The Canadian Film Centre and Entertainment One have chosen three writers to participate in the inaugural CFC/eOne TV Adaptation Lab.

Over the course of the three-month lab, Angela Misri, Kat Sandler and Michael F. Stewart will adapt their respective projects for television. In a statement, Jocelyn Hamilton, president of eOne Television Canada, said the chosen works include a “dark millennial dramedy,” a serialized procedural following underground hackers and a period crime drama.

The initiative, which was first announced last year at the CFC’s annual fundraising barbecue, aims to accelerate the development of television shows that have the potential to break through internationally.

The lab kicks off with a four-day bootcamp in Toronto starting May 31. The bootcamp will focus on giving the three participants, none of whom have ever written for TV, practical advice on how to transition to television writing. Workshops will be led by established industry toppers, including David Shore (House, Houdini and Doyle), Daegan Fryklind (Motive, Bitten), Morwyn Brebner (Saving Hope, Rookie Blue), Martin Gero (Blindspot, Dark Matter), Al Magee (Trailer Park Boys, Rent-a-Goalie), Michael MacLennan (Bomb Girls, This Life) and Lynn Coady (Sensitive Skin).

At the end of the lab, the participants will deliver pilot scripts and creative packages to eOne for consideration. 

Misri is a Toronto-based author and digital journalist, who has written three books in the Portia Adams Adventures series; Sandler is a playwright, director and the artistic director of Theatre Brouhaha and Stewart is a writer who has written more than 20 graphic novels, nonfiction books and novels, including the Assured Destruction trilogy.