The Canadian Film Centre & eOne Name TV Adaptation Lab Participants

TORONTO: The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and Entertainment One (eOne) have announced the three creators and writers selected to participate in the inaugural TV Adaptation Lab.

The participants are Angela Misri, a Toronto-based author and digital journalist who spent 14 years as a producer for CBC Radio; Kat Sandler, a playwright, director and the artistic director of Theatre Brouhaha; and Michael F. Stewart, who has written more than 20 graphic novels, nonfiction books and novels. The TV Adaptation Lab kicks off today with a four-day boot camp in Toronto, offering the three participants insights on transitioning to TV writing, what makes great television and the adaptation process.

Lab guests include industry professionals from Canada, the U.S. and abroad, such as David Shore (House, Houdini and Doyle), Daegan Fryklind (Motive, Bitten), Morwyn Brebner (Saving Hope, Rookie Blue), Martin Gero (Blindspot, Dark Matter), Al Magee (Trailer Park Boys, Rent-a-Goalie), Michael MacLennan (Bomb Girls, This Life), and CFC alumna and Giller Prize-winning novelist Lynn Coady (Sensitive Skin).

The lab will last three months.

“We are thrilled to have found three unique and exciting writer-creators, with compelling projects, for our inaugural lab: a dark Millennial dramedy that pushes moral boundaries, a serialized procedural set in the world of underground hacking, a period crime drama with an exciting spin on a classic format,” said Jocelyn Hamilton, the president for Canada at eOne Television. “Through our partnership with the CFC, we set off to accelerate the development of great television content creation in Canada and ultimately bring three world-class projects to life. We are very pleased to be well on our way with three talented writers who, while new to television writing, are established within their respective mediums, and three projects that have so much potential to break through on television.”

“We were very pleased with the response to this unique initiative when we launched the call for submissions last fall,” said Slawko Klymkiw, the CEO of CFC. “The application process was highly competitive, drawing a large number of submissions covering a cross-spectrum of genres and projects that truly demonstrated the diverse and unique talent in this country. We look forward to seeing the outcomes of the inaugural CFC/eOne TV Adaptation Lab and the work that the three participants produce.”