NBC is coming back to Canada to climb The Mountain.

Montreal-based Muse Entertainment is to start shooting the two-hour TV movie/backdoor pilot in its hometown and in rural Magog, QC on Oct. 21 for NBC, which earlier this year ran the Canadian-made The Listener.

No other broadcaster, including those in Canada, has acquired The Mountain, which portrays a single mom with three kids who inherits a property from a supposedly dead uncle. Once inside the mountain cabin, they discover a treasure trove of history.

Muse’s Michael Prupas and NBC’s Jeff Grant are executive producing the TV movie and possible drama series, with Muse’s Joel Rice and Irene Litinsky on the ground in Quebec to produce.

Doug Barr wrote the script and will direct. Barr earlier this year wrote and directed the Hallmark Channel movie Taking a Chance on Love, which Muse coproduced.

Muse earlier coproduced the TV miniseries The Last Templar and series Crusoe for NBC, and the minis Impact and Ben Hur for ABC.

NBC aired The Listener from Shaftesbury Films this summer before canceling the series due to a lack of audience. Despite that setback, NBC and rival U.S. networks continue to acquire and schedule Canadian and other foreign primetime product, which can be purchased at a lower licence fee, reducing programming risk.