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Shaftesbury Films is a film, television and digital media production company founded by Christina Jennings in 1987. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Background
Shaftesbury is a creator and producer of original content for television and digital platforms. Shaftesbury's slate includes 11 seasons of Murdoch Mysteries for CBC, UKTV, and ITV STUDIOS Global Entertainment; detective drama Frankie Drake for CBC; Houdini & Doyle for Sony Pictures Television, Corus Entertainment, ITV, and Fox; thriller series Slasher for NBCUniversal's Chiller and now available on Netflix; and CBC Kids series The Moblees. Shaftesbury's digital arm, Smokebomb Entertainment, produces original digital, convergent, and branded entertainment projects including the YouTube series and upcoming movie Carmilla; mystery series V Morgan Is Dead; fashion comedy series MsLabelled, produced in partnership with Shaw Media and Tetley Tea; supernatural drama Inhuman Condition; and the Slasher VR app for iOS, Android, and Oculus Rift. In June 2014, Shaftesbury partnered with Youth Culture to launch shift2, a branded entertainment agency. In 2013, the company signed a first look deal with ABC.
Productions
Productions include Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures for HBO Canada, based on the Giller-prize winning book by Dr. Vincent Lam; five seasons of The Listener for CTV and Fox International Channels; and now in season ten of Murdoch Mysteries for Citytv/CBC and UKTV's Alibi. Shaftesbury also produced a variety of award-winning programming, including the global hit series Life with Derek and the movie follow-up to the series, Vacation with Derek. Shaftesbury's newest series, Good Dog, is a half-hour comedy created, written and directed by Ken Finkleman that premiered on HBO Canada in 2011.
Divisions
Shaftesbury's divisions include Smokebomb Entertainment, the company's digital media division responsible for the development and production of original online series and companion web experiences for Shaftesbury's slate of properties; Shaftesbury Kids, their division responsible for several children's TV shows and movies; and Shaftesbury Sales Company, which manages international sales and distribution for the company's content.
Television
The company's television series projects have included:
11 Cameras
Aaron Stone
The Atwood Stories
Backpackers
Baxter
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Connor Undercover
Dark Oracle (co-produced with Cookie Jar Entertainment)
Dead Still
Fool Canada
Frankie Drake Mysteries
From Spain with Love with Annie Sibonney
Good Dog
Good God
Houdini & Doyle
Hudson & Rex
The Jane Show
Life with Derek
The Listener
Mischief City
The Moblees
Murdoch Mysteries
Overruled!
ReGenesis
Ruby and the Well
Screech Owls
The Shields Stories
SisterS (co-produced with Peer Pressure Productions)
Slasher
The Sounds
Splashlings
Film
Television films produced by Shaftesbury have included:
External Affairs, an adaptation of Timothy Findley's play The Stillborn Lover
Diverted
In the Dark
Michael Ignatieff's novel Scar Tissue
Hemingway vs. Callaghan, an adaptation of Morley Callaghan's That Summer in Paris
Except the Dying, Poor Tom Is Cold and Under the Dragon's Tail, the first three novels in Maureen Jennings' Murdoch Mysteries franchise which was later adapted by the company into a weekly series
Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story, a dramatization of the murder trial of Evelyn Dick
Terry, a biopic of Terry Fox
six Joanne Kilbourn mysteries, based on the novels by Gail Bowen
Eight Days To Live
In God's Country
Mount Pleasant
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Skyrunners
Me and Luke
The Summit
Sleep Murder
She Drives Me Crazy
The Robber Bride
Lay Them Straight
Cinema films have included:
Swann, based on the novel by Carol Shields,
Conquest
Painted Angels
Camilla
Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity
People Hold On
An American Dream: The Education of William Bowman
Digital films, produced by digital arm Smokebomb Entertainment, include:
Darken
Digital
The company's digital series projects, produced by digital arm Smokebomb Entertainment, have included:
Backpackers
Carmilla
Emerald Code
Houdini & Doyle: World of Wonders
Inhuman Condition
MsLabelled
Murdoch Mysteries: The Curse of the Lost Pharaohs
Murdoch Mysteries: The Murdoch Effect
Murdoch Mysteries: Nightmare on Queen Street
State of Syn
Unlikely Heroes
The company's digital arm also oversees KindaTV, the company's distribution channel through YouTube hosted by Natasha Negovanlis.
References
External links
Shaftesbury Films
Shaftesbury Films About Us
Shaftesbury Films at imdb
Shaftesbury Films Inc. archives at the University of Toronto Media Commons
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- The Atwood Stories
- Sabotage at Sea
- The Seventh Survivor
- The Listener (seri televisi)
- Frankie Drake Mysteries
- Margaret Atwood
- Aaron Stone
- London
- Martin Freeman
- Shaftesbury Films
- Shaftesbury Abbey
- Shaftesbury
- Murdoch Mysteries
- The Listener (TV series)
- Life with Derek
- AMC Networks
- Hudson & Rex
- List of Murdoch Mysteries episodes
- The Gavin Crawford Show
Beauty of Beauties (1965)
Watching the Detectives (2007)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
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