Series Mania 2026

Series Mania Market Accelerator

The National Directors Division (NDD) of the Directors Guild of Canada is proud to announce selections for the NDD Market Accelerator Delegation at the Series Mania (Lille, France) 2026 running from March 24 – 26.

Adrienne Mitchell

Ontario
We’re All Perfectly Fine (Medical Drama, Based on Acclaimed Memoir)

8 episodes x 60 minutes
After collapsing mid-shift, perfectionist Dr. Jamie Collins is forced to join a therapy group for burned-out doctors — where denial’s the drug of choice, and saving herself might be the one case she can’t solve.

Producing Partners: Hosko Productions Inc, Cineflix Media, in Development with Corus Entertainment

Alison Duke

Ontario
Undercover Truths (Drama, Mystery, Investigative Procedural)

10 episodes x 60 minutes
Relentless investigative journalist Sam Lawson leads a dedicated newsroom team exposing fraudsters, but her buried connection to her infamous cult-leading parents threatens to surface, jeopardizing her credibility and the moral compass she’s built her life on.

Producing Partners: OYA Media Group, Circle Blue Entertainment

Alison Murray (Selected for Series Makers)

Ontario
Chachachá! (Dramedy)

6 episodes x 30 minutes
When a Gen X woman’s sky-high blood pressure forces her to confront how out of touch with herself she has become,she turns to Latin dancing – not for fun, but for survival – igniting chaos with her family.

Producing Partners: Jennifer Weiss of Nice Picture Inc.

Alison Reid

Ontario
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (Historical Drama, Based on a True Story)

6 episodes x 60 minutes
A young zoologist defies convention and hides her romance while pursuing the first wild study of giraffes in apartheid-era South Africa.

Producing Partners: Terry Gould

Craig Wallace (Selected for Series Makers)

Ontario
Game Knights of the Middle Age (Comedy)

8 episodes x 30 minutes
A suburban middle aged couple’s marriage is put to the test when their Castles & Corpses role playing game group finds themselves investigating the murder of their Game Master.

Producing Partners: Sarah Timmins of Black Birds Entertainment

KC Carthew

Ontario
The Knife (Thriller, Northern Noir)

6 × 50min series
In Yellowknife, where abandoned mines stand beside family homes, the local coroner investigates a death that leads back to her dying mother – and a past the city has spent decades burying.

Producing Partners: Lori Lozinski of Violator Films, KC Carthew of Galley Ventures

Reem Morsi (Selected for AuthenticA)

Ontario
Zahra’s Faces (Dramatic Thriller, Procedural Twist)

10 episodes x 60 minutes
Zahra El Rashidi, an egotistical Egyptian plastic surgeon from a high class family, struggles to pay her crippling debt to the mob who smuggled her and her family from Egypt to Canada, but when she is coerced by a human trafficker to alter the faces of criminals so they can escape justice, she must choose between her morality and the survival of her family.

Titus Heckel

British Columbia
Theory of Evelyn (Prestige Genre)

8 episodes x 60 minutes
A brilliant but self-destructive physicist racing towards a world-changing discovery is championed by the mentor who knows from the start her success will erase him—until devotion to the science curdles into celebrity and rivalry, and helping her finish the work becomes an act of betrayal.

Producing Partners: Sepia Films