CBC’s first Format Incubator pilot seeks to define “average Canadian family”

TORONTO – CBC and distributor Banijay International have selected the first original Canadian television format under their nascent Format Incubator initiative.Anything But Average (working title) is an original factual concept from Frantic Films that was selected jointly by CBC’s Unscripted Content team and Banijay International. The series bills itself as the ultimate nation-defining format for the nosy neighbour inside all of us. By exploring the lives of statistically average Canadians — who are the same on paper, but very different in reality — this entertaining, engaging and fact-filled format asks what it means to be an “average” Canadian family in 2016.Responding...