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Proper Television
Proper serves up more Come Dine With Me Canada
The Toronto-based indie will produce 80 episodes for the fourth season of the W Network food series, which will travel across Canada and include themed blocks.
Weekly roundup: Premieres, awards and composer news
Today’s briefs include details on Geneva Film’s Foxed! (pictured) snagging a premiere at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film and Tricon and Temple Street being nominated for Realscreen Awards.
TV auctioneers Dan and Laura Dotson on casting Storage Wars Canada
“Canada is full of characters, just like anywhere else, and it’s just a matter of sifting them out and saying, okay, here’s a really good guy. He knows what’s he’s doing,” Dan Dotson told Playback.
Rogers Media greenlights Storage Wars Canada for OLN
Proper Television will produce a local version of the popular A&E reality series based on a format acquired from FremantleMedia.
Weekly roundup: ideaBOOST and film and TV premieres
This pre-Easter edition of our briefs includes premiere news for homegrown TV series, as well as Canuck-made films at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival (Jews and Money pictured).
Allison Grace joins Proper as exec producer
The former Shaw Media production executive will assist in managing the Toronto-based factual producer’s slate of new and existing shows.
Proper Television sells Discovery Canada third car-themed series
Don’t Drive Here will see host Andrew Younghusband get behind the steering wheel for harrowing driving in six of the most densely-populated cities in the world, including Delhi and Mexico City.
Weekly roundup: Festival news, nominations and TV premieres
Among other news this week, Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (pictured) got into New York’s New Directors/New Films Festival, GLAAD handed nominations to Degrassi and The L.A. Complex and Hot Docs launches a new Doc Ignite campaign.
Cameras roll on Last Car Standing for Discovery Canada
The car competition series, an original format from Proper Television, follows Discovery finding a popular hit in Canada’s Worst Driver.
ITV Studios’ Come Date With Me headed to W Network
Proper Television will produce a local version of the cooking and romance reality series, to debut in winter 2013.
Proper to produce ITV format May The Best House Win
The Toronto-based prodco will bring a homegrown version of the U.K. format, slated to premiere in the fall, to Shaw’s HGTV.
Slice renews Four Weddings Canada for second season
The reality series from Proper Television has received a ten-episode order from Shaw Media for a sophomore run.
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