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Project Latte launching this year with exclusive series, robust comedy slate


TORONTO – Bell Media confirmed Monday that its new subscription on-demand video streaming service, code-named ‘Project Latte’, will launch later this year replete with comedy and exclusive content, including new serialized drama Manhattan.Featuring award-winning director Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing), the 13-episode one-hour drama Manhattan from Lionsgate follows the secret mission to build the world's first atomic bomb.  The drama will be joined in subsequent months by the comedy series Deadbeat, also from Lionsgate; the crime thriller Bosch, from Red Arrow International; and additional Project Latte “exclusives”, according to the news release.Project Latte also locked up the Canadian streaming rights to seminal...