New additions to Credo’s six-pack

Winnipeg-based Credo Group has announced several more projects in its Prairie Initiative, the multiprovincial coproduction agreement to produce six tv mows.

Edmonton producer Glynis Whiting has delivered Strange and Rich, the story about a big-city cop who moves his family to small-town Alberta to escape crime, only to find himself investigating a gruesome murder. Arvi Liimatainen of Kicking Horse Productions in Edmonton is the director.

The next project to go is entitled Playboy and is based on the play Playboy of the Western World. Lee Gowan is writing the adaptation. Gordon McLennan of Regina’s Reel Eye Media is producing with Kim Todd of Credo.

Saskatoon’s Cinepost Productions is developing Yuletide Blues, written by Rod McIntyre and based on his book of the same name. Wally Start and Bill Stamp are producing with Michael Scott of Credo.

Winnipeg’s Ken Rodeck and Phyllis Laine, in tandem with Scott, are developing Beautiful Lake Winnipeg based on Maureen Hunter’s play of the same name. Bob Lower is writing the screenplay.

Richard O’Brien-Moran from Winnipeg scripted the fifth project, ‘Til Death Do Us Part. Scott is also attached to this project as a producer.

Executive producers Joan Scott and Derek Mazur of Credo are looking for a sixth project from Alberta.

Westward ho! for CityLine

Winnipegers can now catch Toronto talk show host Marilyn Denis every morning. City-tv’s talk show CityLine has been syndicated to cky in Winnipeg. It’s also airing on Calgary 7 CICT.

Is this little pig going to market?

Producer Keith Tomasek is finishing post on Without Rockets, a short about a man living in Churchill, Man. with his pet pig. Tomasek and director Gary Yates had to fly Booster the pig in to the location and then make sure he stayed out of harm’s way. In other words, out of the way of any polar bears that might have a hankering for ham sandwiches.

The film received the National Screen Institute’s drama prize at last year’s Local Heroes Film Festival.