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Netflix‘s latest original bid retired of Canada is an adjustment of Carley Fortune‘s bestseller This Summer Will Be Different.
Shooting connected nan ten-part show will return spot connected Prince Edward Island and successful Toronto, pinch Canadian shaper Sphere Media attached. The creator-showrunners are Dane Clark (Suze, One More Time), and Linsey Stewart (Workin’ Moms, North of North).
Logline connected nan bid is arsenic follows: “This Summer Will Be Different, based connected nan beloved caller by Carley Fortune, is simply a simmering, sun-soaked romance group crossed aggregate summers connected Prince Edward Island astir Lucy, a young female navigating her 20s and her first existent emotion pinch her champion friend’s brother, nan 1 personification she was ne'er expected to autumn for.”
Exec producers are Clark, Stewart, Fortune and Jennifer Kawaja and Elise Cousineau for Sphere, nan shaper of Netflix constricted bid Wayward.
“When Carley first entrusted america pinch her captivating book, we knew we had to find nan correct squad to present to her passionate fanbase,” said Danielle Woodrow and Tara Woodbury, Netflix’s Directors, Content successful Canada successful a statement. “Developing this task pinch Dane, Linsey and Sphere has been a dream and we couldn’t person recovered amended partners to bring this emotion missive to some Toronto and Prince Edward Island to nan screen.”
Fortune added: “I fell successful emotion pinch Prince Edward Island first successful nan pages of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables and again erstwhile I visited pinch my champion friend successful my early twenties. That vacation, nan beauty of nan island, nan warmth of its people, and nan friendships that prolong america – are nan instauration of This Summer Will Be Different. I’m thrilled to bring this sweeping emotion communicative to nan surface pinch Netflix and to carrier audiences to nan sparkling shores and windswept beaches of PEI.”
Netflix has been steadily upping its number of Canadian originals, which nan streamer has linked to home viewing successful Canada expanding 20% successful 2025. These see North of North, whose 2nd play is successful production), Wayward, Who Killed nan Montreal Expos?, an untitled task from Newfoundland and The Granville Girls.
Netflix revealed astir 65% of its subscribers watched Canadian contented past year.
