Toronto-based Aircraft Pictures has teamed up with U.S.- and London-based Untitled Entertainment on a Canadian-set family comedy series.

Mapletown is currently in development as a half-hour primetime series and being shopped to broadcasters and streamers, a spokesperson tells Playback Daily.

Canadian actor-writer-producer Chris Diamantopoulos (pictured left; Silicon Valley, The Sopranos, Arrested Development) co-created the series along with Adam Barken (pictured middle) and Peter Lockyer (pictured right), according to a news release.

Diamantopoulos will also star in the series, which will be produced by Aircraft Pictures with Untitled Entertainment, who are looking for a distribution partner for it.

Described as “Malcolm in the Middle meets Northern Exposure,” Mapletown is set on a small Canadian island run by a “brilliant” teenage mayor and her middle-aged, ruthless opponent and chief of staff, who will be played by Diamantopoulos.

The series has “heart and bite, and captures the tension between old-school islanders and brand-new transplants who come to need one another against all odds,” said the release.

Aircraft Pictures co-founders Anthony Leo and Andrew Rosen said the series is targeted at all audiences and “promises to be a lot of laughs with its quirky and diverse characters,” in a statement.

Michael Rosenberg and Laura Notarianni of Untitled Productions — which has offices in Beverly Hills, New York City and London — called it “a timely and relatable comedy brimming with heart.”

Diamantopoulos is set to star in another maple-focused comedy series: Prime Video’s The Sticky, produced by Blumhouse Television, Megamix, Comet Pictures, and Sphere Media. He’s represented by Untitled Entertainment, which is a global management and production company, as well as Paradigm Talent Agency and Rick Genow at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson and Christopher.

Barken is repped by Meridian Artists and David Stern at Blaney McMurtry LLC.

Photos courtesy of Aircraft Pictures