More than half of the 22 new shows that will debut on Corus Entertainment’s children’s television stations in the fall are homegrown productions.

The broadcaster announced its fall lineup for YTV, Treehouse TV and Discovery Kids Canada on July 19, as well as for additional Corus stations including W Network, Movie Central and CMT.

‘One of the things I really like about our original productions this year is that we have hit all the age groups for our channels,’ says Bonita Siegel, director, original productions for YTV, Treehouse and Discovery Kids, referring to new indigenous shows such as the animated preschooler series Farzzle’s World, produced by My Dog Entertainment and Brown Bag Pictures for Treehouse. For children aged six to 11, Spy Academy, produced by Chalk Media, will air on YTV. And shows like 15/Love, produced by Galafilm Productions for YTV, are aimed at early adolescents, but Siegel says adults will enjoy them as well.

In total, 13 new Canadian shows will premier on Corus kids stations, including the live-action/animation hybrid Dark Oracle (Shaftesbury Films) on YTV and Dragon (Cite-Amerique), a new Canada/Germany/Korea coproduced clay-animation series for preschoolers, on Treehouse. Discovery Kids will introduce Very Odd Jobs (Partners In Motion), an infotainment series that takes kids around the world in search of people with unusual occupations.

New Canadian shows premiering on W include the info/doc series Take This House and Sell It (Up Front Entertainment), with host Kimberly Carroll; Heartbeats (Breakthrough Films & Television), a reality series that gives viewers a glimpse into the experiences of female patients at Toronto’s Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre; and Style by Jury (Planetworks), a new makeover series hosted by Bruce Turner (Strip Search).

Movie Central’s original one-hour dramatic series ReGenesis, produced by Shaftesbury, will premier in October. The 13-part series, starring Peter Outerbridge (Men with Brooms) and Maxim Roy (Snakes & Ladders), is about a microbiologist who is in charge of a government agency that investigates some of the most controversial advances in biotechnology.

In addition to adding reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard to its fall lineup (thank goodness someone did), CMT will premier its original one-hour doc series Four Strong Winds. The eight-part series from Corridor Group Productions looks at Canadian singer/songwriters such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot and the impact they’ve made on popular music. CMT will introduce additional original Canadian series, including CMT Star, which gives viewers an inside look into the lives of country music stars; Not Your Daddy’s Country (Murder Inc. Productions), a three-part, one-hour miniseries profiling up-and-coming country stars; and All Through the Night with Jason McCoy (Rugged Media), a one-hour special about McCoy’s experiences recording a live country Christmas CD.

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