Derek Diorio is a Canadian writer, director, producer, and actor. Derek Diorio arrived in Ottawa from Montreal in the mid-seventies to attend

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World ...

. Within four years he had dropped out of Carleton but had picked up a valuable education at

CKCU-FM CKCU-FM is a Canadian community-based campus radio station, broadcasting at 93.1 FM in Ottawa, and offering live and archived on-demand audio streams from its website. The station broadcasts 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. The station's ...

, Carleton's campus radio station, where he acquired a taste for broadcast media and entertainment as well as an appreciation of the vast talent available in Ottawa. It was at CKCU that he developed a desire to create and be part of an Ottawa entertainment scene. Between 1979 and 1999 he co-founded Sound Venture Productions, the Ottawa Improv League, the Skit Row comedy troupe, the Skit Row Comedy Club, The Creative Block, Diorio Production, and Distinct Features Inc. He started his career as an award-winning radio advertising copywriter and moved on to co-write with Dan Lalande and Rick Jones for a number of Ottawa-based television series and specials, "You Can't Do That On Television", "The Raccoons" and "Skit Row". In the eighties, he produced, performed, and promoted several live stage productions with Skit Row in both the Theatre and Studio of the National Arts Centre while simultaneously developing a corporate video business. In the nineties, he started directing television shows for the then-nascent Canadian specialty channels.

Works

Writer

You Can't Do That on Television ''You Can't Do That on Television'' is a Canadian sketch comedy television series that first aired locally in 1979 before airing in the United States in 1981. It featured pre-teen and teenage actors in a sketch comedy format similar to that of ...

(1982–1984) *

The Raccoons ''The Raccoons'' is a Canadian animated television series that ran on CBC from November 11, 1985 to March 19, 1991 in Canada and on Disney Channel from July 4, 1985 to August 28, 1992 in the U.S., with three preceding television specials from ...

(1985–1988) *

The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin ''The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin'' is a children's animated television series based on Teddy Ruxpin, an animatronic teddy bear created by Ken Forsse and distributed by toy manufacturer Worlds of Wonder. Produced in 1986–7 for television syndic ...

(1987) *

The Railway Dragon ''The Railway Dragon'' is a 1989 Canadian television animated film. Leslie Nielsen featured as the narrator. The half-hour special premiered in the US on the Disney Channel. Plot A little girl named Emily knows that there is something special in ...

(1988) *

The Teddy Bears' Picnic "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" is a song consisting of a melody by American composer John Walter Bratton, written in 1907, and lyrics added by Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy in 1932. It remains popular as a children's song, having been recorded by nu ...

(1989) * Kit & Kaboodle (1998) * The Kiss of Debt (2000) * The Quantum Tamers: Revealing our Weird and Wired Future (2009) *

Hard Rock Medical ''Hard Rock Medical'' is a Canadian medical drama television series which aired on TVOntario (TVO) from 2013 to 2018. It was the first original drama series for TVO, the public television network for Ontario. The series also aired nationally in Can ...

(2013-2017)

Director

* Two's a Mob (1998) * The Kiss of Debt (2000) * House of Luk (2001) * Ottawa: Technically Funny (2001) * Punch & Judy (2002) *

Francoeur ''Francoeur'' was a Canadian television series, first aired by TFO in 2003. It was the first Franco-Ontarian téléroman. The series has produced 44 episodes to date. The series revolves around the Francoeurs, a Franco-Ontarian family in Eastern ...

(2003) * Mann to Mann (2004) *

A Taste of Jupiter A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes'' ...

(2005) * Meteo+ (2008-2011) *

Les Bleus de Ramville ''Les Bleus de Ramville'' (The Blues of Ramville) is a Canadian television series, which premiered on TFO in January 2012. Set in the fictional town of Ramville near North Bay, Ontario, the series focuses on Gordie, Julie, Maureen and Christian, ...

(2012-2013) * Hard Rock Medical (2013-2017) * '' Happy FKN Sunshine'' (2022)

Producer

* ''The Kiss of Debt'' (2000) * ''House of Luk'' (2001) * ''Ottawa: Technically Funny'' (2001) * ''Punch & Judy'' (2002) * ''Mann to Mann'' (2004) * ''

Getting Along Famously ''Getting Along Famously'' is a Canadian sitcom which aired on CBC Television in 2006. Set in the early 1960s, ''Getting Along Famously'' starred real-life couple Colin Mochrie and Debra McGrath as the hosts of a television variety show. Support ...

'' (2006) * ''The Quantum Tamers: Revealing our Weird and Wired Future'' (2009) * '' Fresh Meat'' (2012) * ''Hard Rock Medical'' (2013-2017) * '' The Fruit Machine'' (2018)

Actor

* The Raccoons (1985) - Haggis Lamborgini *

Babar and Father Christmas ''Babar'' (, ; ) is an animated television series produced in Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company. It premiered in 1989 on CBC and US HBO, and subsequently was rerun on Qubo from its launch 2006 until its closure in 2021. Th ...

(1986) - Elderberry, Elf #2, Boatman * Two's a Mob (1998) - Sonny Vendetta * Ottawa: Technically Funny (2001) - Various * Mann to Mann (2004) - Serge * A Taste of Jupiter (2005) - Tony * Lucky Days (2006) - Dean

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Diorio, Derek Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian male film actors Canadian male television actors Canadian male voice actors Canadian television directors Canadian television producers Canadian television writers Canadian male television writers