Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) has unveiled its 2024-25 production slate for its specialty channel AMI-TV. The upcoming broadcast season will expand the scripted offering and will feature a children’s series for the first time.
New series include After Dark, a documentary exploring sex, love, dating and relationships for people with disabilities; The Crip Trip, which follows artist, filmmaker and quadruple amputee Daniel Ennett and his producer, friend and caregiver Frederick Kroetsch as they drive from Edmonton to Toronto to get Ennett a job in the TV industry; Get Hooked, which shows how members of the queer, Black, Indigenous and disabled community turn the mental health benefits of fishing into pure joy; Low Vision Moments, a comedy based on the life of Jennie Bovard, the host with albinism of AMI’s namesake podcast; Underdog Inc., about a little person as he navigates life in a mountain town, juggles the ups and downs of parenthood and runs a business with his sister; We Were Broncos, a documentary depicting the life of athlete Ryan Straschnitzki beyond the horrific 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash; and children’s series Collar of Duty Kids, which takes viewers into the lives of kids who have been paired with extraordinary service animals.
AMI-TV will also see the return of series such as Access Tech Live (season 2); Our Community (season 9); Disrupt (season 3); Healthy at Home (season 3); Dish with Mary (season 5); Mind Your Own Business (season 4, pictured); and Postcards From… (season 6).
AMI is a non-profit focused on entertaining and informing Canadians with disabilities. Besides AMI-TV, it owns AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French TV channels , as well as the AMI+ ad-free streaming platform.
AMI-TV broadcasts all programs with described video in open format for Canadians who are blind or visually impaired, and it is available in most TV providers’ basic digital cable packages. In addition to described videos, all of its content has closed captioning. According to the channel, it reaches more than 10 million households daily.
The new content slate will also be available on AMI+, which serves as a free content hub where users can access AMI’s audio, TV and digital programming.