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Samantha Bee will play Canada’s unorthodox ambassador to Bulgaria successful a drama for pubcaster nan CBC.
The Ambassador was announced this greeting astatine CBC’s upfront, on pinch caller bid from nan exec shaper of Cardinal and Snowpiercer, and nan creators of Norsemen and producers of Lilyhammer and Letterkenny, and a play based connected lucky prima P.K. Subban.
Coming from Son of a Critch showrunner Tim McAuliffe, half-hour workplace drama The Ambassador will prima former Full Frontal pinch Samantha Bee presenter and Daily Show correspondent Bee arsenic Olivia Winters, a erstwhile character turned diplomat astatine nan Canadian embassy successful Bulgaria. Along pinch her puerility champion friend Andrea Taylor (Allana Harkin), a sharp, policy-driven diplomat, Olivia has to trust connected instinct, chaotic brilliance and uniquely Canadian workarounds to punch supra their weight.
Amaze Film & Television is making nan ten-part series, pinch McAuliffe exec producing alongside Teza Lawrence and Michael Souther.
Another caller drama is The Posse, an eight-parter from New Metric Media and Norway’s Rubicon TV. The Canadian-Norwegian co-production for CBC and NRK follows a spoiled Norwegian mill heir from nan 1800s, who forces a group of reluctant underlings to nan American Wild West to stitchery worldly for his novel. They accidentally onshore themselves successful superior problem connected nan tally from nan rule and are forced to trust connected a charismatic but untrustworthy Canadian guideline arsenic conflict their measurement crossed nan wilderness toward Vancouver, and what they dream will beryllium a measurement backmost location to safety.
Norsemen and Captain Fall creators Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgerson are nan creators, board and exec producers. Mark Montefiore is exec shaper for Letterkenny shaper New Metric, pinch Lana Maclin and Max Wolfond producing. Rubicon’s Ivar Køhn is exec producing, pinch Gudny Hummelvoll producing, and Sarah Babineau and erstwhile Comedy Central main Kent Alterman besides exec nutrient done Good Walk Entertainment. New Metric has worldwide distribution authorities pinch Rubicon handling Scandinavia.
Cardinal showrunner Aubrey Nealon is down The Service, an eight-part drama from Sphere Media group successful nan world of Canadian espionage. It follows idealist Drew and realist Mia, who activity astatine nan Toronto agency of nan Canadian Security Intelligence Service and neglect to recognize they are falling successful love.
The comedies will beryllium alongside Committed, nan co-production pinch BBC Northern Ireland we first told you astir past month.
New dramas
On nan play front, Cold Country will beryllium a six-part constricted bid from Sphere. The co-pro pinch APTN comes from creators and showrunners Shane Belcourt and Tasha Hubbard, who besides nonstop alongside Danis Goulet. Sarah Podemski, Chaske Spencer and Michael Greyeyes will star.
Junior, from Conquering Lion Pictures, Heavy Lifting Productions and Lionsgate Canada, is an eight-parter inspired by erstwhile crystal lucky prima P.K. Subban’s experience. The coming-of-age play will travel an electrifying, fiercely assured Black teen who finds nan cutthroat business of inferior lucky threatens to break him arsenic his prima rises.
Kyle Hart is nan creator and nan exec producers see Subban, Conquering Lion’s Damon D’Oliveria and Clement Virgo, Heavy Lifting’s Michael Rotenberg and Trevor Rotenberg, and Lionsgate’s Jocelyn Hamilton and Kerry Appleyard. Lionsgate Television has world distribution.
Sphere is besides making Blessed Sacrament alongside Debut Content. The ten-part bid follows nan Blessing sisters – surgeon Peg (Kathleen Robertson) and administrator Amelia, arsenic they prevention lives astatine a infirmary nether nan watchful oculus of their mother, CEO Margaret. Robertson (Boss) is nan creator, showrunner, exec shaper and star, pinch Chris Cowes nan exec producer.
