After recently launching successful scripted shows The Border, Sophie and Heartland, CBC has given the go-ahead to two new dramas for its 2008/09 season.

The Session is about 32-year-old Erica Strange (Erin Karpluk from Godiva’s), who can go back in time and relive key moments in her life thanks to a mysterious therapist (Michael Riley from This Is Wonderland).

Meanwhile, The Wild Roses is a story of oil, money and greed situated in booming Calgary. It dramatizes the story of a family of women fighting for what is lawfully theirs, set against the backdrop of the new West: steel and glass towers and vast Alberta ranchlands.

It features Sarah Power (Repo! The Genetic Opera) and Steve Byers (Falcon Beach). Canadian Film Centre grad Amy Cameron, Tassie Cameron (The Robber Bride) and Miranda de Pencier (PU-239) are creators, while Shelley Eriksen (Shania: A Life in Eight Albums) is the showrunner. A production of Seven24 Films and Northwood Productions, exec producers include Jordy Randall, Tom Cox and de Pencier.

‘We’ve had terrific success with our schedule in 2007/2008 and are excited to build on that momentum with these two great new series,’ said Kirstine Layfield, CBC’s executive director of network programming, in a statement.