Nunavut comedy green lit by Netflix

A new TV comedy set and filmed in Nunavut has been given the green light by Netflix, the CBC and Indigenous broadcaster APTN.

The unnamed series is about a young Inuk mother trying to build a future for herself in a small Arctic town where everyone knows your business. It was created by Inuit producer, writer and director Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Inuit filmmaker Alethea ArnaquqBaril.

“This series is full of stories that come straight from our hearts and our funny bones,” MacDonald and Arnaquq-Baril said in a news release. “We’ve drawn from our experiences as Inuit women living, laughing, crying and living together while Native.”

Also on board as executive producers are Miranda de Pen- cier (“Anne With an E”), Susan Coyne (“Slings & Arrows”) and Garry Campbell (“The Kids in the Hall”). De Pencier worked with MacDonald and Arnaquq- Baril and de Pencier worked to- gether on the Nunavut-set movie “The Grizzlies.”

“A very short time ago, it would have been impossible to imagine an Indigenous comedy shot in the Arctic, with massive national and international reach,” Adam Garnet Jones, APTN’s director of TV content, said in the release, noting it would give a huge boost to the production industry in Nuna- vut. “We know audiences are going to fall in love with the show’s characters.”

There’s no word yet on cast- ing, an air date or when produc- tion will start. The latter de- pends on weather.