The immense success of the Netflix series “Emily in Paris” has transformed a quiet, untouched square in the French capital into a tourist magnet.
04.04.2023 - 07:09 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: CBC/Radio-Canada has boarded the upcoming Spellbound, a live-action tween drama from the team behind Find Me in Paris.
The Canadian national network has acquired local rights to the show from Federation Kids & Family and ZDF Studios, which are jointly distributing worldwide.
Hulu, Germany’s ZDF and France Télévisions are already attached as co-production partners, with Federation-owned Cottonwood Media producing in association with Opéra National de Paris and ZDF Studios. The same partners, bar France Télévisions, teamed for sci-fi kids dramedy Find Me in Paris between 2018 and 2020.
Filming on the 26-part Spellbound, which has a budget of €15.3M ($16.6M), has now wrapped ahead of a debut later this year. CBC’s English-language streamer CBC Gem will launch it later this year, before French-language service ICI TOU.TV runs it during the 2023/24 broadcast season.
The show follows Cece Parker Jones (Hailey Romain), a vivacious teenager who relocates to Paris from a small town in the U.S. to study at the Paris Opera Ballet School. But things turn upside down when she discovers a book of family spells in the back room of her Aunt Ginger’s apothecary and unwittingly summons her nemesis.
Cast also includes Margherita Barbieri, Abigail O’Regan, Etienne Moana, Sam Darius, Zac Gabriel Werb, Raven Dauda (The Umbrella Academy, Star Trek: Discovery), Malou Beauvoir (Perception), Rik Young (Beowolf, Find Me in Paris), Cameron James-King (Tuesday, His Dark Materials), Gomolémo Tsagaé, Imogen Mackie Walker and Charles Baker.
The show comes from Jill Girling and Lori Mather, who also created Find Me in Paris. Executive producer Renaud Mathieu and one of the directors, Robert Burke, also worked on the previous show.
The immense success of the Netflix series “Emily in Paris” has transformed a quiet, untouched square in the French capital into a tourist magnet.
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Amber Dowling Netflix, APTN and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have commissioned a new comedy series created and written by Inuit television writer-producer Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. The untitled project will film in Nunavut and revolves around a young Inuk mother who wants to build a new future for herself. The problem? It won’t be easy in her small Arctic town where everyone knows everybody else’s business. MacDonald and Arnaquq-Baril also serve as executive producers on the series under their Red Marrow Media banner alongside Miranda de Pencier (“Anne With an E”) of Northwood Entertainment, Susan Coyne (“Daisy Jones & The Six”) and Garry Campbell (“The Kids in the Hall”).
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