG and live- us in our domestic territory—and tremendously action content for kids and family audiences. well in other territories.

70 71 Justin Time Disney Jr Matt Hatter Chronicles Teletoon Now You Know TVOKids PAW Patrol TVOKids

ustin Time, a show for preschoolers, centres around att, a Hatter Hero, goes on all sorts of adventures in owie and his monkey Baboo have lots of questions: he heroic group of six rescue dogs, known as the Jthe adventures of Justin, his shapeshifting sidekick, Morder to capture movie villains that have escaped HHow do fish breathe underwater? How do birds fly? TPaw Patrol, believe: “No job is too boring, no pup is Squidgy, and Justin’s best friend, Olive. In every episode through a projector into the “Multiverse.” Matt and his two How is maple syrup made? In each episode, they are too small.” The six little pups work together to protect Justin deals with the usual, real-world problems of friends, 13-year-old Roxie, who’s the same age as Matt but joined by experts who help them answer their many their community and help those in need. Each dog has a childhood, like sharing and teamwork. a lot more mature, and 12-year-old Gomez, who knows a questions. special skill, gadget, and vehicle. lot about the Multiverse but is a bit of a wimp, must save Production company: Guru Studio the inhabitants of the Multiverse from the villains. Production companies: Little Engine Moving Pictures, Sinking Production companies: Guru Studio, Spin Master Entertainment Season 3 Ship Entertainment Season 3 Executive producers: Frank Falcone, Mary Bredin Production company: Arc Productions Premiere: September 7, 2015 Executive producers: Keith Chapman, Jennifer Dodge, Ronnen Season 4 Executive producers: Matthew J.R. Bishop, J.J. Johnson, Maria Harary, Scott Kraft Executive producer: Nigel Stone Kennedy, Ben Mazzotta, Blair Powers

Nerds and Monsters YTV

erds and Monsters is a show about tween castaways. NThree nerds and one jock are stranded on an uncharted island, where a tribe of hilarious monsters wreak havoc. The monsters are very smart, so the nerds and the jock must team up to defeat them.

Production company: 9 Story Media Group Season 2 Executive producers: Vince Commisso, Josh Mepham, Kathy Antonsen Rocchio, Greg Sullivan, Vito Viscomi

Peg + Cat Treehouse Numb Chucks YTV Kate & Mim Mim Family Jr ased on the hit kids’ book, The Chicken Problem, n this comedy, two numb-skull numb chuck vigilantes, BPeg + Cat is a show oriented toward preschoolers and ate and her stuffed animal friends use their IFungus and Dilweed, try to use kung-fu to protect the starring Peg, a little girl, and her adorable cat. The series, Kimaginations to go on all kinds of awesome lives of the inhabitants of Ding-a-Ling Springs. Problem which aims to inspire preschoolers to develop a natural adventures. is, Fungus and Dilweed are terrible at kung-fu. Another curiosity for math, is animated as though it were drawn problem is, the inhabitants often don’t need, or want, on graph paper. Production companies: Nerd Corps Entertainment, DHX Media their help. Season 1 Production company: 9 Story Media Group Executive producers: Ken Faier, Asaph Fipke, Chuck Johnson, Production company: 9 Story Media Group Season 2 Bob Higgins Season 2 Executive producers: Steve Jarosz, Jennifer Oxley, Billy Aronson, Executive producers: Vince Commisso, Steve Jarosz, Kyle Vince Commisso, Kevin Morrison MacDougall Little Charmers Treehouse

n Charmville, a magical land, a young Charmer named Nico Can Dance! Knowledge Network Rocket Monkeys Teletoon IHazel and her two best friends, Lavender and Posie, learn to practice magic and grow accustomed to their ico Can Dance! is a show designed to get kids active rothers Gus and Wally are monkey astronauts who special powers. Though Hazel knows that she should only Nand moving. In each two-minute episode, Rachel, a Bmust save the universe from a barrage of mean- use her magic when it’s needed, she can’t help but use it real-life professional dancer, and her animated sidekick, spirited aliens, criminal masterminds, and the mysterious to help people and fix things and have fun. Sometimes, Nico, a big talking animated cat, use their imaginations to workings of evil dimensions. With the help of YAY-OK, though, her zeal for magic leads to a mess, and Lavender create wonderful worlds where they’re free to dance and their sidekick robot, the monkeys go on all sorts of and Posie must help Hazel clean it up. move as creatively as they can. adventures. The reward? Bananas.

Production companies: Atomic Cartoons, Spin Master Production Company: Atomic Cartoons Production companies: Breakthrough Entertainment, Atomic Entertainment Season 1 Cartoons Season 1 Executive producer: Mauro Casalese Season 3 Executive producer: Barbara Dawson Executive producers: Ira Levy, Peter Williamson, Joan Lambur, Nat Abraham, Michael McGuigan

72 73 Total Drama Presents: The Dave & Jonesy Disney Channel, YTV Ridonculous Race Teletoon his multi-cam sitcom series penned by Howard spinoff of the original Total Drama series created in upcoming TBusgang stars two boys who are best friends and A2007, Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race share the same locker. The only difference is their lives is a series that parodies popular reality and travel style children’s and are 30 years apart. shows. The many characters, known as “racers,” are split into teams that compete in various challenges around the youth Production Company: marblemedia world to win the grand prize of one million dollars. live-action Production company: Fresh TV Dino Dana TVOKids Season 1 Slugterra Disney XD Executive producers: George Elliott, Alex Ganetakos, Brian Backstage Family Channel spinoff of the earlier series, Dino Dan, Dino Dana is Irving, Tom McGillis, Terry McGurrin, Jennifer Pertsch, Christine Aa live-action series aimed at kid ages six to eleven. Thompson ifteen year old Eli Shane is determined to take up his The show stars Dana, a “paleontologist-in-training,” and n this half-hour docudrama scripted series, a group her teenage sister Emily. Thanks to a serendipitous run-in Ffather’s legacy and become the greatest slug-slinging Iof precocious and extraordinarily talented teens who hero in Slugterra. To do this he must collect, train, and with Trek and his Dino Field Guide, the two sisters are attend the prestigious Keaton School of the Arts, struggle able to see dinosaurs all around them. battle his friends with special slugs, that morph into with the highs and lows that come with teenagehood. powerful creatures. His enemy, Dr. Blakk, wants to gain power by transforming the slugs into obedient weapons. Production company: Sinking Ship Entertainment Production company: Fresh TV Eli, his friends, and his famous slug, Burpy, seek to bring Executive producer: Christin Simms Premiere: Spring 2016 Dr. Blakk down. Shot in Toronto, Ontario Executive producers: Lara Azzopardi, Brian Irving, George Production companies: Nerd Corps, DHX Media Opie’s Home TVO, Knowledge Elliott, Tom McGillis, Jennifer Pertsch Season 4 Starring: Devyn Nekoda, Alyssa Trask, Aviva Mongillo, Joshua Network, City Saskatchewan Executive producers: Ken Faier, Asaph Fipke, Rob Hoegee, Chuck Bogert, Colin Petierre, Julia Tomasone, Matthew Isen, Kyal Legend, Johnson McKenzie Small, Romy Weltman, Isiah Hall, Adrianna Di Liello his live-action preschool series, featuring loveable Tfive-year-old Opie is a spinoff to the marblemedia series Hi Opie! (TVO, Netflix). In Opie’s Home, we meet Cheer Stars ABC Spark Opie’s parents, friends and neighbours and explore his world. Wild Kratts TVOKids, Knowledge heer Stars is a docu-reality series about the two-time Network CWorld Champion All Star cheerleading team, called Production company: marblemedia All Girl, which is based in Cambridge, Ontario. The series rothers Martin, an impulsive jokester, and Chris, a follows them as they try to win the title for a third year in a row. Popmania: Life Under the Mic (TBD) Bprudent intellectual, save animals from a variety of situations and teach viewers about biology along the way. Production company: Good Human Productions his docu-reality series follows three talented teen Premiere: Summer 2016 Production company: 9 Story Media Group Tgirls, between the ages of 13 and 18, as they compete Shot in Cambridge, Ontario Season 4 to become a pop star. The three learn how to write, Executive producer: Claire Freeland Executive producer: Vince Commisso record, perform, and produce pop music. They also get to work with with pop producer/label head/A&R executive Ron Fair, whose CV includes working with Lady Gaga Dark Horse ABC Spark and Mary J. Blige.

his teen-drama series Dark Horse tells the story of Production company: marblemedia Super Why! CBC TLyla, a rancher’s daughter whose destiny becomes Executive producers: Mark J.W. Bishop, Matt Hornburg, Miklos intertwined with Micah, a mysterious outsider who has Perlus, Anita Camarata-Jewison, Ron Fair ooks come to life in this series about four fairy the unique ability to shape-shift into a wild horse. Btale friends, living in Storybook Village, who go on magical adventures to become reading-powered Production companies: marblemedia, SEVEN24 Films ReBoot: The Guardian Code (TBD) superheroes. The show encourages preschoolers to not only develop a thirst for reading, but also to read ased on the original ReBoot, ReBoot: The Guardian critically. BCode is a hybrid live-action/CG-animated comedy series about four teenage next-gen Guardians who Production company: Decode Entertainment defend the world in cyberspace. The four use computer Season 4 programming skills to fight hackers and viruses. Executive producers: Angela Santomero, Samantha Freeman Alpert, Steven DeNure Production company: Mainframe Entertainment

74 75 Terrific Trucks (TBD) Bob! the Slob Teletoon Fangbone! Disney XD Supernoobs Teletoon

live-animation series for preschoolers, Terrific ob, a real slob, and his two best friends Jonas, a ased on the New York Times best-selling comic books upernoobs is a show about four friends living the ATrucks follows five friends: a digger, a dump truck, Bcoward, and Elijah, a martial artist, just want to hang Bby Michael Rex, Fangbone! follows the adventures Stown of Cornbury who one day develop magical a front-end loader, a semi-loader, and a mini-front-end out and have fun but somehow always find themselves in of Fangbone, a little barbarian from Skullbania who powers thanks to alien orbs called “Battle Balls.” They use loader. The series uses real vehicles with animated eyes to trouble. relocates to Eastwood Elementary’s third grade class in these powers to fight evil viruses, while learning how to bring the trucks to life. order to save his home from his enemy Venomous Drool. go about life as middle schoolers. Production companies: CCI Entertainment, Smiley Guy Studios, Fangbone is a stranger to the modern world, and if it Production company: Breakthrough Entertainment Summit Crescent Productions weren’t for his friend Bill, a regular kid, he’d be out of Production company: DHX Media Executive producers: Ethan Banville, Joan Lambur, Ira Levy, Lisa Executive producers: Charles Falzon, James Nadler, Arnie Zipursky his element. With Bill’s help, Fangbone is able to defeat Executive producers: Scott Fellows, Loris Kramer Lunsford O’Brien Venomous Drool and learn a few things along the way.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Production company: Radical Sheep Productions Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley The Series Teletoon Executive producers: Simon Racioppa, Richard Elliott Ding Dong Teletoon

upcoming ased on the Sony Pictures Animation blockbuster Go Away Unicorn! Family Channel ith the help of his cat, Sir Dudley Ding Dong, and Bfilm franchise, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Whis tiny galaxy guardian, Hampton, Winston children’s and The Series takes place before giant food falls from the Steinburger the Space Kid searches bravely for thrills in sky. Flint Lockwood, a tween unlike anyone else in his ased on the kids book of the same name by Emily every solar system. Black hole? No sweat. Space monster? youth booming blue collar town, dreams of becoming a famous BMullock, Go Away Unicorn! is a cartoon for kids Big deal. Winston will do whatever it takes to explore the scientist. His best friend, Sam, is new to the town and ages four to seven. It stars twins Alice and Ollie who find galaxy. dreams of becoming a reporter. themselves caught in a world of chaos unleashed by a animated unicorn and a dragon. Production company: Entertainment One Production company: DHX Media Executive producers: Donna Andrews, Laura Clunie, Chris Rose, Production companies: Tricon Films & Television, Mercury Olivier Dumont, Margaret O’Brien Atomic Puppet Teletoon Filmworks Counterfeit Cat Disney XD, Teletoon aptain Atomic, Model City’s brave superhero, is Looped YTV Ctransformed by his brilliant yet mischievous sidekick, ounterfeit Cat is a show geared for kids ages six Nuclear Boy, into a puppet. To save Model City from Cto twelve. It follows a wide-eyed nine-year-old Nuclear Boy and other bad guys, Captain Atomic teams alien, Gark, and his friend Max, a house cat. Gark has uc and Theo, two 12-year-old best friends, are stuck in up with his biggest fan, the 12-year-old Joey Felt, who superpowers that he doesn’t know how to control. Naive La time loop where every day is Monday. They know reactivates Captain Atomic by holding him in his hands. Gark mistakes Max for a tiger cat that can teach him how what will happen before it happens, so they do whatever The two must learn to work together in order to save to save the universe, but Max is just a regular house cat they want–it’s like they’re living in a lucid dream–and Model City. who delivers Gark more furballs than wisdom. they often wind up in trouble.

Production company: DHX Media Production company: Mercury Filmworks Production company: Tricon Films & Television Executive producers: Miles Bullough, Jesse Cleverly, Andrea Gorfolova, Jon Rutherford, Frank Saperstein Bagel and Becky Show Teletoon Luna Petunia (TBD)

ecky, a cat, and her brother Bagel, a dog, explore Dot. CBC his animated preschool series was inspired by Btheir neighbourhood and wind up in all kinds of TQuebec’s own Cirque du Soleil. The show follows hilarious situations. Yet no matter how much trouble they ased on the book of the same name by Randi Luna Petunia, an imaginative girl who plays in a get themselves in, they always find a way to make it home BZuckerberg, Dot. is an animated series for kids dreamland. in time for their mom’s delicious pancake dinner. ages four to seven. The show follows tech-wiz Dot, who manages to spend time with her gadgets and time outside Production companies: Cirque du Soleil Images, Saban Brands Production company: Radical Sheep Productions with her dog and her friends. Executive producers: Dave Cooper, John Leitch, Michelle Melanson Production company: Industrial Brothers Executive producers: Matthew Fernandes, Tammy Semen

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The Expanse – Season 2

ontario Syfy / Space Alcon Entertainment / Sean Daniel Company Starring: Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo Executive producers: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Naren Shankar

11.22.63 – Mini-series The Girlfriend Experience – Season 1

Hulu foreign location Bad Robot / Warner Bros. Television Starz Starring: James Franco, Chris Cooper, Cherry Jones, Sarah Gadon Transactional Pictures Executive producers: Bryan Burk, Bridget Carpenter, Stephen Starring: Paul Sparks, Briony Glassco, Mary Lynn Rajskub King, Quinton Peeples, Brian Nelson Executive producers:: Steven Soderbergh, Philip Fleishman, Gary & Marcus service productions 12 Monkeys – Season 2 Syfy / Space Atlas Entertainment Starring: Aaron Stanford, Amanda Schull, Kirk Acevedo, Noah Bean Executive producers: Natalie Chaidez, Charles Roven, ontario Richard Suckle

british columbia American Gods – Season 1

alberta Starz Living Dead Guy Productions / FremantleMedia Starring: (TBD) Heroes Reborn – Mini-series quebec Executive producers: Bryan Fuller, Michael Green, Neil Gaiman, Craig Cegielski, Stefanie Berk, Thom Beers NBC / Global Universal Television / Imperative Entertainment / Tailwind Productions Starring: Jack Coleman, Zachary Levi Executive producers: Tim Kring, Peter Elkoff, James Middleton

Man Seeking Woman – Season 2

FXX / FXX Canada Broadway Video / FX Productions Starring: Jay Baruchel, Eric André, Britt Lower, Maya Erskine Executive producers: Simon Rich, Jonathan Krisel, Andrew Singer, Lorne Michaels

Damien – Season 1

A&E 20th Century Fox Television Cast: Bradley James, Barbara Hershey, Megalyn Echikunwoke Executive producers: Glen Mazzara, Ross Fineman, Pancho productions Mansfield 3878 79 Shadowhunters – Season 1 A Series of Unfortunate Events – Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce – Season 1 Season 2 Freeform Constantin Film / Don Carmody Television / Unique Features Netflix Bravo / Slice Starring: Katherine McNamara, Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Paramount Television / Netflix Universal Cable Productions Rosende, Emeraude Toubia Starring: Neil Patrick Harris Cast: Lisa Edelstein, Beau Garrett, Necar Zadegan, Paul Adelstein Executive producers: McG, Ed Decter, Robert Kulzer, Robert Executive producers: Daniel Handler Exec. prod.: Marti Noxon, Vicki Iovine, Meryl Poster, Liz Kruger, Shaye, Michael Lynne, Michael Reisz Craig Shapiro

Arrow – Season 4

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80 81 The Magicians – Season 1 Ties that Bind – Season 1

Syfy / Showcase UP Groundswell Productions / Universal Cable Productions Pender Productions / P.B. Productions II / Reel One Starring: Jason Ralph, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Stella Maeve, Hale Entertainment Appleman Starring: Kelli Williams, Jonathan Scarfe, Luke Perry, Natasha Calis Executive producers: Michael London, Janice Williams, John Executive producers: Gilles Laplante, Sheryl J. Anderson, Tom McNamara, Sera Gamble Berry, Stan Spry, Kirk Shaw

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