Development Slate

Rock God

Can love make a gamer grow up?

Jeffrey Buckle, 21, is a typical gamer, most comfortable hanging with other guys in his basement with a game controller in his hand. His mom thinks he should get a job, he father wants him to take out the garbage and his little sister thinks he should grow the frak up. But Jeff has an ambition of his own; to be the world's greatest video gamer. Then he meets, Katie. She is smart, beautiful and together. She's also dedicated to raising money for micro loans to women in third world countries. Jeff is determined to win Katie's heart and he is indeed going to have to grow up and become a responsible member of society to do so. Does that mean giving up gaming? Maybe not. Jeffrey Buckle has some tricks up his sleeve.

Anti-Social

Pushed to the limit teen drama

Jessica Jamerson is Cedarvale's newest resident. She soon learns that the experimental treatment facility is a snake pit. Communication with the outside world is strictly forbidden, the residents aren't allowed to leave the premises and few visitors are allowed in. If that wasn’t enough, the staff is determined to break the residents. These kids are the brightest, angriest and rebellious teens in town. To survive amongst them, you have to align yourself with one group or another. But each clique demands its own pound of flesh. If Jessica is going to survive with her don't-tell-me-what-to-do attitude intact, she's going to have think fast, tread lightly and break a whole lot of rules. Anti-Social is about smart, troubled 16 to 18-year-olds who are incarcerated at an experimental correctional facility. The series is a black dramedy about teens grappling with the big issues of the teenage years: relationships, drugs, sex, morality, the future and friendship. Filled with comedy, action, romance and outrageous pushed-to-the-limit teen drama, Anti-Social focuses on four of the Cedarvale residents who keep us up to date on what's going on through their blogs, video posts, photo albums, online animations and through their other social networking activity.

boytellsall features the infamous Ali Barrett who blogs about knitting, sex and her relationships. Simon Beals regales his friends with the tales of his adventures in dating in his video podcast boytellsall. When Ali and Simon meet, sparks fly and they share all the intimate details with the entire web. Among their friends are Nakita and Crash, who podcast about planning their wedding; Andrew Gray, who blogs in drawings on his site rewthegray; and Lauren Little, the web archaelogist whose blog is a compendium of links to things pertinent to her friends' lives. With a humourous and light touch, the serial explores how social networking effects our lives, telling the stories of people whose secrets are revealed on the web, strangers who form close bonds without any personal contact and what it means to reveal all in your blog. Based on our original web-based story telling experiments. boytellsall is a sexy and irreverent romantic comedy for the digital age.

Sisters inSanity

Three sisters stay sane by staying close.

Sisters Joni, Dylan and Pru Chapman have crazy lives filled with kids, jobs, spouses, renos and school bake sales. They keep each other sane with friendship, advice and a glass of wine or three. Clean freak Prue is wannabe yummy mummy, home with her first baby and dying to lose that last 10 pounds. Dylan is single mom who has convinced herself that a man will only complicate her life. She obsesses over her daughter's nutritional needs, photographing her lunchbox on a regular basis. Eldest sister Joni is a hyper-overachiever who has trouble saying no to anything and is seriously contemplating saying yes to an affair with a guy at work. Sisters inSanity is comedy about women trying to balance careers, kids, marriages and homes and finding strength in sisterhood.