News
TVO to produce Hard Rock Medical
|
Hard Rock Medical is a new, offbeat half-hour drama that follows a diverse group of medical students navigating their way through the school’s four-year program. Multiple plotlines will gravitate towards one ultimate question: Do these students have what it takes to succeed? And if they do, will they stay in the north? The TVO-commissioned series is a Canadian-Australian co-production from Hard Rock Medical Productions Inc. and Moody Street Productions. Hard Rock Medical Productions is a joint venture of Ottawa’s Title Entertainment Inc., Distinct Features Inc., and Carte Blanche Films Inc. The series will also appear on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines, Rick Bartolucci today announced funding from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation to support the regional production of the series. Loosely inspired by the world-renowned Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), Hard Rock Medical will provide fresh and engaging insight into some of the unique features and challenges of delivering healthcare in Northern Ontario. Production on the series will begin in and around Sudbury in 2012.
Extracting buckshot from the back of a hunter’s head in a mosquito-infested tent by a peat bog may not sound like medical school. Nor does a four-hour snowmobile ride to a remote cabin in the bush. But that’s the day-to-day reality at Hard Rock U, a fictional medical school at the heart of an upcoming television series announced today in Sudbury, Ontario.
