Toronto’s Project 10 Productions has announced an eight-series scripted development slate, including two in the works with CBC.

The projects, announced Tuesday (July 4), include the one-hour character-driven drama Aprés Ski, set at a family-owned private resort, from Kathleen Robertson (Beverly Hills 90210) and executive producer Chris Cowles (Blockers). The series is currently in development at the CBC.

CBC is also attached to the half-hour dark comedy The Orange, along with BBC Studios. SCTV‘s Dave Thomas created the series with his son, actor Harrison Thomas (Better Call Saul). The Orange is centred on a family placed into witness protection by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Rye, England, where they are neighbours to some of Canada’s most-hardened criminals.

Dustin Milligan (Schitt’s Creek) and Jennifer Podemski (Little Bird) are teaming up for High North, a half-hour comedy series set in the Northwest Territories. High North follows the story of a housewife who runs away from Toronto and ends up in Yellowknife, where she befriends a struggling single dad and wannabe rapper, who is selling drugs to pay the bills and facing a life crisis of his own.

Hitman is a one-hour series based on the autobiography of former WWF star Bret “The Hitman” Hart. Created by Hart and Robyn Louie, who is also attached as producer, the series charts the rise of Hart from Calgary’s first family of wrestling as he goes on to become the world heavyweight champion.

Another adaptation is Squawking Chicken, created by ETalk and The Social‘s Elaine Lui and based on her book Listen to the Squawking Chicken. The half-hour series executive is produced by Abby Ho and described as a “comedic love story” between a daughter ready to spread her wings and an overbearing mother determined to be her guide.

Project 10 is also developing a adaptation of the CBC Gem digital series Revenge of the Black Best Friend, created by Amanda Parris. Jonas Diamond (Corner Gas Animated) and Julian De Zotti (For the Record) are executive producers. The digital series, about a self-help guru tackling Black representation on screen, had a world premiere at Canneseries and won Best Web Program or Series and Best Lead Performance, Web Program or Series.

Radio Bingo by Shelby Mitchell-Adams is another half-hour comedy. Executive produced by Steven Hoffner (The Cannons) and based on the short Mitchell-Adams’s short film of the same name, follows a woman who, after being fired from her high-profile job in Toronto, moves to the Indigenous reserve of Akwesasne to take care of her father and reboot her career at a struggling radio station.

Rounding off the slate is The Good News by Run the Burbs writer Maninder Chana. It centres on a Millennial who wants to be taken seriously as journalist at a multimedia news station amid friction with her new Gen-X boss.

The announcement follows the recent promotion of Shonna Foster to director of development as the prodco looks to ramp up for growth.

Photo courtesy Project 10 Productions; pictured (L-R) Kathleen Robertson, Dave Thomas, Elaine Lui (top), Jennifer Podemski,  Dustin Milligan, Amanda Parris (bottom)