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1C A N A D I A N T E L E V I S I O N 2 0 1 5 A GUIDE TO CURRENT PRODUCTIONC A N A D I A N T E L E V I S I O N 2 0 1 5 A GUIDE TO CURRENT PRODUCTION

CANADIAN TELEVISION

2015A GUIDE TO CURRENT PRODUCTION

Prepared for

Michael Hennessy, President & CEO

Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA)

Curated by

Bill Brioux


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.


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.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

RATINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

TELEVISION GENRES

DRAMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

COMEDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

UNSCRIPTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

FOREIGN LOCATION & SERVICE PRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60


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


DRAMA


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:


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

RATINGS:


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


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

RATINGS:


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


• 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


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


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


• 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:


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

RATINGS:


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“ ”


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

RATINGS:


• 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


• 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


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

RATINGS:


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

RATINGS:


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“ ”


• 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“ ”


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

RATINGS:


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

RATINGS:


COMEDY


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


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

RATINGS:


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


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

RATINGS:


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


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


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


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)


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


UNSCRIPTED


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

UNSCRIPTED - COMPETITION

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

RATINGS:

RATINGS:

THE AMAZING RACE CANADA


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.

UNSCRIPTED - FOOD

DONUT SHOWDOWN


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

UNSCRIPTED - FOOD

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.

RATINGS:


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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COLIN & JUSTIN’S CABIN PRESSURE


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


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


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


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


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


YUKON GOLD


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


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


HIT THE ICE


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


TOO MUCH INFORMATION


FOREIGN LOCATION & SERVICE PRODUCTION


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA)

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brioux.tv

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