Roku Original “Jingle Bell Love” Celebrates the Holidays with New Kids on the Block’s Joey McIntyre and “Heartland’s” Michelle Morgan
Debuts Monday, Nov. 18 on The Roku Channel
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 15, 2024 — This holiday season, Roku presents Joey McIntyre and Michelle Morgan in an all-new romantic comedy that will get you in the festive spirit: “Jingle Bell Love.” The Roku Original will debut on The Roku Channel on Monday, Nov. 18 and feature a new original song performed by Joey McIntyre, titled “A Brand New Christmas.”
“Our audiences love heartwarming, fun stories—especially during the holidays. We can’t wait for them to unwrap ‘Jingle Bell Love,’” said Morgan Pichinson, Roku Originals. “We’re proud to bring original programming that people can celebrate and connect over to The Roku Channel.”
“Jingle Bell Love” follows Jack Cooper (McIntyre) as he visits his late wife’s hometown for Christmas and gets more than he bargained for, when his determined daughter decides to match him up with a charming local shop owner (Morgan).
“This movie has all the holidays feels you could hope for,” said Joey McIntyre. “It’s so special to play a dad to this amazing daughter, Delia Chambers, who keeps me on my toes and shows how to keep believing in the season of miracles.”
Michelle Morgan shared, “I still can’t believe I had the honor of performing alongside the legendary singer-songwriter Joey McIntyre! I know that our music will move audiences, especially Joey’s original song ‘A Brand New Christmas,’ and that ‘Jingle Bell Love’ will bring some real magic into people’s lives this Christmas.”
Graham Ludlow, Head of Development & Production at Incendo, added, “On behalf of the entire cast, crew, and creative teams, we are excited to team up with Roku to deliver some holiday magic this season!”
“Jingle Bell Love” is produced by Incendo. Graham Ludlow, Kaleigh Kavanagh, and Shari Segal serve as executive producers. The film is created by Daren Flam and Stefanie Black and directed by Anne De Léan. On behalf of Roku Originals, Morgan Pichinson is Scripted Content Lead, and Sabrina Lyall is Scripted Coordinator.
Joey McIntyre is best known as a member of New Kids on the Block, who have sold over 80 million records and continue to sell out arenas today, having just announced their Vegas residency in 2025. Joey’s TV and film credits include the role of Matt in “The Fantasticks,” plus roles in David E. Kelley’s “Boston Public,” “The McCarthys” on CBS, Paul Feig’s “The Heat,” and as a co-creator/writer of “Return of the Mac” on POP TV.
Joey has acted on Broadway in “Wicked” opposite Idina Menzel and in “Waitress,” and in the original off-Broadway production of “Tick, Tick, Boom.” He has weaved his solo music in and out of his acting career, producing five albums of his own, including the self-penned Billboard top 10 hit “Stay the Same.” He is currently in New York in the new off-Broadway show “DRAG: The Musical!”
Actress and director Michelle Morgan is a first-generation Canadian of Chilean descent. Her first appearance on the big screen came in 2007, when she was cast as the lead in George A. Romero’s memorable “Diary of the Dead.” Her big break came that same year when she was cast in the leading role of Lou Fleming in the multi-generational western drama “Heartland” (CBC/Netflix). The series would go on to become the top 10 most streamed show in America for several years running. Michelle has directed over eight hours of primetime television, as well as award-winning short films and digital series.
Viewers can enjoy a variety of holiday programming for free on The Roku Channel this holiday season. In addition to “Jingle Bell Love,” Roku is also bringing audiences previously announced Roku Original holiday titles “The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday Special” and “Honest Renovations: A Holiday Makeover.”
About The Roku Channel
Launched in 2017, The Roku Channel is the home of free and premium entertainment on the Roku platform. In Q4 2021, The Roku Channel reached U.S. households with an estimated 80 million people. The Roku Channel was a top five channel on the Roku platform in the U.S. by active account reach in Q3 and Q4 2021. Today, The Roku Channel features a diverse lineup of more than 80,000 free movies and programs and over 400 free live linear television channels in the U.S. It licenses and distributes content from more than 250 partners. In addition to Roku devices, The Roku Channel is available on Web, iOS and Android devices, Amazon Fire TV and select Samsung TVs and can be accessed internationally in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
About Incendo
Incendo is a Canadian company specializing in the development, production, and international distribution of compelling content for audiences all over the world. Founded in 2001, Incendo boasts an exceptional multi-genre development and production slate, an extensive multiplatform programming library, expanding strategic partnerships, and unique format pipeline as a subsidiary of Groupe TVA.
With offices in Montreal and Toronto, Incendo’s most recent productions include Guess Who, The Amityville Curse, and Terror Train with Tubi, the limited series Clean Sweep, an international co-production, and the recently announced Roku film Jingle Bell Love. For more information, please visit www.incendo.ca.
Incendo and Meet Cute Couple Up to Adapt Five Hit Audio Titles for Film & Television
TORONTO (June 17, 2024) – Canadian producer, Incendo, and groundbreaking audio entertainment company, Meet Cute, revealed today that they have joined forces to co-develop a slate of Meet Cute Originals for film and television. Leveraging five fan favourite audio titles, this strategic partnership marries Incendo’s established record of delivering exceptional, multi-genre visual content to audiences around the world and Meet Cute’s unparalleled footprint with millennial and Gen Z listeners, craving addictive genre-bending stories.
“Incendo and Meet Cute feels like a match made in heaven,” said Meet Cute CEO, Naomi Shah. “From our first conversation, we knew that we wanted to curate a diverse slate from our library that speaks to modern audiences. Each story is uniquely its own, but they all have the same backbone of hope, with a feel-good through line connecting them.”
Graham Ludlow, Head of Development & Production, Incendo added “Partnering with Meet Cute is a refreshing and exciting opportunity to access stories that have already proven their appeal to discerning millennial and Gen Z audiences.”
The co-development slate was hand-picked to build upon the success of five current Meet Cute Original Titles, collectively boasting a consumption rate of more than 120% as repeat listeners keep coming back for more. From sit-coms and rom-coms, to fantasy, romance, and mysteries, the roster includes hit audio titles James Is Missing, Clever After, The Golden Palm,andthe celebrity-driven shows Christmasuzannukkah and Kerri, which cast Amy Sedaris and Pauline Chalamet, respectively, in lead acting roles.
About Incendo:
Incendo is a Canadian company specializing in the development, production, and international distribution of compelling content for audiences all over the world. Founded in 2001, Incendo boasts an exceptional multi-genre development and production slate, an extensive multiplatform programming library, expanding strategic partnerships, and unique format pipeline as a subsidiary of Groupe TVA.
With offices in Montreal and Toronto, Incendo’s most recent productions include Guess Who, The Amityville Curse, and Terror Train, as part of its Tubi content partnership, and the limited series Clean Sweep, an international co-production. For more information, please visit www.incendo.ca.
About Meet Cute
Meet Cute is the destination for feel-good stories. With immersive soundscapes and talent you love like Bridgerton’s Charithra Chandran, Partner Track’s Arden Cho, and The Sex Lives of College Girls’ Pauline Chalamet, Meet Cute is an ever-growing library of addictive originals, bringing you premium audio stories that let your imagination take the lead. Meet Cute has unlimited stories for every mood and every moment. Each month, Meet Cute produces a premium cinematic audio series in six episodes.
Given the breadth of their library, Meet Cute takes creative risks in both form and content, such as point of view switching and genre-bending (e.g., scifi, fantasy, and horror rom-coms). They use data-backed insights from their audience by tracking hundreds of tags (like plot points, settings, tropes, and relationship types) to inform which stories to tell next. Meet Cute has also secured a number of movie and TV development deals, including one with wiip (producer of Dickinson and Mare of Easttown) to adapt a select number of Meet Cute stories into television series anthology.
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For Media Inquiries please contact:
Andrea Allen, Streaming & Marketing Executive, Incendo
Sam Pennington, Head of Community & Growth, Meet Cute
Incendo Marks Fifth Creative Partnership with Tubi on Upcoming Original Horror Film, Guess Who
– Montreal-shot feature from Canadian prodco is led by rising stars of horror, Keeya King (Yellowjackets) and Corteon Moore (From), with acclaimed director Amelia Moses (Bloodthirsty) at the helm –
Toronto, January 18, 2024 – Canadian producer, Incendo, is proud to announce the all-new horror film Guess Who. Commissioned by the FOX-owned streaming giant Tubi, the Montreal-shot film is the fifth produced as a part of the Incendo/Tubi content partnership.
Guess Who is written by Matt Wells (Crown & Anchor), Ian Carpenter and Aaron Martin (Terror Train), and is helmed by celebrated horror director Amelia Moses (Bloodthirsty). Starring Canadians Keeya King (Yellowjackets) and Corteon Moore (From), the movie flips a classic holiday tradition on its head when a masked psychotic killer hides behind the practice of ‘Mummering’ to wreak havoc on the inhabitants of a trailer park.
In Guess Who, newly engaged Kaitlyn Martindale (King) is overjoyed at the chance to meet her fiancée Michael’s (Moore) family. The couple put aside their busy city lives and set out on a road trip to Duckworth Flats, a small, neglected, but tightknit trailer park community that thrives on the tradition of ‘Mummering,’ an event in which friends, family and neighbors go door to door in bizarre costumes and masks, performing songs, dances, and riddles in exchange for food and drink. At first, ‘Mummering’ seems like a strange, yet fun way to get to know her future in-laws and learn more about Michael’s roots, but each playful joke becomes more dangerous than the next. It isn’t long before Kaitlyn realizes one of the masked revelers is a psychotic killer, hiding behind the ‘Mummering’ tradition and preying on victims to get to her directly. As the festivities continue, the guessing game of ‘who’s who’ turns into one of survival as blood starts to stain the party red.
Guess Who is produced by Graham Ludlow and Kaleigh Kavanagh; Executive Producers are Graham Ludlow, Shari Segal, Kaleigh Kavanagh for Incendo, and Matt Wells. The film premieres Friday, January 19, exclusively on Tubi in the U.S.
About Incendo
Incendo is a Canadian company that specializes in the production and international distribution of high-quality television programming for the worldwide marketplace. Since its inception in 2001, the company has produced compelling movies, television series as well as documentaries that have been sold throughout the world. Incendo is the leading television distribution company in Canada and also handles theatrical distribution in Québec for Paramount Pictures. For more information, visit www.incendo.ca.
MELS bolsters leadership team with business development roles
The studio and post-production business has appointed Incendo’s Jean-Phillipe Normandeau and Marie-Claude Desjardins to new roles.
Canada’s CosMedia.Inc Launches LatAm Distribution Arm, Inks Deal With Incendo
PRESS RELEASE – Miami (January 25, 2023) – Toronto based CosMedia.Inc today announced it has
launched a LatAm Distribution Arm focused on localizing best-in-class Canadian movie and series
IP and delivering them to the Latin American market. The announcement follows a landmark distribution deal
with leading content producer Incendo to represent its
highly acclaimed and expansive movie catalogue to Latin
American buyers. The announcement was made today
from Content Americas, the Miami-based content market
reconnecting the LatAm content business to the US,
Canada, and international markets.
The Incendo deal delivers a pipeline of movie content with
titles ranging from a variety of populist genres. From fun,
lighthearted romantic comedies to action-packed, high-stakes thrillers, and smart, thought-provoking dramas, the
catalogue of female-led movies embraces unique stories
and relatable characters, appealing to a wide range of
global audiences.
CosMedia.Inc is a specialized Canadian media company
backed by veteran media executive Mike Cosentino, a
former content, programming & production leader for top
ranked CTV and leading domestic SVOD streamer Crave.
“Canadian producers like Incendo are behind some of the most watched movies commissioned
for TV audiences in the US and abroad, and our goal is to create partnerships and a pipeline to
deliver best in class titles with expert localization to audiences across Latin America,” said
Cosentino, President CosMedia.Inc.
“Having collaborated with Mike in various areas of our business for many years, Incendo is
delighted to partner with CosMedia.Inc, and have our content brands expanded into the
lucrative Latin American market,” added Brook Peters, Managing Director and Senior VicePresident, Sales & Production Operations, Incendo.
About CosMedia.Inc
Launched in Spring 2021, CosMedia.Inc is a Canadian-led, hyper-focussed media company
operating across three verticals – Content, Production and Distribution. The company is led by
veteran media executive Mike Cosentino, former President of Content & Programming for BCE’s
(TSX: BCE) media division, Bell Media and provides expertise in FAST, SVOD, AVOD, Network &
Cable and has considerable expertise in content acquisition, licensing and production. Since
inception, CosMedia.Inc has partnered with some of the World’s foremost entertainment brands
including Fremantle, Viaplay, Shout! Factory Studios, Quiver Entertainment, Reel World
Management, Mogul Productions, Blue Ant Media, A+E Networks and more. For more
information, visit www.cosentinomedia.com.
About Incendo
Incendo is a Canadian company that specializes in the production and international distribution
of high-quality television programming for the worldwide marketplace. Since its inception in
2001, the company has produced compelling movies, television series as well as documentaries
that have been sold throughout the world. Incendo is the leading television distribution company
in Canada and also handles theatrical distribution in Québec for Paramount Pictures. For more
information, visit www.incendo.ca
Incendo & Tubi Are Full Steam Ahead with Terror Train 2
“Our remake reintroduced a new generation to Terror Train, and now Tubi’s first ever horror sequel expands on the premise with a completely original storyline,” said Adam Lewinson, Chief Content Officer (Tubi). “This new ride aboard the Terror Train begins on New Year’s Eve with ‘Final Girl’ Alana and the mysterious Magician facing a new menace in this horror whodunit.”
“Horror-genre franchises have proven time and time again to be some of the most successful film brands,” added Brook Peters, Managing Director and Senior Vice-President, Sales & Production Operations & Executive Producer (Incendo). “In the sequel, we’re thrilled to offer horror fans a seamless and terrifying continuation of the story that also pays a themed-tribute to the original 1980 cult classic.”
In Terror Train 2, it has been over a year since a series of gruesome, vengeful murders took the lives of multiple college seniors aboard the now infamous Terror Train. Alana (Robyn Alomar) is coerced to join The Magician (Tim Rozon) and other remaining survivors on a New Year’s Eve redemption ride aboard the very same train, where a new kind of evil spawns a vengeful bloodbath and once again, the terrified passengers fight to survive.
Ian Carpenter and Aaron Martin (Slasher) return as the writing duo, as does director Philippe Gagnon (Amber Alert). Terror Train 2 is produced by Graham Ludlow and Kaleigh Kavanagh; Executive Producers are Graham Ludlow, Shari Segal, and Brook Peters. Incendo will represent global distribution and Tubi is the commissioning U.S. licensee of the film.
Terror Train and Terror Train 2 were the initial projects greenlit under the Incendo & Tubi content partnership, with Terror Train having premiered this past October as part of Tubi’s successful annual month-long Halloween-inspired genre celebration, “Terror on Tubi”. Original film Marry F*** Kill, and The Amityville Curse, an adaptation of Hans Holzer’s iconic novel, were also announced as horror-themed partnership projects, both of which are in various stages of production.
Leading up to the December 31, 2022 premiere of Terror Train 2, subscribers can still stream both the 1980 and 2022 versions of Terror Train and on Tubi in the U.S. and on Crave in Canada.
About Incendo
Incendo is a Canadian company that specializes in the production and international distribution of high-quality television programming for the worldwide marketplace. Since its inception in 2001, the company has produced compelling movies, television series as well as documentaries that have been sold throughout the world. Incendo is the leading television distribution company in Canada and also handles theatrical distribution in Québec for Paramount Pictures. For more information, visit www.incendo.ca.
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About Tubi
Tubi, a division of FOX Entertainment, is an ad-supported video-on-demand service with over 48,000 movies and TV shows, including a growing library of Tubi Originals, 200+ local and live news and sports channels, and 400+ entertainment partners, featuring content from every major Hollywood studio. Tubi gives fans of film, television, news and sports an easy way to discover new content that is completely free.
Tubi is available on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, Cox Contour, and on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X | S, and soon on Hisense TVs globally. Consumers can also watch Tubi content on the web at www.tubi.tv.
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For Media Inquiries please contact:
Effi Eustace | Vice-President, Sales & Marketing
e.eustace@incendo.ca | (416) 565-5529
Alana Doria | Marketing Assistant
alana.doria@incendo.ca | (647) 274-4773
See The New Terror Train: Exclusive Official Trailer
Tubi has collaborated with Incendo on the remake of the 1980 cult classic horror film Terror Train, which starred Jamie Lee Curtis. A Tubi Original, Terror Train is slated to premiere in October 2022 as part of the platform’s annual month-long Halloween-inspired genre celebration, “Terror on Tubi.”