From Anaid Productions:

The Rig is back. OLN’s 13-part series revealing the real-life drama behind Alberta’s oil industry hit its own form of black gold – a following. As a result, OLN is committed to a second season and the search for a new rig crew is currently underway in Northern Alberta.

In addition, OLN is re-broadcasting the entire first season immediately on the heels of completing the series’ first airing. The Rig airs Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. ET/10:30 p.m. PT.

“The Rig gives such a lively and realistic snapshot of life behind the oil and gas myth,” says Margaret Mardirossian, executive producer and President of Anaïd Productions. “We’re excited about getting a chance to go more deeply into the amazing stories of this dynamic industry.”

Season One of The Rig focused on the crew of Poncho Well Servicing Ltd. – a drilling rig company based in central and northern Alberta. Throughout the series, viewers witness the day-to-day grind and the off-hours antics on Poncho’s rig #108 with all the physical and emotional trials and the shifting dynamics of the rig’s three crews.

Season Two, The Rig: Tar Camp (working title) focuses on one of the largest rig camps in the entire tar sands oil project: a place where hundreds of young men struggle to hit their private pay dirt in the back-breaking, dirty end of the booming northern Alberta oil industry; where a handful of brazen young women strive to hold the camp, and their sanity, together in the testosterone-filled bunk halls; and where a small crew of unsung heroes work modern miracles on the environmental aftermath when the rigs are gone. The Rig: Tar Camp is a place of unbelievable hard work – where boys become men and women do their best to remain un-tarred in the greatest blue-collar cash haul since the gold rush.

From C21 Media:

• Fremantle picks Blueprint dramas
  “Love You To Death (13×30′) stars John Waters (director of Pink Flamingos, Hairspray and Cry-Baby) in his TV series debut as the ‘Groom Reaper,’ and tells the tales of spouses who have killed their other halves. … Also new to the FME slate in Cannes this April will be The Best Years (13×60′), another drama from Blueprint, coproduced with Global Television and The N, the Viacom-owned US teen night-time network.”

From KidScreen Daily:

• Storm Hawks soaring into France
  “Vancouver, Canada-based Nerd Corps has added France 3 to its growing list of broadcasters for CGI adventure/comedy Storm Hawks.”

By Bill Harris of Sun Media:

• Nielsen adds humour to med series
  “More than a quarter-century after his classic role in Airplane!, Leslie Nielsen remains the quintessential comic doctor. That surely is why the veteran Canadian actor was nabbed for the key comic-doctor role in the new 13-part, genre-bending medical series Doctor*ology. The Discovery Channel will show the first five half-hour episodes back-to-back this Friday.”

From Playback:

• CBC keen on comedy
  “The series will turn around quickly and go to air on CBC on July 3.”