{"id":2539,"date":"2014-01-21T17:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/01\/21\/rogers-media-renews-sitcom-package-deal-for-second-season\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:39:56","slug":"rogers-media-renews-sitcom-package-deal-for-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/01\/21\/rogers-media-renews-sitcom-package-deal-for-second-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Media Renews Sitcom &#8216;Package Deal&#8217; for Second Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Etan Vlessing \/ The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 Rogers Media has renewed\u00a0<em>Package Deal<\/em>, the Canadian sitcom from Thunderbird Films, for a second season.<\/p>\n<p>Also headed to a sophomore season on City is\u00a0<em>Meet the Family<\/em>, a comedy prank series from\u00a0<em>The New Tom Green Show<\/em>producer\u00a0<strong>Derek Harvie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Package Deal,<\/em>\u00a0a multi-cam comedy about three overly close brothers and the woman who comes between them, stars<strong>Randal Edwards, Julia Voth, Harland Williams<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Jay Malone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian sitcom from\u00a0<strong>Andrew Orenstein<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Malcolm in the Middle, 3rd Rock From the Sun)<\/em>\u00a0is shot in Vancouver before a live audience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am thrilled to be back in production with Thunderbird, Rogers and the Package Deal team. Let\u2019s just hope the Vancouver rain holds out!,\u201d Orenstein said after getting the writers room for\u00a0<em>Package Deal<\/em>\u00a0back to work ahead of a spring 2014 shoot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob Sheridan<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Corner Gas<\/em>) is boarding the sitcom as a second showrunner.<\/p>\n<p>The first season of\u00a0<em>Package Deal\u00a0<\/em>had<strong>\u00a0Pamela Anderson\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Eugene Levy<\/strong>\u00a0as guest stars.<\/p>\n<p>Also returning to City is\u00a0<em>Meet the Family,<\/em>\u00a0a show in which an unsuspecting girlfriend or boyfriend meets their partner\u2019s family, who in reality are actors out to make the experience as uncomfortable and embarrassing as possible in front of hidden cameras. If the new partner survives the endurance test, the couple win a luxury holiday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Meet the Family<\/em>, from Frantic Films, received an order for 13 more episodes after a limited 8-episode first season.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers Media director of original programming\u00a0<strong>Nataline Rodrigues\u00a0<\/strong>said the reality&#8217;s second cycle will move beyond the family home for more pranks and laughs as a new partner is introduced at a family reunion or a funeral reception, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster&#8217;s other original series include the sitcoms\u00a0<em>Seed<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Mother Up!,<\/em>\u00a0starring\u00a0<strong>Eva Longoria<\/strong>, and the reality series\u00a0<em>Storage Wars Canada, The Project: Guatemala\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Bachelor Canada<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etan Vlessing \/ The Hollywood Reporter TORONTO \u2013 Rogers Media has renewed\u00a0Package Deal, the Canadian sitcom from Thunderbird Films, for a second season. Also headed to a sophomore season on City is\u00a0Meet the Family, a comedy prank series from\u00a0The New Tom Green Showproducer\u00a0Derek Harvie. Package Deal,\u00a0a multi-cam comedy about three overly close brothers and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/01\/21\/rogers-media-renews-sitcom-package-deal-for-second-season\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rogers Media Renews Sitcom &#039;Package Deal&#039; for Second Season - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/01\/21\/rogers-media-renews-sitcom-package-deal-for-second-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rogers Media Renews Sitcom &#039;Package Deal&#039; for Second Season - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Etan Vlessing \/ The Hollywood Reporter TORONTO \u2013 Rogers Media has renewed\u00a0Package Deal, the Canadian sitcom from Thunderbird Films, for a second season. 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