Amazon Prime Video has commissioned true-crime docuseries The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith as a new Canadian original. The series, which debuts on 6 May, follows the cold case and controversial investigation into the 1974 murder of Beverly Lynn Smith in her home in Oshawa, Ontario. Woven together from first-hand accounts, expert interviews, family […]
Muse Entertainment, the Canadian indie behind Coroner, has hired veteran Mayor Of Kingstown producer Alex Jordan as SVP of production. Toronto-based Jordan will join the company on 1 January, where he will work closely with president of production Irene Litinsky, as well as with Muse’s development teams in Montreal, Toronto and Los Angeles, to produce […]
Canadian Coroner producer Muse Entertainment has inked an exclusive first-look deal with former Vice Media Group EVP Michael Kronish. The TV and film producer will work closely with the firm’s development teams in Montreal, Toronto and Los Angeles to develop and produce factual programming across all genres and formats for the global market. Kronish helped […]
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has picked up the first two seasons of the CBC original series Coroner for its FTA channel More4, while Canada’s CBC has greenlit a 10-episode third season of the drama. Originally commissioned for Canadian broadcaster CBC, the 16 x 60-minute series was produced by Muse Entertainment, Back Alley Films and Cineflix […]
The CW claims Cineflix’s Coroner US network The CW has picked up CBC’s drama series Coroner after striking a deal with Cineflix Rights. The 16 x 60-minute show, from Muse Entertainment, Back Alley Films and Cineflix Studios, follows a recently widowed, newly appointed coroner who investigates any suspicious, unnatural or sudden deaths in Toronto. Peter Emerson, […]
Distributor: APC Studios Producer: Muse Entertainment Broadcaster: NBCUniversal International Networks (Europe, Africa), Citytv (Canada) Logline: A female-led procedural starring Gotham’s Jessica Lucas The Murders is Muse Entertainment’s latest procedural drama focusing on homicide detective Kate Jameson, played by Gotham’s Jessica Lucas, and detective Mike Huntley, as they navigate the case of a mysterious killer who […]
Distributor: APC Studios Producer: Muse Entertainment Broadcaster: NBCUniversal International Networks (Europe, Africa), Citytv (Canada) Logline: A female-led procedural starring Gotham’s Jessica Lucas The Murders is Muse Entertainment’s latest procedural drama focusing on homicide detective Kate Jameson, played by Gotham’s Jessica Lucas, and detective Mike Huntley, as they navigate the case of a mysterious killer who uses music for destructive […]
UK broadcaster Channel 5 has acquired Tut, the Ancient Egypt miniseries about boy-king Tutankhamun. Viacom-owned Channel 5 acquired the show from Muse Distribution International, whose parent, Muse Entertainment, produced it. Tut was created for another Viacom network, US cable channel Spike, which ordered the drama as its first event miniseries in eight years and launches […]
Tut producer Muse Entertainment has hired Lydia Storie to become VP, development at its LA arm. Storie (pictured) was most recently director of development for Endemol Shine Studios’ scripted pod division Additional Dialogue, where she oversaw a slate of cable development projects and secured book titles for the slate. She will now join Muse Entertainment […]
US cable channel Spike TV has ordered a six-part scripted miniseries based on legendary Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen from Canada’s Muse Entertainment. Tut will tell the story of Tutankhamen’s rise to power and subsequent struggle to establish Egypt as a key power as his advisors, friends and lovers scheme for their own interests. Spike billed the […]
