There was also intense scrutiny over the couple’s beliefs, with officials and close friends reporting that Vallow and Chad shared doomsday-themed ideas about fighting evil spirits that could possess people and turn them into ghouls. Lori Vallow created a doomsday-focused plot after she began believing in “zombies.” AP/Tony Blakeslee Vallow and Chad made nationwide headlines when their children were reported missing in September 2019. Vallow and Chad made nationwide headlines when their children were reported missing in September 2019 before their bodies turned up in a makeshift grave near their home. Vallow attended the hearing Monday morning inside the Ada County courthouse, where her attorney, Jim Archibald, focused his questions on the pre-trial publicity.Įxposure to publicity about the case can be grounds for a juror to be dismissed given that the exposure could lead to bias against the defendant. The defense and prosecutors will whittle the numbers until 12 jurors are chosen, along with six alternates. Vallow, along with husband Chad Daybell, allegedly killed 7-year-old JJ and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan in 2019 in what prosecutors say was a doomsday-focused plot after the mom began believing in “zombies.”Ībout 1,800 jurors in Boise received a questionnaire to take part in the trial, with hundreds selected for screening on Monday. Jury selection has begun in “Doomsday” mom Lori Vallow’s murder trial, where the Idaho hairstylist is accused of killing her two children and her husband’s previous wife. Woke DA’s city-wide worst conviction, dismissal rates leaves Bronx in disarray Texas woman who beat murder wrap of ex in 2018 now accused of poisoning 5th husband to death with insulin “With a broadcast landscape that has changed so dramatically in the last few years, it really behooved us to take our creative development chops and expand into other genres,” said Olfman, adding that the launch of its Toronto animation studio in 2015 has allowed the company to do a greater proportion of its creative development in-house.ĭoomsday Brothers joins a MIPCOM slate that also includes So You Want To Be? (13 x 22 minutes, produced by Texas-based Champion Entertainment), season two of Addison (produced by Six Eleven Media for CBC) and season 12 of Cyberchase (produced by WNET for PBS Kids).Bone fragment discovered on hacksaw tossed in trash by accused killer Brian WalsheĬalifornia man Anurag Chandra found guilty of murdering teens who ding-dong ditched his house Olfman said Portfolio is in advanced stages of development on a number of YA series, as well as live-action properties, that it will begin pitching soon. Like many other kids-content producers in Canada, Portfolio is looking to branch into a YA space that has become red-hot in recent years. Other Canadian companies such as Blue Ant Media – which launched Look Mom! Productions two years ago – have also been expanding their slates to include adult animation titles such as Gary and His Demons.Īdult-targeted animation isn’t the only new line of business Portfolio is looking to explore. While demand for adult animated content has historically been confined to North America, Olfman noted that the SVOD revolution has created a new demand for this type of content in international markets. “ Doomsday Brothers dovetailed with Portfolio’s intention to diversify our development slate beyond preschool and the six-to-11 space, and a part of that diversification is moving into primetime and adult animation,” said Olfman, who added that the service work Portfolio did on projects like Bravest Warriors (YTV) and Hot Streets (Adult Swim) served as gateways into proprietary projects. It is created by N12 president Alain Dagenais, Portfolio’s SVP of content Liliana Reyes and writer/producer Willem Wennekers ( Fugget About It, Kiss and Cry), who serves as showrunner.Ĭo-founder and CEO Lisa Olfman told Playback Daily the new project is part of an ongoing strategy to broaden Portfolio’s content offerings in a kids and animation market that has undergone an SVOD-led transformation in recent years. Produced in partnership with Montreal’s N12 Productions, the show is set in a post-apocalyptic world where two survivalist brothers are hired to become protectors of their rural hometown. The 18 x 22-minute show, which Portfolio will shop at MIPCOM later this month, was greenlit by Corus Entertainment for a fall 2020 debut in both English and French. Toronto’s Portfolio Entertainment is expanding into adult-focused animation for the first time with its newly-commissioned apocalypse series Doomsday Brothers.
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