TORONTO — A new TV series for preschoolers is going to be shot in Ontario — and it has some very big and powerful stars.
Terrific Trucks centres on the adventures of five friends: a dump truck, a front-end loader, a digger, a semi and a mini front-end loader.
The live-action series, which will use real vehicles (with animated eyes), is set to air on U.S. network Sprout in 2016.
“We know that preschoolers love trucks — we see it in our research and hear it from our viewers,” said Sandy Wax, Sprout president, in a release. “With Terrific Trucks we will show the real world of real trucks doing real work — and make it BIG.
“Terrific Trucks is a BIG show with BIG trucks going on BIG adventures, and we believe that our audience will fall in love with it in a BIG way.”
Terrific Trucks will be filmed beginning this May at a quarry in Milton, Ont., about an hour west of Toronto.
The series is being produced by Toronto’s Breakthrough Entertainment.
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Also preparing to begin shooting this year in Southern Ontario is the third season of Rogue starring Thandie Newton and Cole Hauser. Production of the series has moved from Vancouver to Toronto.
Cameras are scheduled to roll from the end of February through September.
Rogue airs in the U.S. on DirecTV’s Audience Network and in Canada on TMN and Movie Central.
Toronto is currently home to a number of TV series, including Beauty and the Beast, Defiance, Hannibal, Hemlock Grove, Reign, The Expanse and The Strain.
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