New and returning personalities are the cornerstone of nearly four-dozen original productions Corus Entertainment is bringing to its networks over the next year.

The company announced its original programming lineup ahead of its full Upfront presentation on June 8. The announcement on Thursday (June 2) touted 45 new and returning series, with 24 coming from its own Corus Studios.

They include a new show from Island of Bryan host Bryan Baeumler (pictured above) and Boat Rocker-produced Robyn Hood.

Coming to Corus’s flagship terrestrial network Global is the previously announced Robyn Hood, a new eight-episode scripted series from Director X that is a modern retelling of the classic story. Greenlit in January, casting for the show has yet to be announced, but production is set to begin this summer in Toronto and Hamilton.

Executive produced by Boat Rocker Studios, Eleventh Hour Films and Luti Media, with Director X and Chris Roberts, Robyn Hood is written by Chris Roberts (Orphan Black, Frontier).

Returning to Global’s lineup are the second seasons of dramas Family Law (pictured), produced by Calgary’s SEVEN24 Films and Vancouver’s Lark Productions, and Canada/Ireland coproduction  Departure (Shaftesbury). Family Law was renewed for a third season last month, while production on season three of Departure started last fall in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Outside of scripted series, ET Canada will be returning to Global for its 18th season, with ET Canada Weekend returning for its second season.

The History network will have a pair of new limited documentary series. True Story, made to recognize Canada’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, offers a critical lens on the history of relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers, showing both heartbreaking truths and inspiring hope. For Remembrance Day, Our War (pictured left) dives into lesser-known stories about individuals in the First World War and Second World War, such as one of Canada’s first Black servicemen and a female intelligence officer stationed at Bletchley Park, through their descendants investigations into their pasts.

The previously announced Deadman’s Curse (Great Pacific Media), in which a team of explorers hunts for a legendary gold mine in British Columbia, is on the slate, as well as season two of Backroad Truckers (Big Time Decent Productions), season three of Big Timber (Fireworks Media Group), season two of Lost Car Rescue (Proper Television), season five of Rust Valley Restorers (Mayhem Entertainment) and season three of Salvage Kings (Media Headquarters)

In addition to another season of Island of Bryan (Si Entertainment) on HGTV Canada – the top-rated specialty series in Canada, according to Numeris – host Bryan Baeumler will be getting another, currently untitled, program that is in development and set to debut next year. Baeumler will also be teamed with Scott McGillivray in Renovation Resort (McGillivray Group), a previously announced competition series in which duos of contractors and designers will transform a waterfront cabin into a vacation rental for a chance to win a $100,000 prize. For McGillivray’s part, he and Debra Salmoni will also be returning for fourth season of Scott’s Vacation House Rules (McGillivray Entertainment Media).

Designer Sarah Richardson and husband Alexander Younger will transform a run-down B&B in Whistler, B.C., into a luxury vacation rental in Sarah’s Mountain Escape (Insight Productions). This fall, Pamela Anderson will renovate her grandmother’s six-acre legacy property on Vancouver Island in Pamela’s Garden of Eden (Fireworks Media Group). Luxury home designer Ali Budd will lead a creative team working on million-dollar projects in a show currently under the working title of Ali Budd.

HGTV Canada also has new seasons for a number of returning unscripted shows: Gut Job (Thunderbird-owned Great Pacific Media), Hoarder House Flippers (Anaïd Productions), Rock Solid Builds (Cineflix Productions), Farmhouse Facelift (Sonar Entertainment), Making it Home with Kortney and Kenny (Scott Brothers Entertainment) and Property Brothers: Forever Home (Scott Brothers Entertainment).

Food NetworkCanada  is bringing back new seasons of its most popular competition shows, including the 10th season of Top Chef Canada (Insight Productions), the fourth season of Great Chocolate Showdown (Architect Films) and the third season of The Big Bake (Architect Films), which will feature YouTube personality and cookbook author Danni Rose joining judges Brad Smith, Eddie Jackson and Ron Ben-Israel. Corus Studios will also be delivering previously-announced new episodes of Fire Masters (Nikki Ray Media Agency) and Big Food Bucket List (Lone Eagle Entertainment).

Corus announced a pair of film projects for The W Network. The 90-minute documentary Sex with Sue (Banger Films), directed by Lisa Rideout, follows the sex educator and former W personality to dive into her legacy.

The previously announced The Love Club (pictured right; Nikki Ray Media Agency) is a series of four films that follow a different member of a friend group as they navigate dating woes. The first film is set to debut in winter 2023.

Red Ketchup will become the second Canadian original to air on Adult Swim. Commissioned by French channel Télétoon la nuit, the show is based on the cult Quebec comic book series of the same name featuring a rogue FBI agent. The series will be on Télétoon la nuit and in English on Adult Swim in 2023.

Red Ketchup (pictured left) joins Psi Cops (Wind Sun Sky Entertainment, Oddfellows Labs), a previously announced Canadian original that is set to debut on Adult Swim in 2023. The animated series follows an incompetent secret agency that investigates spiritual and paranormal activity.

Premiering on YTV in 2023 is The Popularity Papers (Aircraft Pictures and WexWorks Media), a scripted young-adult show based on the original book series by Amy Ignatow, about two friends who use social experiments to figure out how to become popular.

A new Nelvana project coming to YTV is Best & Bester. Set to premiere this fall, the series follows two siblings “obsessed with comparing the best things of all time” and transforming themselves into it. Another Nelvana project, Super Wish, will be returning to YTV for another season.

Also returning to YTV is after-school programming block The Zone, alongside The Zone Weekend and Big Fun Movies.

A number of Nelvana projects will be returning to Teletoon, including new seasons of Bakugan: Evolutions, Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe and Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! Teletoon will also be airing a new special titled Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! Mystery at Lookout Mountain.

This story originally appeared in Media in Canada

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