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EXCLUSIVE: Canadian streamer Crave has forged Lauren Collins and Megan Follows to steer a six-part short-form comedy, My Lifeless Mother.
The sequence follows Emmy, a lady questioning her life decisions three years after her mom’s passing. It explores the difficult nature of grief by way of the filter of moms and daughters.
Manufacturing has begun in manufacturing in Toronto, with Follows (Anne of Inexperienced Gables, Reign) and Collins (Degrassi: The Subsequent Technology, The Pressure) starring. Rounding out the forged are Rainbow Solar Francks (Excessive Constancy), David Reale (The Boys), Daniel Maslany (Murdoch Mysteries), Daniel Kash (Slasher) and visitor star Matt Murray (Within the Darkish).
Synopsis reads: “Emmy wished to hike the Appalachian Path after her mom died, she was simply actually busy. However three years on now, her grief is catching up along with her. Even she questions her lipstick and life decisions, her useless mom, Fern, pops into her life to voice her opinions and inform her purple actually is not her coloration. Even loss of life hasn’t stopped Fern from being fabulous. Emmy is attempting to reside her greatest life, however how do you let go of one thing that’s so current?”
My Lifeless Mother comes from creator Wendy Litner and govt producer Lauren Corber’s LoCo Movement Footage, which made the present in affiliation with Crave guardian Bell Media and the participation of Canada’s Impartial Manufacturing Fund, Ontario Creates and the Bell Fund. Corber and Litner beforehand labored collectively on the Worldwide Emmy nominated sequence Scorching to Purchase a Child.
Blue Ant Media has worldwide distribution rights. Litner can be an EP, whereas Chandler Levack (I Like Films) directs.
Palmer Baranek is supervising producer and Moe Rai is co-producer. For Bell, the manufacturing govt is Kelsey-Ann Rattansey, senior manufacturing govt is Chris Kelley, Sarah Fowlie is Head of Manufacturing, Unique Programming; Rachel Goldstein-Couto is Head of Improvement, Unique Programming; Carlyn Klebuc is Basic Supervisor, Unique Programming; Justin Stockman is Vice President, Content material Improvement & Programming; and Karine Moses is Senior Vice President, Content material Improvement & Information.
“We’re excited to see Wendy and Lauren’s inventive imaginative and prescient come to life on this comedic and witty sequence of shorts,” mentioned Klebuc. “With Levack directing, and acclaimed Canadian actors Follows and Collins starring, this sequence continues to construct on Crave’s mandate of delivering distinctive and high-quality authentic content material.”
“We’re so excited to start manufacturing on our new comedy starring the incomparable duo of Lauren Collins and Megan Follows,” mentioned Lauren Corber, President and Government Producer, LoCo Movement Footage. “I am thrilled to reunite with Wendy Litner, the sensible thoughts behind all of it, and to hitch forces with Crave to raise My Lifeless Mother to uncharted comedic heights.”
Crave’s authentic comedies embrace Letterkenny and its spinoff Shoresy.
