At a time when CBC recruiters are in L.A. trying to lure back Canadian writing talent, CBC programming chief Fred Fuchs, who’s credited with bringing Being Erica, The Border and The Tudors to the Ceeb, is leaving the broadcaster for a job with U.S. channel Starz. His new gig is that of executive producer of Camelot, by Toronto’s Take 5 Productions. The show is the creation of The Tudors’ Morgan O’Sullivan and Michael Hirst and will begin filming 10 episodes in Ireland this summer.
• Fred Fuchs tapped as ‘Camelot’ exec producer [The Hollywood Reporter]
• Fuchs quits CBC [Toronto Star]
• Fred Fuchs to leave CBC for “Camelot” [Digital Reporter]
Whatever did happen to Being Erica? I was anticipating the third season but it’s been so long.
May 21, 2010 at 10:55 am | by CarlaI recently attended a focus group about Being Erica…I got the impression they are out of story lines and need the public to suggest Erica’s future.
May 21, 2010 at 11:44 am | by BLThe drift of CBC programmer Fred Fuchs taking his self-laudatory talent elsewhere than with a Canadian network, is that it hardly should have been possible to have him hired with so much creative talent in the first place. Let the new broacasters/producers beware that he is suffering from a “Superiority Complex” where what he has done is seen as historically compelling rather than a Canadian-who would-be-an- American as puzzling…even dull.
May 23, 2010 at 2:51 pm | by Philip McAiney