TORONTO – Bell Media confirmed Monday that its new subscription on-demand video streaming service, code-named ‘Project Latte’, will launch later this year replete with comedy and exclusive content, including new serialized drama Manhattan.
Featuring award-winning director Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing), the 13-episode one-hour drama Manhattan from Lionsgate follows the secret mission to build the world's first atomic bomb. The drama will be joined in subsequent months by the comedy series Deadbeat, also from Lionsgate; the crime thriller Bosch, from Red Arrow International; and additional Project Latte “exclusives”, according to the news release.
Project Latte also locked up the Canadian streaming rights to seminal sitcom Seinfeld (pictured) in a deal with Sony Pictures Television, making the service home to more than 225 hit comedy titles that also include classics like Cheers, Frasier, Corner Gas and Everybody Loves Raymond, as well as current faves such as The Big Bang Theory, Spun Out and the complete 100-episode catalogue of Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management.
In total, comedy programming will comprise nearly 25% of the entire Project Latte catalogue which will also feature the Comedy Central vault of past-season and library hits.
