Ottawa has landed the plum job of playing host city for a new $10 million sitcom.

The family series “Dad’s in the Attic” will film at a defunct Ottawa high school, Montreal-based independent production house Muse Entertainment announced Thursday.

“This is what we call, by Canadian terms, a premiere series,” Jesse Prupas, Muse’s VP of development and distribution, told CBC News.

“We try to be modest about talking about the figures, but this is a $10 million project. … It’s very, very exciting. It’s much larger than anything we’ve brought here.”

The half-hour live-action comedy, which will air on YTV next year, follows three teenage siblings and their newly-fired workaholic dad, who decides to set up an office at home.

Twenty-six episodes of the hi-def series will be shot at the former Laurentian High School in Ottawa’s west end. The school closed in 2004 because of low enrolment.

Some of the school will also be turned into mini-studio space.

Ottawa doesn’t usually attract major scripted TV productions, and “Dad’s in the Attic” will be the biggest TV production the city has ever had.

The show, which has begun casting, will film this spring and summer, likely with the aid of crew from the Ottawa area.






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