DHX Media Gets Go-Ahead for Season Two of Drama Series

HALIFAX, April
9: Global Television has commissioned DHX Media for a second season of the
prime-time original drama The Guard,
set for broadcast in the 2008-2009 season.

Production for
the new season of the one-hour character-driven series will begin in June in
Vancouver. The Guard focuses on
the lives of four Coast Guard rescue specialists looking for meaning in their
own lives while enduring the daily dangers of life out on the Pacific Ocean.
The series is a co-production between DHX Media's subsidiary, Halifax Film, and
Vancouver-based Brightlight Pictures for Global Television.

Charles Bishop, the
president of Halifax Film, said, "We are thrilled to partner once again
with Global Television to produce a second season of The Guard. The additional season will continue to help us
secure significant international sales."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski