Toronto-based Wildling Pictures has launched a new TV arm and plans to produce more content for kids and families.

Up to this point, the nine-year-old studio has largely specialized in adult-skewing feature films, including David Bowie biopic Stardust (2020) and thriller See For Me (2021). 

Wildling unveiled its first-ever kids series last year: a preschool-skewing adaptation of Paulette Bourgeois’ Professor Goose Debunks Fairy Tales picture book series (published by Tundra Books). This project, which now has the working title Professor Goose, is in development with CBC Kids. Each ep sees scientist Marie Curious Goose fact-checking stories told by Mother Goose.

As part of Wildling’s move to reach younger audiences, its new TV unit is also developing a coming-of-age series called Clara Voyant, based on the same-name novel by Rachelle Delaney (published by Puffin Canada). In this supernatural tale, a young girl is frustrated by her assignment to write horoscopes for her middle-school newspaper, until she realizes she has psychic abilities. Veronika Paz (Astrid and Lilly Save the World) is attached as a screenwriter on the project.

Featured image: Clara Voyant by Rachelle Delaney (2018)