Shaftesbury’s Bloodletting Receives Orders

CANNES, April 7: Shaftesbury Films’
one-hour drama series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures has gotten orders from
Astral Media’s The Movie Network and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central, with
production slated to begin later this year.

Based on the short-story collection
written by Vincent Lam, the eight-part series follows a group of conflicted
young doctors from medical school through their internships and on to their
years as emergency room doctors. Award-winning writer Jason Sherman (ReGenesis,
Murdoch Mysteries) is developing and writing the series.

“We are delighted to bring this
internationally acclaimed novel to television with our partners at The Movie
Network and Movie Central,” said Christina Jennings, the chairman and CEO
of Shaftesbury Films. “Vincent Lam is a phenomenal writer and Jason Sherman has
done an extraordinary job with the adaptation for pay TV. This is like no other
medical drama brought to television.”

—By Kristin Brzoznowski