COGECO TV Production ProgramEnglish

In 2018, the Cogeco TV Production Program was launched, supported by Cogeco Connexion.  It provides Canadian independent producers with financing for the production of dramatic television series and mini-series.  The program formerly operated as a separate Fund – the Cogeco Program Development Fund, with an independent Board of Directors, but was administered by the IPF.  In 2018, Cogeco Connexion redirected its annual BDU contributions of approximately $2M directly to the IPF (plus the recoupment from series in which the Cogeco Fund had previously invested), and established the Cogeco TV Production Program under the IPF umbrella, in order to continue its support for television drama series.  In this first year of this new IPF Program,  fifteen drama series for seven Canadian broadcasters received equity investments of $2,330,000.

Bad Blood (Season 2)

  • Production Company: Jelly Bean Productions Inc. & 93717391 Quebec Inc.
  • Producer(s): Paula J. Smith
  • Writer(s): Michael Konyves, Patrick Moss, Alison Lea Bingeman
  • Director(s): Jeff Renfroe, Molly McGlynn
  • Broadcaster: Rogers Media
  • Location of Principal Photography: Sudbury, ON & Montreal, QC
  • Location of Prod. Co.: Toronto, Ontario & Montreal, Quebec

5 years after the death of mob boss Vito Rizzuto, Declan Gardiner is now the king of the Montreal drug trade. That is until a new breed of Mafiosos arrive to wage war and wrestle the city from his grasp.

Big Blue

  • Production Company: Guru Studio
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Producer(s): Meredith Kenny
  • Writer(s): TBC
  • Director(s): Riccardo Durante
  • Broadcaster: CBC
  • Location of Principal Photography: Toronto, Ontario
  • Location of Prod. Co.: Toronto, Ontario

Lettie, Lemo, and their crew are elite explorers with a sub of their own! Driven by curiosity and compassion, they’re on a mission to explore the depths of the ocean and bring peace to all its creatures. They meet the adorable and enigmatic Bacon Berry a strange sort of toddler with no memory of who she is or where she’s from with an uncanny and unpredictable ability to control the water around her.

Frankie Drake (Season 2)

  • Production Company: Shaftesbury Frankie II Inc.
  • Producer(s): Theresa Ho
  • Writer(s): Carol Hay, James Hurst, Cal Coons, Jessie Gabe, John Callaghan
  • Director(s): Ruba Nadda, David Sutherland, Cal Coons, Peter Stebbings
  • Broadcaster: CBC
  • Location of Principal Photography: Toronto, Ontario
  • Location of Prod. Co.: Toronto, Ontario

It’s the 1920s – thoroughly modern times. The New Woman is emerging, technology is advancing, jazz is bringing a new attitude to the streets of Toronto, and society’s morals are – well, shattered. Women are finally experiencing new freedoms – and FRANKIE DRAKE (30) is pushing the envelope to the max as Toronto’s only female Private Eye.

Murdoch Mysteries (Season 12)

  • Production Company: Shaftesbury Murdoch XII Inc.
  • Producer(s): Stephen Montgomery
  • Writer(s): Peter Mitchell, Paul Aitken, Dan Trotta, Simon McNabb, Mary Pedersen
  • Directors: Various
  • Broadcaster: CBC
  • Location of Principal Photography: Toronto, Ontario
  • Location of Prod. Co.: Toronto, Ontario

Set in early 1900s Toronto, Murdoch Mysteries explores the intriguing world of William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson), a handsome young detective using radical forensic techniques for the time, including fingerprinting and trace evidence, to solve some of the city’s most gruesome murders.

Northern Rescue

  • Production Company: DCTV Rescue Productions Inc.
  • Producer(s): Don Carmody, David Cormican
  • Writer(s): Mark Bacci, Dwayne Hill, David Cormican
  • Director(s): Bradley Walsh, Gail Harvey, Eleanore Lindo, Michael McGowan
  • Broadcaster: CBC
  • Location of Principal Photography: Parry Sound, ON
  • Location of Prod. Co.: Toronto, Ontario

When the West family suddenly loses their mother to cancer, they are forced to re-evaluate their entire existence and move to Turtle Island Bay where the father leads the Search and Rescue (SAR) team. John undertakes Search & Rescue missions, and from time to time calls on his family for additional support. The Wests will learn and find new insight(s) to being a successful family, but not without a little trial and a whole lot of error along the way.

Private Eyes (Season 3)

  • Production Company: Shade PI S3 Productions Inc
  • Producer(s): Alex Jordan
  • Writer(s): Alan McCullough, Marcus Robinson, Derek Schreyer, Alexandra Zarowny, James Thorpe, Katrina Saville, Tim Kilby, Shannon Masters
  • Director(s): Jason Priestley, James Genn, Eleanore Lindo, Anne Wheeler, Sudz Sutherland, Gail Harvey, Shawn Piller
  • Broadcaster: Corus
  • Location of Principal Photography: Toronto, Ontario
  • Location of Prod. Co.: Toronto, Ontario

When the West family suddenly loses their mother to cancer, they are forced to re-evaluate their entire existence and move to Turtle Island Bay where the father leads the Search and Rescue (SAR) team. John undertakes Search & Rescue missions, and from time to time calls on his family for additional support. The Wests will learn and find new insight(s) to being a successful family, but not without a little trial and a whole lot of error along the way.

The Coroner

  • Production Company: Coroner Productions (Ontario) Inc.
  • Producer(s): Suzanne Colvin-Goulding
  • Writer(s): Morwyn Brebner, Noelle Carbone, Sean Reycraft, Seneca Aaron, Waneta Storms, Wendy Brathwaite, Nathalie Younglai
  • Director(s): Adrienne Mitchell, Winnifred Jong, Sherren Lee, Paul Fox
  • Platform/Broadcaster: CBC
  • Location of Principal Photography: Toronto, Ontario
  • Location of Prod. Co.: Toronto, Ontario

THE CORONER is a procedural about a female coroner who investigates suspicious deaths. It’s her job to go out in the world and investigate how a person died – and in doing so, she often finds out why. JENNY COOPER.is a woman of action. She suffers from clinical anxiety. She’s recently-widowed and rediscovering sex—with two very different men. She’s driven by an intense search for the truth. She’s a real hero, not an anti-hero. She speaks for the dead – people with no voice.