CTV orders mini-series based on Giles Blunt’s John Cardinal novels

TORONTO – CTV has ordered its first ever serialized drama, a six part series based on the crime novels of Canadian author Giles Blunt.With a working title of Cardinal, the cinematic murder mystery is adapted from Forty Words for Sorrow, the first in Blunt’s six part John Cardinal Mysteries series. The one hour series begins with the discovery of Katie Pine, a missing 13-year-old whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. The series follows detective John Cardinal as he attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the young girl, while at the same time,...