- Netflix and BBC, in association with CBC, today announced the lead cast and start of production for a new YA comedy series, Camped Out.
- The show is filming in Ontario, Canada and joins other Netflix productions that have filmed in the province including I Will Find You, Wayward and Ginny & Georgia.
- Synopsis: Three teenage slackers escape repeating a year of high school by agreeing to work at their guidance counsellors’ financially strapped summer camp, where they provide the young campers with bad advice, terrible survival skills, and abysmal role models. These “counsellors” focus less on the kids and more on their own attempts to make the summer not suck, avoid work, and wreak havoc on the luxury yacht club across the lake.
- Cast: Oscar Chark (Allegiance, Tracker), Yuvraj Kalsi (Allegiance, Alert: Missing Persons Unit), Evan Mok (Small Achievable Goals, Slo Pitch )
- Creator/Showrunner/Executive Producer: Matt Kippen (Kim’s Convenience, Schitt’s Creek)
- Director: Allison Johnston (Children Ruin Everything, Davey and Jonesie’s Locker)
- Writers: Matt Kippen, Anita Kapila (Kim’s Convenience, Sullivan’s Crossing), Kathleen Phillips (Children Ruin Everything, Workin’ Moms), Kayla Lorette (Wayward, Doomlands), Josh Saltzman (Moonshine, Call Me Fitz), Maryan Haye (The Way Home, Popularity Papers)
- Executive Producers: Matthew Hornburg, Mark J.W. Bishop, Donna Luke, Diane Rankin and AJ Trauth for Blue Ant Studios
- Production Company: Blue Ant Studios (Crew Girl, Davey and Jonesie’s Locker)
