Tag: Shaftesbury

Crave and Shaftesbury have begun production on the six-episode crime drama Underbelly, starring Stephen Amell (Arrow), Hamza Haq (Transplant) and Minnie Driver (The Serpent Queen).

AMC Networks’ Acorn TV has greenlit and begun production on Irish Blood, with Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, Bugonia) starring and executive producing.

Carlo Dusi, former managing director of Endor Productions, has launched the new indie Turning Point, with backing from Canada’s Shaftesbury (Departure, Murdoch Mysteries, Hudson & Rex, SisterS).

Acorn Media Enterprises (AME) and Sky NZ have commissioned the New Zealand thriller The Sounds, with all3media’s New Zealand production company South Pacific Pictures and the Toronto-based Shaftesbury co-producing.

CBC has greenlit Frankie Drake, a tentatively titled original detective series starring Lauren Lee Smith (This Life, The Listener).

EDMONTON: The Canadian pay-TV network Super Channel has slated its new original psychological thriller Slasher for an April 1 debut.

TORONTO: The original supernatural drama series Houdini & Doyle is premiering in May on Global in Canada in simulcast with FOX in the U.S.