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Exclusive: Following the 2024 launch of The Darkness, the Icelandic series based on his Dimma novel series, author Ragnar Jónasson is expanding his partnership with Stampede Ventures and producer John-Paul Sarni via the launch of Dimma Pictures, a new venture to produce film and television projects from Jónasson’s catalogue of IP, as well as writers from across Scandinavia and Europe.

As of now, the company has several TV projects in motion. First up is a limited series adaptation of The Girl Who Died, Jónasson’s psychological thriller published in 2021. Set in the remote Icelandic village of Skálar, the story follows Una, a burned-out teacher from Reykjavik, who takes a job teaching two girls in the tiny village — though only one student appears. Isolated and unwelcome, Una is haunted by eerie dreams and strange singing at night. As tensions rise and tragedy strikes, she begins to suspect the village harbors dark...

Exclusive: Blink49 Studios has secured rights to adapt the debut novel of Eliza Reid, Iceland’s former First Lady, as a TV series.

The Fifth Season-backed company is working with Icelandic co-producer Truenorth and writer Lynne Kamm (Plan B) to adapt Death on the Island as a six-part show.

Billed as a “twist-filled mystery thriller,” Death on the Island is set in the high-stakes world of diplomacy. Per the synopsis, “When the Canadian ambassador’s deputy collapses at a remote Icelandic soirée, suspicions swirl, and his wife, Jane Shearer, decides to take matters into her own hands.

“Partnering with an ambitious young Icelandic detective, Jane uncovers a web of secrets, corruption, and betrayal stretching from Reykjavik’s elite to the heart of her own marriage. As the danger mounts and the truth threatens powerful interests, Jane must choose: protect the illusion or risk everything to unmask a killer.”

The project...

Programs from Elliot Page’s production company and the team behind comedy Letterkenny are among Paramount+’s latest Canadian slate.

The streamer’s strategy in Canada was unveiled today at the Banff World Media Festival, with a line-up of four projects in development and an original documentary from documentary filmmaker Dianne Whelan.

Actor and producer Page’s Page Boy Productions and Canadian producer heavyweight Muse Entertainment are working up Len & Cub, a limited six-part series dramatizing the secret relationship of two young men in rural 20th-century New Brunswick whose story came to light when a box of photos was recently discovered in an estate sale. Lynne Kamm is writing.

Hate the Player: The Ben Johnson Story is a scripted comedy from New Metric Media, the company behind Letterkenny, about the scandal of the titular Johnson, the former Canadian sprinter who went from “hero to zero in 9.79 seconds.

François Arnaud (Surface, Midnight Texas), Joshua Close (Monica, Fargo) and Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars) will be joining the CBC original drama series Plan B, set for a winter 2023 debut.

The series stars Patrick J. Adams as Philip and Karine Vanasse as Evelyn.

Adams is best known for playing college dropout turned lawyer Mike Ross in USA Network’s Suits between 2011 and 2019, a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild nomination. He recently made his Broadway debut in Richard Greenberg’s Tony-nominated revival of Take Me Out and starred as original Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn in National Geographic’s first scripted series for Disney+, The Right Stuff.

Vanasse is an award-winning actress who starred as Detective Lise Delorme in CTV’s drama Cardinal between 2017 and 2020, for which she won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 and...

Exclusive: Patrick J. Adams (Suits) and Karine Vanasse (Cardinal) have been cast as the leads in an English-language adaptation of time travel drama Plan B for Canada’s CBC.

Adapted from the Radio-Canada French-language drama created by Jean-François Asselin and Jacques Drolet and set in Montreal, Plan B is billed as high-concept, gripping and intimate psychological drama about a man on a desperate and relentless quest to save his relationship – and by extension, his whole world.

Adams plays Philip, who discovers how to go back in time, giving him the chance to save his relationship with love of his life Evelyn (Vanasse), his law firm and his dysfunctional family. But he soon realizes that even the smallest choice has repercussions — as uncontrollable as they are unexpected — on his life and the lives of others.

Quebec-based Kotv, which produces the original series, is attached to the adaption and will be...

Transplant writer Lynne Kamm has teamed with Mad Samurai Productions to acquire the executive TV rights to best-selling author Eric Walters’ YA book series The Rule of Three.

Kamm will executive produce and showrun production on a TV pilot, with Walters attached to consult. With over 400,000 copies sold in North America, a trio of The Rule of Three novels from Penguin Random House, and a spinoff fourth with Fourth Dimension, offer a post-apocalyptic dystopian narrative of a feudal world without computers or communication.

Amid a global reset as chaos mounts, an independent teenage pilot bands together with dysfunctional family and friends ...

Transplant writer Lynne Kamm has teamed with Mad Samurai Productions to acquire the executive TV rights to best-selling author Eric Walters’ YA book series The Rule of Three.

Kamm will executive produce and showrun production on a TV pilot, with Walters attached to consult. With over 400,000 copies sold in North America, a trio of The Rule of Three novels from Penguin Random House, and a spinoff fourth with Fourth Dimension, offer a post-apocalyptic dystopian narrative of a feudal world without computers or communication.

Amid a global reset as chaos mounts, an independent teenage pilot bands together with dysfunctional family and friends ...