Award-Winning Series GUIDESTONES Available in Canada Exclusively on CTV Digital Platforms

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“GUIDESTONES promises to raise the bar for the web series genre.” – Jane Doh, Wired

TORONTO (August 14, 2013) – CTV announced today that all 34 episodes of award-winning digital series GUIDESTONES are available now at CTV.ca/Guidestones, on the CTV App and CTV Mobile for Bell Mobile TV. Inspired by true events, GUIDESTONES has garnered multiple accolades including the 2013 International Digital Emmy Award for Best Digital Program – Fiction, as well as Canadian honours including a 2013 Digi for Best Web Series – Fiction at the Digi Awards, a 2013 Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Series Produced for Digital Media, and a 2012 Banff Rockie Award for Best Webseries – Fiction.

“We’re bringing entertaining and unique content to all of CTV platforms as part of our ongoing commitment to connect with viewers wherever they are,” said Mike Cosentino, Senior Vice-President, Programming, CTV Networks.

From award-winning director Jay Ferguson (Animals), GUIDESTONES features two journalism students who uncover a global conspiracy while investigating the unsolved murder of scientist Harold Glenndenning. Inspired by true events, the series takes viewers deep inside the mystery of The Georgia Guidestones, an enigmatic monument nestled in a farmer’s field in rural Georgia, inscribed with directions for rebuilding civilization after the apocalypse. Students Sandy Rai (Supinder Wraich, DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION) and Trevor Shale (Dan Fox, DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION) uncover a hidden cabal involving some of the world’s most powerful people and their plans for the destruction and reconstruction of modern global civilization.

GUIDESTONES joins other stand-alone series acquired by CTV exclusively for digital platforms, including BACKPACERS, INSIDE THE RACE, LAST CALL, and DOUBLE DATE….WITH DEATH and THE CONFESSION.

GUIDESTONES is presented by iThentic/3’oclock.tv in association with Bell Media, the Independent Production Fund (IPF), the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), and the Canada Media Fund (CMF). Produced by Lisa Baylin and Jay Ferguson. The series is directed by Jay Ferguson, and written by Jay Ferguson and Jeremy Diamond (ODD JOB JACK). Catherine Tait and Jonas Diamond serve as executive producers.

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About CTV
CTV is Canada’s #1 private broadcaster. Featuring a wide range of quality news, sports, information, and entertainment programming, CTV has been Canada’s most-watched television network for the past 12 years in a row. CTV is a division of Bell Media, Canada’s premier multimedia company with leading assets in television, radio and digital. Bell Media is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company. More information about CTV can be found on the network’s website at ctv.ca.

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For more information:

Emily Alonzo, Bell Media, 416.384.2664 or emily.alonzo@bellmedia.ca

Carolyn Fell, Bell Media, 416.384.2817 or carolyn.fell@bellmedia.ca