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From a media release:
Fresh TV Inc. announced today that TELETOON has ordered more episodes of two of their animated shows geared at tweens and teens: Total Drama, the Musical and Stoked.
Fresh TV’s unconventional ‘reality’ cartoon series, Total Drama now takes on a new musical spin for season three with Total Drama, the Musical. This follows the wildly successful first season Total Drama Island, and the yet to air second season of Total Drama Action. Created by Fresh TV partners Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch, Total Drama, the Musical takes 15 lucky contestants all over the globe to compete in outrageous and embarrassing challenges and break into spontaneous musical numbers in each episode. Favourite contestants from previous seasons will return for this globetrotting challenge which is sure to contain alliances, backstabbing and more than a few tender moments in true Total Drama style.
Stoked, which will premiere on TELETOON in Spring 2009, is now ramped-up to an order of 52 episodes from the previously announced 26 episode order. Stoked is an animated situational comedy about teens who come together one summer to work at world renowned Surfer’s Paradise Resort – home of the best surfing in the country. For twelve weeks they will spend their first summer away from home, work hard, and most importantly, have the opportunity to surf on their days off.
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YTV Picks Up New Heroic Project
Heroic Film Company is proud to announce that their tween comedy, How to be Indie, has been green lit for production by Corus Entertainment’s YTV. The show will shoot in the fall of 2008 and is set to air on YTV in Fall 2009. International distribution will be handled by DECODE Enterprises.
Created by writer Vera Santamaria and Heroic executive producers John May & Suzanne Bolch, How to be Indie is a comedic live-action series told through the eyes of 13-year-old Indie as she endeavours to balance her immigrant family’s South Asian traditions and her Canadian lifestyle. But even with these struggles, and the challenge of being a teenager, Indie remains undaunted and always manages to win – in her own way.
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AIR FARCE TAKES OFF ON FINAL FLIGHT, FRIDAY, OCT. 3, AT 8 P.M., ON CBC-TV
A landmark Canadian comedy series is coming to an end. After 35 years on CBC Radio and Television, Royal Canadian Air Farce will take a final bow at the end of 2008. Titled ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FARCE—FINAL FLIGHT! for its farewell season, it gets underway Friday, Oct. 3, at 8 p.m., on CBC-TV, with its regular weekly half-hours. The show then wraps up with its traditional New Year’s Eve Special, Wednesday, Dec. 31, at 8 p.m.
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Temple Street Productions and CBC Television Announce the Start of Production on their newest collaboration: Being Erica
Hot on the heels of the highly successful hit reality series How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? Temple Street Productions and CBC Television team up once again on their much anticipated drama series, Being Erica. Principal photography on the inaugural season has begun and production will continue in Toronto until mid-December, 2008. The one-hour, 13-episode series will begin airing on CBC in January 2009.
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