DHX Media inks first-look deal with New Metric Media

HALIFAX and TORONTO – DHX Media has signed a two-year first-look deal with indie film, TV and new-media production company New Metric Media.Based in Toronto, New Metric Media is a partnership between producer Mark Montefiore and former CBC production executive Patrick O’Sullivan. The company currently has several scripted series in active network development which DHX Media anticipates co-producing, subject to broadcaster greenlight. At Bell Media, these include the half-hour comedies Letterkenny, about residents of a farming town trying to protect their old fashioned ways, and Divorce Party, about three young newly single women; while at CBC the one-hour murder/mystery drama series...