Bell Media and Tim Hortons Partner to Bring The Last Timbit Musical to Crave Audiences, August 12
– Produced by Bell Media Studios for Crave, the special transports audiences into the hit stage production from Michael Rubinoff, originating producer on Come From Away –
– The Last Timbit was created to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Tim Hortons and is
based on the true story of a group of strangers who find solace during a blizzard in a Tim Hortons restaurant in Ontario –
– The special will be promoted everywhere across Bell Media’s extensive network –
– The Last Timbit was created to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Tim Hortons and is
based on the true story of a group of strangers who find solace during a blizzard in a Tim Hortons restaurant in Ontario –
– The special will be promoted everywhere across Bell Media’s extensive network –
TORONTO (July 11, 2024) – On the heels of a limited stage run in Toronto, Bell Media and Tim Hortons have joined forces to transform the acclaimed musical, The Last Timbit, into a 80-min Crave special. Filmed in front of a live studio audience at Toronto’s Elgin Theatre, THE LAST TIMBIT premieres exclusively on Crave on Monday, August 12.
“Tim Hortons is a valued partner and we’re thrilled to collaborate on this unique production that is exclusive to Crave audiences,” said Perry MacDonald, Vice President, Advertising Sales and Partnerships, Bell Media. “We’re also excited to work with Tim Hortons to leverage the power of Bell Media platforms and promote this special streaming event to a wide audience.”
Produced by Bell Media Studios for Crave. Producers for Bell Media are Emmanuel Groneveldt and Claudia Abate. The filming and musical are produced by Tim Hortons and Michael Rubinoff (Come From Away), with music and lyrics by Anika Johnson and Britta Johnson, and book by Nick Green.
To ensure wide reach and generate excitement, Bell Media is implementing a comprehensive media strategy to promote THE LAST TIMBIT. This includes leveraging the power of its multi-platform offering, including ads on Crave, digital, audio, and linear.
About The Last Timbit
Inspired by real Canadian stories, The Last Timbit follows a group of strangers who wait out the snowstorm of the decade in a Tim Hortons. In this hilarious and heartfelt musical, this unlikely group comes together to explore family and community, and finds the best in hard times, all while battling for the last Birthday Cake Timbit.
The Last Timbit stars Chilina Kennedy (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Andrew Broderick, Eric Craig (Paradise Square), DeAnn deGruijter, Sara Farb (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Barbara Fulton (Come From Away), Kaya Kanashiro (SORT OF), Peter Millard, Danté Prince, Kimberly-Ann Truong (Miss Saigon) and Jake Epstein (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical).
The Last Timbit features music and lyrics by Anika Johnson and Britta Johnson, a book by Nick Green, direction by Brian Hill, choreography by Genny Sermonia, orchestrations and music supervision by Lynne Shankel, music direction by Jonathan Corkal-Astorga, scenic and costume design by Kelly Wolf, lighting design by Jareth Li, sound design by Josh Liebert, production management by Ray Salverda, stage management by Seren Brooke Lannon, and general management by associate producer Rob Richardson.
About Bell Media
Bell Media is Canada’s leading media and entertainment company with a portfolio of assets in premium video, audio, out-of-home advertising, and digital. This includes Canada’s most-watched television network, CTV; the largest Canadian-owned video streamer, Crave, with a premium add-on to include STARZ; a powerful suite of specialty channels; the most-trusted news brand, CTV News; Canada’s cross-platform sports leaders, TSN and RDS; leading out-of-home advertising network, Astral; Québec’s fast-growing conventional French-language network, Noovo; the country’s leading radio and podcast app, iHeartRadio Canada; and a range of award-winning original productions, brands, and services. As a content leader and partner in Sphere Media, Montréal’s Grande Studios, and Dome Productions, one of North America’s leading production facilities providers, Bell Media is committed to keeping Canadians entertained and informed. Bell Media also offers best-in-class technology, marketing, and analytics support through Bell Marketing Platform, an omnichannel self-serve platform which includes Bell Analytics, Strategic Audience Management (SAM), and Bell DSP, in addition to advanced advertising solutions, including Linear Addressable TV, Addressable Audio, and ads on Crave. Bell Media is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company. 1 Learn more at BellMedia.ca.
About Crave
Delivering more Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning programming than any other service, Crave is Canada’s prestige entertainment offering, with HBO Originals, Max Originals, STARZ, Hollywood-hit movies, is the exclusive Canadian streaming home of FRIENDS, and boasts a robust slate of English and French original series. Crave is a major supporter of Canada’s production industry, helping to fund numerous film projects, and features acclaimed selections from some of Canada’s prestigious film festivals including Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, HOT DOCS, ImagineNATIVE, and Inside Out Film Festival.
Crave is a bilingual TV and streaming service with thousands of hours of exclusive French-language content. Crave is available directly to all Canadians with access to the Internet at Crave.ca, via iOS and Android, and other platforms such as Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Prime Video Channels, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, select LG Smart TVs, PlayStation, Roku, select Samsung Smart TVs, and Xbox One. It’s also available through participating service providers across ten, 24-hour High Definition linear and on demand channels. Crave is from Bell Media, Canada’s leading content company, providing Canada’s most-watched and most-acclaimed television programming on network, specialty, pay and digital platforms. Visit our website at Crave.ca.
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