From a media release:
Award-winning mother-daughter team, filmmaker and producer Gail Harvey (Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries, Lost Girl), and actress, writer and producer Katie Boland (Gerontophilia, Reign) of Straight Shooters Productions are delighted to announce a development deal with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for their ground-breaking new comedic drama Gold Lamé.
Being developed through the comedy department at the CBC, Straight Shooters Productions will work with Sienna Films (Unless, Riftwood Chronicles, Combat Hospital) on this captivating production. Created and written by Boland and Katie Ford (Miss Congeniality, Prayers for Bobby), the 30-minute serial narrative is a compelling original series centred around an aimless but shrewd young woman who is plucked out of obscurity and hired to work for a genius entrepreneur at the helm of multi-billion dollar clothing empire.