Production
Ocean Entertainment Limited is an established, award-winning Atlantic Canadian production company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Johanna Eliot is the company’s Executive Producer and President.
Incorporated in 1997, the company has extensive experience in television production, primarily television series and documentaries. In recent years, however, Ocean has also produced or executive-produced dramatic films. Ocean Entertainment is a sister to Ocean Digital, a full-service editing facility with five HD suites as well as a fully equipped post-audio suite – Tweeq Audio.
Ocean has co-produced with Cellar Door Productions of PEI, to much acclaim, two feature specials and multiple series with host Chef Michael Smith for Food Network Canada: Saturday Night, A Day in the Night of Chef Michael Smith and Mountain Magic; 3 seasons of The Inn Chef; 5 seasons of Chef At Large; 6 seasons of Chef At Home; and the newest series in this brand programming - 26 half-hour episodes of Chef Abroad for Food Network Canada. The Chef series are among the highest rated and most well received of the Canadian Food Network programs and they continue to be huge audience favourites.
In 2008 Ocean completed production of a food/lifestyle series - French Food At Home (78 episodes) - with host and French cuisine expert Laura Calder for Food Network Canada, as well as a one-hour special - The Chateau Dinner: A French Food At Home Special – also for Food Network Canada.
Ocean began its latest foray into the international flavour of food series with the addition of the Indian cuisine inspired Spice Goddess, with Bal Arneson. The 26 half hours were produced for Cooking Channel US and Food Network Canada in 2010 and 2011, and the series was one of the featured original food series making up the Cooking Channel’s launch slate.
Adding to their line-up of lifestyle programming, in 2008/2009 and 2010/2011, respectively Ocean produced 2 seasons of Family Renovation, a documentary renovation series for HGTV Canada and DIY US.
In 2010 and 2011 Ocean delved into yet another genre with the completion of 2 seasons of 12 half hour live variety shows for APTN. The Candy Show’s star Candy Palmater, who brings her own brand of humour and insight to the show as she interacts with guests. Each episode includes everything from contortionists to magicians as well as a featuring a musical guest. Seasons III will be filmed in Halifax, April 2012. For tickets and information please visit www.thecandyshow.com.