CBC- TV UNVEILS ITS NEW BROADCAST AND DIGITAL LINEUPS

CBC-TV is making digital a big part of its strategy, with nine new online series complementing a broadcast lineup that includes a new daytime show and a Mennonite mob drama. The public broadcaster announced details of its summer, fall and winter slate, with new titles including the Mennonite series Pure and a daytime show featuring Canada’s Smartest Person host Jessi Cruickshank, design guru Steven Sabados and two other hosts. Also newly added is the animated children’s series Dot. produced by author Randi Zuckerberg, who is the sister of Facebook co- founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Pure follows a newly-elected Mennonite pastor as he in- filtrates the Menno mob in an effort to take down a powerful drug trafficking operation in the community. It will premiere in winter 2017. The daytime series will launch in the fall. It marks Sabados’s return to CBC daytime programming after last year’s death of his husband and Steven and Chris co- star, Chris Hyndman. Previously announced new series set to launch later this year include Kim’s Convenience, based on Toronto playwrightactor Ins Choi’s stage comedy- drama about a Korean- Canadian family and its convenience store. It’s scheduled for a fall debut.