Executive producer Moses Znaimer reveals Rumours: a sexy new television series set to air on CBC, this fall 2006

TORONTO: July 4, 2006

CBC has announced it will air Rumours, a new television comedy, produced by MZTV and Sphere Media, with executive producers Moses Znaimer and Jocelyn Deschênes. The show premieres this fall with a special one-hour episode on Monday October 2nd, 2006 at 9:00PM.

Rumours is based on a French-language series, Rumeurs, that has been airing on CBC in Quebec since 2002. Wild and wickedly funny, the show explores sex, love, friendship, family and business, and how the lines between these things blur, fall apart and get smashed to pieces.

"I was attracted to it from the first moment," said executive producer Moses Znaimer. "I liked its high urban drive. I felt like the issues and the personalities that were dealt with could find their replication in any big city in the world, regardless of language or culture."

When ambitious but neurotic Sarah Barnaby (Amy Price-Francis) and "intellectual caveman" Ben Devlin (David Haydn-Jones) are thrown together as co-editors of a women's magazine named Rumours, sparks fly with equal parts of repulsion and attraction.

While the pair attempts to bring integrity, improved ratings and sales to the struggling magazine, they receive little help from the Rumours' self-involved staff, who are more interested in their own personal drama.

Rumours also stars Jennifer Dale as Michelle, the magazine's beautiful but merciless publisher who is responsible for forcing Ben and Sarah together; and Sadie LeBlanc as Helen, Sarah's straight-shooting, free-spirited best friend who can't seem to find Mr. Right, despite auditioning half the men in Toronto for the part.

The French version of the series, Rumeurs, is a huge hit in Quebec, launching its fifth season this fall. Rumeurs regularly draws more than one million viewers in Quebec, and has won dozens of awards since its premiere.

RUMOURS is written by Isabelle Langlois and directed by Eric Tessier. It is an MZTV/Sphere Media production in association with CBC Television.

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