TORONTO – Northwood Entertainment announced today it has partnered with the producers of the Canadaland podcast Thunder Bay – and together they are developing the podcast into a drama series.
Northwood (Anne with an E and The Grizzlies) will co-produce the series alongside Anishinaabe comedian, writer and podcaster Ryan McMahon (pictured), and Canadaland founder/publisher, Jesse Brown. They are currently considering showrunners.
Hosted and co-written by McMahon, the serialized, true crime podcast “examines the systemic racism, corruption, and crime that runs rampant in Thunder Bay and the factors that make the city amongst the most dangerous for Indigenous youth in the world,” reads the press release.
Thunder Bay plans to “bring all of these issues to light in a searing and riveting drama series that considers not who killed nine Indigenous high school students, but what killed them. The series begins with an examination of nine deaths and goes on to explore the broader impact of colonialism and racism.”
As a podcast, Thunder Bay has received more than a million downloads, and “we just scratched the surface of these stories through our podcast,” said McMahon in the release.
