Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel Get the Movie Treatment in CTV's Shades of Black, December 4

Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel Get the Movie Treatment in CTV's Shades of Black, December 4

TORONTO, Canada, November 9/PRNewswire/ --

- Albert Schultz and Lara Flynn Boyle stars as Lord and Lady Black in
New TV Movie

Canadian broadcaster CTV announced today that Shades of Black, the much-
anticipated movie about embattled business tycoon Conrad Black, will
premiere Monday, December 4 on CTV. Shot in the fall of 2005 in Toronto and
England, the timely Canadian drama stars acclaimed actor Albert Schultz as
the legendary Conrad Black and Hollywood actress Lara Flynn Boyle as the
equally notorious Barbara Amiel Black. Jason Priestley (Beverly Hills 90210
) co-stars as fictionalized reporter Jeff Sargeant. Today's announcement
comes as the latest book about the headline-grabbing couple, Conrad & Lady
Black: Dancing on the Edge, hits bookstores across Canada this week.

(xx) Media Note (xx) See a photo of Albert Schultz and Lara Flynn
Boyle as Lord and Lady Black here: http://files.newswire.ca/544/shades1.jpg.

Inspired by true events and based on the book by Richard Siklos,
Shades of Black takes place in the fall of 2004 before Lord Black of
Crossharbour - business tycoon, financier and biographer - was charged with
civil fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Already removed
as CEO of the company he controlled, Hollinger International, Black holes
up in his Toronto mansion as he copes with the personal and professional
fallout from fraud allegations that surfaced a year earlier. As Conrad
Black, Schultz delivers a cunning character portrait of a man who -
betrayed by friends and attacked by business partners - steadfastly
maintains his innocence in the face of enormous legal challenges and social
exile. As Black's glamorous second wife, Barbara Amiel, Lara Flynn Boyle
portrays a woman of style and substance who unfailingly stands beside her
embattled husband as he confronts the biggest challenge in his life.

Central to the two-hour movie is Black's provocative love/hate
relationship with the media, represented through fictionalized reporter
Jeff Sargeant (Priestley). Through a series of flashbacks prompted by his
interviews with Sargeant, Black reflects on his rise to power and fame and
ultimately the events leading up to his removal as Chairman and CEO of
Hollinger. The flashbacks detail his relationship with lifelong business
partner and friend David Radler (Jason Schombing). At the end of the movie,
the story fast forwards to September, 2005, when Black learns that Radler
has pled guilty to fraud charges and agreed to cooperate with the U.S.
prosecution.

"Albert Schultz and Lara Flynn Boyle deliver scintillating
performances as Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel," said Susanne Boyce, CTV
President of Programming and Chair of the CTV Media Group. "It's a story
that continues to captivate audiences on both sides of the Atlantic."

Continued: For more information and to read the complete media release
, please visit www.ctvmedia.ca.

Source: CTV Inc.

For further information: Eleni Tsokas, CTV Inc., +1-(416)-332-5326 or etsokas@ctv.ca

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