{"id":946854,"date":"2026-10-26T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946854\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:32:11","slug":"disney-canada-staffs-up-with-cbcs-melanie-le-phan-joining-content-team-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946854\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ Canada staffs up with CBC’s M\u00e9lanie L\u00ea Phan joining content team | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disney+ is growing its originals team in Canada by hiring former CBC exec M\u00e9lanie L\u00ea Phan, C21 has learned.<\/p>\n

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L\u00ea Phan, who was most recently the executive in charge of comedy production at Canadian pubcaster CBC, has been named senior manager, international content at Disney+ Canada.<\/p>\n

L\u00ea Phan, who starts her Toronto-based role today, will work with director of development Paige Murray to grow Disney+ Canada\u2019s slate of scripted and unscripted originals. This will involve sourcing projects and helping to shape the broader Canadian strategy.<\/p>\n

During her time at CBC, she oversaw a slate that included titles such as Son of a Critch, Small Achievable Goals and North of North.<\/p>\n

L\u00ea Phan\u2019s appointment comes around 10 months after Murray moved from the CBC<\/a>, where she served as executive in charge of drama development, to join Disney+ Canada.<\/p>\n

Since then, the Canadian arm of Disney+ has commissioned its first two local originals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among them is Knighted, an eight-part scripted comedy series executive produced by Bruce McCulloch. Produced by Heavy Lifting Productions in association with 3 Arts Entertainment, the project is described as following a missing person\u2019s case that \u201cspirals into a gloriously absurd documentary-style exploration of the sinister secrets lurking beneath the enchanting pageantry of a local medieval dinner theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n

Disney+ Canada also greenlit I\u2019m Not Coming Back (Tuck Shop Media and Hodgee Films), a three-part crime docuseries about the large-scale manhunt that took place after two armed fugitives went on a killing spree in British Columbia in the summer of 2019.<\/p>\n

In addition to L\u00ea Phan, Disney+ Canada also hired Samantha Clarizio, formerly of Fort\u00e9 Entertainment, as its coordinator, international content.<\/p>\n

The Disney+ Canada operation is part of the broader international team, with Murray reporting to Jon Wax, executive VP, international content, strategy and operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney+ is growing its originals team in Canada by hiring former CBC exec M\u00e9lanie L\u00ea Phan, C21 has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-946854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}