EXCLUSIVE: Canadian sitcom 0-60 Driving Faculty has been renewed for a second take a look at drive.
Bell Fibe’s TV1, the Bell-owned neighborhood community, shortly shifted gears to order Season 2 after the primary season launched on Could 22.
The collection stars Steve Lawrence, as a single father and head of the household Steve, who’s in search of to dump his driving college enterprise to his equally uninterested and under-qualified kids, Child Steve (Devon Taylor) and Lauren (Alexandra MacLean). Paul Simmons, Muleta Williams and Nathan Simmons additionally star.
Manufacturing on Season 2 will start within the fall in Nova Scotia.
Loosely primarily based on Lawrence’s life, the present has a author’s room comprising Lawrence, MacLean and producer-director Jonathan Torrens (Mr. D). Jenna MacMillan (Who’s Your Father?) can also be a producer. Torrens’ Torrential Photos co-produces with MacMillan’s Membership Crimson Productions. It’s billed as Atlantic Canada’s first-ever Black household sitcom.
“Audiences responded so positively to the primary season of 0-60 Driving Academy that we’re excited to see what’s subsequent for Steve and the household,” mentioned Paul Gardner, Senior Producer at Fibe TV1.
“Bringing Steve and the household into individuals’s properties with Fibe TV1 has been a delight,” mentioned Torrens. “Now that everybody is aware of our solid of characters, we will begin in second gear.”
Torrens lately launched Torrential Photos as a retooling of his Canadian Content material Studios imprint. He’s greatest generally known as an actor in early 2000s Canadian sitcom Trailer Park Boys, and has had roles in Letterkenny, Mr D and Name Me Fitz amongst others. He beforehand produced firefighter sitcom Vollies for Fibe TV1 and co-produced TV1’s Roll With It, a few wheelchair person with a enterprise dream, with MacMillan in 2023 and 2024.
“The solid and crew of 0-60 is each gifted and keen,” added MacMillan. “I’m thrilled to carry us all collectively once more to create comedy gold whereas highlighting a really particular neighborhood in Nova Scotia.”
MacMillan directed her first function movie, The Snake, by means of Membership Crimson earlier this yr. Her firm is predicated on Prince Edward Island.
