Speaker Toby Dormer
Toby Dormer is President, Canada, Unscripted Television at Blink49 Studios, where he leads all Canadian unscripted operations and collaborates closely with the U.S. team delivering an integrated, cross-border strategy leveraging Canadian scale, crews, and expertise serving both domestic and global audiences. Since joining Blink49 in 2022, he has overseen a slate of unscripted programming including the new docuseries Blue Collar (Crave), Queen of the Castle (CTV Life), RomCon: Who The F**k is Jason Porter? (Prime Video), Come Dine with Me Canada (Rogers), Bully Hunter (A&E) and Beast Games (Prime Video), the largest unscripted series ever produced in Canada with a crew of over 1,700, demonstrating Blink49’s capacity for large-scale, premium production.
A seasoned producer and executive with extensive experience across global franchises, Toby brings deep expertise in delivering premium factual content that blends creativity with commercial appeal. Before Blink49, Toby served as Executive Vice President, Unscripted Canada at Entertainment One (eOne), where his credits included Arctic Vets (CBC/NatGeo), Project Bakeover (Food Network/Hulu), The Chicago Strangler (Discovery+), Death in the Bayou (iD), Thunder Bay (CTV/Crave), and Border Security (Global/Netflix), among others.
Earlier in his career, Toby founded and served as President of Remedy Productions, the UK’s largest entertainment producer by volume for several years, producing over 10,000 hours of content for BBC, Channel 4, MTV, E4, Sky, and Five, as well as branded content for Nike, PlayStation, Red Bull, and more. Following Remedy’s acquisition by Argonon Media Group in 2011, Toby launched the company’s Canadian office, producing titles such as First Dates (Global), My Floating Home (HGTV/Channel 4), and Cabin Truckers (A&E/Cottage Life).
Speaking on: Banff World Media Festival










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