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Bell Media Announces 29 Drama Projects in Development

Apr 19, 2014

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Thanks to Wolf for the heads up.

- Attached talent includes Ilana Frank (SAVING HOPE), Paul Haggis (Crash), Bill Mustos and Anne Marie La Traverse (FLASHPOINT), Salvatore Stabile (REVENGE), Katie Ford (Miss Congeniality), Steve Blackman (PRIVATE PRACTICE), Robert C. Cooper (STARGATE SG-1), and Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern (FLASHPOINT) -

- Production companies working with Bell Media include eOne, Shaftesbury, Omnifilm Entertainment, Thunderbird Films, LARK Productions, Darius Films, Don Carmody Productions, Prospero Pictures, Sienna Films, and Whizbang Films -

- Overall, Bell Media currently has 71 new original projects in development -

After receiving 83 Canadian Screen Awards nominations for original dramas Monday, Bell Media announced today its current roster of drama projects in development for its conventional networks and specialty channels. Associated with the projects are a long list of established writers and producers including Ilana Frank (SAVING HOPE, ROOKIE BLUE), Paul Haggis (Crash), Bill Mustos and Anne Marie La Traverse (FLASHPOINT), Salvatore Stabile (REVENGE), Katie Ford (Miss Congeniality, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES), Steve Blackman (PRIVATE PRACTICE, BONES), Robert. C Cooper (STARGATE SG-1, STARGATE ATLANTIS), and Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern (FLASHPOINT). Once again, Bell Media has engaged some of the most respected production companies in the country, including eOne, Shaftesbury, Omnifilm Entertainment, Thunderbird Films, LARK Productions, Darius Films, Don Carmody Productions, Prospero Pictures, Sienna Films, and Whizbang Films.

"We're proud to be in a position to work with some of the best and most seasoned creative talent in the business, respected not only in Canada but all over the world," said Corrie Coe , Senior Vice-President, Independent Production, Bell Media. "We look forward to continuing to work with them to develop these extraordinary projects, and we are excited to add even more to our development slate in the spring."

The diverse list of projects includes those from Canadian authors Giles Blunt and Robert Rotenberg ; several short-order series including one about a cop who uncovers the truth behind the murders of nine Native women in a small northern Canadian town; an episodic thriller set in a post-privacy world where deep-cover agents deal with the consequences of today's corporate decisions; a supernatural drama about clever young recruits who find themselves face-to-face with the unexpected at The Institute of Unpopular Science; a light police procedural about two unlikely partners stationed in the evidence room of a metropolitan police station; a crime procedural about a family of thieves who reunite to help a government agency solve crimes; and an epic historical drama series about the struggle in China for power and control of the lucrative opium trade during the late 19th Century.

In total, Bell Media's Independent Production team currently has 29 drama projects in development for conventional networks and specialty channels, joining the 20 comedy projects already announced for potential new pilots and/or series. Factual development projects will be announced at a later date.

Bell Media's current drama development slate features 29 projects (working titles):

AKA
A serialized drama about a woman with the perfect life - and a dark secret that could change everything.
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Thunderbird Films
Paul Mullie and Joeseph Mallozzi (STARGATE SG-1)
APEX
An elite police squad fights the growing criminal world of military-grade human bio-mods.
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Chris Roberts (ORPHAN BLACK)
CARDINAL MYSTERIES
A short-order, ongoing series based on the novels by Giles Blunt . In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay a body is found in an abandoned mine shaft. As two untrusting partners work to gather evidence, they realize it may be the work of a serial murderer.
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Giles Blunt (Forty Words for Sorrow)
Allan Magee - Story Editor (TRAILER PARK BOYS)
COPOUT
A light police procedural about two unlikely partners stationed in the evidence room of a metropolitan police station.
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Darius Films
Thomas Michael (Running Mates)
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SOCIETY
A brilliant criminology professor works with her students to solve deadly crimes.
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Sienna Films
Salvatore Stabile (REVENGE)
DEADLINE
An investigative journalist employs some unorthodox methods as she reports on the evolving criminal world around her.
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Omnifilm Entertainment
Suzette Couture (STAY WITH ME)
ECHOES
Serialized series in which Earth becomes the battlefield for two warring extraterrestrial species, and humanity struggles to survive.
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Don Carmody Productions
Carl Binder (STARGATE UNIVERSE)
HAUNTED
A young woman reluctantly takes on the role of ghost hunter after a failed experiment accidentally opens a portal to the spirit realm.
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Peter Mohan (THE LISTENER)
ICE
After losing all her money in a divorce, a suburban woman turns to diamond theft.
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Incendo
Katie Ford (Miss Congeniality)
LORDS OF OPIUM
An epic, one-hour historical drama series about the struggle in China for power and control of the lucrative opium trade during the late 19th Century.
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Darius Films
Paul Haggis - Executive Producer (Crash)
MIGHTY QUINNS
A family of con artists reunite to help a government agency solve crimes, but old habits die hard.
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LARK Productions
Steve Blackman (PRIVATE PRACTICE)
MODIFIED
A detective and his beleaguered partner spearhead the gene squad.
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Entertainment One (eOne)
Jeremy Boxen (LOST GIRL)
MORTAL COIL
Set in Alberta , a coroner not only performs autopsies, but also investigates the murders.
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Pier 21 Films
Andrew Wreggitt (BOREALIS)
OLD CITY HALL
Based on the books by Robert Rotenberg and set within the halls of the criminal courts.
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Shaftesbury Films
Robert Rotenberg (Old City Hall)
Samantha Corbin - Creative Consultant (LIE TO ME)
SALAMANDER
A detective uncovers a mysterious shadow society whose members are being targeted in this serialized series. Based on a Belgian series.
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AdlibFilm
Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern (FLASHPOINT)
SIEGE OF KEBEC
Set in New France in the early 1600s, this is history told with a mythic edge.
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Prospero Pictures
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szcerbowski (Madame Tutli-Putli)
Andrew Wreggitt (BOREALIS)
SEX, LIES & HANDWRITING
An artist and handwriting expert is hired by police to solve cases using her unique abilities.
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Sea To Sky Entertainment, Lionsgate, Tandem Communications
Nancy Miller and Annie Brunner (SAVING GRACE)
SMOKE & MIRRORS
An illusionist returns home to Niagara Falls and uses his extraordinary skills as a private detective.
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Adam Barken (FLASHPOINT)
Emily Andras (LOST GIRL)
SOUL HUNTER
After literally making a deal with the Devil, a young woman must capture 100 escaped souls and return them to Hell in order to get her life back.
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Thunderbird Films
Robert C. Cooper (STARGATE SG-1)
SPARROW
An episodic thriller set in a post-privacy world where deep cover agents deal with the consequences of today's corporate decisions.
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Brian McKeown (HUMAN CARGO)
STRAIN
When an estranged brother and sister inherit their mother's sci-fi-writing empire, they learn the truth behind some surprising lies.
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Pier 21 Films
David Hewlett (STARGATE SG-1), Kate Hewlett (INSECURITY), and Craig Wallace (TODD & THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL)
THE INSTITUTE
Four young recruits find themselves face-to-face with the unexpected at The Institute of Unpopular Science.
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Craig Wallace (TODD & THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL)
THE INVESTIGATION
A short-order ongoing series about a cop who uncovers the truth behind the murders of nine Native women in a small northern town.
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Sarrazin Couture Entertainment
Suzette Couture (STAY WITH ME)
THIRD EYE
A short-order ongoing series about a wrongfully discharged cop.
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Whizbang Films
Anne Wheeler (THE HORSES OF MCBRIDE )
TRANQUILITY
A troubled ex-cop is brought to the moon colony Tranquility as the new sheriff.
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Double Nickel Entertainment
Sonar Entertainment
Mark Verheiden (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA)
UNCOMMON YOUTH
A four-part mini-series set in Italy and the United States and based on the kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III , the grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty .
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Sea To Sky Entertainment
Stephen Tolkin (PERCEPTION)
UNRAVEL
A police drama.
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ICF Films
Aubrey Nealon (FLASHPOINT)
UNTITLED ANNE MARIE LA TRAVERSE PROJECT
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Anne Marie La Traverse (FLASHPOINT)
UNTITLED BILL MUSTOS PROJECT
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Bill Mustos (FLASHPOINT)
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10 comments:

  1. Cardinal Mysteres, Siege of Kebec and The Investigation. Rest sounds like nails on chalkboard.

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  2. Not a lot jumps out here.
    - Lots of cop shows.
    - Lots of distrust of future technology and the government.
    - More period dramas than I would expect.
    - "Sex, Lies, & Handwriting" is one of the worst show titles I've ever seen.
    - Can't really pass judgement of get excited about any of these shows with one sentence descriptions and no cast attached.

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  3. Lords of Opium sounds really good also Soul Hunter. There are enough cop dramas there to keep going for ages

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  4. Soul Hunter, Apex, Haunted and Mortal Coil sound interesting to me.

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  5. "- "Sex, Lies, & Handwriting" is one of the worst show titles I've ever seen."


    Ha! I guess you've never seen "Sex, Lies, and Video Tape"? :p
    (I know, it's still a bad title regardless)

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  6. Some of these sound ok...
    Haunted
    Soul Hunters
    Sparrow
    Echoes

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  7. Soul Hunter is basically "Brimstone" and "The Collector" but could be alright. Siege of Kebic or whatever sounds alrightish. Echoes is the only other one besides the two I mentioned that sounds okay. What's up with all the cop dramas??? No no no no no no no no no.

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  8. That's what makes the title so much worse. They borrowed from an already bad film title that has been borrowed and altered dozens of times, mostly as episode titles.

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  9. We have enough cop shows thanks...please come up with something more original. The institute sounded promising then I read it was about science institute! So not gonna bother with that one. Finally,any comedies? Not friends knock offs though please...again we gave enough of those :)

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  10. The film wasn't my cup of tea, but I didn't hate it, because I can appreciate Soddeberg's (sp?) approach and stylization.

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