Peter Blackie

Peter came to film and TV 15 years ago as an Architect with experience working around the globe and has since focussed his time writing and producing on a number of varied film and TV projects. Peter co-created and co-showran (along with his brother Rob) the Netflix series FRONTIER. In 2021 Peter (along with his brother) created and wrote the sci-fi comic series CLANS OF BELARI for AfterShock Media. Other recent projects include SURREALESTATE (NBC/Syfy), as well as the half-hour comedy SON OF A CRITCH (CBC) and the feminist sci-fi one-hour series ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD (NBC/Syfy). Season 2 of SurrealEstate is being released June of 2023. Peter (and Rob) is currently developing the science fiction animated series CERULEA. Peter was born and raised in Gander, Newfoundland. As an Architect, Peter has lived and worked in a number of different locations including New York City, Berlin, Germany, and Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. He is a registered Architect with The Newfoundland Association of Architects and is a graduate of the Master of Architecture Program at the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS) (1996), the Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies program, also TUNS (1994), and of the Bachelor of Arts Program (Philosophy) at Dalhousie University (1992).

Works

Republic of Doyle

Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.

Release Date2010-01-06

Charactersd Crown Prosecutor

Episode Count2

Vote Count38

Heritage Minutes

Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.

Release Date1991-03-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Frontier

In 18th-century North America, ruthless trappers and entrepreneurs fight to wrest control of the fur trade from the mighty Hudson's Bay Company.

Release Date2016-11-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count356

Caught

David Slaney escapes from jail and attempts to hook up with his partner for one last deal, while evading the detective on his trail. Based on the novel by Lisa Moore.

Release Date2018-02-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count5

Vote Count12

The Night Everything Changed

When Tina's teenage daughter doesn't return home from a sleepover with her closest friends, she goes on a frantic hunt to find her before it's too late. In the process, she unravels dark secrets of a forbidden romance and a tryst among BFFs.

Release Date2026-10-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Heritage Minutes: Gander and 9/11

"There's only one thing to do here - we're going to ask people to open their doors." It was the day in which Gander and surrounding communities welcomed the world to its doorstep.

Release Date2026-09-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

A House Built on Lies

Inspired by true events. When Daisy's husband is murdered, the news brings on a sudden, traumatic labor. Now, reliant on medication following a complicated birth, Daisy depends on her best friend Louise to help care for her son. But her husband’s death has triggered a strange series of events, and she soon finds herself in danger. Will she be able to uncover the truth in time to save herself and her new baby?

Release Date2026-04-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Mama's Little Murderer

A devoted single mother, Constance, struggles to balance her newfound love with Leo and the obsessive, destructive behavior of her son, Anthony, who will go to extreme lengths to keep her to himself.

Release Date2026-01-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Murder at the Hotel

During a snowstorm that strands her family at a hotel, attorney Megan runs into her high school sweetheart, Brad, sparking tension as her husband Jim disappears and her daughter Lisa vanishes. Cut off from the outside world and unsure who to trust, Megan must navigate a night of secrets, danger, and her own past to save her family before it’s too late.

Release Date2025-09-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Designer

Vote Count1

Shaun Majumder, Every Word Is Absolutely True

Feature-length documentary following Canadian funny man Shaun Majumder as he embarks on his first ever cross-Canada solo stand-up tour from St. John's, Newfoundland to Victoria, B.C. Everyone has a story and Shaun is the quintessential storyteller. In this film, we get to see how a stand-up act develops from the genesis of the idea, to its being worked, reworked, and reworked again. Director Peter Esteves' unique and unprecedented access to Shaun's life goes beyond the public persona providing a window that is both funny and deeply revealing. As the story unfolds, a more intimate and complex side of one of Canada's funniest people is revealed.

Release Date2012-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobConsulting Producer

Terra Nova Matadora

A look at Canadian bullfighter Carolyn Hayward.

Release Date2015-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobResearcher