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Toronto -- Canadian TV writer-actor Ken Finkleman is to pen and star in the Canadian pay TV dramedy "Good Dog" from Shaftesbury Films.
The half-hour series for the Movie Network and Movie Central, the Canadian premium pay TV channels, will star Finkleman ("The Newsroom") as a neurotic TV show host who dates women half his age as he raises two kids.
The series will start production in early 2010.
Finkleman will share executive producer credits on "Good Dog" with Shaftesbury's Christina Jennings and Scott Garvie, and Peter Meyboom will produce.
In other Mipcom news, Canadian animation producer Nelvana Enterprises has sold the "Hot Wheels Battle Force 5" CGI animated series to RTL2 in Germany.
The co-production with Mattel Inc. was earlier sold to Cartoon Network stateside and Teletoon in Canada.
Toronto -- Canadian TV writer-actor Ken Finkleman is to pen and star in the Canadian pay TV dramedy "Good Dog" from Shaftesbury Films.
The half-hour series for the Movie Network and Movie Central, the Canadian premium pay TV channels, will star Finkleman ("The Newsroom") as a neurotic TV show host who dates women half his age as he raises two kids.
The series will start production in early 2010.
Finkleman will share executive producer credits on "Good Dog" with Shaftesbury's Christina Jennings and Scott Garvie, and Peter Meyboom will produce.
In other Mipcom news, Canadian animation producer Nelvana Enterprises has sold the "Hot Wheels Battle Force 5" CGI animated series to RTL2 in Germany.
The co-production with Mattel Inc. was earlier sold to Cartoon Network stateside and Teletoon in Canada.
- 10/5/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Toronto -- Veteran "24" helmer/executive producer Jon Cassar has been tapped to direct "The Sea Witches," a Canadian feature about female pirates.
The project, from Toronto producers Shaftesbury Films and MacRury Here Prods., has Malcolm MacRury ("Deadwood") writing the script, and Peter Meyboom, Scott Garvie, Christina Jennings and MacRury sharing producer credits.
No word on casting. Producers are eyeing Brazil or Australia as possible locations, and will pitch the project at the Ifp market in New York this month as part of the No Borders International Co-production Market to fill out financing.
The project, from Toronto producers Shaftesbury Films and MacRury Here Prods., has Malcolm MacRury ("Deadwood") writing the script, and Peter Meyboom, Scott Garvie, Christina Jennings and MacRury sharing producer credits.
No word on casting. Producers are eyeing Brazil or Australia as possible locations, and will pitch the project at the Ifp market in New York this month as part of the No Borders International Co-production Market to fill out financing.
- 9/4/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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