Sphere Media is heading to MIPCOM with two series in development from its Kids and Family division, including its first scripted series, Dreamers.

Created by Lisa Rose Snow (Under the Christmas Tree, pictured left), the 8 x 30-minute series follows a high schooler who has had dreamless nights ever since her mother died, until she moves in with her cousin and the pair realize they can share dreams.

Dreamers is billed as “YYA,” appropriate for those 10 and up, or “young young adult,” and is supported by Bell Fund’s Slate Development Program.

Sphere will also be presenting its animated preschool series Mort and Millie. Created by writer, artist and animator Taylor Annisette (The Snoopy Show; pictured centre), the series focuses on the adventures of a rookie “Grim Sweeper” and his sidekick, a no-nonsense millipede.

The series is a coproduction with Belfast-based animation studio Flickerpix. The two companies have received development funding via the Canada Media Fund’s Canada-Northern Ireland Co-Development Incentive for Audiovisual Projects.

The Montreal and Toronto-based prodco formed its Kids and Family division, led by president Marlo Miazga, in April last year. Sardine Productions founder Ghislain Cyr, whose studio Sphere acquired in Jan. 2022, was named creative director of the division.

Some of the division’s shows include the unscripted live-action series Project Rube (11 x 26 minutes), commissioned by TVOKids last September.

Andrea Griffith (pictured right), Sphere Media’s VP of content and development, Kids & Family, said the company is “actively looking for coproduction partners” at MIPCOM in a statement.

She added that Dreamers is unique due to its locations in reality and fantasy, while its “foundation is the interpersonal relationships between our teens, as they grow, mess up, learn, love, and adventure their way through high school.” And Mort and Millie “equally fits our division mandate of choosing series that are distinct, funny, full of heart and super creative.”

Image courtesy of Sphere Media