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Michael Bublé and Drew Scott will measurement into nan world of inferior lucky successful Hometown Giants, a doc bid that toplines Prime Video‘s latest Canadian slate.
The bid will motorboat connected Prime Video this fall, pinch Scott Brothers Entertainment producing successful relation pinch Amazon MGM Studios. It will spot vocalist and The Voice coach Bublé and Property Brothers presenter Scott becoming associated owners pf nan Vancouver Giants, a inferior lucky squad from which teen players pursuit their changeable astatine nan NFL.
Grammy victor Bublé – who regularly hosts singing specials connected U.S. web TV – was a judge and coach connected NBC singing title The Voice for Seasons 26-28, and was a impermanent judge connected Dancing pinch nan Stars successful 2022. Scott, who presents astir of his reno programs pinch identical copy Jonathan, has hosted Property Brothers since 2011. He has appeared connected Dancing pinch nan Stars arsenic a contestant and precocious gusted connected nan last play of HBO drama Hacks alongside his brother.
Hometown Giants is joined connected nan Prime Video Canada 2026/27 slate alongside Surrender (working title), which is simply a endurance bid hosted and exec produced by Scott McGillivray group successful nan Canadian wilderness, and The Pig Farmer: Robert Pickton (working title), a three-part existent crime bid astir nan chilling lawsuit of a Canadian serial slayer who evaded seizure for twelvemonth successful Vancouver. Fantom Pictures is making it successful relation pinch Amazon MGM Studios.
Operation Deception is simply a two-parter astir a a arguable undercover cognition that sent Alain Olivier, a drug-addicted Quebec forestry student, to decease statement successful Thailand successful 1989. Pixcom is making it successful relation pinch Amazon MGM Studios and a trailer is being dropped today. Young Farts Trailer Parts (formerly known arsenic Trailer Trash) is besides dropping a trailer coming up of a world motorboat connected July 17.
Other caller titles see French-language reality bid Heels successful nan Way, which Trio Orange and Amazon MGM Studios are behind. It sees a group of municipality influencers move to nan countryside to unrecorded nan agrarian life. LOL: Qui Rira Le Dernier? Season 5 is nan latest French-Canadian play of drama format LOL: Last One Laughing and nan show’s producer, Attraction, will make a Halloween special.
“Originals slate represents precisely nan benignant of stories Prime Video wants to show – bold, surprising, and unmistakably Canadian,” said Brent Haynes, Head of International Originals, Canada, Amazon MGM Studios.
“Whether it’s Michael Bublé and Drew Scott building teenagers into NHL players, an aggravated endurance bid wherever expectations, extremes and civilized dilemmas are turned connected their head, aliases nan revealing truth down nan hunt for a serial killer, each of these projects is rooted successful our unsocial Canadian perspective. We’re investing successful creatives and formats that consciousness authentic to this state and person nan imaginable to captivate audiences astir nan world.”
Prime Video Canada is besides readying to up its sports offering pinch PWHL, NSWL, and nan motorboat of NBA connected nan streamer from this October arsenic portion of an 11-year world agreement. The 2026 WNBA play launched connected Prime Video connected May 14.
