The Influence Entertainment Group is a boutique broadcast and multi-media production company based in Toronto, Canada.

Lynn Elmhirst is Executive Producer of the Influence Entertainment Group, and she also writes, produces and directs and hosts productions. Lynn started her broadcast career in television news and lifestyles reporting, producing, and anchoring, including an award-winning documentary. Lynn has degrees from the University of Toronto and from Ryerson University. She speaks four languages (English, French, German, Japanese) and has worked in communications on three continents.

We offer line producer and full production services, as well as producer/host services. Influence has built mutually beneficial relationships with leading members of production communities in Toronto and around the world, and through those relationships, draws on a wealth of expertise to achieve the highest production values possible on every project, large or small.

Our passion for compelling visual storytelling has resulted in nearly a hundred hours of broadcast and online programming, including:

∑ Feastivals, Kodiak Crab Festival: a one-hour documentary about the people and community who live through the trials, and celebrate the joys of the most dangerous job in the world, the Alaska crab industry. Airs in 2006 on CTV Travel, CTV main network. (Exec produce, produce, write)

∑ King of the Q Grilling Adventures, 13 X 30” travel/culinary adventure series hosted by a celebrity chef and cook book author on CTV Travel and CTV network in 2005. (Exec produce, produce, write)

∑ High Point: Casinos of the World with Kenny Rogers, 26 X 30” featuring casinos as travel destinations. Aired on CanWest Global, and licensed to Casino and Gaming Television in Canada and US, Discovery Asia, and Discovery Travel UK. (Exec produce, produce, write)

∑ Taste of Life, an upscale, exotic food and travel series that traveled across continents and produced over 100 episodes in more than 5 seasons on air in North America (CanWest Global, Wealth TV) and in syndication around the world. (produce, write)

∑ Design Diva, a 30” pilot for an off-the-wall design series hosted by an HGTV Designer Superstar Challenge finalist, in pre-sale distribution. (Exec produce, produce, write)

∑ Travelers’ Table, a 30” pilot for an upscale cooking school/travel series., in pre-sale distribution.(Exec produce, produce, write.)

∑ In 2005, Influence partnered in the development of the country’s first internet video ‘television network’, producing to date over a hundred innovative, interactive, entertainment, infotainment, educational, corporate and commercial productions delivered through unique internet ‘TV Stations’. (Exec produce, produce, write, and some hosting)