The 15-year Shaw veteran will lead the pubcaster’s content teams to develop comedy, drama and kids programming.
From Playback magazine: In the first of a multi-part tribute to Canada’s key specialty channels, we look back on 20 years of Showcase.
The company launches with a first-look deal with Content Media, while Richards (pictured) has tapped former Alliance-Atlantic exec Ed Gernon to head up the company’s U.S. operations.
Shah will focus on sales to English and French specialty channels as well as manage the company’s VOD and SVOD.
Cuba Gooding Jr. (pictured) stars as an FBI agent helping a widow, played by Emmanuelle Vaugier, with Alliance Atlantis releasing in Canada.
Lionsgate’s sale of Maple Pictures to Alliance Films follows an industry shakeup and consolidation that has redrawn the Canadian film distribution sector.