Television Production

Current Productions

Weird Weddings

Come along as we follow some of the zaniest love-struck couples in preparation for their non-traditional beginnings of married life! Couples today are tying the knot in some rather unconventional ways... while bungee jumping; at centre field during half-time at a football game; on the wings of a bi-plane; deep undersea; with Elvis acting as minister... nothing seems too wild or crazy in the world of Weird Weddings!

Thirteen episodes completed in 2002. Twelve new episodes done for season two in 2003. Broadcast in Canada on Life Network.

Distributed internationally by Cargo Releasing.

Weird Homes

Weird Home ! Weird Homes is a television series of one-half hour shows about some of America's most unusual and bizarre homes and the fascinating and inspiring people who built and live in them. Eccentric yet elegant, batty but beautiful, these homes and yards salute the creative spirit in us all, the spirit that defies trends, the neighbours and the local building code. From David Boswell's castle built from 600,000 embalming fluid bottles, to Lloyd Parson's wild west creation, award winning host Arthur Black takes a humorous look at some of America's weirdest homes.

Weird Homes, the highest rated Canadian produced show on the Life Network, is also the winner of the International Gold
WorldMedal for Documentary Profiles Series at the New York International Festivals, the winner of the 1999 Gemini Award
for Best Lifestyle Series and Leo Award winner for Best Director of a Lifestyle or Talk Series. Originally licensed by Life Network for
prime time broadcast in September, 1998 and now in its fifth season Weird Homes has completed 91 episodes to date with 52 episodes shot in High Definition.

Also available in a four cassette home video gift package from Superior Video, Weird Homes is distributed internationally by Great North International and by Cargo Releasing.

Featured across Canada on the Life Network. Find out when the the next show is on at www.lifenetwork.ca.

Also available in French language in Canada on Groupe TVA.

Now on Discovery Channel in the United States. Watch for it!

Weird Wheels

For those not content with motor city's off-the-production-line vehicles, Weird Wheels, a television series produced for Alliance Weird Wheels ! Atlantis Broadcasting, will look at the most bizarre examples of the custom car phenomenon together with other peculiar wheeled vehicles. An initial season of thirteen one-half hour episodes of Weird Wheels were shot in High Definition. First broadcast in Canada in January 2001, Weird Wheels was renewed for a second season of 39 episodes all of which were shot in High Definition.

Featured across Canada on the Life Network.

Now available in the U.S. on Discovery's Home & Leisure Channel. Watch for it!

Weird Wheels is distributed internationally by Cargo Releasing.

Television Projects Completed

Have Camera Will Travel

Have Camera Will Travel, a photo-journalist's quest in search of the perfect photo opportunity. The one-hour pilot episode shot in High Definition on location in Palau, Micronesia features fabulous footage from undersea jellyfish pools and sunken fighter planes to treacherous mountaintop landscapes. Palau is the first of six planned episodes.

Curse of the Lost Gold Mine

Curse of the Lost Gold Mine, a television docudrama, with blended dramatizations, interviews and historical footage, recounts the legend of the native Slumach, his secret gold mine, the women he murdered, his trial and hanging and the curse that took 23 unfortunate souls to their death seeking the secret of his
legendary gold.

Curse of the Lost Gold Mine is a double international award winning show winning the Silver WorldMedal at the New York International Festivals and the Silver Medal at the Charlottetown Television Festival. Produced and directed by Mike Collier, Curse of the Lost Gold Mine has been televised in prime time by Can-West Global and is distributed internationally by Sullivan Entertainment.

Television Series in Development

Unsung Heroes

Unsung Heroes is a High Definition television series of twenty-six one half hour episodes about ordinary people that are anything but ordinary. Featuring true stories about the person next door Unsung Heroes profiles the extraordinary actions and achievements of the people in our midst.

Boys and Their Toys

Boys and Their Toys is a High Definition television series of twenty-six one half hour episodes that explores men's' hobbies
when taken to extremes. Written and hosted by women Boys and Their Toys takes a humorous look at the grown up boys and the toys they love.

Wine Regions of the World

Wine Regions of the World is a High Definition television series of twenty-six one hour episodes that explore the famous wine producing regions of the world. Hosted by an internationally renowned wine authority Wine Regions of the World gives viewers a travelogue of the region together with information about the wines and foods of the region.

Future Shock!

Future Shock! is a High Definition television series of twenty-six one-hour episodes looking at the technologies of the future.
Using dramatic pre-enactments Future Shock! tours viewers
through the world of 2025... a science fiction world of more
science than fiction.

Icewines

Icewines is a High Definition television series of thirteen one-half hour episodes touring the famous vineyards producing the new classic Icewine. Icewines takes viewers on a journey across
Canada and explores the mysteries behind a Canadian classic wine.

Wild in the City

Wild in the City is a High Definition television series of twenty-six one hour episodes looking at the wildlife that encroaches our
urban environment. Hosted by an environmental celebrity Wild in
the City will take viewers on a world wildlife tour to find the foxes
in London, the alligators in New York City and the bears of
Vancouver and examine how we cope with them and they with us.

Extreme Team

Extreme Extreme Team is a television series of twenty-six one half hour episodes set in the spectacularly scenic number one rated Whistler Blackcomb ski resort two hours north of Vancouver. The series is an action drama about today's teenagers focused around extreme sports, the danger inherent in those sports and the rescues that are undertaken when things go wrong.

Co-developed by Meridian Motion Pictures Inc. Estimated budget $400,000 per episode.

Belize - From Reef to Rain Forest

Belize - From Reef to Rain Forest is a pilot for a thirteen episode television series of one hour documentaries titled Journeys of Discovery. The series will document actual expeditions organized
by a specialty adventure travel company to ecologically sensitive parts of the world. Belize - From Reef to Rain Forest was shot on location in the government-protected Jaguar preserve in Belize,
Central America and is awaiting post production.

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