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Apple TV Plus announced its fall lineup of series for kids and families, kicking off with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s animated series “Wolfboy and the Everything Factory,” premiering on Sept. 24, and also including “Get Rolling With Otis,” which launches Oct. 8 and “Puppy Place” on Oct. 15.

The adventure series, created by Toff Mazery and Edward Jesse and executive produced by Gordon-Levitt, HitRecord, Bento Box Entertainment and Michael Ryan, is a 10-episode animated epic that follows oddball dreamer Wolfboy (voiced by Kassian Akhtar) as he discovers a strange realm at the center of the Earth, where fantastical beings called Sprytes create things for the natural world above.

“Get Rolling With Otis” follows the adventures of a friendly tractor. Based on the popular Penguin Random House books, the animated series is produced by 9 Story Media Group and Brown Bag Media Films and executive produced by Vince Commisso, Wendy Harris, author Loren Long, Darragh O’Connell,...

Composers Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner rely on a long-term professional partnership to score Netflix’s Anne of Green Gables adaptation Anne with an E. Composers Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner...

With an increasing number of major TV shows premiering during the summer months, Film Music Reporter presents a listing of this summer’s original shows and their composers. Featured in Part 1 of the Summer TV Roundup are the original shows on the networks (ABC, NBC, CBS), as well as on USA and Showtime. Check back for Part 2 to appear on this page soon.

ABC:

Airing every Tuesday night on the network is the drama Combat Hospital. The show centers on a group of doctors and nurses from Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and other allied countries saving lives and limbs in a war zone military hospital modeled on a real facility in Afghanistan. Deborah Kara Unger, Michelle Borth, Elias Koteas, Terry Chen, Arnold Pinnock and Luke Mably are starring. The show’s music is composed by Edmund Butt (The Dark, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes) and additional...

From a press release

E1 Entertainment, Amaze Film + Television and Big Motion Pictures in association with Astral Media’s The Movie Network and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central announced today that principal photography is underway on the Canadian original television series Call Me Fitz (working title). The series stars actor/director Jason Priestley (The Day of the Triffids, My Name is Earl, Beverly Hills 90210) as the charismatic used car salesman known as Fitz. Created and written by producer/writer Sheri Elwood (Defying Gravity), the 13‐part, half‐hour comedy series is filming an hour outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia in the Annapolis Valley region until mid‐January. The series is scheduled to air on The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Movie Central (Western Canada) in 2010.

In Call Me Fitz, Jason Priestley stars as Richard “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, a balls‐out, used car dealer who pushes the boundaries of acceptable behaviour just a few steps too far.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has released the nominations for the 24th Annual Gemini Awards. The awards recognizes the year's best in Canadian English-language programming. In deciding which shows should be in the running, the Academy has given a big thumbs-up to Flashpoint, Being Erica and the Syfy series Sanctuary. All three shows received multiple nominations for the prestigious awards.

Flashpoint is a police procedural centred on an elite group called the Strategic Response Unit. It was created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern and stars Enrico Colantoni, Amy Jo Johnson and Hugh Dillon. Flashpoint airs on CTV in Canada and CBS in the United States. It received an impressive 19 nominations, including:

Best Dramatic Series

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series: Kelly Makin for 'Planets Aligned'

Best Original Music Score for a Program or Series: Ari Posner, Amin Bhatia for 'Planets Aligned'

Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series: Teresa Hannigan,...