The MOW, in development with the CBC, is based on the Michael Egnotiaf book about a family battling Alzheimer's Disease. Eric Till attached to direct and R.H. Thomson set to star. Christina Jennings is producing and Oasis has international distribution. The series follows a team of young genetic engineers as they troubleshoot their way out of potentially explosive dilemmas. Lauterman is the show runner with Jason Sherman aboard his writing team.
Directors have yet to be announced.
The series is set to shoot all over Ontario beginning this summer. Installments five and six of Shaftesbury's mystery franchise for CTV have also been greenlit. Based on the book series by Gail Bowen, Killing Spring and Verdict in Blood see recurring character Joanne Kilbourn, played by Wendy Crewson, solve yet another two murder mysteries. Killing Spring sees Kilbourn taking a semester at journalism school, where she ends up investigating student killings and the dean's suicide. Verdict in Blood has Kilbourn making a mini-doc on a female judge who's ultimately found brutally murdered.