The youth-skewing U.S. network looks to the Canadian sitcom to get deeper into comedy.
The free Facebook app uses face-morphing software to age viewers’ photographs into older, wiser versions of themselves, who then provide viewers with action plans, tips and advice for fiscal health.
UPDATED: The former CTV exec becomes head of development as the Vancouver producer completes The Bachelor Canada and the Seed sitcom for Citytv.
The comedian (pictured) will play an arrogant psychoanalyst who attempts to counsel the dysfunctional families on the comedy set to bow on Citytv’s primetime schedule in 2013.
Citytv is hoping the upcoming sperm donor comedy Seed, now shooting in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, grows on Canadians as they swoon for a bartender/bachelor ill-fitted for serial fatherhood.
The Vancouver-based producer will develop a domestic version of the series, in which 50 ordinary people give advice to an individual facing a life-changing decision, for W Network.
The show’s supervising producer Sean Devries and Rogers Media’s director of original programming Claire Freeland discuss making the homegrown version of the U.S. hit.
“If you’re not making money, you’re doing something wrong,” Harris said of Force Four’s The Bachelor Canada series.
Rizwan Manji (pictured) is taking the lead as Dr. Bob Khouri in the CBC pilot from Los Angeles-based Tim McAuliffe.
New original comedies Package Deal from Thunderbird Films and Seed from Force Four Entertainment will air in mid-season slots, likely in early 2013.
Rogers Media topper says comedies will anchor Citytv’s fall lineup as Rogers continues the network’s national growth plan.