March 2015 - Canadian Television 2015
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CANADIAN TELEVISION
2015A GUIDE TO CURRENT PRODUCTION
Prepared for
Michael Hennessy, President & CEO
Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA)
Curated by
Bill Brioux
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CANADIAN TV ENTERS A GOLDEN AGE
For the last 30 years, in my time reporting on it, television in Canada has undergone many changes. The one constant, however, has been the nagging impression that Canadian television is somehow inferior to the US brand.
This notion has only intensified in recent years, in what some call the new “Golden Age” of TV drama. So, as many have been asking, where is Canada’s Golden Age?
Well, you’ll find it in the pages of this book. Not everything that comes out of Canada is the quality of The Sopranos or Mad Men or Breaking Bad. Then again, few shows from America can come close to these classics.
Bill Brioux
The fact is Fargo, the most-nominated TV series at the 2014 Emmy Awards, is produced in the province of Alberta. Yes, the producers and many of the stars are Americans, but you should hear them gush about Canadian crews.
Billy Bob Thornton, for one, is a fan. “One night, it went down to 40 below and they wouldn’t allow us to work,” he told me of working near Calgary on Fargo. “You figure if a Canadian says it’s too dangerous to go out there, it probably is too dangerous to go out.”
FX Networks, considered the top non-premium US cable brand and a rival to HBO overall, invested $100 million in Canada during the past TV season. Fargo, The Strain and Man Seeking Woman were the result – three shows any jurisdiction would be proud to produce.
Mexican-born director and executive producer Guillermo del Toro has shot five projects in Toronto, including The Strain. “The crews are so fantastic,” he says. “When we work together in anything I produce, I feel the crew happy and blooming.”
What about our creators and showrunners? A sign of Canada’s maturity as a TV nation is that homegrown executive producers can now feel confident planting their production flags on foreign soil. Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern, the team behind the Can-Am success story Flashpoint, took their latest project—the war drama X Company—to Hungary.
The fact is television has become a
borderless business.
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In Man Seeking Woman, you have a Canadian—Ottawa-native Jay Baruchel—as the main star of an American production shooting in Canada. Toronto subs for Chicago in the narrative but that’s okay, says Baruchel. “What makes a Canadian project Canadian is something we all have to figure out,” he says. “It doesn’t always have to be Laura Secord running through the forest. If someone is from Canada and they create in Canada, and the money and tax dollars go back into Canada, that’s Canadian art.”
The fact is television has become a borderless business. In the past few years,
I’ve travelled to Dublin, Budapest, Dieppe and Buenos Aires to report on Canadian-made productions. It was an eye-opener for me to see the giant footprint Canada has in Cannes at the annual MIPCOM TV marketplace. Shows such as The Book of Negroes shuttle actors and crews from Nova Scotia to Johannesburg en route to producing memorable television.
Within Canada, it’s not just Vancouver and Toronto competing against Hollywood, Atlanta, Wilmington, New York and New Orleans as television production hubs. I’ve chased TV stories from Dawson City to Winnipeg to Regina to St. John’s to Montreal to Ottawa to Halifax to Hamilton, all in the past two years. Canadian television production is booming, and the proof can be found in these pages.
This book doesn’t even tell the full story. Great children’s shows, TV-movies and documentaries are also in production from coast to coast. What we have here is a window on the main comedies, dramas and reality shows produced either in Canada or by Canadians.
Because it is a first attempt to cull and catalogue on behalf of the Canadian Media Production Association, one or two shows may fall through the cracks. Apologies in advance, but if your production is somehow not showcased here, take heart that you live in a land where the TV industry is so vibrant and abundant that we left even your show out! With your help, this will be a more complete listing next time.
It has been my good fortune to travel to sets in local and far-flung locations to speak with producers, actors, writers and crews to bring this great TV success story together. Welcome to a Golden Age of television any nation would be proud to call its own.
Bill Brioux
Bill Brioux (left) in Toronto in Nov., 2014, moderating a celebration
of 100 episodes of Murdoch Mysteries with series star Yannick Bisson.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
RATINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
TELEVISION GENRES
DRAMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
COMEDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
UNSCRIPTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
FOREIGN LOCATION & SERVICE PRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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RATINGSTOP CANADIAN SHOWS 2013 - 14 SEASON BROADCASTNUMERIS (BBM CANADA) AUG. 26, 2013 - AUG. 31, 2014, 2+ (,000)
1. AMAZING RACE CANADA 2 CTV TUES 27742. MASTERCHEF CANADA CTV MON 18193. ROOKIE BLUE GLO THURS 15974. SAVING HOPE CTV THURS 15825. MURDOCH MYSTERIES CBC MON 13356. MOTIVE CTV THURS 12827. THE LISTENER CTV MON 11148. DRAGON’S DEN CBC WED 10699. BATTLE OF THE BLADES CBC SUN 105410. RICK MERCER REPORT CBC TUES 1010
TOP CANADIAN SHOWS 2013 - 14 SEASON SPECIALTYNUMERIS (BBM CANADA) AUG. 26, 2013 - AUG. 31, 2014, 2+ (,000)
11. VIKINGS HIST THURS 90412. BIG BROTHER CANADA SLICE THURS 70213. BIG BROTHER CANADA SLICE WED 67214. BIG BRIOTHER CANADA SLICE SUN 62515. CANADA’S WORST DRIVER DISC MON 60516. CONTINUUM SHO SUN 53217. YUKON GOLD HIST WED 41818. THE NEXT STEP FAM FRI 36819. BITTEN SPACE SAT 34720. ORPHAN BLACK SPACE SAT 337
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DRAMA
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ASCENSION CBC
• Originally commissioned by US cable net Syfy
• Synopsis: In 1963, the US launched a covert space
mission sending hundreds of men, women and children
on a century-long voyage aboard the starship Ascension
to populate a new world. Fifty-one years into their
journey and approaching the point of no return, the
ship’s population begins to question the true nature of
their mission after a young woman is murdered.
• Shot in Montreal
• Six episodes
Premiere
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Feb. 9, 2015
(Season 1)
Philip Levens
(Smallville),
Jason Blum
(Stranded),
Ivan Fecan,
Tim Gamble,
Brett Burlock
Brian Van Holt,
Tricia Helfer,
Jacqueline Byers,
Brandon P. Bell,
Tiffany Lonsdale,
Wendy Crewson
Lionsgate and Sea
to Sky Studios in
association with
Quebec-based Lift
Off Productions
and Blumhouse
Productions
DRAMA
Ascension opened to 869,000 overnight estimated viewers
RATINGS:
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BITTEN SPACE
• Bitten averaged 348,000 viewers in its timeslot,
making it Space’s highest-rated original series of all
time
• On May 22, 2014, the series was renewed for a second
season of 10 episodes
• Based on the best-selling “Otherworld” books by
Canadian author Kelley Armstrong
• Vandervoort says she was yakking about dogs and
PETA on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight when
the producers spotted her and called her in for this
series
• Toronto plays Toronto in this series (as it does in the
novels), nice for a change. It all takes place in the
same studios where Flashpoint filmed, with Nikita
next door.
• Vandervoort, who also was on V, is well acquainted
with the sci-fi fan base. She’s worked a Comic-Con or
two and knows what she’s in for. She has a black belt
in real life, so that helps.
Returning
Created By
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Company
Feb. 7, 2015
(Season 2
Daegan Fryklind
Daegan Fryklind,
Grant Rosenberg,
Patrick Banister,
John Barbisan,
John Morayniss,
Margaret O’Brien,
Tecca Crosby,
J.B. Sugar
Laura Vandervoort,
Greyston Holt,
Greg Bryk,
Paul Greene,
Steve Lund,
Michael Xavier,
Genelle Williams
Hoodwink
Entertainment,
No Equal
Entertainment One,
Bell Media
DRAMA
Bitten drew an average of 347,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the 9th most-watched Canadian specialty program that season
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THE BOOK OF NEGROES CBC
• Opened to 1,941,000 CBC viewers, making it the
highest-rated original drama for the network since
1990
• Filming took place in Cape Town, South Africa as well
as various locations around Nova Scotia
• Based on the novel of the same name by Canadian
author Lawrence Hill
• The six-part miniseries premiered on BET in the United
States on February 16, 2015
• The miniseries drew raves from the critics: “Visually,
the show is stunning, and Canadian director Clement
Virgo’s painterly eye creates scenes of incredible
beauty while telling an epic tale of inhumanity.”
– The Toronto Star
• “Aunjanue Ellis is astonishing throughout…”
– The Globe and Mail
Premiere
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Company
Jan. 7, 2015
Damon D’Oliveira
Clement Virgo
Daniel Iron
Bill Niven
Margaret O’Brien
Aunjanue Ellis
Lyriq Bent
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Ben Chaplin
Allan Hawco
Greg Bryk
Jane Alexander
Conquering Lions
Pictures,
Entertainment One
DRAMA
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CONTINUUM SHOWCASE
• The series premiered in the US on January 14, 2013 on Syfy
• Reviewer Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times described
the series as “slick” and highlighted its attention to detail.
Reviewer David Hinckley of the New York Daily News
compared Continuum positively to Life on Mars, another
series with a time travelling police officer.
• Continuum premiered to an overnight, estimated
900,000 on Showcase. That made the sci-fi series the
most watched TV show in Canada Sunday at 9p.m.,
beating a movie on CTV, and topping both CBC (a rerun
of Republic of Doyle) and Global (a repeat of The Good
Wife) combined. More than twice as many Canadians
watched Continuum on Showcase that night as America’s
Got Talent on City (387,000).
• Another 265,000 watched Continuum the same night at
11 p.m.
• The Continuum launch got maximum exposure in the
narrow window between season-enders and summer
start-ups. There was no Stanley Cup playoff game
on opposite, just the one, new, well-crafted Canadian
series, and viewers gobbled it up. More proof that, if you
schedule it—meaning a Canadian scripted drama—they
will come.
• “I’ve been trying for ten years now to get a show on the air
in terms of developing and selling ideas. So this feels like
a 10 year overnight success,” says creator Simon Barry on
Continuum’s record-breaking specialty premiere.
Returning
Created by
Starring
Executive
Producers
Production
Company
Shot in
2015 (Season 4)
Simon Barry
Rachel Nichols,
Victor Webster,
Erik Knudsen,
Stephen Lobo,
Roger Cross,
Lexa Doig,
Tony Amendola,
Omari Newton,
Luvia Petersen,
Jennifer Spence,
Brian Markinson
Simon Barry,
Sara B. Cooper
Reunion Pictures,
Boy Meets Girl
Film Company,
Shaw Media, GK-tv
Vancouver
DRAMA
Continuum drew an average of 532,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the 6th most-watched Canadian specialty program that season• The third season cliffhanger finale was
the No. 1 program in key demos for all of Canadian specialty
• Renewed for a fourth and final season of six episodes to be seen in 2015
• Seen internationally in 132 countries
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HAVEN SHOWCASE
• The show was renewed for a split 26-episode fifth
season. The first half will be aired in 2014 with the
second half in 2015.
• Airs in the US on NBC Universal’s Syfy
• Jason Priestley directed episodes and also did a four-
episode guest arc
• Based on the short story The Colorado Kid by Stephen
King
• Main production centre in Chester, N.S. is the town’s
curling rink
• Haven has been sold for broadcast in several countries
worldwide, including Australia, Denmark, France,
Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Portugal, South
Africa, Spain, the UK and the US
• The supernatural series was still pulling 200,000 to
300,000 viewers in Season 4 on Showcase
Returning
Developed by
Starring
Executive
Producers
Production
Company
Shot in
TBA (Season 5)
Sam Ernst
Jim Dunn
Emily Rose,
Lucas Bryant,
Nicholas Campbell,
Eric Balfour
Laszlo Barna,
Jim Dunn,
Sam Ernst,
Noreen Halpern,
Matt McGuinness,
David MacLeod,
John Morayniss,
Shawn Piller,
Michael Rosenberg,
Lloyd Segan,
Scott Shepherd
Entertainment One,
Big Motion Pictures
Productions, Piller
Segan Shepherd,
Shaw Media,
Universal Networks
International
Nova Scotia
DRAMA
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• Production is based in and around High River, Alta.,
with additional filming in studio and on location in
nearby Calgary
• Ratings: The series premiered in Sept., 2007, to
513,000 viewers and averaged around half a million
total viewers that first season. By Season 3, the
premiere topped one million viewers for the first time.
The 100th episode “After All We’ve Been Through”
was watched by 945,000 viewers.
• The series is imported to over 25 countries, including
France, the UK, Australia, Germany and Italy
• It airs on the family friendly cable channel Up in the
US
• One of the quietest success stories in Canadian
television. Family series rarely draw awards, critical
attention.
• During this eighth season Heartland will air its 125th
episode. The CBC press site claims this makes it the
longest-running Canadian one-hour dramatic series in
history. Beachcombers, however, ran 19 seasons, 387
episodes.
• Well scheduled early on Sunday nights; proof family
hour scheduling still has an impact
• Series is a very consistent ratings draw, particularly
among younger viewers
HEARTLAND CBC
Returning
Airs
Created By
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Company
Opening
Theme
Sept. 28, 2014
(Season 7)
Sundays at 7 p.m. ET
Lauren Brooke
Heather Conkie,
Tom Cox,
Jordy Randall,
Michael Weinberg
Amber Marshall,
Michelle Morgan,
Graham Wardle,
Gabriel Hogan,
Chris Potter,
Jessica Amlee,
Shaun Johnston,
Jessica Steen,
Nathaniel Arcand,
Kerry James
SEVEN24 Films,
Dynamo Films
“Dreamer”
by Jenn Grant
DRAMA
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DRAMA
KILLJOYS SPACE
• 10 episodes
• Synopsis: A sci-fi adventure drama series that follows
a trio of fun-loving, hard-living interplanetary bounty
hunters sworn to remain impartial as they chase
deadly warrants throughout the Quad, a distant star
system on the brink of a bloody, multi-planetary class
war.
• In development since 2012 as part of Bell Media’s
Writer Only Drama Development program
Premiere
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Company
Shot in
2015 (Season 1)
Michelle Lovretta
(Lost Girl)
Michelle Lovretta,
David Fortier,
Ivan Schneeberg,
Chris Grismer
Aaron Ashmore,
Luke Macfarlane,
Hannah John-Kamen
Temple Street
Productions
Toronto
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LOST GIRL SHOWCASE
• Premiered on Showcase on September 12, 2010
• In the US, it premiered on Syfy on January 16, 2012
• Episodes on Syfy in the US are 90 seconds shorter to
allow for more commercial advertisement time
• Showcase has announced that Season 5 will be
the series’ last. The original 13-episode season was
extended to 16 episodes and split into two parts
consisting of eight episodes each. The first episode
of the fifth season premieres on December 7, 2014.
The second half is scheduled for 2015 (date to be
determined).
• There will be 77 episodes in total by the time Lost Girl
wraps up
• As of Feb. 25, 2015, the show’s Facebook page had
409,654 likes and its official Twitter had 77,500
followers, giving the series a large social media
presence.
• The series premiere in Sept., 2010 drew over 400,000
viewers (2+) and another 184,000 for the episode
rerun at 10:40 p.m., making Lost Girl, at the time, the
highest-rated Canadian scripted series premiere on
Showcase
• Ratings for the series peaked in Season 3
• Shoots in a one time pencil factory in Toronto’s West End
Returning
Created By
Developed by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Dec. 7, 2014
(Season 5)
Michelle Lovretta
Jay Firestone,
Prodigy Pictures Inc.
Jay Firestone,
Vanessa Piazza,
Michelle Lovretta
(Season 1),
Peter Mohan
(Season 1),
Jeremy Boxen
(Season 2),
Grant Rosenberg
(Season 2),
Emily Andras
(Season 3, 4),
Michael Grassi
(Season 5)
Anna Silk,
Kris Holden-Ried,
Ksenia Solo,
Zoie Palmer,
Rick Howland,
K. C. Collins
Prodigy Pictures
Inc. in association
with Shaw Media
(Showcase)
DRAMA
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• Produced in Vancouver
• Sold as a “how-dunit” rather than a whodunit
• Season 1 average around 1.1M viewers a week in
Canada on CTV
• Season 2 total viewers edged closer to 1.3M per week
• Season 1 in the US on ABC drew around 4.7M viewers
per week
• Season 2 average 4.3M per week
• Premiered on the CTV television network on February
3, 2013, immediately following Super Bowl XLVII.
The series premiere had 1.23 million viewers, making
Motive the number one Canadian series premiere
of the 2012–13 season; what was remarkable about
that was the Super Bowl had a 35 minute lighting
malfunction delay, pushing the start of Motive way
back past 10:30 p.m.
• The next three Sundays also topped over a million—
out of simulcast (ABC didn’t start running the series
until May)
• Then the series was shifted to Thursdays, a strong
night for the network but shifting a new show is
always a gamble. Motive never really missed a beat.
The first Thursday night episode March 14 drew a
total of 983,000 viewers and it soared to 1,202,000,
1,240,000 and 1,193,000 the next three Thursdays.
• On May 21, 2014, CTV ordered a third season of Motive
• Lehman says her hope going in was simply to be in
something Canadians actually watched. “I signed on
to do a Canadian show,” she says. Having survived 10
or 12 years slogging through pilots and pickups in the
US before breaking through in The Killing.
• She feels the acting holds its own with any US network
fare and is proud of the natural rhythm she’s found
with Ferriera
Returning
Created by
Developed by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Mar. 8, 2015
(Season 3)
Daniel Cerone
Rob Merilees,
Rob LaBelle
Daniel Cerone,
Erin Haskett,
James Thorpe,
Lindsay Macadam,
Louise Clark,
Rob LaBelle,
Rob Merilees,
Dennis Heaton
Kristin Lehman,
Louis Ferreira,
Brendan Penny,
Lauren Holly,
Cameron Bright,
Roger Cross,
Valerie Tian,
Warren Christie
Bell Media,
Foundation Features,
Lark Productions
MOTIVE CTV
DRAMA
Motive drew an average of 1,282,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the 4th most-watched Canadian scripted series that season
RATINGS:
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Returning
Airs
Executive
Producers
Showrunner
Starring
Production
Company
Shot and set in
Oct. 6, 2014
(Season 8)
Mondays at 8 p.m. E.T.
Scott Garvie,
Noel Hedges,
Cal Coons,
Peter Mitchell,
Christina Jennings
Peter Mitchell
Yannick Bisson,
Hélène Joy,
Thomas Craig,
Jonny Harris,
Georgina Reilly
Shaftesbury
Toronto
MURDOCH MYSTERIES CBC
• Begins eighth season in Sept.; 18 episodes ordered. Series will
pass 100 episodes in this its eighth season
• CBC’s No. 1 scripted program and No. 1 drama in Total
households; draws more viewers than Dragon’s Den, Mercer
Report; topped only by Hockey Night in Canada
• Shot in Toronto series has never been more popular.
• Average close to 1.5 million viewers a week for new episodes
in 2013-14
• Will be stripped in the supper hour starting this fall on CBC
• The series originated on City back when it was still the CHUM/
City group. It was canceled in 2011 after five seasons on City.
Programmers at Rogers argued it was an ‘odd fit” for their
network, which was moving more toward a mix of edgy, urban
US comedy imports.
• The series hit a high of 700,000 viewers on City thanks to a
well-publicized guest stint by prime minister Stephen Harper;
otherwise rarely cracked the half million mark on City.
• Murdoch Mysteries is Harper’s favourite TV show. Told it was
moving to CBC in 2012, the PM said, “I’ll watch it anyway.”
• CBC came to the rescue and ordered a sixth season days after
City’s announced cancellation
• The first five seasons are still in high rotation on Roger’s
City stations especially all summer, as City overplays it in a
transparent attempt to come anywhere close to meeting its
Canadian content quota
• Despite so much exposure on two different networks the
series remains a steady draw in Canada; Rogers pulls 300,000
to 400,000 with episodes seen five, six times already
• Imported to 120 countries.
• Produced with the assistance of the Canadian Film or Video
Production Tax Credit; the Ontario Film and Television Tax
Credit; and the Canadian Television Fund
• The series airs in the UK on Alibi (formerly known as UKTV
Drama)
• In the US, the series began airing on the Ovation cable TV
network in 2013 under the title The Artful Detective
DRAMA
Murdoch Mysteries drew an average of 1,335,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the 3rd most-watched Canadian scripted series that season and No. 1 overall on CBC
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19-2 BRAVO
• Produced with the participation of the Quebec Film
and Television Tax Credit, the Canadian Film or Video
Production Tax Credit, the Canadian Media Fund and
the COGECO Program Development Fund
• Benz Antoine reprises his role from the original French-
language series
• The French series, created by and starring Réal Bossé
and Claude Legault, debuted in 2011 on Radio-Canada
to critical and ratings success
• The English 19-2 was originally ordered as a pilot for
CBC, but was picked up by Bravo when CBC passed on
it
• 19-2 is the first English drama in memory that is clearly
set in Montreal
• Bell has qualified 19-2’s first season run on Bravo as a
success, reaching an average of 190,000 viewers a
week, making it the No. 3 show on the network
Returning
Airs
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Jan. 19, 2015
(Season 2)
Mondays 9 p.m. ET
Jocelyn Deschenes,
Luc Chatelain,
Bruce M. Smith,
Carolyn Newman,
Greg Phillips,
Saralo MacGregor
Jared Keeso,
Adrian Holmes,
Benz Antoine,
Bruce Ramsay,
Conrad Pla,
Dan Petronijevic,
Laurence Leboeuf,
Maxim Roy,
Mylène Dinh-Robic
Sphère Média Plus
and Echo Media
in association with
Bell Media
DRAMA
The acting is solid and organic, the pace is perfect, the writing is real
and natural and believable, and the stories hit home.
— Denette Wilford, HuffPost TV Canada“ ”
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ORPHAN BLACK SPACE
• Renewed for a ten-episode third season
• Tatiana Maslany has received universal acclaim for her
performance as the various clones, winning the Television
Critics Association Best Dramatic Performance Award,
beating Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad
• Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter called her
performances “fantastic”. Maslany’s failure to receive a
nomination for Lead Actress in a Drama Series at both the
65th Primetime Emmy Awards and 66th Primetime Emmy
Awards was seen as a snub by many critics. Goodman
called it an “outrageous oversight.”
• The series also won a Peabody and a Canadian Screen
Award
• Orphan Black made its broadcast network television debut
on CTV on August 16, 2013
• Executive producer Graeme Manson (Flashpoint) and
producer-director John Fawcett (Spartacus, Lost Girl),
batted the idea around for 10 years. “We tried to make the
whole thing work as a feature for a while,” says Manson.
When TV tilted back from procedurals to serials, the two
started pitching it as a series. “Serialized cable television
really lent itself to the project,” he says.
• Five of the six Season 1 writers in the Orphan Black writing
room are graduates of the Canadian Film Centre
• The series was pitched to USA and FX before BBC America
picked up the US rights
• Ratings: The Season 2 return of the BBC America thriller
nearly doubled its 18-49 viewership in its first three days
of time-shifted viewing. The ratings went up 97 percent
compared to its first-night tally. That’s more than any TV
drama premiere — cable or broadcast — that season. The
first episode soared to 1.6 million BBC America viewers and
746,000 in the demo.
Returning
Created by
Starring
Executive
Producers
Production
Company
Shot in
April 18, 2015
(Season 3)
Graeme Manson,
John Fawcett
Tatiana Maslany,
Dylan Bruce,
Jordan Gavaris,
Kevin Hanchard,
Michael Mando,
Évelyne Brochu,
Maria Doyle
Kennedy
Ivan Schneeberg,
David Fortier,
Graeme Manson,
John Fawcett
Temple Street
Productions,
BBC America,
Bell Media
Toronto
DRAMA
…the most important Canadian show
in years.
— John Doyle, The Globe and Mail“ ”
Orphan Black drew an average of 337,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the 10th most-watched Canadian specialty program that season
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• On May 1, 2014 Global announced that Remedy had
been renewed for a 10 episode second season. The
first season was also 10 episodes
• Remedy had a so-so delivery on Global in Feb., 2014,
with 754,000 estimated overnight viewers. That’s
about half what the network averaged a few years
earlier with it’s last attempt at a doctor show, the co-
pro casualty Combat Hospital. Global hammocked
Remedy between two simulcasts, Almost Human
(1,086,000) and The Blacklist (1,245,000)
• Dillon Casey, who grew up in Oakville, Ont., was
previously on the shot-in-Toronto CW drama Nikita.
He says he’s enjoying the chance to “learn a lot,
especially from guys like Rico and Greg. I mean, I’ve
had opportunities, but never to do the range of things
I’ve done in this show.”
• Spottiswood feels he’s capable of plenty. He sees
Remedy as “an opportunity to see what I’m capable
of, in a way.”
• “I knew he was good when we cast him, but he’s
really good,” he says. “There are very good actors
who don’t have the capability to project an inner life
when they’re not talking or doing anything. He has
that capacity, which was a revelation, and we’ve been
using it. Basically he doesn’t have to do very much
for us to be engaged and feel. Plus he’s funny,” says
Spottiswood.
Returning
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Company
Produced in
Mar. 23, 2015
(Season 2)
Greg Spottiswood
Greg Spottiswood,
Bernie Zukerman,
Kelly Makin,
Adam Barken
Dillon Casey,
Enrico Colantoni,
Matt Ward,
Genelle Williams,
Sara Canning,
Sarah Allen,
Patrick McKenna,
Martha Burns
Indian Grove
Productions
Toronto
REMEDY GLOBAL
DRAMA
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• Resembles: a throwback to cop shows of the ‘70s
like Rockford Files and Starsky & Hutch; Hawco has
Rockford poster taped on door of writer’s room.
• St. John’s lensed drama returned for a sixth and final
season in late Sept
• The final total number of episodes will be 77
• The province of Newfoundland invested in capital
costs to launch this series in St. John’s, particularly in
converting a warehouse into a studio
• St. John’s is really one of the stars of the series
• Fifth season order for 16 episodes the series high
• Series drew a million Total viewers a week every single
week during its second season on Wednesday nights
tucked behind the CBC hit Dragon’s Den
• Made headlines with guest starring stint by Academy
Award winner Russell Crowe in Third Season premiere,
boosting audience to 1.36 million viewers
• Doyle lost as many as half a million viewers a week
as a result of a shift to Sundays in Season 4 as CBC
coped with another round of programming cutbacks
• Perennially snubbed at the Gemini “Screenie” awards
• In 2013, did a clever, cross-generational crossover
with Murdoch Mysteries, an idea hatched by Murdoch
showrunner Peter Mitchell
• Canadian acting veterans Gordon Pinsent and Paul
Gross have guest starred a few times. The series has
used virtually every Newfoundland-born actor at one
time or another including Shannon Tweed, Shawn
Doyle and members of Great Big Sea.
Returning
Airs
Debuted
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Opening
theme
Oct. 15, 2014
(Season 6)
Wednesdays at 9 p.m.
Jan. 6, 2010 on CBC
Allan Hawco,
Malcolm MacRury,
Perry Chafe
Allan Hawco,
John Vatcher,
Michael Levine
Allan Hawco,
Seán McGinley,
Lynda Boyd,
Krystin Pellerin,
Mark O’Brien,
Marthe Bernard
“Oh Yeah”
by Great Big Sea
REPUBLIC OF DOYLE CBC
DRAMA
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There’s something really primal about the idea of being a rookie—it hits that horrible, eternal sense of feeling like a fraud, like a kid dressed in grown-up clothes, trying to pretend you know what you’re doing. And I thought, what if you were feeling just like
that—but with a gun?
— Tassie Cameron, Executive Producer
“”
• The Canadian premiere drew an audience of 1.9 million
viewers with 712,000 in the 18–49 category, placing
first for the night and second for the week
• In the US the premiere drew 7.253 million viewers.
The premiere became the most successful scripted
summer debut in over a year and in nearly six years
for ABC.
• The series averaged 1.597 million viewers, 1.351M,
1.202M and 1.203M over its first four seasons in Canada
• There was a 22 episode order for Season 5, to be split
over the summers of 2014 and 2015
Returning
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Company
Shot & Set in
Summer 2015
(Season 6)
Tassie Cameron,
Morwyn Brebner,
Ellen Vanstone
David Wellington,
John Morayniss,
Noreen Halpern,
Ilana Frank,
Tassie Cameron
Missy Peregrym,
Gregory Smith,
Charlotte Sullivan,
Rachael Ancheril,
Lyriq Bent,
Priscilla Faia,
Matt Gordon,
Noam Jenkins,
Eric Johnson
Shaw Media,
Thump, Inc.,
Ilana C.
Frank Films,
Entertainment One
Toronto
ROOKIE BLUE GLOBAL
DRAMA
Rookie Blue drew an average of 1,597,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the most-watched Canadian scripted series that season
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Returning
Airs
Created By
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Produced in
Sept. 22, 2014
(Season 3)
Thursdays at 9 p.m.
on CTV
Malcolm MacRury,
Morwyn Brebner
Ilana Frank,
David Wellington,
Lesley Harrison,
Morwyn Brebner,
Aaron Martin,
Malcolm MacRury
Erica Durance,
Michael Shanks,
Daniel Gillies,
Huse Madhavji,
Julia Taylor Ross,
Kristopher Turner
Ilana C. Frank Films,
Entertainment One,
Bell Media
Toronto
• Ratings: Saving Hope premiered to 1,520,000 CTV
viewers on June 7, 2012. CTV averaged 1.7M total
viewers for Season 1, 1.3M Season 2.
• The premiere on NBC did 3.1M, close to a historic low
for a scripted series premiere on the Peacock network.
It was quickly canceled Stateside.
• CTV chose to go it alone, proving a series designed
as a Can-Am co-pro could draw a large, non-simulcast
audience and survive the loss of its US broadcast
partner
• This was in contrast to Combat Hospital, another Can-
Am co-pro with a medical setting. It opened big in
Canada the year before Saving Hope, averaging over
1.5 M, but when the US network partner walked away
quickly Global did not stick with the series.
• Saving Hope, like Combat Hospital, was the highest-
rated domestic draw of its initial summer
SAVING HOPE CTV
DRAMA
...a sober, intelligent, placidly paced drama as only the
Canadians can make.
— Lori Racki, The Chicago Sun-Times“ ”Saving Hope drew an average of 1,582,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the 2nd most-watched Canadian scripted series that season
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SENSITIVE SKIN HBO CANADA
• Adapted from the British series of the same name,
created by Hugo Blick
• Six-episode first season
• Sensitive Skin is uneven but it may just be an
adaptation that needs more time to find itself as a
Canadian series. It is certainly well cast and well made.
It has many honest, poignant moments of boomer
desperation. There are some direct hits on Toronto’s
hipster/condo core. A second season that took a
bigger swing at Davina’s personal journey would be
welcomed.” — Bill Brioux, BRIOUX.TV
• HBO Canada renewed series for a second season in
Dec. 2014
• All six episodes were available for download as soon
as the series premiered
Returning
Premiered
Written by
Directed by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
TBA (Season 2)
July 20, 2014
Bob Martin
Don McKellar
Kim Cattrall,
Don McKellar,
Bob Martin,
Henry Normal,
Hugo Blick
Kim Cattrall,
Don McKellar,
Elliott Gould,
Colm Feore
Rhombus Media,
Baby Cow
Productions
DRAMA
Sensitive Skin is uneven but it may just be an adaptation that needs
more time to find itself as a Canadian series.
— Bill Brioux, BRIOUX.TV“ ”
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• Synopsis: Serialized Western drama set near the
Alberta-Montana border in the 1860s, in which three
women band together for survival after the men in
their town are murdered.
• Thirteen episodes ordered
• Strange Empire is an indication that the new team in
charge of programming at CBC are looking to change
direction. “Serialized, darker programming is I think
something most audiences are used to seeing on US
cable,” says Sally Catto, CBC’s new vice president of
programming.
Returning
Airs
Created By
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Company
Sept. 22, 2014
(Season 1)
Thursdays at 9 p.m.
Laurie Finstad
(Durham County)
Laurie Finstad,
Tim Johnson,
Jeff Sagansky
Cara Gee,
Melissa Farman,
Tattiawna Jones,
Aaron Poole
Annuit Coeptis
Entertainment II
STRANGE EMPIRE CBC
DRAMA
Serialized, darker programming is I think something most audiences are
used to seeing on US cable...
— Sally Catto, CBC Vice-President of Programming“ ”
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VIKINGS HISTORY
• According to Nielsen, the series premiere drew 6 million
viewers in the US, topping all broadcast networks
among 18-to-49 year olds
• In Canada, the premiere was watched by 1.1 million
viewers. The first season averaged 942,000 viewers.
• That made it 2013’s No. 1 rated scripted specialty
series
• History renewed Vikings for a ten-episode third
season in March. When asked what viewers could
expect from the next season, Michael Hirst explained:
“Yeah, we’re gonna attack Paris.”
• The first season’s budget has been reported as $40
million US
• The series began filming in July 2012 at Ashford
Studios, a newly built studio facility in Ireland, chosen
as a location for its tax advantages
• Seventy percent of the first season was filmed
outdoors
• Some additional background shots were done in
Western Norway
• Fimmel is the main lead but Toronto-raised Katheryn
Winnick, Montreal’s Jesslyn Gilsig, Ottawa original
Donal Logue and Vancouver boy Alexander Ludwig
(The Hunger Games) were all part of the inner cast
• Canadian director Ken Girotti (Being Erica, La Femme
Nikita) was back for a second season
Returning
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Feb. 19, 2015
(Season 3)
Michael Hirst
Michael Hirst,
John Weber,
James Flynn,
Sherry Marsh,
Alan Gasmer,
Sheila Hockin,
Morgan O’Sullivan
Travis Fimmel,
Katheryn Winnick,
Clive Standen,
Jessalyn Gilsig,
Gustaf Skarsgård,
George Blagden,
Alexander Ludwig,
Alyssa Sutherland
Shaw Media,
Octagon Films,
Take 5 Productions
DRAMA
Vikings drew an average of 904,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the No. 1 rated Canadian specialty program in the country
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X COMPANY CBC
• Synopsis: Based on real-life stories, X Company centers
on a team of young recruits training as secret agents
during World War II.
• Dillon plays Duncan Sinclair, the “beating heart and
clenched fist” of a secret World War II camp on the
shores of Lake Ontario
• Inspired by stories about a real spy training school
located between Whitby and Oshawa
• Production took place in Budapest
• Montrealer François Arnaud, who starred in The Borgias,
will guest star in X Company
• A Canadian-Hungarian co-production
• James Bond author Ian Fleming, was reportedly trained
at the actual Ontario spy camp
Premiere
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Feb. 18, 2015
(Season 1)
Mark Ellis
Stephanie
Morgenstern
(Flashpoint)
Ellis, Morgenstern,
Ivan Schneeberg,
David Fortier
Evelyne Brochu
(Orphan Black),
Jack Laskey
(Endeavour),
Warren Brown
(Luther),
Dustin Milligan
(Demonic),
Connor Price
(Being Human)
and
Hugh Dillon
(Flashpoint)
Temple Street
Productions,
Pioneer Stillking
Films
DRAMA
X Company opened to 813,000 overnight estimated viewers
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COMEDY
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MR. D CBC/CITY
COMEDY
• Dee based Mr. D on his ten years teaching physical
education in high school before he left for a career in
stand-up comedy in 2003
• Filmed on location at Citadel High School in Halifax,
Nova Scotia
• Renewed for a fourth season on April 4, 2014
• The first episode of the show was watched by 1.23 million
viewers before settling in around the 630,000 that first
season
• Budget cuts at CBC limited the series order to just 8
episodes in Season 3
• Mr. D got little traction as a result, with episodes dipping
into the 300,000 viewer range
• CBC, facing further budget cuts, was prepared to walk
away from Mr. D when Rogers stepped in with a plan
to extend the series. Rogers made a deal to invest in a
second window on the comedy. Thirteen new episodes
of Mr. D will air on CBC’s 2014-15 schedule. Later in 2015,
the series will begin airing on City.
• “Delighted and thankful to CBC and Rogers on working
together to make Season 4 of @mrd_on_cbc happen,”
Dee wrote on Twitter. “Will air on @CBC and @City_tv
in 2015.”
Returning
Airs
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Company
Opening
Theme
Jan. 18, 2015
(Season 4)
Mondays at 9 p.m. ET
Gerry Dee,
Michael Volpe
Gerry Dee,
Michael Volpe
Gerry Dee,
Jonathan Torrens,
Lauren Hammersley,
Booth Savage,
Bette MacDonald,
Naomi Snieckus,
Darrin Rose,
Mark Little,
Wes Williams,
Mark Forward
Topsail
Entertainment
“I’m Awesome”
by Spose
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COMEDY
RICK MERCER REPORT CBC
• Shot before a studio audience at the CBC Broadcast
Centre in Toronto
• Eleven seasons, 200 episodes and counting
• A consistent ratings winner pulling a steady million-
plus a night for a decade
• Every week, Mercer does a ‘streeter’-style tongue-
in-cheek rant about current issues, using the same
format that he popularized on 22 Minutes with a long
take and camera tilting. These are almost always
taped while Mercer walks up and down a graffiti-
strewn Toronto alleyway.
• Over 11 seasons, Mercer has gone skating with Hazel
McCallion, got measured for a suit with Don Cherry
and bungee jumped off a bridge in Whistler, BC with
“Man in Motion” Rick Hansen
• Rick Mercer has won over 25 Gemini awards
Returns
Airs
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Shot in
Oct. 7, 2014
(Season 11)
Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET
Rick Mercer,
Gerald Lunz
Gerald Lunz
Rick Mercer
Toronto
Rick Mercer Report drew an average of 1,010,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the 3rd most-watched CBC series that season
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PACKAGE DEAL CITY
COMEDY
• Second season shot in hurry up style of the new 10/90
comedies; two episodes produced each week.
• Live studio audience now only in on half the production
• The sound stage is one of those stealth studios tucked
inside an industrial park. Outside it looks like any other
soul-less suburban factory zone. Inside, you could be on
the Warners’ or CBS Radford lot.
• Harland Williams, Jay Malone and Randal Edwards
play three goofy brothers. Julia Voth plays Edwards’
character’s hot girlfriend who accepts them all, for
better or for worse.
• Eugene Levy and Pamela Anderson guest starred in
Season 1
• Jason Priestley makes an appearance in Season 2
• Ratings: The series failed to break out Season 1 despite
being hammocked between two top-rated comedy
imports Monday nights on City. Package Deal would
appear to slump to 300,000 viewers in between
two million-plus audiences. Factor out the simulcast
numbers for the imports on American border stations,
however, and Package Deal’s retention in the timeslot
was closer to 70%.
• One of two shows hyped in 2013 as part of the Great
Canadian experiment with four camera, studio audience
comedy
Returning
Created by
Starring
Executive
Producers
Production
Companies
Shot in
Sept. 12, 2014
(Season 2)
Andrew Orenstein
Randal Edwards,
Harland Williams,
Jay Malone,
Julia Voth
Andrew Orenstein,
Tim Gamble,
Michael Shepard
Thunderbird Films,
Rogers Media
Vancouver
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COMEDY
SCHITT’S CREEK CBC
• Synopsis: Levy and O’Hara star as Johnny and Moira
Rose, a wealthy couple who are forced, after losing
all their money, to rebuild their lives in their only
remaining asset: the no-horse town of Schitt’s Creek,
which they once purchased as a joke.
• O’Hara says she’d been carefully avoiding sitcom
pitches for years in order to dodge working long hours
“with a bunch of strangers,” but couldn’t resist this
pitch from her old SCTV pal Eugene Levy. Besides,
in playing half of a snooty couple who loses almost
everything, there was the chance to “live in poverty
wearing the most annoying clothes.”
• Series was renewed for a second season in January
2014
• Shot in Toronto at Pinewood Studios
Premiere
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Shot in
Jan. 13, 2015
(Season 1)
Eugene Levy,
Daniel Levy
Eugene Levy,
Daniel Levy,
Fred Levy,
Andrew Barnsley,
Ben Feigin
Eugene Levy,
Catherine O’Hara,
Daniel Levy,
Chris Elliott,
Mara Marini
Not a Real Company
Productions
Toronto
Schitt’s Creek opened to 1.4 million overnight estimated viewers
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COMEDY
SPUN OUT CTV
• Ratings: The show opened above 1.2M in the
overnights behind The Big Bang Theory on Thursdays
before dipping to 800,000 the next night and less
than 600,000 in the overnights the next week. With
half the audience gone in eight days, the comedy was
looking to settle around the half-million mark in Week
Four on a Friday.
• Foley was joined in Season 1 in one episode by his
Kids in the Hall co-stars
• Second season order for 13 new episodes went into
production in September in Toronto
Returning
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Shot in
TBA (Season 2)
Jeff Biederman,
Brent Piaskoski,
Brian K. Roberts
Jeff Biederman,
Brent Piaskoski,
Brian K. Roberts
Dave Foley,
Paul Campbell,
Rebecca Dalton,
Al Mukadam,
Holly Deveaux,
J.P. Manoux,
Darcy Michael
Project 10
Productions
Toronto
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COMEDY
SUNNYSIDE CITY
• Sketch comedy series hails from two veterans of the
genre, Redican, who was part of the Frantics as well
as head writer on Kids in the Hall and also starred
on Puppets Who Kill and Pearson, with writing and
producing credits on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, That’s
So Weird and MADtv
• Episodes ordered: 13
• A second season of seven episodes has been ordered
to air in the fall of 2015
Premiere
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Shot in
Jan. 8, 2015
(Season 2)
Dan Redican,
Gary Pearson
Dan Redican,
Gary Pearson,
Anton Leo,
Shane Corkery,
Dan Bennett,
Phyllis Laing
Kathleen Phillips,
Lauren Ash,
Pat Thornton,
Patrice Goodman,
Alice Moran,
Kevin Vidal,
Rob Norman
Counterfeit Pictures,
Buffalo Gal Pictures
Winnipeg
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THIS HOUR HAS 22 MINUTES CBC
COMEDY
• 22 Minutes is celebrating its 22nd season
• Originally featuring Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Greg
Thomey and Mary Walsh
• Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a
CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s
• Recognized with 24 Gemini Awards and 11 Canadian
Comedy Awards
• Taped before a live audience in Studio 1 at CBHT in
Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Ratings averaged over 800,000 viewers Tuesday nights
last season on CBC
• Former fake news anchors include Walsh, Rick Mercer,
Grey Thomey, Colin Mochrie, Geri Hall and Gavin
Crawford
• The series travelled to Ottawa in January, shooting its
first episode outside Halifax in 22 years
Returning
Airs
Created by
Starring
Production
Company
Oct. 7, 2014
(Season 22)
Tuesdays at 8:30 pm
Mary Walsh
Mark Critch,
Cathy Jones,
Shaun Majumder,
Susan Kent
DHX Media,
Canadian
Broadcasting
Corporation
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TRAILER PARK BOYS NETFLIX
COMEDY
• Trailer Park Boys resided with Showcase for its first
seven seasons. Beginning with the eighth season, the
series switched to Netflix
• The show’s lead trio formerly toured with Our Lady
Peace, and with Guns N’ Roses, with whom Bubbles
sings his trademark song “Liquor and Whores”
• It airs all over the world, including Australia on The
Comedy Channel, the UK and Spain on Paramount
Comedy, the Republic of Ireland on 3e, Iceland on
SkjárEinn, New Zealand on TV 2, Israel on Xtra Hot, the
Netherlands on Comedy Central
• In the US, it formerly aired on BBC America as well as
DirecTV. It now airs on Netflix.
• Netflix has also committed to a ninth season
• The series has so far spawned three feature films
• Episodes would typically have pulled 300,000 viewers
in the middle of the series’ run on Showcase
• The series was turned down at The Comedy Network
• No. of episodes: 65 +
Returning
Created by
Starring
Production
Company
Shot in
Distributor
Mar. 27, 2015
(Season 9)
Mike Clattenburg
John Paul Tremblay,
Robb Wells,
Mike Smith
Sunnyvale
Productions,
Swearnet Pictures
(season 8-present)
Halifax Regional
Municipality, Truro,
Nova Scotia
Entertainment One
(Season 8-present)
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YOUNG DRUNK PUNK CITY
COMEDY
• Synopsis: Two young men—Ian and Shinky—explore the
lost years between high school and “what’s next”
• A semi-autobiographical take on a coming-of-age
journey loosely based on McCullough’s own adventures
prior to his success with The Kids in the Hall
• Set in Calgary in the 1980s
• McCullough grew up not far from where Young Drunk
Punk was shot
• 13 episodes have been ordered
• Toronto-native Atticus Mitchell, who plays Shinky, was
last seen in Fargo
• Developed and commissioned by Rogers
• “Hopefully it will serve as a poor, but ultimately
redemptive example for high school graduates today,
who are not certain of their future plans.” — McCullough
Premiere
Created by
Executive
Producers
Starring
Production
Companies
Shot in
January 21, 2015
(Season 1)
Bruce McCullough
Bruce McCullough
Susan Cavan
Jordy Randall
Tom Cox
Tim Carlson
Atticus Mitchell
Bruce McCullough
Tracy Ryan
Accent
Entertainment,
SEVEN24 Films
Calgary
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THE AMAZING RACE CANADA - CTV
• Summer 2013: average audience 3.5 million viewers
• Most-watched Canadian television program on record and #2 program of the year overall behind only The Big Bang Theory
• From Insight Productions
BACHELOR CANADA - CITY
• Returns Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET• The series rested for a year after an
inaugural season where ratings ranged between 600,000 to 700,000
CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON - CBC
• Begins Sept. 28• Hosted by Jessi Cruickshank and
Jeff Douglas • No trivia, no book smarts, just mind-
bending challenges in six categories of intelligence
• An American adaptation is in development
CANADA’S WORST DRIVER - DISCOVERY
• 10th season• Discovery’s most successful
program ever• From Proper Television
DRAGON’S DEN - CBC
• Airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET• New dragons Michael Wekerle and
Vikram Vij were added for Season 9• Arlene Dickinson and David Chilton will
not be returning for Season 10
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The Amazing Race Canada drew an average of 2,774,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the most-watched Canadian series that season.
Dragon’s Den drew an average of 1,069,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the 2nd most-watched CBC series that season
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BBQ CRAWL - TRAVEL & ESCAPE NETWORK (CANADA)
• Season 2 premiered April 1, 2014• Executive Producer Kit Redmond• Starring Canadian BBQ Champion Danielle
Dimovski, aka “Diva Q”• Synopsis: Dimovski competes in southern
US BBQ cooking competitions and visits smokin’ BBQ establishments along the way
• Production Company: RTR Media• 23 x 30 min. episodes• Dimovski is a suburban mom of three
whose passion for BBQ takes her to competitions all over North America where she has won numerous awards
CHOPPED CANADA - FOOD
• The Food network’s No. 1 series of 2014 returns with host Dean McDermott
DINING INNVASION - COTTAGE LIFE TV
• Premiere: Sept 5., 2014• Executive Producer Scott Clark McNeil• Starring Chef Victor Barry and Event
planner Rebecca Wise• Synopsis: Barry and Wise spruce up 13...
...dated inns in cottage country.• Wise is the event expert on CTV’s The
Social• Production Company: General Purpose
Entertainment, Toronto• Airs Friday at 10 p.m. ET/PT• 13 X 30 min. episodes• Barry’s love of cooking began when he
was 13, working beside his uncle at a pizzeria in his hometown, Niagara-on-the-Lake
• Shooting locations include Stratford, Buckhorn, Huntsville and Port Severn
DONUT SHOWDOWN - FOOD
• Returning Sept. 8, 2014 (Season 2)• Executive Producer Mike Sheerin• Host Daryn Jones• Synopsis: Three teams of expert donut
makers compete to create the tastiest, one-of-a-kind donut and grab the $10,000 prize.
• Production Company: Architect Films Inc., Toronto
• Distributor: Tricon Films & Television• 14 x 30 min. episodes• The expert judges include chefs David
Rocco, Duff Goldman, Elizabeth Falkner, Zane Caplansky, Eden Grinshpan, Jeff Mahin and Maggie McKeown.
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MASTERCHEF CANADA - CTV• Summer average: 1.8 million viewers• Canada’s most-watched homegrown
series of the 2013-14 season and one of the most-watched new programs of the season
• Renewed with an order for Masterchef Canada: A Holiday Special
• From Proper Television• • • •
ONE WORLD KITCHEN - GUSTO TV
• Launching April, 2015 on television and earlier online
• Shines a spotlight on five global cuisines; Indian, Thai, Italian, South American and Japanese
• Features five Canadian chefs; Vijaya Selvaraju, Hana Etsuko, Natalia Machado, Vanessa Gianfrancesco and Pailin Chongchitnant
• 30 episodes ordered• Produced in Ottawa• Showcases Canada as one of the most
culturally diverse nations on the world
RECIPE TO RICHES - CBC
• Premiere Wed. Feb. 26, 2014 at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT)
• Synopsis: Amateur Canadian cooks compete to have their unique recipe featured as a President’s Choice® product and to ultimately win the $250,000 grand prize. Canadian viewers vote for their favourite.
• Executive Producers: Ivan Schneeberg and David Fortier (Temple Street Productions)
• Host Carlo Rota (Little Mosque on the Prairie, 24)• Production Company: Temple Street
Productions in association with CBC and Loblaw Companies Limited.
• Six one-hour episodes• The first two seasons aired on Food Network
Canada and Global before CBC picked up the show for its third season in 2013
• Host Carlo Rota’s got his passion for food from his father Dante Rota, an internationally renowned chef. He is also the former host of The Great Canadian Food Show.
• Judges are Gail Simmons, Vikram Vij, and Arlene Dickinson
YOU GOTTA EAT HERE - FOOD
• Fourth season begins Jan. 30, 2015• Canada’s version of Drive-Ins, Diners and Dives• Hosted by John Catucci who scourers
Canada for comfort food• 26 x 30 min. episodes• From Lone Eagle Entertainment
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MASTERCHEF CANADA
Masterchef Canada drew an average of 1,819,000 viewers a week in 2013-14, making it the second most-watched Canadian series that season.
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COLIN & JUSTIN’S CABIN PRESSURE - COTTAGE LIFE TV
• Season 2 premieres March 18, 2015 10 p.m. ET
• Executive Producer Les Tomlin• Starring Scottish design duo Colin
McAllister and Justin Ryan• Synopsis: The boys are back to finish
the transformation of their three-story log cabin in Muskoka, Ontario.
• Production Company: Co-production between Blue Ant Media (Toronto), Peace Point Entertainment Group (Toronto), and OUTtv.
• Airs: Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET• Distributor: Peace Point Rights• 13 x 30 min. episodes• “Neither Colin or I realized just what a
pig in lipstick we were buying.” — Justin Ryan.
HOUSE OF BRYAN SEASON 3: IN THE STICKS - HGTV
• Starring Bryan and Sarah Baeumler• Synopsis: Small town boy Bryan and his
city wife Sarah, build their dream home in the country
• Production Company: Si Entertainment• Airs Sundays at 9 p.m.• House of Bryan is the highest rated
series in HGTV Canada’s history• 16 x 30 min. episodes• The show is seen in 26 countries
including Russia, Australia and Israel• Baulmer has a B.A. in Political Science
from University of Western• Baulmer and wife Sarah have four
children.
INCOME PROPERTY - HGTV CANADA
• Returned Feb. 26, 2015• For Season 10, host Scott McGillivray
takes the show on the road for the first time
• Four vacation properties to be highlighted this season
• McGillivray was recently named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man of the Week”
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MIKE’S ULTIMATE GARAGE - HGTV CANADA
• Mike Holmes and his son Mike Jr, design, build and deck out their own state-of-the-art man cave
• Originally a one-night television event• Mike Holmes original HGTV series,
Holmes on Homes, premiered in 2001• In May 2010, Reader’s Digest named
Holmes as the second most widely-trusted person in Canada behind David Suzuki
TIMBER KINGS - HGTV CANADA
• Returning January 4, 2015• Executive Producers Adam Wilkenfeld,
David Paperny, Cal Shumiatcher and Audrey Mehler
• Starring the Timber Kings crew: Bryan Reid, Jr., André Chevigny, Bryan Reid, Sr., Joel Roorda, Beat Schwaller, and Peter Arnold
• Synopsis: Master log smiths custom build huge, multi-million dollar log homes and then take them apart and reassemble them at their new owner’s location – thousands of miles away
• Production Company: Paperny Entertainment, Vancouver
• Distributor: Passion Distribution, London
• HGTV Canada’s #1 series• 10 x 60 min. episodes• The homes are built by Pioneer Log
Homes in Williams Lake, BC• This season, the Timber Kings crew is
building homes in Britain, Germany and Scotland, in addition to North America
• The logs weigh 2,000 pounds and are cut with 20-pound chainsaws
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TIMBER KINGS
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COLD WATER COWBOYS - DISCOVERY
• Channel’s second-highest series premiere ever—Canadian production or otherwise—drawing 610,000 viewers for its series opener
• From Paperney Entertainment
THE LIQUIDATOR - OLN
• Returning January 8, 2015 (Season 4)• Executive Producers Margaret
Mardirossian and Helen Schmidt• Starring Host Jeff Schwarz• Synopsis: Schwarz buys and sells 24/7
to keep his 30,000 sq. ft. warehouse full and the profits flowing
• Production Company: Anaïd Productions (Vancouver) in association with Rogers Media Inc.
• Shot In North Vancouver BC• Airs Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT• Distributor: Picture Box Distribution• Season 3 premiere had the highest
audience numbers in the show’s history: 125,000 viewers (P2+). Season 3 also averaged 31 per cent higher audiences year-over-year in the key A25-54 demo (BBM Canada).
• 78 x 30 min. episodes• Leo Award winner 2014: Best
Screenwriting in Lifestyle/Information Series
• Airs in 137 countries around the world• “I’ll buy anything if the price is right…. I
live for the deal.” — Jeff Schwarz
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COLD WATER COWBOYS
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STORAGE WARS CANADA - OLN
• Returning January 8, 2015• Executive Producers Guy O’Sullivan
and Allison Grace• Synopsis: Described as a “modern day
treasure hunt” where buyers bid on storage units at auction
• Production Company: Proper Television• Based on a format created by Original
Productions, a FremantleMedia Company
• Airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT• Distributor: FremantleMedia
International• Highest-rated show on OLN• 36 x 30 min. episodes• Season 2 special guests include
Sportsnet Broadcaster and former Stanley Cup Champion Nick Kypreos and Robb Reiner of Canadian heavy metal band, Anvil
• Seen in over 140 territories around the world including the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and Australia
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SAY YES TO THE DRESS CANADA
SAY YES TO THE DRESS CANADA - W NETWORK
• Returning January 7, 2015• Synopsis: a bride-to-be tries on wedding
dresses and gets way too much input from friends and family
• Shot in Woodbridge, Ont., at Amanda-Lina’s Sposa Boutique
• Bridal stylist Joesph Spencer was Holt Renfrew’s evening gown specialist
• The US version of the series has run for 11 seasons
• Among the brides on Season 1 are Olympic bobsledder Emily Baadsvik, who searches for her gown with the help of her fiance, retired CFL star Dimitri Tsoumpas
• Watch one picky bride try on 50 gowns before settling on the perfect dress
• From Temple Street Productions
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SHANNON AND SOPHIE - W NETWORK
• Returing Tuesday, May 20, 2014• Producers John Ritchie, Rob Bromley,
Gillian Lowery and Dana Johl• Starring Shannon Tweed and daughter
Sophie Tweed-Simmons• Synopsis: The everyday adventures of
“try anything” mom Shannon Tweed and her more conservative 21-year-old daughter, Sophie Tweed-Simmons
• Production Company: Force Four Entertainment (Vancouver) in association with W Network
• Shot In Whistler (where the Simmons’ own a home), Vancouver, Los Angeles and Nashville
• Airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET• 8 x 30 min. episodes• Sophie is pursuing a singing and acting
career and helps run her own charity, Sophie’s Place, a children’s advocacy centre in Surrey, BC
• Gene Simmons will make regular cameo appearances on the show
YUKON GOLD - HISTORY
• Season 3 premiered Feb. 25, 2015• Follows four daring gold mining crews as
they pan for the ultimate payday• History’s top-rated Canadian documentary
series for the past two years, often topping 600,000 viewers
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AIRSHOW - DISCOVERY
• Premieres January 26, 2015• Synopsis: follows the lives of pilots, wing
walkers and other daring performers through a hair-raising airshow season
• From the makers of Highway Thru Hell• 12-part Canadian original• Produced by Great Pacific TV• Tagline: “This can be a job people are
dying to do”
BIGGEST AND BADDEST CANADA
- ANIMAL PLANET CANADA
• Returning Monday, December 1 at 10 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. PT, Season 2
• Synopsis : In Season 2, Niall McCann travels to Louisiana, South America, Africa and the Florida Everglades to see snakes, crocodiles, lions, gorillas and pythons in action – and very up-close.
• Produced and directed by Peter von Puttkamer
• Starring Canadian/British adventurer and biologist, Niall McCann
• Production Company: Gryphon Productions Ltd., West Vancouver, BC
• 6-part , one-hour series
BORDER SECURITY: CANADA’S FRONT LINE - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL (CANADA)
• Returning September 5, 2014 10 p.m. ET/PT (Season 3)
• Executive Producers John Ritchie, Gillian Lowrey and Rob Bromley
• Production Company: Force Four Entertainment, Vancouver, BC
• Synopsis: Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers challenge suspicious looking passengers who enter or exit Canada by land, sea or air.
• Shot in Vancouver, BC (primarily) and Ontario, Nova Scotia, Alberta, and Quebec
• Based on Border Security: Australia’s Front Line which debuted in 2004
• Opening Theme: “Would I Lie to You,” by Eurythmics
• 26 x 30 min. episodes• Filming of an immigration raid in spring
2013 where several workers were arrested inspired a campaign to have the show shut down. The president of the CBSA wanted it cancelled but Canada’s Public Safety Minister overrode his concerns.
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BIGGEST AND BADDEST CANADA
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DINO HUNT CANADA - HISTORY
• Premiere: January, 2015• Synopsis: follow Canadian
paleontologists as they embark on actual dinosaur digs. See them unearth a dinosaur that’s never been discovered before!
• Dino Hunt brings beasts back to life using CGI and prosthetic models
HIT THE ICE - APTN
• Returned January 9, 2015• Synopsis: At a NHL-style hockey training
camp, 20 uber-talented Aboriginal players hope to be discovered by a junior league scout.
• Written, produced and directed by Jason Brennan
• The team’s coach, John Chabot, is a former NHL hockey player
• Production Company: Nish Media in association with APTN
• 13 x 30 min. episodes• Broadcast in English and Cree• Premiered on APTN 2012
THE PEOPLE’S COUCH - BRAVO
• Premiere: Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 8:30 p.m. ET
• Synopsis: Canadians watch other Canadians watch TV
• Executive Producers Thomas Howe, Donna Luke, and Richard Fowler
• Starring eight groups of armchair critics including Shirlene, Jizelle and Chrield; Kenny and Tara; Kathy, Mary Ann and Cheri; Jordan and Nic; Sylvia and David; Ken and Natasha; Kate, “Miss Icy” and Terry, and Ben and Star
• Produced by Gogglebox Productions Inc., in association with Bravo, and with the support of THA Media Inc.
• Airs Sundays at 8:30 p.m. (ET)• 10, half-hour episodes• Based on GOGGLEBOX, the U.K’s hit
series. In its third season (ending May 2014) it was the highest rated series on Channel 4
• The People’s Couch observes people observing television and proves that how we watch is often as funny as what we watch—if not more so.” Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast
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HIT THE ICE
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SEE NO EVIL - SLICE NETWORK
• Premiere: Friday, November 7 at 9pm ET/PT
• Executive Producers Michael Kot, Saloon Media and Thomas Viner, Arrow Media
• Synopsis: Real crimes are solved using surveillance cameras plus dramatic re-enactments and testimony of police and other witnesses
• Production Company: Saloon Media (Toronto) and Arrow Media (UK)
• Airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT• Distributed by Entertainment One• 6 x 60 min. episodes• CCTV (closed circuit television) footage
has helped close cases that might have remained unsolved
• Cases include the Billings murders in Florida and the abduction and murder of Kelsey Smith
• “With 30 million surveillance cameras in North America, we are increasingly living in a surveillance society. See No Evil taps into this using a blend of real-life CCTV and home surveillance footage with dramatic reconstruction, revealing some of the most compelling murder cases.” –Thomas Viner
TOO MUCH INFORMATION - SUPER CHANNEL
• Premiere November 2014• Premise: A panel of comedians are asked
to blurt “too much information” on a variety of subjects. Points are awarded.
• Host: Norm Sousa• Panelists: Geri Hall, Naomi Sniekus, Mark
Forward, Lauren Ash, Carla Collins, Dave Merheje, Andrew Johnston, Sitara Hewitt, Fraser Young and several others
• From Lone Eagle Entertainment
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TOO MUCH INFORMATION
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FOREIGN LOCATION & SERVICE PRODUCTION
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - Season 3The CW/ShowcaseBatB III Productions Inc.Stars: Kirstin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Sendhil RamamurthyExec. Prod.: Brad Kern, John Webber, Frank SiracusaShoot: Aug. 28, 2014 – Feb. 06, 2015Toronto
DARK MATTER - Season 1SyfyDark Matter Series Inc.Stars: Marc Bendavid, Melissa O’Neil, Anthony LemkeExec. Prods.: Jay Firestone, Vanessa PiazzaShoot: Jan. 7 – May 15, 2015Toronto
DEFIANCE - Season 3Syfy/ShowcaseNBC - UniversalStars: Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Graham Greene, Mia KirshnerExec. Prod.: Kevin MurphyShoot: Feb. 2 - Jun. 11, 2015Toronto
In 2012/2013, the total volume of Foreign Location Service (FLS) production in Canada was $1.74 Billion dollars and supported 38,200 full time equivalent jobs. Eight out of 10 FLS projects in Canada originate in the US
ONTARIO
Ontario is Canada’s largest film and television production centre and is home to the most English-language distribution and broadcasting companies. The province recorded $2.39 Billion in total production volume during 2012-13.According to the Motion Picture Association of Canada, this generated 46,500 full time equivalent jobs in Ontario in 2012-13. Of the total production volume, $212 million was spent on Foreign Location and Service (FLS) production.
Among the FLS productions taking place in Ontario in 2014-15:
MAKE IT POP - Season 1NickelodeonDHX-Exchange Productions Inc.Exec. Prod.: Nick Cannon, Tom LynchShoot: Dec. 8, 2014 – Mar 13, 2015Toronto
THE EXPANSE - Season 1SyfyExpanding Universe Prods. Ltd.Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham, Thomas JaneExec. Prods.: Naren Shankar, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Sean Daniel, Jason Brown, Sharon HallShoot: Oct. 28, 2014 - Mar. 27, 2015Toronto
HANNIBAL - Season 3NBC/CityGaumont Int’l TelevisionStars: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Laurence FishburneShoot: Oct. 20 2014 - Apr. 02, 2015Mississauga
FOREIGN LOCATION AND SERVICE PRODUCTION DEFIANCE
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HEMLOCK GROVE - Season 3NetflixLockhem 3 Productions Inc.Stars: Famke Janssen, Landon Liboiron, Bill Skarsgård, Dougray ScottExec. Prod.: Gerritt van der MeerShoot: Dec. 08, 2014 - Apr. 30, 2015 Mississauga
MAN SEEKING WOMAN - Season 1FXX/FXX CanadaBroadway Video, FX ProductionsStars: Jay Baruchel, Eric Andre, Britt Lower, Maya ErskineExec. Prod.: Simon Rich, Jonathan Krisel, Andrew Singer, Lorne MichaelsToronto
REIGN - Season 2The CW/CTV Two/M3Reign Productions Inc. Stars: Adelaide Kane, Megan Follows, Toby RegboExec. Prods.: Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Laurie McCarthy, Harley Peyton, Brad SilberlingShoot: July 07 - Apr. 13 2015Toronto
SUITS - Season 5USA Network/BravoTemple StreetStars: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle, Rick Hoffman, Sarah Rafferty, Gina TorresExec. Prod: Ivan Schneeberg, David Fortier, John Fawcett, Graeme MansonShoot: Oct. 14, 2014 – Mar. 3, 2015Toronto
THE STRAIN - Season 2FX/FX CanadaStrain Can II Productions Inc.Stars: Corey Stoll, Mia MaestroExec. Prod.: Guillermo del Toro, Carlton Cuse, J. Miles Dale, Chuck Hogan, Gary UngarShoot: Nov. 17, 2014 – Apr. 30, 2015Toronto THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE - Season 1StarzPremiere: Motion Picture Corp.Stars: Riley Keough, Shaun Benson, Jeff ClarkeExec. Prods.: P. Fleischman, G. Marcus, S. SoderberghShoot: Mar. 9 - Jun. 19, 2015Toronto THE GOOD WITCH - Season 1HallmarkGood Witch One Productions Inc.Stars: Catherine Bell, James Denton, Catherine DisherProd.: Andrea RaffaghelloExec. Prod.: Frank SiracusaShoot: Oct. 15, 2014 – Feb. 13, 2015Toronto
FOREIGN LOCATION AND SERVICE PRODUCTION THE STRAIN
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ARROW - Season 3The CW/CTVOliver Queen FilmsStars: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Colin Donnell, David RamseyExec. Prod.: Gerg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew KreisbergShoot: July 09, 2014 – Apr. 17, 2015Vancouver BACKSTROM - Season 1Fox/GlobalFar Field ProductionsStars: Rainn Wilson, Genevieve Angelson, Thomas Dekker, Dennis HaysbertExec. prod.: Hart Hanson, Leif G.W. Persson, Mark Mylod, Niclas SalomonssonVancouver
BATES MOTEL - Season 4A&EGEP ProductionsStars: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor CarbonellExec. Prod.: Carlton Cuse, Kerry EhrinShoot: Oct. 20, 2014 - Feb. 26, 2015Vancouver
BRITISH COLUMBIA
In announcing their budget in February, 2015, the BC government pledged to continue to ensure the competitiveness of BC’s film, television and digital industries. Among the measures: extending the Interactive Digital Media tax credits to 2018 and expanding the digital animation or visual effects (DAVE) tax credits to include post-production.
Here’s a look at the foreign location and service production happening this season in British Columbia:
FALLING SKIES - Season 5TNT/Super Channel/SpaceStars: Noah Wyle, Connor Jessup, Jessy Schram, Maxin KnightExec. Prod.: David Eick, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Todd SharptFinal seasonVancouver IMPASTOR - Season 1TVLandIImpastor ProductionsStars: Michael Rosenbaum, Sara Rue, Micrea Monroe, David RascheExec. Prod.: Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Richard King, Robert GreenbergShoot: Mar. 16 - May. 19, 2015Burnaby IZOMBIE - Season 1The CWStars: Rose McIver, David Anders, Malcolm Goodwin, Robert BuckleyDC Comics, Rob Thomas ProductionsExec. Prod.: Rob Thomas, Diane Ruggerio-Wright, Danielle Stokdyk, Dan EtheridgePremiere: Mar. 17, 2015Coquitlam
FOREIGN LOCATION AND SERVICE PRODUCTION BACKSTROM
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MISTRESSES - Season 3ABCABC Studios, Ecosse FilmsStars: Jennifer Esposito, Rochelle Aytes, Yunjin Kim, Jes MacallanABC Studios, Ecosse FilmsExec. Prod.: Rina Mimoun, Douglas Rae, Grant ScharboShoot: Mar. 17 - July 16, 2015North Vancouver
ONCE UPON A TIME - Season 4ABC/CTVStage 49 ProductionsStars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Robert CarlyleExec. Prod.: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Steve PearlmanShoot: July 9, 2014 - Apr. 2, 2015Burnaby PROOF - Season 1TNTProof Productions Inc.Stars: Jennifer Beals, Joe Mallum Blue, Matthew ModineExec. Prod.: Rob Bragin, Kyra Sedgewick, Tom Jacobson, Jill Littman, Alex GravesShoot: Jan. 12 - Apr. 24, 2015Vancouver ROGUE - Season 2Direct TV/The Movie Network/Movie CentralUndercover Rogue 3 Prods. Inc.Stars: Thandie Newton, Cole Hauser, Sarah JefferyExec. Prod: Robert PetroviczShoot: Feb. 9 – Sept. 14, 2015Vancouver
SUPERNATURAL - Season 10The CW/SpaceSupernatural 5 FilmsStars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark SheppardExec. Prod.: Robert Singer, Jeremy Carver, Phil Sgriccia, McG, Adam GlassShoot: July 8, 2014 - Apr. 21, 2015Burnaby THE FLASH - Season 1The CW/CTVCentral City FilmsStars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Tom Cavanagh, Jesse L. MartinExec. Prod.: Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, David Nutter, Sarah SchechterShoot: July 11, 2014 - Apr. 10, 2015Vancouver
THE 100 - Season 2The CW, NetflixAlloy EntertainmentStars: Eliza Taylor, Paige Turco, Thomas McDonellExec. Prod.: Jason Rothenberg, Leslie Morgenstein, Matt MillerPremiere: Jan. 2015Vancouver
FOREIGN LOCATION AND SERVICE PRODUCTION IZOMBIE
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WAYWARD PINES - Season 1FoxFX ProductionsStars: Matt Dillon, Terrence Howard, Carla Gugino, Juliette LewisExec. Prod.: M. Night Shyamalan, Donald De Line, Chad HodgePremiere: Summer 2015Burnaby
FOREIGN LOCATION AND SERVICE PRODUCTION THE FLASH
WHEN CALLS THE HEART - Season 2Halmark/Super ChannelSilver City ProductionsStars: Erin Krakow, Daniel Lissing, Lori Loughlin, Chelah HorsdalExec. Prod.: Michael Landon, Jr., Eric Jarboe, Michael ShepardShoot: Nov. 17, 2014 - Mar. 05, 2015Langley
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FOREIGN LOCATION AND SERVICE PRODUCTION HELIX
QUEBEC
Quebec is one of the three largest film and television production centres in Canada, drawing nearly $1.4B in film and TV work in 2012-13. Quebec held a 24% share of total film and TV production volume in 2012-13.Plus what’s not to like about Montreal? Or, as Neil Patrick Harris tweeted in 2012: “Goodbye, Montreal! I had such a great time - the sights, the food, the people - I think you might be my favourite city in Canada!”
Among Quebec’s current English-language foreign location and service production:
HELIX - Season 2Syfy, SpaceMuse Entertainment, Sony Pictures TelevisionStars: Billy Campbell, Kyra Zagorsky, Mark Ghanimé , Matt LongExec. Prod.: Ronald D. Moore, Lynda Obst, Steven Maeda, Brad TurnerPremiere: Jan. 16, 2015Montreal
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FARGO - Season 2FX/FX Canada26 Keys Productions, The Littlefield Company/Nomadic PicturesStars: Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, Jean Smart, Kirsten DunstExec. prod: Noah Hawley, Warren Littlefield, Joel Coen, Ethan CoenShoot: Jan. 19 - May 15, 2015Calgary
THE PINKERTONS - Season 1Syndicated/CHCHRosetta Media, Buffalo Gal PicturesStars: Angus Macfadyen, Martha MacIsaac, Jacob BlairExec. prod.: Kevin Abrams, Adam Moore, Suzanne Berger, Phyllis LaingPremiere: Jan. 27, 2015Grosse Isle
ALBERTA
MANITOBA
HELL ON WHEELS - Season 5AMCEntertainment One, Nomadic PicturesStars: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, Dominique McElligottExec. prod.: Jeremy Gold, Joe Gayton, Tony Gayton, David Von AnckenPremiere: 2015Calgary
FOREIGN LOCATION AND SERVICE PRODUCTION THE PINKERTONS
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MARCH 2015
PREPARED FOR
Michael Hennessy, President & CEO,
Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA)
CURATED BY
Bill Brioux
brioux.tv
DESIGNED BY
Katie Brioux
katie.brioux.ca
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not in any way constitute an endorsement by the CMPA of such company or production.
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