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Category: Production news
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| Production news: Family Channel and Playhouse Disney Canada Announce Slate of Canadian Original Productions |
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on Monday, June 08, 2009 - 05:13 PM |
Astral Media’s Family Channel and Playhouse Disney Canada today announced the commissioning of six new and returning Canadian original productions. New series for Family Channel include half-hour comedies Angel on Campus (Temple Street Productions) and Baxter (Shaftesbury Films), which join new seasons of returning series including the second season of Connor Undercover (Heroic Film Company/Shaftesbury Films) and the third season of Overruled! (Shaftesbury Films). Playhouse Disney Canada has commissioned two new animated series for younger audiences, Stella and Sam (Radical Sheep Productions) and Justin Time (Guru Studio), which join the previously announced new seasons of popular series The Secret World of Benjamin Bear (Amberwood Entertainment) and Franny’s Feet (Decode Entertainment). Production begins in Toronto for all series in late summer/fall 2009, with broadcast premieres slated for 2010 and 2011.
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| Production news: TMN & MC Greenlight Seven New Original Productions |
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on Monday, June 08, 2009 - 08:14 AM |
Corus Entertainment's Movie Central (Western Canada) and Astral Media's The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) today announced that seven new Canadian original projects have been greenlit for production. Featuring some of Canada's top creative talent, this new slate includes original series Bloodletting, Phantom, The Pillars of the Earth, Living In Your Car, Meet Phil Fitz, Durham County and the made for television movie Fakers.
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| Production news: Bravo! Announces Start of Production of NUREYEV, starring Nico Archambault |
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on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 02:44 PM |
Production is set to begin today on the Bravo! docudrama NUREYEV, which explores the life of one of the century’s most renowned and enigmatic arts figures, Rudolph Nureyev. As auditions continue in Toronto today for SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA, Bravo! is pleased to announce that NUREYEV stars Season 1 winner Nico Archambault. NUREYEV is directed by award-winning filmmaker Moze Mossanen (ROXANA, THE RINGS OF SATURN), and uses mostly dance and choreography to portray the tumultuous life of the famed dance great. Auditions for SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA come to a close in Montréal next week on Tuesday, May 26 at Théâtre St-Denis.
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| Production news: Sinking Ship's "THE OCEAN ROOM" Dives Into Production |
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on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 03:47 PM |
Sinking Ship Entertainment is pleased to announce that principal photography has started for “The Ocean Room,” the second installment of the highly-rated preschool reality series “The Jungle Room.” During the six week production, the cameras will follow the unpredictable preschool adventures of seven new charismatic kids – aged between 3 and 6 – over the course of six weeks at a Scarborough Community Centre. Teacher Anthony Randall returns for the second installment. “The Ocean Room” – with 26 x 11’ episodes – premieres in September 2009 on TVO, ACCESS Alberta and The Knowledge Network.
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| Production news: Ben Hur Starts Production |
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on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 - 05:07 AM |
The legendary story of Ben Hur began principal photography May 4, 2009 and is being produced for the first time for television. Based on the original 1880's novel by Lew Wallace, the 4-hour miniseries is directed by Steve Shill (Rome, The Tudors, and the #1 US box office hit Obsessed) from a script by Alan Sharp (Rob Roy).
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| Production news: Muse Entertainment Enterprises Announces the Start of Production of THE PHANTOM |
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on Monday, April 06, 2009 - 04:16 PM |
The Phantom, a 4-hour, action-packed, dramatic miniseries began principal photography today, starring Ryan Carnes (Desperate Housewives, General Hospital) as Chris Walker/The Phantom and Sandrine Holt (24, Once a Thief) as the Phantom’s advisor Guran. Isabella Rossellini (Alias, 30 Rock) guest stars as the villainous Dr. Bella Lithia, the inventor of a deadly mind control program and Cameron Goodman (The Closer, Mad Men) is Walker’s love interest Renny.
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| Production news: Production Begins in Whistler, BC on MTV Canada Original Documentary Series PEAK SEASON |
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on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 05:10 PM |
MTV Canada, CTV and Free Form Productions Inc. announced late last month that production has begun in Whistler, British Columbia on the unscripted, half-hour, original documentary series PEAK SEASON. Filmed in the world-class ski resort and site of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the series takes an unfiltered look at the lives, loves and true-life drama of a tight-knit group of twenty-somethings, coming of age in the resort town where relationships change as often as the weather. As the popular Whistler saying goes, “You don’t lose your girlfriend, you just lose your turn.”
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