''Spellz'' was a 2006–2008 magic series featuring famed magician

Jay Sankey Jay Sankey is a Canadian close-up magician and a prolific creator of magic effects. He has been an active stage performer since the mid-1980s. Work He is known as a stand-up comedian and authored a book about the art of stand-up, ''Zen and the Ar ...

. Produced by GAPC Entertainment in partnership with

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, with the participation of Knowledge Network from 2006 to 2009, SCN and the Canadian Television Fund, Spellz was created by Hoda Elatawi, Mike Erskine-Kellie, Jay Sankey and David Peck. The show was directed by Max Maleo, written by Susan McLennan, and executive produced by Ken Stewart, Dan Danko & Tom K. Mason. In Spellz,

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plays "Bridget, the Amazing Kid Assistant", the only other recurring person on the series, beside Sankey. There were kid segments for a second season of the program that were in production during March 2007; however, the scenes with Sankey and Hall were filmed in May; there are 26 episodes in Season 1, airing since September 2006, and there are 26 episodes in Season 2, which began September 2007.Spellz: Episode 89
''TVO''. Both are available on DVD. In 2007, Spellz won the Certificate for Creative Excellence in Communications at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival{{cite web, url=http://www.gapcentertainment.com/awards.htm , title=GAPC Entertainment , publisher=GAPC Entertainment , date= , accessdate=2013-07-27 and the Remi award at the Houston International Film Festival in 2008.

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TVO original programming 2000s Canadian children's television series 2006 Canadian television series debuts Canadian preschool education television series