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Network | Netflix

Created By | David Turko (Warrior Nun)

Number Of Episodes | 10

Episode Length | 22 – 29 mins.

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Reality Distortion Field and The Embassy, the studios behind Netflix’s Warrior Nun and Fakes series, have cemented their partnership to jointly produce genre feature and TV series for global audiences.

The expanded collaboration will see Rdf and The Embassy collaborate on the second season of Warrior Nun and untitled feature films over the next quarter. The sophomore season of Warrior Nun — Netflix’s supernatural drama, created by Simon Barry and starring Alba Baptista — is set for a fall release. Fakes, a YA dramedy created by David Turko and starring Emilija Baranac and Jennifer Tong, portrays best friends Zoe and Becca building their own fake ID empire.

“Finding solutions for filmmakers through our creative and technical expertise to produce high-quality original content has always been the driving force of Rdf. The Embassy and Rdf share this same passion and we look forward to...

“All good things come to an end. And by good things, I mean a sick penthouse, matching supercars, stupidly hot guys and vodka — way too much vodka,” narrates Jennifer Tong in the first seconds of Netflix’s new trailer for “Fakes,” a series that traces the delirious success and eventual downfall of a teen-built fake ID empire, right before the FBI raids her party.

The 10-episode half-hour dramedy tells the story of two best friends who accidentally build one of the largest fake ID businesses in North America. Deploying regular fourth wall breaks, “Fakes” traces the unraveling of their relationship in tandem with their skyrocketing success. As they get involved with a shady store employee that moves their products and blow through their mounting stacks of cash, the empire spirals out of control — eventually leading to one of the girl’s being jailed. Described as a “story of their ultimate betrayal,...

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...

Exclusive: Emilija Baranac (Riverdale), Richard Harmon (The 100) and Jennifer Tong (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) have been set to star in YA comedy series Fakes, which is underway in Vancouver for Netflix and CBC Gem.

The 10-episode, half-hour series, created by David Turko (Warrior Nun), is the story of two teenage best friends who accidentally build one of the largest fake ID empires in North America.

CBC has first–window rights in Canada, while Netflix has second window in Canada and first in the rest of the world.

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Turko is serving as showrunner, and joining him on the project is Tabia Lau, a three-time Toronto Fringe Festival Patron’s Pick Award winner.

Reality Distortion Field’s Simon Barry (Warrior Nun) and Stephen Hegyes (Warrior Nun) are producers and executive producers. Lilly Burns and Tony Hernandez of Emily In Paris and The Conners production outfit Jax Media...