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When it first aired in 2000, "Six Feet Under" was unknowingly part of the dawn of a golden age of television. Alongside early-aughts HBO hits like "The Wire" and "The Sopranos," the tragicomedy told the story of a family-run funeral home trying to make sense of life and death in the wake of the sudden loss of their father.

A revival has reportedly been in the works for some time, despite the fact that it would seemingly be in conflict with what is arguably the greatest series finale of a TV show ever. Still, the mere idea of a return to these loveable, complicated, and tragic characters makes us wonder what happened to the cast of "Six Feet Under?"

Read more: Whatever Happened To Enola Actress Tina Majorino From Waterworld?

Richard Jenkins - Nathaniel Fisher Sr.

Appropriately, we'll start with Richard Jenkins, who played Nathaniel Fisher Sr., the family's patriarch. Though Nathaniel Sr.

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The fourth movie in the Cherry Lane series on Hallmark+ sees a return to 7 Cherry Lane in 1966, 1981 and 2000.

Starring Benjamin Hollingsworth and Chelsea Hobbs in 1955, Erin Cahill and John Brotherton in 1981and Brooke D’Orsay, and D’Orsay and Sam Page in 2000, this wonderful return to 7 Cherry Lane is set to premiere on the feel-good networks streaming channel, Hallmark+. Read on to find out what we know so far about this fourth in the series, Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane.

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Hallmark fans will get to return to 7 Cherry Lane in this new movie in the Cherry Lane series. According to TV Insider, 1966 sees a single guy David (Benjamin Hollingsworth) making plans for a simple Christmas. However, his plans are dashed when his neighbor,...

Call Me Fitz star Kathleen Munroe and Shrinking alum Rosslyn Luke join High Potential Episode 5's guest star lineup.

"Croaked" sees Morgan and Detective Karadec investigate the death of an exotic animal veterinarian. Elsewhere, Morgan sorts out some issues at her home while Karadec tries to find a date. 

High Potential Episode 5 premiered on ABC on October 22 and the next day on Hulu.

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Jason Priestley has been a television icon since the '90s, which has resulted in a sizable net worth. The Canadian actor is of course best known for playing the morally upright Brandon Walsh in the hit teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210, but Priestley successfully transitioned from a teen idol to a multifaceted entertainer. In addition to acting, he also works behind the camera, and has directed many TV episodes. He's since returned to his roots, starring in Canadian series like Call Me Fitz, Private Eyes, and most recently CBC's Wild Cards, which was just renewed for a second season.

Born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Jason Priestley grew up in a family deeply connected to the arts. His mother, Sharon Kirk, was an actress and acting coach, which likely sparked his early interest in performance. After attending Argyle Secondary School, Priestley pursued an acting career in Hollywood. In...

Blink49 Studios has boosted its business affairs division with the hires of two seasoned executives.

Based in Los Angeles and reporting into CEO John Morayniss, Nicole Ungerman Levinsohn joins as senior VP, business and legal Affairs, responsible for the structuring, negotiation, documentation and management of Blink49 Studios’ agreements, including agreements to engage talent, acquire underlying rights, and license content. In addition, Levinsohn will implement and administer standard operating procedures for the company’s development, production and acquisitions, and manage all business-related partnerships.

Levinsohn was previously senior VP of business and legal affairs at Upn, where she negotiated the first network deal for the WWE, as well as for “America’s Next Top Model” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Prior to that, Levinsohn was at NBC, where she was responsible for “Seinfeld,” “Mad About You” and “Frasier.”

Based in Toronto, Daphne Park joins as VP, production finance and business affairs and will...

Exclusive: Chuck Tatham, a co-exec producer of CBS sitcom The United States of Al, has teamed with Amaze, the production company behind The Lake, Amazon’s first Canadian scripted series, on a new comedy.

Tatham, who has also worked on Modern Family and Central Park, has created Return to Edenview.

It follows Dr. Billy Wendell, Jr. a successful, charming, high-priced New York plastic surgeon – until his practice implodes and he returns to his hometown to run his dad’s medical practice after “Senior” suddenly dies.

Amaze, which was founded by Michael Souther and Teza Lawrence and is behind series including Jason Priestley’s Call Me Fitz and Jerry O’Connell’s Carter, is taking the project out to buyers in the U.S. and internationally.

Tatham will write and exec produce with Souther and Lawrence also exec producing. Jessie Gabe, executive producer of Workin’ Moms, is also attached as a producer.

Exclusive: Lucifer exec producer Sheri Elwood has struck a first-look deal with Blink49 Studios, the Endeavor Content-backed studio founded by John Morayniss.

It marks the first showrunner deal for the company, which was founded by the former eOne Television chief and a cadre of former colleagues last year.

Elwood exec produced Fox’s Lucifer as well as ABC’s Whiskey Cavalier and CBC drama Moonshine and she created Jason Priestley’s Canadian comedy drama Call Me Fitz that Morayniss was one of the exec producers of.

She will develop scripted series across broadcast, cable and streaming.

It comes as the company has rebranded slightly from Blink Studios to Blink49 Studios. Current projects for the nascent producer including an adaptation of Charlene Carr’s Hold My Girl, with Snowfall producer Groundswell Productions’ Michael London and Shannon Gaulding set to exec produce.

The deal was brokered by Amanda Burnett of UTA, Leg...

Exclusive: Moonshine, the Canadian comedy-drama created by Sheri Elwood, will return for a second season on CBC.

Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle) is joining the cast of the series, which is produced by Six Eleven Media and Entertainment One. Picking up where the first season ends, season two will include dance routines, dirty bingo, snow crab-jacking and a high stakes turf war with a band of outlaw bikers. Fate will manifest very differently for the entire family, with characters fighting their destiny tooth and nail as Lidia goes to extremes to save the business from financial ruin.

Returning are Jennifer Finnigan (Salvation), Anastasia Phillips (Reign), Emma Hunter (Mr. D), Tom Stevens (Wayward Pines), Alexander Nunez (Avocado Toast), Corrine Koslo (Anne with an E), Peter MacNeill (This Life), Erin Darke (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Farid Yazdani (Suits), Allegra Fulton (The Shape of Water), James Gilbert (Salvation), Celia Owen (A Small Fortune...

Exclusive: Anonymous Content has upped longtime managers and producers Robyn Meisinger and Dara Gordon to partners. Gordon. They join AC partners Adam Shulman, Bard Dorros, David Levine, Dawn Olmstead, Doug Wald, Eli Selden, Eric Stern, Howie Sanders, Joy Gorman Wettels, Kassie Evashevski, Rosalie Swedlin, Sandra Chang, Tehmina Jaffer and Tony Lipp.

“Dara and Robyn are such incredibly talented, passionate and skilled managers, producers, mentors and most importantly leaders. They truly represent what is best about Anonymous Content,” said Anonymous Content CEO, Dawn Olmstead. “They have each embraced the constantly changing entertainment landscape in their own way, reimagining the ways in which we tell stories and embodying the innovative nature at the heart of Anonymous Content. They could not be more deserving of this promotion, and I look forward to all that they will accomplish next.”

Meisinger, a literary manager and producer, has become the co-head of the literary department. She...

Updated, 2:05 Pm: Wgn America has set the Season 2 premiere of its Jerry O’Connell-led comedy Carter for 10 p.m. Wednesday January 20, and released a new trailer. Watch it above, and read details of the show and its sophomore season below.

Previously, January 23: Wgn America, Sony Pictures Television’s networks, and Canada’s CTV announced the news tody that the procedural comedy Carter starring Jerry O’Connell has been renewed for a second season with Andy Berman (Psych, Rosewood) joining as showrunner and Executive Producer.

The series also stars Sydney Poitier Heartsong (Chicago P.D.) and Kristian Bruun (Orphan Black) and will return to North Bay, Ontario to commence production this spring. Series creator Garry Campbell returns as an executive producer and writer on the series.

“Carter and Jerry O’Connell are beloved by viewers and critics alike,” said Gavin Harvey, President of Wgn America.

The producing team behind the upcoming Fox drama “Deputy” have set up their second development project at Fox this season, Variety has learned.

Both David Ayer and Chris Long of Cedar Park are set to executive produce the one-hour drama “Troubleshooter” currently in the works at the broadcaster. The series is described as a family soap about a decorated soldier, wife and mother, Deni Vasquez. Overcoming scandal and under investigation, Deni is reassigned to a remote military base with her husband and teenage kids where she discovers life on the secluded post is just as lawless as life behind enemy lines.

The project hails from writer and executive producer Sheri Elwood. eOne will co-produce with Fox Entertainment. Elwood’s past credits include shows like “Whiskey Cavalier,” “Lucifer,” and “Flash Forward.” She also created the show “Call Me Fitz” and co-created “My Best Friend Is an Alien.”

Ayer and Long are also executive producers on “Deputy,...

Wgn America’s Pure will return for Season 2 on Tuesday, May 28. The cable network unveiled the date as well as key art and a teaser trailer for the upcoming season of the Mennonite drug drama, and said that Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother) will join the cast as a recurring guest star.

Season 2 of the series will pick up with Anna Funk (Alex Paxton-Beesley) going it alone after Noah (Ryan Robbins) disappeared for a year. In an attempt to shield her children from the family’s involvement with the drug cartel, Anna finds herself in the very center of the drug ring she and Noah attempted to take down.

Pure is produced by Two East Productions and Cineflix in association with Wgn America, Super Channel, Hulu and the CBC.

The series is created by Michael Amo (The Listener), with Amo and director Ken Girotti serving...

Former How I Met Your Mother star Alyson Hannigan is set for a recurring role opposite Ryan Robbins and Alex Paxton-Beesley on the second season of Wgn America’s Mennonite crime drama Pure.

Inspired by true events, the series goes deep inside a closed, secretive subculture through the eyes of Noah Funk (Robbins), a conflicted, good-hearted man trying to protect his family and preserve his faith. Noah is a newly elected Mennonite pastor, who is determined to rid his community of the scourge of drugs and its ties to a trans-border smuggling alliance with ruthless Mexican cocaine cartels. Just when he thinks he’s won, Noah and his wife Anna (Paxton-Beesley) are thrust headlong into a desperate world of violence, greed and betrayal.

Hannigan will play Esther Dunkel, a lapsed Mennonite who is nobody’s fool and has been helping her lawyer-boyfriend funnel a fortune in cartel cash through a local bank.

Beverly Hills 90210 opened our eyes to issues facing teens in the 90s. We fell so in love with the characters, we felt like they were our friends.

When the series ended in 2000, we had invested 10 years with these kids.

It's now 18 years later. What have they been up to and where are they now?

Read on to find out.

1. Jason Priestly - Brandon Walsh Jason Priestly was teen heartthrob, Brandon Walsh, and was plastered all over teen girl's bedrooms in the 90s. We were heartbroken when left before the series ended! Since Beverly Hills 90210, he's been busy playing in various movies and television over the years. Most recently, he plays Matt Shade, a hockey player turned private investigator in Private Eyes. Jason also played lead roles in TV's Call Me Fitz and Raising Expectations. 2. Shannen Doherty - Brenda Walsh Shannen Doherty played Brandon's twin sister Brenda until 1994 when she was written off the show.

Newcomer Amalia Williamson, Spencer MacPherson (DeGrassi: Next Class) and Taylor Thorne (Odd Squad) have joined leads William Baldwin and Kathleen Robertson in Northern Rescue, as production begins in Canada on the CBC & Netflix family adventure series from Don Carmody Television.

Created by Between writer Mark Bacci and executive producer David Cormican, and Dwayne Hill (Peg + Cat), Northern Rescue follows John West (Baldwin), who uproots his three children from the big city to return to his home town to take command of the local Search & Rescue service after the death of his wife. As the family comes to terms with their loss, the series explores the effects on their individual lives. The children’s Aunt Charlotte (Robertson), struggles to help John and his children heal as she copes with the loss of her sister and her desire to have a family of her own. Along the way, John faces many situations...

Burbank, CA – The eternal wait is over as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings you Lucifer: The Complete Third Season on DVD on August 28, 2018. A Top 10 program on Fox, Lucifer delivered over 5.2 million Total Viewers weekly.* Put on your devilish grin as you indulge on all 26 hell-raising episodes from the third season, and fulfill your deepest desires with extra features including the 2017 Comic-Con Panel and a new featurette. Lucifer: The Complete Third Season will be available at all major retailers and is priced to own at $39.99 Srp. Lucifer: The Complete Third Season is also available to own on Digital via purchase from digital retailers.

*Source: Nielsen National TV View, 2017-18 broadcast season to date (09/18/2017 – 03/18/2018), Live + 7 Day ratings; excluding movies, sports, repeats, specials, less than 3 telecasts.

Lucifer: The Complete Third Season will be available on Blu-ray courtesy of Warner Archive Collection. The Blu-ray release includes all bonus features on the DVD, and...

Wgn America announced today that the Mennonite crime drama Pure is getting a second season ahead of its Season 1 debut in early 2019. The series stars Ryan Robbins (Arrow, The Killing) and Alex Paxton-Beesley (The Strain).

The acquisition of Pure seems to go in line with the network’s new model of relying on imported dramas after it exited the high-end original drama arena.

Inspired by true events, the series goes deep inside a closed, secretive subculture through the eyes of Noah Funk (Robbins), a conflicted, good-hearted man trying to protect his family and preserve his faith. Noah is a newly elected Mennonite pastor, who is determined to rid his community of the scourge of drugs and its ties to a trans-border smuggling alliance with ruthless Mexican cocaine cartels. Just when he thinks he’s won, Noah and his wife Anna (Paxton-Beesly) are thrust headlong into a desperate world of violence,...

Don’t ask Jason Priestley about a “Beverly Hills, 90210” reboot. For one thing, it has already been done: The second “90210” aired on The CW from 2008 to 2013. And although Priestley returned to direct, he wasn’t interested in reviving his character and appearing on camera.

“I couldn’t figure out a reason why Brandon would still be hanging around there,” Priestley told IndieWire’s Turn It On. “He left. I couldn’t figure out why.”

Priestley has worked on plenty of TV and film since the O.G. “90210,” including series like “Tru Calling,” “Call Me Fitz” and “Haven.” But he’s also now a prolific director, working on both comedies like “Working the Engels” but also sci-fi shows like “Van Helsing” and “Dark Matter.”

Now he’s back on TV as the star of “Private Eyes,” a fun, light hearted procedural mystery drama from Canada that has made its way across the border on Ion.

Burbank, CA (May 23, 2017) – Put on your devilish grin as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings home the hit series Lucifer: The Complete Second Season on DVD on August 22, 2017. Lucifer delivers over 6.2 million Total Viewers weekly, and is the #3 scripted series on Fox with Households and Total Viewers*. “Lucifans” can binge on all 18 hell-raising episodes from the second season, and indulge in thrilling extras including the 2016 Comic-Con Panel, a new featurette, a hilarious gag reel, and never-before-seen deleted scenes. Lucifer: The Complete Second Season will be available at all major retailers, and is priced to own at $39.99 Srp.

*Source: Nielsen National TV View Live + 7 Day Ratings, excluding repeats, specials, and <5 telecasts; 16-17 Season To-Date = 9/19/16-4/16/17

Lucifer: The Complete Second Season will also be available on Blu-rayTM courtesy of Warner Archive Collection. The Blu-rayTM release includes all bonus features on the DVD, and is also arriving August 22, 2017. Warner Archive Blu-ray...

If you'll be looking to catch up on episodes of Lucifer before the series returns to Fox for a third season, then you're in luck, because Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release Lucifer: The Complete Second Season on DVD this August, with a Blu-ray release also coming from Warner Archive Collection.

Press Release: Burbank, CA (May 23, 2017) – Put on your devilish grin as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings home the hit series Lucifer: The Complete Second Season on DVD on August 22, 2017. Lucifer delivers over 6.2 million Total Viewers weekly, and is the #3 scripted series on Fox with Households and Total Viewers*. "Lucifans" can binge on all 18 hell-raising episodes from the second season, and indulge in thrilling extras including the 2016 Comic-Con Panel, a new featurette, a hilarious gag reel, and never-before-seen deleted scenes. Lucifer: The Complete Second Season will be available at all major retailers, and is priced to own at $39.99 Srp.

Amazon’s going to keep doing God‘s work — at least for another season.

The streaming video service has renewed Hand of God.

Related2016 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?

News of the Ron Perlman-led series’ Season 2 pickup comes the same day that Amazon renewed The Man in the High Castle and Red Oaks and ordered several new series, including the ’60s-era drama Good Girls Revolt and a comedy starring writer/comic Tig Notaro.

A full list of new series, with descriptions, is below:

Good Girls Revolt | Set in 1969 and...

Amazon has released first looks at its line-up for its next pilot preview season, which includes shows starring Max Martini (The Unit), Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck), Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect), Mary Lynn Rajskub (24), Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Tig Notaro and others.

RelatedHand of God: Is Amazon’s Newest Drama Heaven or Hell?

As Amazon does, the pilots will premiere sometime this fall, then get a green light (or not) based on viewer feedback. Synopses/photos follow:

Edge | Set in 1868 and based on George G. Gilman’s best-selling novel series — which has been described as “the most violent Western in...

Recent additions: Call Me Fitz (DirecTV), Ja'mie: Private School Girl (HBO), Taxi Brooklyn (NBC), In the Flesh (BBC America), Crossbones (NBC), Sullivan & Son (TBS), Franklin & Bash (TNT), Witches of East End (Lifetime), The Divide (We tv), Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC), The Bridge (FX), Let's Stay Together (Bet), The Lottery (Lifetime), Crossfire (CNN), Small Town Security (AMC), Freakshow (AMC), Reckless (CBS), Dallas (TNT), Jennifer Falls (TV Land), Rush (USA), Mystery Girls (ABC Family), Gang Related (Fox), CeeLo Green's The Good Life (TBS), The Wil Wheaton Project (Syfy), Sons of Guns (Discovery), Emerald City (NBC), Working the Engels (NBC), BAPs (Lifetime), and Betas (Amazon).

Each television season brings lots of different kinds of TV shows but there's one thing that remains a constant -- most of them will end up being cancelled.

Below is the list of TV series that aired or...

It was a great night for Xavier Dolan at the Canadian Screen Awards today, where the wunderkind's latest film, "Mommy," won nine awards, nearly sweeping every category. The only fields the film lost in were crafts categories conceded the critically reviled (but it's Canadian!) "Pompeii," which took home five awards. Check out the full list of winners below, the nominees here and everything else you can possibly imagine (more or less) at The Circuit. Best Motion Picture "Mommy" Achievement in Direction Xavier Dolan, "Mommy" Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Antoine Olivier-Pilon, "Mommy" Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Anne Dorval, "Mommy" Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Suzanne Clément, "Mommy" Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role John Cusack, "Maps to the Stars" Adapted Screenplay "Elephant Song" Original Screenplay "Mommy" Achievement in Art Direction "Pompeii" Achievement in Cinematography "Mommy" Achievement in Costume...

Jerry Bruckheimer is headed for The CW. The prolific producer has sold dramedy script Bone House to the youth-skewing network, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. From writer Sheri Elwood (Canadian series Call Me Fitz and ABC's Flash Forward), Bone House is described as an offbeat comedic family drama/mystery that centers on an estranged group of siblings who own and operate a private autopsy company. Photos: Faces of Fall 2014 Elwood will pen the script and exec produce the hourlong Warner Bros. Television entry alongside Bruckheimer via his studio-based Jerry Bruckheimer Television banner with banner president Jonathan Littman and exec vp KristieAnne Reed also on board. Bone House marks Bruckheimer's third broadcast network sale of the season. It joins ABC's comedic mystery drama Couch Detective, from Awkward's Lauren Iungerich, and Two Black Cadillacs, a

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Strategic Partners, a presentation of the Atlantic Film Festival, has announced the producers selected to participate as part of the inaugural project exchange with Mexico’s Los Cabos International Film Festival and Brazil’s RioContentMarket, in addition to an incredible line-up of producers and projects. As part of a two year spotlight on Latin America, one Mexican producer with a feature film in development and one Brazilian producer with a television project in development have been invited to participate at Strategic Partners 2014, September 11 - 14 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A Canadian feature film in development will then be selected from this year’s Strategic Partners to participate at Los Cabos International Film Festival, November 11 - 14, 2014. Additionally, a Canadian television project in development looking for Brazilian co-production partners will be chosen to attend RioContentMarket, February 2015. This initiative is sponsored by the Canadian Media Production Association.

Producer and co-founder of the Mexican production company Agrupación Caramelo Cinematografica, April Shannon, has been selected to participate in this year’s Strategic Partners from Los Cabos International Film Festival. Shannon’s impressive career includes working as producer on Bernardo Arellano’s "Between Night and Day" as well as production manager on James Franco’s "The Broken Tower." Shannon recently produced Arellano’s second feature "The Beginning of Time," now in post-production, to be released in late 2014. Shannon will bring the dark thriller "Franco’s Night" to Strategic Partners with production slated for 2015 in Mexico.

Brazilian producer Marcelo Galvão has been selected from RioContentMarket’s esteemed alumni of 2014. Galvão established production company Gatacine in 2001 and has since directed six features including "Farewell," "La Rina and Bellini"and the "Devil." He has won over 50 renowned awards including Best Film at the Gramado Film Festival, Best Director at the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival and Best Screenwriter at Paulína Film Festival (Brazil) among many others. Galvão will bring the highly anticipated television miniseries, The Gardener, to this year’s Strategic Partners.

“Ushering in the very first project exchange with producers April Shannon and Marcelo Galvão sets the bar incredibly high and truly complements the illustrious roster of delegates we will have at this year’s events,” says Strategic Partners Director, Laura Mackenzie. “The results couldn’t have been more ideal and I look forward to continuing our newly founded relationships with Los Cabos International Film Festival and RioContentMarket.”

A snapshot of the producers and 108 projects slated for Strategic Partners 2014:

"Prisoner’s Dilemma," (Feature Film, Sci-Fi Noir Thriller): Rebecca Knapp, The Content Providers/Dark Engine (UK), Director: Mark Anthony Galluzzo (RSVP), Attached: Lynn Collins ("X-Men Origins: Wolverine")

"Give Me Your Hand" (Feature Film, Romantic Comedy): Mariela Besuievsky, Tornasol Films (Spain), Director: Maria de Medeiros ("April Captains", "Je t’aime, moi non plus"), screenplay by Alicia Luna and Maria de Medicos

"Las Elegidas," (Feature Film, Drama): Marta Núñez Puerto, Canana (Mx), Director: David Pablos, ("The Life After")

"Dreamland,"(Feature Film, Fantasy): Amber Ripley, Foundation Features (Cad), Director: Bruce McDonald ("The Tracey Fragments," "Pontypool"), Attached: Stephen McHattie ("Watchmen," "300")

"Buzz Me," (Feature Film, Comedy): Raj Panikkar, Fifth Ground Entertainment (Cad), Director: Ken Girotti ("Vikings," "Orphan Black")

"A Prayer Before Dawn," (Feature Film, Action): Sol Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter, Hurricane Films (UK), Attached: Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy)

"The Sandman" (Feature Film, Horror): Daniela Tully, Shivertown Road (USA/Germany), Director: Dario Argento ("Philomena," "Opera"), Attached: Iggy Pop ("Trainspotting")

"The Portal," (TV Fiction, Fantasy): Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith, First Love Films (Canada). Director: Jonathan Williams ("The Portal"), Attached: Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica, Bomb Girls, Supernatural), Erin Karpluk (Being Erica)

"Are We A Bus" (TV Fiction, Comedy Drama): Mark Montefiore, New Metric Media (Canada), Show-runner: Daegan Fryklind (Bitten)

"Orovida" (TV Fiction, Romance): Mariela Besuievsky, Tornasol Films (Spain) - based on the novel by Yael Guiladi (portraying a passionate story of forbidden love at a time when an interracial liaison could result in death)

"Guardian Council" (TV Fiction, Procedural Drama): Carlos Andrade, Visom Digital (Brazil). Director: Rudi Lagemann ("Angels of The Sun")

A stellar line-up of some of the world’s most influential production companies will descend upon Halifax this fall including:

Sepia Films ("A Shine of Rainbows") - Canada

Blue Ice Pictures ("Nebraska") - Canada

Sienna Films ("Titanic") - Canada

Amaze Film + TV ("Call Me Fitz") - Canada

10x2y inc. ("The Samaritan") - Canada

Alazraki Entertainment ("Nosotros Los Nobles") - Mexico

Axman Productions ("Corn Island") - Czech Republic

Easy There Tiger ("Julie & Juila") - USA

Pampa Films ("The Games Maker") - Argentina

Utopia Group ("The Dead Man and Being Happy") - Argentina

Sikhya Entertainment ("The Lunchbox") - India

Each year, top Canadian and international industry players, including producers, investors, sales agents, funding agencies, broadcasters and distributors are selected to attend Strategic Partners. Offering over 1,000 pre-scheduled 1-2-1 meetings, co-production focused roundtable sessions, cutting edge panels, visionary keynote speakers, and screenings and receptions – Strategic Partners is a convergence of talent and innovation, producing tangible results.

For program updates and information on all things co-production, you can now follow the newly developed Strategic Partners presence on social media:

Twitter: [At]SPcopromarket Facebook: www.facebook.com/atlanticfilmfestivalstrategicpartners Youtube: www.youtube.com/atlanticfilmdotcom

About Strategic Partners: An International Film, Television and Digital Co-Production Market The Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners is one of the world’s preeminent co-production/co-financing markets focusing on feature film, TV and web based fiction. Strategic Partners offers an intimate, organized forum for projects looking for financing as well as those still at an early stage, looking for the right partner.

Over the past 17 years, Strategic Partners has established itself not only as a one of a kind co-production market, but also as a cutting edge, intimate environment that delivers solutions to existing and foreseeable industry challenges. The intelligence and program offered at Strategic Partners is developed over many months of research into current global issues. However, this information is only a complement to Strategic Partners’ primary function – to build, establish and nurture relationships between producers and their partners. Strategic Partners is a part of the Atlantic Film Festival family of programs. Today’s Atlantic Film Festival is now a year-round celebration, growing beyond our eight-day cornerstone event in September to include: ViewFinders: Atlantic Film Festival for Youth, the Aff Outdoor Film Experience, and Strategic Partners. Learn more Here...

The former heartthrob talks about surviving the 90s teen TV series and how he's thrown himself into directing his first full-length feature

Come with me on a journey back to the early 90s. To bleached denim and bare midriffs. To when Beverly Hills 90210 was the biggest teen show on Earth and Jason Priestley was its biggest star. His character, Brandon Walsh, was the perfect all-American high-school heartthrob: white T-shirt, big quiff and eyes to launch a raft of terrible ocean-based metaphors. When I was 11, my friend had a lifesize poster of Priestley on her wall. Now here he is: lifesize and sitting with me in a hotel bar in Glasgow, where his directorial feature debut, Cas & Dylan, is screening at the city's film festival.

Priestley is wearing a flat cap, argyle sweater and grizzly beard. "I was very much Team Dylan," I blurt, referring to the bad-boy character played by Priestley's 90210 co-star,...

eOne has signed an exclusive three-year first-look deal with Teza Lawrence and Michael Souther’s production company Amaze Film + Television.

The partners will develop and produce original product ranging from TV to film based on original TV projects produced with Amaze. eOne will distribute worldwide.

The companies produced the Jason Priestley comedy series Call Me Fitz (pictured), Season Four of which premiered recently on Directv in the Us and The Movie Network and Movie Central in Canada.

“Teza and Michael are exceptionally talented producers and we’re delighted to expand upon our already successful relationship with them and Amaze,” said Margaret O’Brien, eOne president, Canada and COO. “This deal represents eOne’s commitment to working with top creatives to secure premium content for our pipeline in the years ahead.”

“Amaze has enjoyed a long standing relationship with eOne that started over a decade ago with our partnership with Peter Emerson and Oasis International,” added Lawrence...

Jason Priestley's children, daughter Ava and son Dashiell, already have their Halloween costumes picked out and luckily their list doesn't include Miley Cyrus.

The "Call Me Fitz" star stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Monday, where he weighed in on Miley Cyrus and explained how he would handle his 6-year-old daughter wanting to dress up like the headline-making 20-year-old.

"I'd be a little torn on that," he told Kit Hoover and Shaun Robinson when asked if he'd let Ava sport a Miley costume.

Photos: Hollywood Dads & Their Adorable Little Ones!

"Like if she wanted to ...

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Exclusive: ABC has put in development Bagel Nation, a half-hour single-camera comedy from Warner Bros. TV and Jerry Bruckheimer’s studio-based Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Written by Sheri Elwood, creator of the popular Canadian comedy series Call Me Fitz starring Jason Priestley, the project is inspired by her real-life childhood. It is about a Lebanese father who moves his family to the city to live above the Jewish deli he bought and which the family now owns/runs (even though they aren’t Jewish). Elwood is executive producing with Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman, while KristieAnne Reed is co-executive producing. While drama continues to be Bruckheimer TV’s forte (the company has high-profile new CBS series Hostages), the company also has been focused on expanding into comedy, selling 1-2 half-hour projects every season for the past couple of years. Bagel Nation joins Jbt’s drama Home, written by Aron Eli Coleite, which...

Sci-fi fans in the U.S. may know her best as Lisa from V, Kara/Supergirl/Brainiac from Smallville, or Arla at the end of last season’s Haven (ooo that was creepy) but now we’ll get to know her as werewolf Elena Michaels, as Syfy today announced the acquisition of Canadian series Bitten, starring Laura Vandervoort:

September 17, 2013

Syfy Acquires New Original Werewolf Drama Series Bitten From Entertainment One

Bitten – Based On The Best-selling Novels By Kelley Armstrong – Will Premiere On Syfy In 2014

New York – September 17, 2013 – A new breed of werewolves is coming to Syfy with the acquisition of the first season of the new Canadian scripted series Bitten from leading independent studio Entertainment One (eOne).

Season 1 of Bitten, consisting of 13 one-hour episodes, will premiere on Syfy in 2014.

Based on the New York Times best-selling Women of the Otherworld novels by Kelley Armstrong, Bitten is an emotionally charged...

Haven may have started out as a supernatural television series based on the Stephen King novella “The Colorado Kid,” but within the three seasons that it has aired on Syfy, it has become so much more. It introduced viewers and fans to its heroine Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) and the mystery of who Audrey really is. Each episode offered another layer to the curious case of Audrey Parker and the women who she may have been in her other lives: Sarah, Lucy and now Lexie. Teased by the mysteries and the “troubles” woven into the Haven tapestry of stories, the show captured viewers’ attention and hearts. It was a delightfully slow seduction and one which fans are delighted to be enthralled by.

Thus, when invited to peek behind the curtain of a beloved television show, one jumps at the chance — even when it takes you half way across the world...

Entertainment One (eOne) partners with Avi Lerner to develop and produce TV series based on the action franchise. Producers in negotiation with Sylvester Stallone.

eOne has secured a co-development pact with Avi Lerner (Rambo, The Expendables) and Nu Image to develop and produce a television series based on action movie Rambo.

Under their exclusive option arrangement, the partners will collectively develop the series and shop it to broadcasters in the Us and internationally. The parties are currently in negotiations with Sylvester Stallone, star of the original films, to be involved with the project on a creative level as well as potentially reprise his iconic role as the original John Rambo.

The original movie was based on David Morell novel First Blood and centres on a troubled Vietnam War veteran and former Green Beret who is skilled in many aspects of survival, weaponry, hand to hand combat and guerrilla warfare. The series consists of the films First Blood, [link...

Has The Americans been cancelled? Will there be a fourth season of Call Me Fitz on DirecTV? When is Justified coming back? Has Sons of Anarchy been renewed for a sixth season on FX?

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Acclaimed actor and international film and television star Jason Priestley Call me Fitz, Beverly Hills, 90210 returns to the stage in his first live theatre role since 2000 in Canadian Stage's production of Race, by award-winning playwright David Mamet. Directed by Daniel Brooks and co-starring Matthew Edison Murdoch Mysteries, Saving Hope, Cara Ricketts Stratford Festival, Cruel and Tender and Nigel Shawn Williams TopdogUnderdog, Cruel and Tender, the play will be on stage at the Bluma Appel Theatre from April 7 to May 5, 2013 opening and media night April 11.

Will DirecTV's Call Me Fitz be back for season four? Has The Americans been renewed for season two? When does South Park come back? How about Hit & Miss on DirecTV?

Below, you'll find a list of Bet, Comedy Central, DirecTV, and FX recent/current/upcoming scripted TV shows and their current status. To see a series' ratings and how many episodes have aired (if any), click the links in the middle column (where available).

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Brandon Walsh -- err, Jason Priestley -- is such a sentimental guy. The actor, who appeared on the original incarnation of Beverly Hills, 90210, tipped his hat to the cast and crew of The CW's 90210 reboot, which was canceled after five seasons on Thursday, Feb. 28. "Lasted half as long as the original," tweeted Priestley, who currently stars on the half-hour HBO Canada comedy Call Me Fitz. "Not bad, guys." Veterans Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling reprised their roles as Kelly Taylor and Donna Martin on the [...]...

Is it a makeover ... or a breakover? According to Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth's recent body makeover may have gotten a boost from good old-fashioned heartbreak. "You spend a little time in Heartbreak Hotel, that's what happens. Heartbreak Hotel diet is a good one," Priestley joked with People at the National Association of Television Program Executives (Natpe) convention in Miami on Monday, where he is promoting the new season of his comedy Call Me Fitz. But when asked if a real life romance between Garth and Luke Perry - who the actor caught up with during last summer's Old Navy...

Those of us who know and love the very excellent Haven know that the town is a wee bit creepy. Previously it’s been the townspeople who have been slightly (or more than slightly) scary, but tonight we learn that even the buildings can have issues – or at least one special building can. In fact, the building used for the location shoot has a history of its own.

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It wasn’t an incident-free shoot, by the way. In a recent interview, Eric Balfour told us that at one point “the ground underneath that house literally sucked my leg out from underneath me, threw me on the ground and then took out Emily with it.” Emily Rose agreed, and said that “we were really happy to get out of that house. It was creepy.” How cool is that?...

Independent studio Entertainment One (eOne) has announced that actors from hit Syfy show Haven and the new action adventure series Primeval: New World will participate in panels at McM London Comic Con, Excel London, on Saturday, October 27.

The Haven panel is from noon to 1pm and the Primeval: New World panel from 2pm to 3pm. Cast members from both shows will be available for autograph signings.

Haven stars Lucas Bryant (Queer as Folk, Mvp), Eric Balfour (24, Six Feet Under) and WWE superstar Edge aka Adam Copeland will be in attendance.

Fans at the Haven panel will get an exclusive preview of a 20-minute cut of a documentary revealing the "haunting" events behind the making of Haven's upcoming Halloween-themed episode, directed by Jason Priestley (Call Me Fitz).

Haven Season Three is currently airing on Syfy in the UK on Tuesdays at 9 pm. The Halloween-themed episode will air on Tuesday, November...

"Family Ties" actor Michael Gross, who played the ex-hippie father of Michael J. Fox's Alex Keaton in NBC's hit '80s sitcom, will be joining the cast of the Canadian comedy "Call Me Fitz" for a five-episode arc during its upcoming season.

The Hollywood Reporter has the news, saying that 10 new episodes of the HBO Canada and DirecTV Audience Network dark comedy are being filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Gross will play "Pat Childs, an eco-industrialist looking to destroy the used-car industry as part of a Fitzpatrick family smackdown."

"He's decided to take on the car industry. He becomes a formidable foe," "Fitz" showrunner Sheri Elwood says of the character, adding that this role is going to be a big change from Gross's nice-guy image in "Family Ties."

In addition, THR learned that Canadian stand-up comedian and actor Jeremy Hotz will play a "disillusioned social worker investigating the Fitzpatrick...

Toronto – Family Ties’ Michael Gross has joined the cast of Call Me Fitz, the Jason Priestley-starring HBO Canada and DirecTV Audience Network comedy. Gross over a five-episode arc will play Pat Childs, an eco-industrialist looking to destroy the used-car industry as part of a Fitzpatrick family smackdown. And Canadian stand-up comic and actor Jeremy Hotz will guest star in the fourth season of Call Me Fitz as a disillusioned social worker investigating the Fitzpatrick clan. Sheri Elwood, creator and showrunner of the Canadian comedy series, said Gross’s nice-guy image born of his star

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Debra Curtis arrives after serving as VP Development at Gk-tv and before that was a 15-year veteran at Sony Pictures Television, where she oversaw such series series as Damages, Rescue Me, Rules Of Engagement, Community and The Shield. In her new post as Svp Current Programming, she will oversee all aspects of eOne’s current programming for the group’s slate, which includes Hell On Wheels (AMC), Rookie Blue (ABC), Call Me Fitz (DirecTV) and DirecTV’s upcoming suspense drama series Rogue starring Thandie Newton. “Deb comes to eOne with a terrific reputation in the creative community as well as a wealth of experience overseeing numerous high-profile dramas,” says Michael Rosenberg, Evp U.S. Scripted Television at EOne. “We are delighted to have her on our team looking after our ever-expanding slate.”...

Oh Jason Priestley. For countless red-blooded American women this Canadian heartthrob was a beloved crush object for a decade's worth of Beverly Hill, 90210. Though Brandon Walsh remains his best-known role, Priestly has worked regularly in America and Canada in front of and behind the camera since then. In 2010, he served as producer, director and star for the racy Canadian sitcom Call Me Fitz, but now Priestly is prepped to make the leap to helming a narrative feature. The film, titled Cas & Dylan (Dylan!), will mark Priestley's second feature film, the first being the 1999 concert documentary about Canadian rockers The Barenaked Ladies Bare Naked in America. But between then and now he's helmed a string of TV movies, and so seems primed for this leap. Penned by Jessie Gabe, the story centers on the unlikely bond that sparks between a 20-something young woman named Dylan and Dr. Cas Pepper, an ailing...

Entertainment One and Philco Films are teaming to produce both a TV movie and a mini-series based on two unproduced screenplays of the late Stanley Kubrick reports Deadline.

The telemovie, entitled "Downslope", follows the activities of Confederate Army Colonel John S. Mosby who sets out to settle the score after Custer captures and hangs several of his men.

The mini-series is "God Fearing Man" and follows Canadian minister Herbert Emerson Wilson who became one of the best safe-crackers and most successful bank robbers in early 20th century America. Stephen R. Clarke is adapting the script for television.

Steve Lanning and Kubrick’s son-in-law Philip Hobbs, who both worked closely with the filmmaker for more than fifteen years, run Philco Films. They took the projects to eOne which produces such shows as AMC's"Hell on Wheels", DirecTV's "Call Me Fitz" and ABC's "Rookie Blue".

Exclusive: NBC has put in development The B-Side, a single-camera comedy from Jerry Bruckheimer Television and writer Sheri Elwood, creator of the Canadian comedy series Call Me Fitz. The project, which has received a script commitment, centers on a thirty-something woman in a divorce-triggered life meltdown who reunites with her best friends from high school. Elwood is writing the script and will executive produce with Jerry Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman for Jerry Bruckheimer TV and Warner Bros. TV. KristieAnne Reed will co-executive produce. Bruckheimer TV got a head start this development season with a June pilot order at NBC for soapy thriller The Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives. The B-Side is part of the company’s effort to establish a foothold in comedy after building up its TV brand in drama procedurals with such series as the CSI franchise and reality with perennial Emmy winner The Amazing Race. In addition to Call Me Fitz,...

Toronto – Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss has been cast in a co-starring role for Cas & Dylan, Jason Priestley’s directorial debut. Dreyfuss will play Dr. Cas Pepper, a dying man whose plans to check out on his own terms takes a reluctant detour when he winds up on the lam with a young woman, played by Tatiana Maslany. Priestley (Call Me Fitz, Beverly Hills, 90210) will direct the Canadian indie film from a script by Jessie Gabe (Being Erica). Story: Richard Dreyfuss Signs With Apa Mark Montefiore (Picnicface, Eating Buccaneers) is producing. Dreyfuss, who won an Oscar for

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A New eight-part series about female gamers is being unveiled this month.

Pretty in Geek, an eight-part web series following a group of friends who enjoy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, will launch online on July 11, 2012, accompanied by a live event at The Central in Toronto, Canada.

The show - featuring Stefne Mercedes (Call Me Fitz), Jen Krukowski (Hills Green, Curious and Unusual Deaths), Elize Morgan (The Ghostening), Todd Caryl (FM Andy, Politics of Fear) and Meaghan Fritchley - is a comedy following in the footsteps of series like The Guild (created by and starring Felicia Day) or Red vs Blue (from Rooster Teeth Productions).

It tackles geek comedy in a fun, tongue-in-cheek way and looks at the not-so-secret lives of female gamers.

The cast, director, writer and producers of Pretty in Geek will be at The Central (603 Markham Street) for the launch event on July 11.

Pretty in Geek is produced by GopherX.

CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the most-watched TV show in the world, won the ratings-based International Television Audience Award for the fifth time in seven years as U.S. series dominated the awards handed out today at the 52nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival. ABC’s Desperate Housewives took the honor on the comedy side, while The Bold And The Beautiful won for soap opera/telenovela. Among the Golden Nymph winners were HBO’s Game Of Thrones (drama) and ABC’s Modern Family (comedy) for best international producer, Woody Harrelson as outstanding actor in a telefilm for HBO’s Game Change, 30 Rock‘s Tina Fey for comedy actress, and Jason Priestley as best comedy actor for HBO Canada’s Call Me Fitz. Here’s the complete list of winners: Television Films Best Television Film The Last Fine Day Hager Moss Film Germany Best Director Masato Harada Early Autumn Japan Outstanding Actor Woody Harrelson...

Audiences in the states might not be familiar with Jason Priestley’s show Call Me Fitz, and that’s largely due to its currently exclusive run on HBO Canada. When an American sitcom ends up on HBO it usually means there’s a specific niche audience or the writing has a lot of sexually or linguistically explicit content, and in the case of Call Me Fitz that remains true. What makes it an unusual show by HBO standards is the below par writing. The show consistently mistakes swagger, bravado and chauvinism for comedy, and doesn’t realize that those aspects alone don’t make it “darkly” comic. The selfish antics of the Fitz and his constantly recurring comeuppance as the main source of comedy gets old fast, especially as his supposedly improving sense of morality seems static, even if the second season makes him equal parts asshole and victim.

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