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Quebecor Fund allocates over $2.1M via TV assistance program

By Taimur Sikander Mirza
June 20, 2024
Series receiving support in this round include a new season of Sorcières and an adaptation of the Bon Cop, Bad Cop films.

The Quebecor Fund is disbursing more than $2.1 million to eight projects and four prodcos through two components of its Television Production Assistance Program.

The selected projects include seven fictional shows and one docuseries and are receiving a total of over $1.8 million in funding via the Support for the Production of Intellectual Property for International Markets component, launched in partnership with the Canada Media Fund (CMF). The Quebecor Fund has contributed more than $1.3 million and the CMF $523,640.

The Support for the Creation of Intellectual Property component, meanwhile, will fund four projects with a total of $775,000, going towards Untamed Productions 4, PVP Média, Terre Innue and Happy Camper Média. The broadcasters supporting the development of these projects are TVA Group, Radio-Canada and APTN.

Seven out of the eight series are financed by both the Quebecor Fund and CMF, including Bon Cop, Bad Cop (PaNik Fiction) for Bell Media. The project was announced last year and is an adaptation of the 2006 action-comedy film Bon Cop, Bad Cop and its 2016 sequel. Bell Media is also the broadcaster for another project, La reconstruction d’Anna Brodeur (Sphère Média).

The selected projects also include Le dernier des monstres (Pixcom Productions) and L’appel (Aetios Productions), with TVA Group attached as broadcaster for both.

Télé-Québec is the broadcaster for Liam (KOTV) and Corus for Anticosti (Sphère Média).

Rounding out the list of fiction series is Sorcières (Amalga Créations Médias; pictured) season two, which is receiving financing only from the Quebecor Fund and has TVA as broadcaster.

The sole doc project is Voyager le nord (Terre Innue), which has APTN and Radio-Canada as broadcasters.

The Quebecor Fund’s Television Production Assistance Program has supported a total of 389 projects involving 98 production companies, 49 Canadian broadcasters and 59 foreign broadcasters with grants totalling more than $105 million across all of its components since its inception in 1999.

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