Longhope Media Inc.

Based in Toronto, Longhope Media was co-founded in 2020 by veteran producers Lucy Stewart and Kevin Wallis. With deep roots in the production community, Longhope Media specializes in scripted comedies.

Longhope Media is built on Lucy Stewart’s decades of experience in production financing and navigating Canadian tax credits, and Kevin Wallis’ creative drive for developing talent as one of Canada’s few comedy-driven showrunners. 

Longhope Media’s first production was the new sketch comedy series ABROAD (26 episodes x 30 min) for Rogers Media/OMNI, which premiered in 2022, and is based on comedian Isabel Kanaan’s experiences of immigrating from the Philippines to Canada. Longhope Media is currently in pre-production of the third season of ABROAD and second season of the CBC Gem series YOU’RE MY HERO (14 episodes x 20 mins), starring cerebral palsy comedian Sean Towgood. Both have international distribution.

Before forming the company, Lucy Stewart (Executive Producer) and Kevin Wallis (Showrunner/Executive Producer) worked together for 15 years, producing under the Don Ferguson Productions and Air Farce Productions banners. Their work culminated in hundreds of hours of award-winning programming that has sold around the world. The satirical sketch series Royal Canadian Air Farce ran for 16 years as a weekly TV program (CBC, Comedy Network, PBS), averaging a million viewers per episode. The 10 subsequent New Year’s Eve Specials (CBC) were among the most-watched yearly specials in Canada. Their credits also include the Canadian Screen Award- and Writers Guild-nominated sitcom Second Jen (seasons 1-3, CityTV, OMNI), the coming-of-age story of two second-generation Asian Canadian women in Toronto.

Longhope Media is a proud member of the CMPA.