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Bell Media & New Metric strike creative pact with ‘Letterkenny’s Jared Keeso

Bell Media-owned Canadian streamer Crave and local producer New Metric Media have struck a multi-year creative partnership with Letterkenny creator and star Jared Keeso to create new shows for the platform, including spin-offs to the popular comedy. The agreement covers 49 episodes of programming for Crave, including further Letterkenny spin-offs, as well as the development […]

‘Letterkenny’ producer New Metric hires Bell Media duo for comedy push

Canadian Letterkenny producer New Metric Media has appointed former Bell Media exec Jeff Hersh as its first COO and fellow Bell alum Bill Lundy as SVP of comedy as part of a restructure to turn the firm into a comedy-focused entertainment studio. The reorganisation comes as New Metric seeks to meet a growing demand for […]

Sales round-up: ‘Children Ruin Everything’ for Roku; US Capitol riot doc travels worldwide; ‘DinoCity’ in demand  

‘Children Ruin Everything’ for Roku Roku has acquired upcoming Canadian comedy Children Ruin Everything as its first non-US original. The half-hour comedy, which was created by Schitt’s Creek writer Kurt Smeaton, will make its exclusive US debut on The Roku Channel next year. The series, which is produced by New Metric Media and distributed by […]

TBI Special Report Part One: Adapting production during lock down and beyond

Screen production has been among the hardest hit sectors from the Covid-19 pandemic, with freelance workers in particular suffering badly. Mark Layton explores how some businesses have adapted and evaluates lockdown’s lingering effect It is hard to understate the impact that Covid-19 has had on communities around the world. First and foremost, of course, is […]

TBI Weekly: How mega-mergers are set to impact third-party distribution deals

A frenzied period of consolidation is beginning to leave an indelible mark on the distribution business as more projects and producers find themselves caught in the crosshairs of mergers. Mega-deals such as Comcast’s acquisition of Sky, the impending Banijay-Endemol merger and a Red Arrow sale on the horizon are changing the face of the distribution […]

New Metric Media inks dev deals with Canadian authors

Letterkenny producer New Metric Media has struck a trio of development deals with Canadian authors. The Toronto-headquartered prodco, which is behind Netflix’s Bad Blood, has optioned the rights to projects from three authors, including criminologist Michael Arntfield; veteran author and Toronto Star lead investigative reporter for organised crime Peter Edwards; and online personality Anne T. Donahue. […]

Canada’s CraveTV orders OTT original

CraveTV has ordered What Would Sal Do?, a slacker comedy about a guy who discovers he is the second coming. The 8x30mins comedy will be written by Andrew De Angelis (Orphan Black) and is the Canadian OTT service’s third Canada-originated original. It hails from New Metric Media, which made LetterKenny, CraveTV’s first ever original, and […]