Montreal: Prisma Productions president Claude Godbout and screenwriters Fabienne Larouche and Rejean Tremblay have announced an agreement to develop and produce a major Quebec drama series called Urgence.

The series will dramatize life in a big-city hospital and is slated to go into production early in the summer of 1995. Thirteen one-hour episodes will be produced in the first year, at a cost of up to $800,000 per hour, with an additional 26 hours planned for the following two seasons. The broadcaster is Radio-Canada.

Larouche and Tremblay, a prominent sports columnist with La Presse newspaper, are the authors of Scoop, the Productions sda newsroom drama.

Recent production at Prisma includes Pacha et les chats (Kitty Cats), Chicken Minute and Bananas From Sunny Quebec.