The CW to end ‘Superman & Lois’ The CW Network is bringing Superman & Lois to a close with a fourth and final season of the superhero drama. Based on characters from DC created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the series followed the adventures of Superman (aka Clark Kent) and Lois Lane as they […]
Paramount+ has unveiled a raft of shows in development for its service in Canada, including a comedy about athlete Ben Johnson and a series from Elliot Page’s Page Boy Productions. Hate The Player: The Ben Johnson Story is a scripted comedy about the scandal behind the scandal about the athlete, who was found to have […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Media Ranch’s Judge For One Day gets Belgian remake RTL Belgium has ordered a local version of Media Ranch format Judge For One Day, which is going straight into production. The format explores what happens when eight ordinary people are given the opportunity to act as criminal judges for a day. Participants watch the same […]
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. […]
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 […]
Viceland’s Canadian feed has ordered its first scripted series. Nirvanna the Band the Show will comprise one of six new series from Canada that the network, which Vice operates locally with Rogers Media, has commissioned. The others are 16-part doc series Cyberwar, skateboard ten-partner Abandoned, eight-part Dead Set on Life, Indigenous community-themed RISE, and millennials-focused […]
