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Etan Vlessing \/ Playback Online<\/em><\/p>\n

Rogers Media has given second season orders to its Package Deal<\/a><\/em> sitcom and Meet the Family<\/em><\/a> reality series.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles-based Andrew Orenstein will return to showrun the Vancouver-based comedy, with\u00a0Corner Gas<\/em>\u2018 Rob Sheridan also writing\/producing for Thunderbird Films.<\/p>\n

Orenstein and Sheridan earlier worked together on the\u00a018 to Life<\/em>\u00a0sitcom for Galafilm and Sound Venture.<\/p>\n

Harland Williams will return to co-star as Sheldon in the sitcom about three overly close brothers and the woman who comes between them, while also participating in the writers room.<\/p>\n

Julia Voth, Randal Edwards and Jay Malone also star in\u00a0Package Deal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Nataline Rodrigues, director of original programming at Rogers Media, said\u00a0Package Deal<\/em>\u00a0earned a second season on the strength of a strong cast, and sustained an audience, despite disruptive scheduling changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was another sign that the audience was responding and wanted to see more,\u201d Rodrigues told\u00a0Playback<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Rogers Media is also giving a second season order of 13 episodes to\u00a0Meet the Family<\/em>, a reality where someone meets their partner\u2019s family, while being filmed by 30 hidden cameras.<\/p>\n

The twist is the \u201cfamily\u201d are in fact actors looking to make the first meeting a seemingly impossible endurance test that the couple must survive to win a luxury holiday.<\/p>\n

The first season of\u00a0Meet the Family<\/em>, showrun by\u00a0The New Tom Green Show<\/em>\u2018s Derek Harvie and based on the British series\u00a0Meet the Parents<\/em>, had a limited eight episode run.<\/p>\n

The series, executive produced by Jamie Brown of Frantic Films, was also written by Ron Sparks and Mark Doyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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