In 20 she executive produced, alongside her husband, Stephen Stohn, the television series The L.A. From 2004 to 2008 Schuyler executive produced the teen drama television series Instant Star about a young woman (played by Alexz Johnson) who wins a singer/songwriter contest. In the early 1990s, Schuyler and Hood separated and Schuyler founded Epitome Pictures (a subsidiary of DHX Media) which came to produce Degrassi: The Next Generation, the franchise's most well-known series, and its direct sequel Degrassi: Next Class, which was released on Netflix. The resulting short film, Ida Makes a Movie, became the genesis for the anthology series The Kids of Degrassi Street, which became the first series in the Degrassi franchise.
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Schuyler purchased the rights to the film for $200, and repurposed the film to be about a girl who enters a movie about the garbage in her neighborhood into a National Film Board-sponsored competition and wins, despite the film being misinterpreted as an anti-war piece. Stohn advised her to forego a lawyer and instead propose the deal herself. Before leaving, Schuyler sought legal advice from Stephen Stohn, a lawyer who would eventually become her producing partner and husband.
However, Schuyler became interested in potentially adapting the book into a movie, and planned to fly to New York to meet Chorao. Mackey was unaware that it was children's fiction about cats, and disregarded it. In 1979, Schuyler received a copy of the children's book Ida Makes A Movie, written by Kay Chorao, when she requested Earl Grey librarian Bruce Mackey to acquire several books about filmmaking. Hood and Schuyler found a balance editor Hood was inexperienced in writing, and writer/producer Schuyler was inexperienced in editing, leading to their creative partnership and the formation of Playing With Time, Inc. In 1976, Schuyler met Kit Hood, an editor of television commercials, when she needed help from an experienced editor to save the "muddled footage" of one of her projects. She first attracted media attention when the NBC in the United States aired clips of Between Two Worlds out of context to support a news story about race relations in Toronto. Schuyler's first film was a documentary named Between Two Worlds. As a teacher, Schuyler began creating short films, which eventually became the inspiration for Degrassi. After earning her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1974, where she studied film courses, Schuyler became a school teacher and taught for four years at Earl Grey Senior Public School in Toronto's east end. The daughter of Jack and Joyce Bawcutt, Schuyler immigrated with her family to Canada in the late 1950s and was raised in Paris, Ontario.
In 1994, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, and in 2012, she was made a Member of the Order of Ontario. Schuyler has received multiple awards and accolades for her work. Schuyler also created Instant Star, another commercially successful Epitome production. In 1979, Schuyler purchased the rights to adapt the Kay Chorao book Ida Makes A Movie into a film, of which ultimately became the genesis of Degrassi. As a school teacher, she began creating short films, and formed a creative partnership with television commercial editor Kit Hood. (with Kit Hood), and of Epitome Pictures (with Stephen Stohn), the production companies involved with the franchise over its 40-year-long history respectively.īorn in London, Schuyler immigrated to Canada with her family in the 1950s. She is a co-founder of Playing With Time, Inc. She is best known for being the co-creator and producer of the Degrassi teen drama franchise, which has spanned five series over four decades.
Linda Schuyler, CM OOnt ( / ˈ s k aɪ l ə r/ née Bawcutt born February 12, 1948) is a Canadian television producer.
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