EDMONTON – In advance of its launch upstart national pay TV channel Superchannel announced another deal on Tuesday – this time with Toronto-based Open Door Co.
Open Door’s first two feature documentaries, Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom and Pop, and Cracked Not Broken, will have their Canadian premieres on Superchannel.
“Superchannel is proud to offer smart documentaries, produced right here in Canada, by companies such as Open Door. They are a terrific example of the innovation we will be offering Canadians,” said Superchannel vice-president of programming Sandy Perkins. “We are hearing from more and more Canadians who are eager to expand their viewing options and are pleased we can find them entertainment made right here at home.”
Cracked Not Broken has already aired in the United States on HBO and Independent America on the Sundance Channel.
Independent America follows NBC foreign correspondent Hanson Hosein and his wife, Heather Hughes, also a former NBC correspondent, through 13,000 miles and 32 states in search of independent mom and pop businesses. The film is a co-production of Open Door and HRH Media. Cracked Not Broken, a co-production between Open Door and Blatant Exposure, follows a 37-year-old crack addict from an upper class family who prostitutes herself to fuel her drug habit.
Superchannel is owned by Edmonton-based Allarco Entertainment.
