MEDIA IN CANADA today has the skinny on FIVE -- count'em -- five pilots the CBC has ordered for the coming year. They're all half hours:
The Montreal-set sitcom 18 To Life portrays two teenage neighbours who get married on a dare and begin their life together.
The B Team, from the producers of Corner Gas, portrays an underfunded CSIS department led by an ambitious young woman. It will be shot on location in Ottawa and Winnipeg.
Also contending for a CBC series slot is Ontario-Manitoba copro Throwing Stones, a half-hour drama that finds four women from different backgrounds unwinding at the local curling rink with ice, brooms and beer.
Republic of Doyle is a half-hour drama about a father and son who fight crime - and each other - as private investigators in oil-rich Newfoundland.
CBC has also ordered Abroad, a back-door pilot about the romantic misadventures of a Canadian woman in London, based on the experiences of Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren. Structured as a Canada/U.K. copro, it's the only pilot in this batch that's a two-hour TV movie, not a half-hour series.
The article didn't have any other info on the creative teams behind the other projects, so if anybody has info on the teams, the creator-writers, and the provencance of the various projects, feel free to chime in below.
I look forward to the latest chorus of how this proves unequivocably that the CBC is going to hell.
1 comment:
Um, Leah McLaren? Frightening.
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