From a media release:

Season 3 In Development; Season 2 Being Nominated; Season 1 Encore Presentation On Showcase

Since Blackstone first hit the airwaves in November 2009, it has consistently ranked as one of APTN’s top-rated and most popular programs. It has earned the rightful reputation as the kind of show that provokes discussion about issues, engages conversation about social change, and – above all else – entertains.

With two successful seasons already broadcast, and the third season in development, the series will continue to make viewers think and feel. Stories for this hard-hitting drama are now being written, and will continue to explore and expose the tumultuous lives on the fictional Blackstone First Nation.

10 AFTA NOMINATIONS FOR SEASON 2

The Alberta Film & Television Awards recently announced nominees for their 38th annual event, which celebrates excellence and outstanding achievement in Albertan film, television and new media. The second season of Blackstone was honoured with a total of 10 nominations, in the following categories:

• Best Dramatic Series, Producers – Ron E. Scott & Jesse Szymanski
• Best Production Reflecting Cultural Diversity, Producers – Ron E. Scott & Jesse Szymanski
• Best Director Drama Over 30 Minutes – Ron E. Scott
• Best Performance by an Alberta Actor – Nathaniel Arcand
• Best Performance by an Alberta Actress – Michelle Thrush
• Best Performance by an Alberta Actress – Roseanne Supernault
• Best Screenwriter Drama Over 30 Minutes – Ron E. Scott
• Best Editor Drama Over 30 Minutes – Doug Forbes
• Best Visual Effects – Joe Raffa, Trevor Sieben & Kirk Hutton
• Best Make-Up Artist – Prudence Olenik

The Alberta Film & Television Awards will be handed out at a gala dinner and awards evening in Calgary on Saturday, May 12th.

ENCORE PRESENTATION OF SEASON 1

The complete first season of Blackstone will receive an encore presentation on Showcase. Beginning on April 30, the series will be reintroduced to Showcase audiences.

ABOUT BLACKSTONE

Blackstone is a Gemini Award-winning series produced by Edmonton’s Prairie Dog Film + Television, with Ron E. Scott as executive producer, writer and director, Jesse Szymanski as producer, Damon Vignale as producer and writer, and Gil Cardinal and Penny Gummerson as writers. Blackstone currently broadcasts in Canada and New Zealand. The series is distributed internationally by PPI Releasing.

The first season of Blackstone won two Gemini Awards, and garnered two wins at the 2011 Leo Awards and three wins at the 2011 Alberta Film and Television Awards.

Blackstone was produced in association with Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, with the assistance of the Government of Alberta, Alberta Multimedia Development Fund, with the participation of Rogers Cable Network Fund, and with the assistance of the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.

From a media release:

SCHOOL IS ALMOST OUT, BUT MR. YOUNG IS HEADED BACK TO CLASS: BURNABY-BASED PRODUCTION TO START FILMING THIRD SEASON IN MAY

In two weeks, cameras will start rolling on the third season of YTV’s hit comedy series, Mr. Young. B.C.-based Thunderbird Films and Corus Entertainment have green lit another season of Canada’s first multi-camera series, created by Dan Signer (The Suite Life on Deck, A.N.T. Farm) and starring Brendan Meyer (The Haunting Hour, Girl vs. Monster).

Filmed in front of a live studio audience, Mr. Young focuses on Adam Young, a whiz-kid-turned-teen genius who hit the books hard enough to graduate university at the age of 14. Fearing he’s missing out on his teen years, Adam turns down a job at NASA and heads back to high school – as a teacher.

After a stellar first season in Canada and ‘hit’ status on US network, Disney XD, the series is rolling out to countries around the world, including Australia, Italy, France, the UK and throughout Latin America. Season two started airing on YTV in March and will be broadcast on Disney XD USA this summer.

Also starring Matreya Fedor, Gig Morton and Milo Shandel, the sitcom explores the humour of high school from the perspective of someone trapped between two worlds. With co-workers twice his age, and his best friend, the school bully and his first crush, as his students, things rarely go smoothly for Adam Young.

Mr. Young is the only Metro Vancouver production that films in front of a live audience and is already booking seats for the first show on May 11th. With space for 175 people, it’s a family friendly and fun evening that includes prizes, pizza and the chance to meet the actors.

LIVE SHOW DATES:
May 11 & 18
June 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29
July 13, 20 & 27
August 3, 17, 24 & 31
September 14, 21 & 28
October 26
November 2

STUDIO LOCATION:
5828 Byrne Road, Burnaby, BC (off Marine Way & Market Crossing)

AUDIENCE DETAILS:
Tickets are free and are recommended for children 10+. Audience check in is at 4pm and filming usually wraps by 9:30pm.

TO RESERVE SEATS:
Call 604-433-0779 or email mryounglive@gmail.com.

From a media release:

Mosaic Entertainment in production on Tiny Plastic Men and Truckstop Bloodsuckers

Mosaic Entertainment has launched production on the first season of Tiny Plastic Men, a new comedy television series for the national Pay TV broadcaster Super Channel. The innovative new series combines sitcom and sketch comedy in one neat package and kicks off with a wild and crazy first season featuring an orangutan, a spoiled celebrity socialite and her dog, a faked moon landing, and an unconventional Japanese board game.

Flying high off their whopping 12 Alberta Film and Television Rosie nominations for the third season of CAUTION: May Contain Nuts, Mosaic is launching principal photography on this new series while also prepping to shoot a comedy horror series for BITE immediately after.

Produced by Mosaic Entertainment, Tiny Plastic Men is a dramatic series about three young men working hard and playing even harder as Toy Testers in the basement of “Gottfried Brothers Toys and Trains Co.” As they play in their weird world of toys, their boyish imaginations take them into fantasy sketches where all their biggest nerd fantasies come true.

Nominated for their comedic writing on Seasons 2 and 3 of CAUTION: May Contain Nuts, Matt Alden Dykes and Mark Meer are back as writers and stars of this comedy madness. Joining the Tiny Plastic Men trio of writer-stars is award-winning head writer, Chris Craddock—who recently earned rave reviews for his one-man theatre production, Moving Along. The three writers spark like a pack of dynamite behind and in front of the camera. Rounding out the hilarious cast are improv funny guy Jesse Gervais, theatrical gem Belinda Cornish, Canadian classic John B. Lowe, and a whole host of special guests including former NHL fan favourite, Georges Laraque. Tiny Plastic Men is set to air on Super Channel in the fall of 2012.

While filming Tiny Plastic Men, the folks at Mosaic Entertainment are also in preparations to follow up the shoot with another production. This time it’s a short form TV series and feature film for the national comedy broadcaster BITE called Truckstop Bloodsuckers, a dark comedy that goes for the jugular—literally. In this comedy horror set in a truck stop diner in small-town Alberta, two vampires are passing themselves off as ordinary waitresses. That is, until a gang of tough drug dealers drop in for some pie and stumble upon their secret. Truckstop Bloodsuckers is a seriously tasty dark comedy, where the killers are the good guys, and some jobs suck more than others.

Creators Lindsey McNeill (Head Writer) and Galen Pendleton (Director) came up with the idea while working together on the third instalment of local Nightmare Island film series, Rise of the Blood Queen. With Lindsey’s acting and writing experience in horror films and Galen’s work on CAUTION: May Contain Nuts, the pair have quickly become an irresistible horror-comedy machine and Mosaic Entertainment is excited to bring this latest joint project to life. Truckstop Bloodsuckers begins filming May 7, 2012 and is set to hit BITE and www.bite.ca this summer.