Derek Diorio

The Raccoons is a Canadian animated television series which was originally broadcast from 1985 to 1991 with three preceding television specials from its inception in 1980 and one direct to video special in 1984. The franchise was created by Kevin Gillis with the co-operation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Urban, Indigenous adoptee Rayna Keetch grew up with no connection to her Indigenous roots. Recently reunited with her birth family, Rayna is about to return to her First Nation for a traditional homecoming ceremony when her husband Darryl announces that he's been a victim of a scam and has lost their fortune.

Carol is a nine-year-old, with a very special doll given to her by her father. Carol's father is the owner of a company that provides security services, and when he gets an assignment to guard an art exhibit at the Louvre, he takes Carol with him. During their transatlantic crossing, Carol falls overboard.

A dysfunctional gang of criminals takes a middle class Māori family hostage and discovers too late that they are cannibals.

Emily, an 8 year old girl, and a centuries year old Railway Dragon, share an adventure that they'll never forget.

In the seedy world of Rock bars and booze cans, Punch is known as a pint-sized bouncer with a big reputation. To Judy, who’s notorious for misreading people, he's as gentle as a Teddy Bear.

House of Luk is a quirky drama following the lives of three loveable losers who frequent a Chinese restaurant and discover the true meaning in their lives when they each decipher a cryptic message in a fortune cookie.

Everybody and their brother in Little Italy has a story. But few bring together a celestial event, a one of a kind ring, a mysterious man in a white suit, petty jealousy, loving larceny, a would be gondolier, a duel, and a very full spittoon. Eight people's lives are about to change as Jupiter and Venus come together in the night sky for a once in a lifetime event. A Taste of Jupiter is a whimsical romance set under the stars.

Over a dozen of the planet's brightest minds are brought together to show how the weird is becoming wired and why a new era of quantum technologies is going to rock your world.

Tino Mariano, an aspiring opera singer indebted to a Mob boss. Money is no object, but when you are in debt there's no turning back.

Sophie, a U.S. TV star, finds out shortly before Christmas that she is the subject of compromising photos. Under the pretext of granting the photographer an exclusive interview in exchange for the pictures, the young woman invites him to spend Christmas at her aunt’s in northern Ontario. Will Sophie successfully come to terms with her painful past?

The homosexual witch-hunt of public servants and military personnel in Canada from the 1950s through the early 1990s and its effects on the people whose lives and careers were disrupted or destroyed by it.

A teenager growing up in a poor industrial town struggles to create a better life through music.

Merrily skewering everyday Mafia life, this comical send-up chronicles the aptly named but dysfunctional Vendetta crime family, headed by short-fused hit man Sonny (Derek Diorio). It seems that bungling adopted son Paulie (Dan Lalande) has a habit of botching all the clan's plans, much to Sonny's consternation. Can the Vendettas overcome Paulie's incompetence and regain their standing atop the mob's pecking order?