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EXCLUSIVE: The casts of the groundbreaking series Fresh Off The Boat and Kim’s Convenience are uniting for a one-night only special event which will feature the cast members from both shows doing live online table reads of the pilots of their respective shows, in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month…

The end is in sight for all-female sketch series Baroness Von Sketch Show. Co-creators Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne and Jennifer Whalen announced today that their acclaimed series will return for its fifth and final season this fall. The series’ eight-episode final season was filmed in Toronto last…

Canadian legal drama series Diggstown has been added to BET+’s original programming lineup. In a deal with eOne, BET+ acquired the six-part series, starring Vinessa Antoine. Created by Floyd Kane (Across the Line), Diggstown follows Marcie Diggs (Antoine), a lawyer who leaves her high-powered corporate job to work for…

Orange Is The New Black's Adrienne C. Moore and Baroness von Sketch Show's Meredith MacNeill are to star in detective drama Lady Dicks for Canada's CBC and NBCUniversal International Studios. The pair will play two radically different female detectives in their early 40s in the ten-part series co-created by Rookie Blue…

Forget “Kevin’s not here.” More like, “Where’s Donald Trump?” Canada’s public broadcaster took it upon itself to excise Trump’s cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York for its Christmas Eve airing of the 1992 holiday hit. The CBC said in a statement to ComicBook.com today that the edit was made in the interest of…

UPDATED with joint statement from CBC/Netflix: There will be no fourth season for Anne With an E. Netflix and Canadian broadcaster CBC have opted not to move forward with a fourth season of the praised drama series from Northwood Entertainment. The third and final season will premiere January 3 on Netflix. Series…

Sandra Oh is to narrate a feature-length documentary about three women who went into the jungles of Africa and Borneo to live with great apes. She Walks With Apes, for Canada's CBC, features Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, who was the subject of Brett Morgen's Nat Geo doc Jane. The film is a…

The BBC and Canada's CBC have struck a major co-production agreement to develop projects across genres including drama and documentaries. The two broadcasters struck the deal at the 82nd General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union in Oslo, Norway last week and it was signed by Tony Hall, Director-General BBC…

Covert Affairs' Kari Matchett and True Blood's Stephen Moyer are to star in Canadian spy drama Fortunate Son. The series, which is set in the social and political chaos of the late 1960s, is produced by NBCUniversal-backed Lark Productions and Wynonna Earp producer Seven24Films for CBC. Matchett, who has also featured…

Canadian public broadcaster CBC and Australian public broadcaster ABC have struck a major deal to co-develop and co-produce drama, comedy, non-scripted and children's programming. The deal was unveiled at the Banff World Media Festival. It is a three-year agreement and builds on the fact that CBC has previously…

Canadian public broadcaster CBC has rolled out a streaming service that will offer more than 4,000 hours of live and on-demand programming including the exclusive launch of Netflix co-production Northern Rescue. The William Baldwin and Kathleen Robertson-fronted drama is one of a number of new titles for CBC Gem…

Canadian national broadcaster CBC has picked up drama series Butterfly, starring Anna Friel (Marcella), from Fremantle. The Red Productions mini-series, which follows the story of an 11-year old boy who wants to live life as a girl, will launch on CBC in late winter 2019. Created and penned by BAFTA-winning…