Toronto: It’s not easy to get Jan Peter Meyboom to talk about his projects. Ask him a question about the goings-on at 100 Percent Film & Television and odds are good that the answer – which might turn out to be not much of an answer at all – will be prefaced by an uneasy cough and a remark about not wanting to ‘jinx it.’

Fair enough. No one wants to invite bad luck. So, how about this? We’ll set aside all the questions about those two one-hour dramas in development at CBC, the ones on the desks of Deborah Bernstein and Susan Morgan. What’s up with the new season of The Newsroom?

For starters, he says, the last episode is animated. ‘At the end of every run of Newsroom there’s always a strange dip into fantasy,’ he says, citing one year’s excursion into the afterlife, and another’s nuclear holocaust. This time around, newsman George Findlay spends half of the ep in a kind of cartoon wonderland.

The 2D, rotoscoped and Flash work was done at Cuppa Coffee Animation in Toronto. ‘They did a fantastic job,’ says Meyboom.

What’s more, this could be the last season of Newsroom. 100 Percent made just six episodes this time and currently has no plans for any more, he says. The ratings were soft last year, but the official reason is that writer and star Ken Finkleman wants to work on other projects, starting with the action feature Assassination on Embassy Row.

Scripted by Finkleman from the book of the same name by John Dinges, it’s the true story about how Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet had one of his own ministers car-bombed in Washington, DC, back in the 1970s. 100 Percent is showing the script in Chile and the U.K., looking for copro partners.

‘This is a story that just keeps coming back,’ Meyboom enthuses, noting the legal and political fights that still surround Pinochet. ‘But on the surface it’s also a good action story.’

The shop also recently optioned the Michel Basilières novel Black Bird and has handed the script duties to Andrew Rai Berzins, who came to 100 Percent’s attention for his work on Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf & Grendel. ‘I think he got some really complicated material and he turned it into a fabulous piece of writing,’ says Meyboom.

There is no word yet on when either movie might go to camera because, y’know, jinxes.

The company is, however, looking to shoot a pilot for CBC this spring. No Cover, from exec producer Scott McEwen, is described as a no-frills showcase of emerging Canadian bands and may shoot its first ep during the NXNE festival in June, with managing director Andy McLean acting as talent spotter. The idea, says Meyboom, is to tap into Canada’s large and popular music scene.

‘Canada really dominates in pop music around the world,’ he says. ‘There’s a whole level of bands out there who haven’t broken out yet. So let’s put them on TV.’