Radio / Television News

CBC-Paramount+ drama starts production

TORONTO – Piazza Entertainment today announced today filming has begun in Manitoba and Ontario for Skymed, a new 10-episode original drama ordered by CBC and Paramount+. The show, created by Julie Puckrin, is being produced by Piazza Entertainment in association with Paramount+, CBS Studios and CBC, and will premiere in 2022-23. It “weaves together intense character journeys and high stakes medical rescues as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in remote Northern Canada,” a press release says. “They’re all in over their heads, and on their own, with no one to...