‘I want to be the next Bill Mustos,’ Virginia Rankin said Thursday, getting set to complete her one-year contract as CTV’s production executive on Flashpoint and return to indie production on June 1.

Rankin, who filled in for Samantha Morris during her maternity leave, plans to revive her production shingle, Netherworld Film Productions, to develop three projects — two parked with CTV and a third with Citytv.

Rankin offers few details on the drama, comedy and TV movie while they remain in development. ‘All I can say, I have some pretty promising projects. And I need to get back to work.’

During the past year, Rankin’s focus at CTV was supervising the creative on Flashpoint, the CTV/CBS cop drama from Pink Sky and Avamar Entertainment, which is top-lined by former CTV exec-turned-indie producer Bill Mustos.

She was on board for the first season (13 x 60) of Flashpoint. Mustos and fellow producer Anne Marie La Traverse are currently halfway through Flashpoint‘s second season of 18 episodes.

Rankin also stickhandled the first season (13 x 60) of the drama Defying Gravity for CTV and Space, produced in partnership with Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions and Fox Television Studios.

The veteran indie producer and story consultant says the industry has changed greatly since Flashpoint received its second-season order — producers like E1 Television, Cookie Jar and others have joined the parade of Canadians pitching to the U.S. networks.

‘It’s been proven that you can do it again,’ she argues, pointing to dramas like The Bridge and Copper. Now Rankin wants to follow those shows and Mustos onto a U.S. network slot.

‘It may almost become an expectation, that you can set things up in both countries. This has changed the way we make TV and the way broadcasters order shows,’ she says.