VisionTV Bolsters Dramedy Development Slate

TORONTO: Canadian multi-faith and multicultural network VisionTV has put its fourth comedy-drama series into development: Flatearth E.R. from Angel Entertainment.

The show focuses on a  strong-willed South African surgeon who moves to a small community in Saskatchewan, where she must learn to co-exist with the aging and cantankerous town doctor. It joins Hungry Eyes Film & Television’s Local 68, Shaftesbury and Henry Less Productions’ Saint Michael and Soapbox Productions’ Taking on Water in VisionTV’s dramedy development portfolio.The projects were chosen from among the 270-plus submissions that VisionTV received in response to a call for dramedy series proposals. One of the four projects will be greenlit for potential broadcast in the fall of 2010.