Production Begins on New Season of Murdoch Mysteries

TORONTO, July 23:
Shaftesbury Films has begun production on season two of its one-hour drama
series Murdoch Mysteries, which
will premiere in spring 2009 on Citytv.

Filming for the show will
run until November 11 in Toronto and Hamilton with days scheduled to shoot in
Calgary and Vancouver.

Based on Maureen
Jennings’s Detective Murdoch Mystery novels, Murdoch Mysteries is set in 1895 Toronto and explores the world of
William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson), a young detective who uses radical forensic
techniques to solve murders.

Murdoch Mysteries is executive produced by Christina Jennings and Scott Garvie for Shaftesbury Films and Cal
Coons. The show is produced by Peter Meyboom and Laura Harbin for Shaftesbury
Films and Shauna Jamison. Series directors include Paul Fox (Life with Derek), Farhad Mann (Painkiller Jane) and Don McBrearty (ReGenesis). Production executives are Alain Strati and Diane
Boehme for Citytv, Noel Hedges for Granada and Alexandra Finlay for UKTV.

Murdoch Mysteries is developed and produced by Shaftesbury Films in
association with Citytv, a division of Rogers Media, Granada International and
UKTV.

—By Jackie Stewart