TORONTO — Bell Media today announced it has finalized a deal for Fox Entertainment to acquire the new CTV Original series Holmes Family Effect, which has completed production and will join Fox’s 2020/21 midseason schedule.
The four-part series will make its broadcast premiere in Canada on CTV in early 2021.
Holmes Family Effect follows TV icon and professional contractor Mike Holmes, his daughter Sherry and son Michael (all pictured above) as they surprise unsuspecting community leaders each episode and transform their worlds, ultimately making a positive impact on their lives, says Bell Media’s press release.
“With a U.S. deal now established, we are focused on distributing the series to the rest of the world,” said Mike Cosentino, president of content and programming at Bell Media, in the release.
This is the latest in a series of distribution deals between Bell Media and Fox Entertainment, including CTV’s acquisition of hit franchise The Masked Singer and upcoming new celebrity competition series The Masked Dancer.
It also marks the return of Mike Holmes to U.S. primetime on Fox, having co-hosted the network’s reality-competition series Home Free from 2015 to 2016. The series will also air on other Fox platforms, too, said the release.
Holmes Family Effect is produced by Make It Right Productions in association with CTV. Mike Holmes is executive producer, Grant Greschuk is series producer, and Paul McConvey is supervising producer. For Bell Media, Tina Apostolopoulos is production executive, Robin Johnston is director of original programming for factual and reality, and Corrie Coe is senior vice-president of original programming. Worldwide distribution for the series is handled by Bell Media Distribution.
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