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TORONTO (April 3, 2013) – This year, no blanksshall remain unfilled as The Comedy Network orders a second season ofthe retro-classic comedy game show MATCH GAMEfrom FremantleMedia. Set to shoot for the first time in Toronto thissummer, another 60 episodes of the half-hour comedy series have beenordered. Produced in association with Montreal’s Zone3, Season 2 of MATCH GAME premieresexclusively on Comedy this fall. Oshawa-born stand-up Darrin Rose isback for another round as host, and is again joined by wisecrackingregular panellists Canadian comedy legend Seán Cullen, and belovedstand-up Debra DiGiovanni.
Season 1 of MATCH GAME featured anextraordinary roster of comedy all-stars including Samantha Bee, ScottThompson, Tom Green, Caroline Rhea, Andy Kindler, Yvette Nicole Brown,Janeane Garofalo, Jeremy Hotz, and Greg Grunberg, among others. Sincethe series premiere on Oct. 15, 2012, more than nine million viewershave watched the original Canadian series, while approximately twomillion Canadians continue to watch MATCH GAME each week. Viewers can relive the first round of shenanigans Monday – Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy.
“We are looking forward to taping with Darrin, Seán, and Debra, as wellas many familiar and new faces this summer in Toronto,” said MichelBissonnette, President of Montreal-headquartered Zone3. “We plan to takethe laughs to the next level.”
MATCH GAME is based on FremantleMedia’sinternational format, with local versions having been shown across theU.K., Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and Mexico.
MATCH GAME is produced by Zone3 in associationwith Bell Media. Executive producers are Isabelle Bourduas and MichaelKronish. Martha Kehoe is producer. Sarah Fowlie is Director, IndependentProduction, Comedy. Corrie Coe is Senior Vice-President, IndependentProduction, Bell Media. Catherine MacLeod is Vice-President, SpecialtyChannels, Bell Media. Rick Brace is President, Specialty Channels andCTV Production. Phil King is President, CTV Programming and Sports.
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
The Comedy Network on Twitter
The Comedy Network on Facebook
Darrin Rose on Twitter
Darrin Rose on Facebook
Debra DiGiovanni on Twitter
Seán Cullen on Twitter
About Zone3
MATCH GAME Canada is produced byMontreal-based Zone3, Quebec’s top production house. The company focusesin three main areas: television production, film production, and liveentertainment production. Zone3 was founded in 2000 by André Larin,Michel Bissonnette and Vincent Leduc, all of whom have held keypositions in the Québec television and broadcasting industry. MichaelKronish and Isabelle Bourduas are the executives in charge of Englishlanguage production. Zone3 is owned by Telesystem Ltd. and CDPTélécomMédias.
About FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia is one of the leading creators, producers anddistributors of television entertainment brands in the world.FremantleMedia is part of RTL Group, the leading European entertainmentnetwork, which is in turn 92 percent owned by the international mediacompany Bertelsmann. FremantleMedia is responsible for many of theworld’s highest rated prime time entertainment, drama, serial drama,factual entertainment and kids & family programming, with marketleading capabilities that extend from content creation to licensing,digital and branded entertainment, gaming and home entertainment. TheFremantleMedia Group (which includes FremantleMedia North America, UFA,FremantleMedia UK, FremantleMedia Australia, Ludia, @radical.media andOriginal Productions, among others) has one of the most comprehensiveglobal networks with operations in 22 countries, creating over 9,200hours of programming a year, rolling out more than 60 formats andmanaging over 300 individual titles. The company also distributes morethan 20,000 hours of content in over 150 countries. FremantleMedia hassome of the world’s most sought after and long running formats in itscatalogue, and globally produces such programmes as: Idols (co-producedwith 19 Productions in the US), Hole In The Wall, Got Talent(co-produced with Syco in the UK and the US), The X Factor (co-producedwith Syco in the UK and the US), Take Me Out, Family Feud, The Price isRight, Farmer Wants A Wife, Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten, andNeighbours. www.fremantlemedia.com
About Bell Media Independent Production
Bell Media has commissioned and co-produced some of Canada’smost-watched and most-acclaimed original programming, while working withthe best Canadian independent producers in the country. Hit CTV seriesinclude ratings success stories SAVING HOPE and THE LISTENER, and therecently concluded game changer FLASHPOINT. New for 2013 on CTV are thedrama series MOTIVE and PLAYED (working title), relationship comedySATISFACTION, multi-cam office comedy SPUN OUT, and THE AMAZING RACECANADA, a Canadian-produced, complementary version of the hitinternational series. Among the scripted series on Bell Media specialtychannels are the two-time Emmy®-nominated hit DEGRASSI, ORPHAN BLACK,and upcoming drama BITTEN. In total, Bell Media ordered 26 new originalCanadian series in 2012, and put 35 scripted projects into development.
About The Comedy Network
Canada’s first specialty comedy service, The Comedy Network airs comedyof all kinds, 24-hours-a-day, across multiple platforms, including arevolutionary broadband service at thecomedynetwork.ca.Launched in October 1997, The Comedy Network broadcasts, uncut anduncensored, an eclectic mix of scripted, stand-up, sketch, improv, andanimated comedy – as well as topical comedy talk shows, game shows andclassic situation comedies. Offering an unrivalled slate of originalCanadian programming, The Comedy Network reinvests nearly 50 per cent ofits revenues into home-grown productions. The Comedy Network is adivision of Bell Media, which is owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE),Canada’s largest communications company, and is available in nearly sixmillion households across the country.
Source: BBM Canada, 10/15/12 – 3/17/13
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For more information, please contact:
Andrea Allen, The Comedy Network, 416.384.5375 or andrea.allen@bellmedia.ca
Christy Sullivan, The Comedy Network, 416.384.3624 or christy.sullivan@bellmedia.ca
TORONTO (April 3, 2013) – This year, no blanksshall remain unfilled as The Comedy Network orders a second season ofthe retro-classic comedy game show MATCH GAMEfrom FremantleMedia. Set to shoot for the first time in Toronto thissummer, another 60 episodes of the half-hour comedy series have beenordered. Produced in association with Montreal’s Zone3, Season 2 of MATCH GAME premieresexclusively on Comedy this fall. Oshawa-born stand-up Darrin Rose isback for another round as host, and is again joined by wisecrackingregular panellists Canadian comedy legend Seán Cullen, and belovedstand-up Debra DiGiovanni.
Season 1 of MATCH GAME featured anextraordinary roster of comedy all-stars including Samantha Bee, ScottThompson, Tom Green, Caroline Rhea, Andy Kindler, Yvette Nicole Brown,Janeane Garofalo, Jeremy Hotz, and Greg Grunberg, among others. Sincethe series premiere on Oct. 15, 2012, more than nine million viewershave watched the original Canadian series, while approximately twomillion Canadians continue to watch MATCH GAME each week. Viewers can relive the first round of shenanigans Monday – Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy.
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“It’s exciting to see MATCH GAME, yet anotherhomegrown Bell Media-commissioned series, catch fire with viewers acrossthe country,” said Catherine MacLeod, Vice-President, SpecialtyChannels, Bell Media. “We look forward to delivering 60 more episodes ofthe hijinks and hilarity that have become the hallmark of thisretro-comedy classic.”“We are looking forward to taping with Darrin, Seán, and Debra, as wellas many familiar and new faces this summer in Toronto,” said MichelBissonnette, President of Montreal-headquartered Zone3. “We plan to takethe laughs to the next level.”
MATCH GAME is based on FremantleMedia’sinternational format, with local versions having been shown across theU.K., Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and Mexico.
MATCH GAME is produced by Zone3 in associationwith Bell Media. Executive producers are Isabelle Bourduas and MichaelKronish. Martha Kehoe is producer. Sarah Fowlie is Director, IndependentProduction, Comedy. Corrie Coe is Senior Vice-President, IndependentProduction, Bell Media. Catherine MacLeod is Vice-President, SpecialtyChannels, Bell Media. Rick Brace is President, Specialty Channels andCTV Production. Phil King is President, CTV Programming and Sports.
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
The Comedy Network on Twitter
The Comedy Network on Facebook
Darrin Rose on Twitter
Darrin Rose on Facebook
Debra DiGiovanni on Twitter
Seán Cullen on Twitter
About Zone3
MATCH GAME Canada is produced byMontreal-based Zone3, Quebec’s top production house. The company focusesin three main areas: television production, film production, and liveentertainment production. Zone3 was founded in 2000 by André Larin,Michel Bissonnette and Vincent Leduc, all of whom have held keypositions in the Québec television and broadcasting industry. MichaelKronish and Isabelle Bourduas are the executives in charge of Englishlanguage production. Zone3 is owned by Telesystem Ltd. and CDPTélécomMédias.
About FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia is one of the leading creators, producers anddistributors of television entertainment brands in the world.FremantleMedia is part of RTL Group, the leading European entertainmentnetwork, which is in turn 92 percent owned by the international mediacompany Bertelsmann. FremantleMedia is responsible for many of theworld’s highest rated prime time entertainment, drama, serial drama,factual entertainment and kids & family programming, with marketleading capabilities that extend from content creation to licensing,digital and branded entertainment, gaming and home entertainment. TheFremantleMedia Group (which includes FremantleMedia North America, UFA,FremantleMedia UK, FremantleMedia Australia, Ludia, @radical.media andOriginal Productions, among others) has one of the most comprehensiveglobal networks with operations in 22 countries, creating over 9,200hours of programming a year, rolling out more than 60 formats andmanaging over 300 individual titles. The company also distributes morethan 20,000 hours of content in over 150 countries. FremantleMedia hassome of the world’s most sought after and long running formats in itscatalogue, and globally produces such programmes as: Idols (co-producedwith 19 Productions in the US), Hole In The Wall, Got Talent(co-produced with Syco in the UK and the US), The X Factor (co-producedwith Syco in the UK and the US), Take Me Out, Family Feud, The Price isRight, Farmer Wants A Wife, Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten, andNeighbours. www.fremantlemedia.com
About Bell Media Independent Production
Bell Media has commissioned and co-produced some of Canada’smost-watched and most-acclaimed original programming, while working withthe best Canadian independent producers in the country. Hit CTV seriesinclude ratings success stories SAVING HOPE and THE LISTENER, and therecently concluded game changer FLASHPOINT. New for 2013 on CTV are thedrama series MOTIVE and PLAYED (working title), relationship comedySATISFACTION, multi-cam office comedy SPUN OUT, and THE AMAZING RACECANADA, a Canadian-produced, complementary version of the hitinternational series. Among the scripted series on Bell Media specialtychannels are the two-time Emmy®-nominated hit DEGRASSI, ORPHAN BLACK,and upcoming drama BITTEN. In total, Bell Media ordered 26 new originalCanadian series in 2012, and put 35 scripted projects into development.
About The Comedy Network
Canada’s first specialty comedy service, The Comedy Network airs comedyof all kinds, 24-hours-a-day, across multiple platforms, including arevolutionary broadband service at thecomedynetwork.ca.Launched in October 1997, The Comedy Network broadcasts, uncut anduncensored, an eclectic mix of scripted, stand-up, sketch, improv, andanimated comedy – as well as topical comedy talk shows, game shows andclassic situation comedies. Offering an unrivalled slate of originalCanadian programming, The Comedy Network reinvests nearly 50 per cent ofits revenues into home-grown productions. The Comedy Network is adivision of Bell Media, which is owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE),Canada’s largest communications company, and is available in nearly sixmillion households across the country.
Source: BBM Canada, 10/15/12 – 3/17/13
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For more information, please contact:
Andrea Allen, The Comedy Network, 416.384.5375 or andrea.allen@bellmedia.ca
Christy Sullivan, The Comedy Network, 416.384.3624 or christy.sullivan@bellmedia.ca
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