"Verbally pitching to Penguin Random House Canada publisher Sue Kuruvilla, Bland was able to write a film-style treatment that laid out the themes, setting and plot of the proposed series; he then met with various PRHC departments — publicity, marketing, editorial, design — to solicit feedback and ideas for building an ambitious facsimile of Steeltown that was, paradoxically, a cross between HBO’s “The Wire” and “Scooby-Doo.”
Writing under an accelerated timeline — Bland describes the process as being analogous to the way a short-order cook would “reach up and take a ticket (that I had written myself) before preparing the meal” — Bland commenced work on “Lower City” in October 2025 and completed a draft in a 39 days."
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First seen: 2026-09-06 ·
Last seen: 2026-09-06 ·
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