Canadian broadcaster Accessible Media (AMI) has announced its 2024-25 production slate for AMI-tv broadcast and streaming platform AMI+. It includes a number of factual and scripted projects – as well as its first-ever childrens’ series, all that seek to tell authentic stories about Canadians in the disability community.

The lineup, which also includes returning series, comes from prodcos including Big Time Decent Productions, Canadian Content Studios, Flow Video, Summerhill Media Inc., Border2Border Entertainment, Prairie Cat Productions, Bone Vault Inc. and Catapult Pictures.

After Dark (working title) is a 8 x 30-minute digital documentary series exploring sex, love, dating and relationships relevant to people with disabilities. It’s produced by Border2Border Entertainment.

The 8 x 30-minute children’s docuseries Collar of Duty Kids takes young viewers into the lives of kids who’ve been matched with service animals. (Summerhill Media in association with Fifth Ground Entertainment.)

The 6 x 60-minute docuseries The Crip Trip is a punk-rock road trip comedy that follows the misadventures of artist, filmmaker and quadruple amputee Daniel Ennett and his producer/friend/caregiver Frederick Kroetsch as they drive from Edmonton to Toronto. (From Catapult Pictures.)

Get Hooked is a 7 x 30-minute series that demonstrates what happens when queer, Black, Indigenous and the disability community turn to the mental health benefits of fishing. (Bone Vault in partnership with OutTV. Funding partners include the Bell Fund, Ontario Creates and CAMH.)

Low Vision Moments (working title) is a 6 x 30-minute scripted comedy based on the life of Jennie Bovard, the host of the AMI podcast Low Vision Moments. (Canadian Content Studios, Club Red Productions and Flow Video.)

Produced by Big Time Decent Productions, the 8 x 60-minute docuseries Underdog Inc. follows Dale Kristensen (Backroad Truckers), a Little Person, as he navigates life in a mountain town.

We Were Broncos, meanwhile, is a 6 x 30-minute docuseries focused on the life of Ryan Straschnitzki’s after his experience in the horrific Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018. (Produced by Prairie Cat Productions.)

AMI returning series include Access Tech Live (Season 2), Our Community (Season 9),  Disrupt (Season 3), Healthy at Home (Season 3), Dish with Mary (Season 5), Mind Your Own Business (Season 4), Postcards From… (Season 6; pictured) and a brand new All Access Comedy special.

“We are thrilled to offer over 100 hours of programming to Canadians of all abilities,” said Cara Nye, director, content development and production at AMI. “The upcoming broadcast season sees the expansion of our scripted stable of shows and provides, for the very first time, a children’s series to our schedule.”

Image of Postcards From courtesy of AMI-tv.