DEVELOPMENT

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Scripted Series - One hour drama

ANGRY ANIMALS
(One hour crime drama)

After losing her Alberta cattle ranch to the bank, Ma Kerfoot and her four cowboy sons follow the Professional Bull Rider circuit across the continent, but prize money is unpredictable, so the family turns to stealing heavy equipment to make ends meet.  
 
Created by: Blake Corbet and Diane Boehme
​Supported By: BELL, CMF

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CONCEPTION
(One hour drama)

People meet. Sometimes they have sex. And sometimes they conceive a child. For many reasons, the child is given away at birth, and a secret is born. Decades later, the child contacts Naomi, an off-the-grid Private Investigator who specializes in finding birth parents who don’t want to be found. 

Created by: Blake Corbet
​Supported by: Corus, CMF

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JESUS MURPHY
(One hour thriller/comedy)

 An unknown stand-up comedian finds instant fame when he creates Jesus Murphy, an evangelical atheist who irreverently trashes Christianity, making enemies in powerful places. ​
 
Created by: Blake Corbet and John Murphy
Supported By: Telefilm Canada, Superchannel
Based On: The stageplay The Heretic by John Murphy​

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L.A. RIOT
(One hour urban warfare drama, and video game)

After a race riot leaves Los Angeles bankrupt and balkanized, Jill Mayerthorpe and her deaf brother Cicero lead a team of white hat mercenaries hired to restore peace.

Created By: Blake Corbet

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MANDINGO 
(One hour period drama)

Alabama, circa 1840:  after robbing her young master of his buried gold, his Mandingo, and his unborn child, a white-passing slave escapes her plantation and makes it to New Orleans, but her past soon catches up with her.
 
Developed for television by: Blake Corbet
Based on: The novel by Kyle Onstott

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MEGATSUNAMI
(10 part limited series)

When one of the Canary Islands collapses into the Atlantic Ocean, eight hours later the east coast of North America is hit by a 200ft wave, killing millions and leaving tens of millions homeless. Megatsunami follows a family from the first day to twenty years later, as America redefines itself.
 
Created By: Blake Corbet and Marly Reed
Producers: Kim Roberts, Tina Pehme
Broadcast/Distribution: CW Network (USA) Superchannel (Can) STARZ! (Intl)

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RARE EARTH
(One hour science fiction western)

In a mythical region of the Old West rival factions battle for control of a rare crystal with the power to change history. Star-crossed lovers Hope and Fate are forced to find each other and fall in love over and over again.
 
Created By: Blake Corbet and Noel Baker
Supported by: BELL, CMF

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THE KILLING OF JANET SMITH
(One hour period crime drama)

In Vancouver of the roaring twenties, a family of recent British expats is torn apart by the murder of their 22-year-old nanny. A cover-up reaches to the highest echelons of police and government. Based on a true story.
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Created By: Blake Corbet
Supported by: BELL, CMF
​Producing Partners:  Sienna Films

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Scripted Series - Half hour comedy

​​DEANZ GARAGE
(Half hour comedy/drama)

 When Dean loses his job on the dying Alberta oil-patch, his wife leaves him for his father who owns the Calgary Ferrari dealership.  Instead of crying in his beer, Dean re-invents himself as a visionary Rat-Rod artist, bringing the rusted shells of the 20th century back to life as art on wheels.

Created By: Chris Leeson, Blake Corbet, Richard Side
Producing Partners: Shark Tooth Films

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THE EMBASSY
(Half hour comedy drama series)

Oliver Smythe is an incompetent yet charming civil servant who makes believe he is a deep state spy in order to impress his overbearing live-in mother, Camille. But his lies catch up with both of them when Oliver is appointed Canadian Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and he is mistaken for a real spy.
 
Created By: Blake Corbet, Andrew Currie, Minelys Sanchez
Supported By: CBC, CMF​

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Scripted Feature Films

THE BIG SECRET 
​(Animated feature film)

When a massive glacier calves near a small Antarctic community, a wormhole opens to another era, hundreds of millions of years in Earth’s past, and a tiny creature is sucked into the present. River and her friends risk everything to return “Biggie" back to where he come from. ​
 
Written by: Blake Corbet and Trent Carlson
Supported By: Wild Brain, Family Channel

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LAS MUCHACHAS BANDIDAS 
​(Feature film)

​In the hopes of finding her first-world baby daddy, a jilted highschool girl recruits a team of prostitutes and chambermaids to rob a secluded tourist resort on the sandy shores of the Dominican Republic.
 
Written By: Blake Corbet
Supported By: Telefilm Canada, Superchannel

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PIGS
(Animated feature film)

Calipsa and Whipsey, a couple of kids from the land of Derp on the planet Garbagem, stand alone between two rows of advancing factories that threaten to gobble up what’s left of their world. ​
 
Written by: Blake Corbet and David Vainola

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