U.S.-based film and TV studio FilmRise announced Monday that it has acquired the exclusive rights to Bell Media’s original comedy series Corner Gas for its ad-supported services.
The New York City-based studio will have sub-distribution rights including in the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, and Australia to all six seasons of the sitcom, which is 107 episodes that are 30 minutes each. The deal also includes the 90-minute Corner Gas: The Movie.
“FilmRise provides Canadian producers and distributors with additional revenue streams for their programming, reducing their reliance solely on [subscription video-on-demand] platforms,” Max Einhorn, FilmRise’s senior vice present of acquisitions and co-productions, said in a press release.
“We effectively monetize content through our [advertising-based video-on-demand] and [free ad-supported streaming television] platform partnerships,” Einhorn added. “Given our history with Canadian programming in recent years, we are confident that the super-successful, witty comedy, ‘Corner Gas’ will exceed all expectations.”
The show is distributed worldwide through Prairie Pants Distribution, which holds the distribution rights to Corner Gas: Animated and Corner Gas: The Movie.
“Forty kilometers from nowhere and way beyond normal is Corner Gas, an ensemble comedy series about a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan,” according to a synopsis of the show. “Each episode delivers a half-hour of comedic voyeurism in a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Dog River is a nice town, but far from the quaint and idyllic little burgs we’re used to seeing on TV.”
