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“The Continental” is an event series revealing the violent origins of the iconic hotel-for-assassins in the John Wick universe. Set in 1970s NYC, Winston Scott recruits a team to take on a vast conspiracy triggered by his brother’s attack on The Continental. The bloody action drama explores the collision of family love, fate, and revenge.

Genre: Crime drama / thriller
No. of Seasons: 3-Part Miniseries
Status: Series premiered September 22, 2023
Canadian Broadcast: Amazon Prime Video Canada

COMEDY

A real estate agent, a plumber and a former tennis star seize a unique opportunity to profit from America’s obsession with crime and sordid events.

Genre: Comedy thriller
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Series premiered September 11, 2023 (CAN)
Canadian Broadcast: W Network

Four casino employees in a dead-end job in middle America attempt to find self-worth in their bad ideas.

Genre: Comedy
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Series premiered May 31, 2022
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

Detective Inspectors Major and Carver are the top crime-fighting duo at the Met Police’s Special Investigation Unit until Major is gunned down on the job; in an experimental artificial intelligence project, Major is brought back from the dead.

Genre: Comedy-drama
No. of Seasons: 2
Status: Renewed for a Third season; premiere TBA
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

When a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 1990s gets sampled by a young rapper, its members reunite to give their pop star dreams one more shot – this time while balancing spouses, kids, jobs, debt, aging parents and shoulder pain.

Genre: Musical comedy
No. of Seasons: 2
Status: Renewed for a Third season; premiere TBA
Canadian Broadcast: Netflix

Best friends Jamie (Mel Giedroyc) and Fran (Sue Perkins) are trying to make their way in the world with only each other to rely on. They also just happen to kill people for a living. Fueled by their hilarious antics and frivolous bickering, each job inevitably gets derailed, leading them into bizarre misadventures, full of oddball characters and unexpected dilemmas.

Genre: Comedy
No. of Seasons: 2
Status: Second season premiered January 9, 2022
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

Craig Robinson stars as an underdog pursuing the American Dream, facing relatable – yet absurd – obstacles in order to make it big. This hilarious new series highlights the insanity of today’s get-rich-or-die-trying culture.

Genre: Comedy
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Renewed for a Second season; premiere TBA
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

After rotting in prison for over a decade, America’s ultimate hero and uber patriot MacGruber is finally released. His mission: to take down a mysterious villain from his past—Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth. With the entire world in the crosshairs, MacGruber must race against time to defeat the forces of evil — only to find that evil may be lurking within.

Genre: Action / Comedy
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Series premiered January 9, 2022
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

Based on the Pitch Perfect film franchise, the series features Adam Devine reprising his role as Bumper Allen from the first two movies. Set several years after his last appearance in Pitch Perfect, the series follows Bumper Allen as he moves to Germany to revive his music career after one of his songs becomes a big hit in Berlin.

Genre: Comedy
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Cancelled after 1 season
Canadian Broadcast: W Network

Pete Davidson plays a heightened, fictional version of himself, navigating his daily life as a celebrity.

Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Renewed for a Second season; premiere TBA
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

A multi-generational, coming-of-age love story disguised as a fast-paced mystery about the disappointment of time. An anniversary trip puts a marriage to the test when the couple finds themselves embroiled in one of the Yucatan’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries that took place fifteen years prior.

Genre: Comedy
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Series premiered September 11, 2022
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

We Are Lady Parts is an anarchic, joyful and irreverent music comedy following a Muslim female punk band – called Lady Parts – who are on a mission to find a lead guitarist and maybe, just maybe, get a proper gig.

Genre: Comedy
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Renewed for a Second season; premiere TBA
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

DRAMA

Set in modern-day America, BEL-AIR is a serialized one-hour dramatic analogue of the 90’s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air that leans into the original premise: Will’s complicated journey from the streets of West Philadelphia to the gated mansions of Bel-Air.

Genre: Drama
No. of Seasons: 2
Status: Renewed for a Third season; premiere TBA
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

A sinister doctor (Joshua Jackson) treats his Hippocratic Oath about the same way he treats his patients, while two fellow surgeons (Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin) and a young Assistant District Attorney set out to stop him.

Genre: Crime drama / Anthology
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Renewed for a Second season; premiere TBA
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

Five Bedrooms tells the story of five people at different times of their lives. They bond after they find themselves seated together at the singles table at a wedding. After a few too many drinks, the solution to all of their problems seems to be buying a house together; a five bedroom house

Genre: Drama
No. of Seasons: 4
Status: Fourth season premiered August 31, 2023
Canadian Broadcast: W Network

A criminal from Chicago is forced to hide out in Far North Queensland and pose as a church reverend.

Genre: Crime drama
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Series premiered January 8, 2023
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

A nun goes to battle against an all-powerful Artificial Intelligence known as “Mrs. Davis.”

Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Series premiered April 20, 2023
Canadian Broadcast: Crave / CTV Sci-fi Channel

One man’s bizarre story of betrayal and his ultimate transformation “from wimp to warrior.”

Genre: Documentary / drama
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Series premiered January 1, 2023
Canadian Broadcast: Citytv+

Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying, solves strange crimes.

Genre: Drama
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Renewed for a Second season; premiere TBA
Canadian Broadcast: Citytv+

NYPD detective Avraham Avraham is left to question his own humanity during an investigation.

Genre: Crime drama
No. of Seasons: 1
Status: Series premiered January 16, 2023
Canadian Broadcast: Showcase

When soldier Shaun Emery’s (Callum Turner) conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man. However, Shaun’s life takes a shocking turn when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light. DI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) who is investigating Shaun’s case quickly learns that the truth can sometimes be a matter of perspective in a troubling world of “deepfakes.”

Genre: Crime drama
No. of Seasons: 2
Status: Second season premiered August 27, 2022
Canadian Broadcast: Amazon Prime Video Canada

When a man is stuck reliving a day, he is recruited for the Lazarus Project, a secret organization that has harnessed the ability to turn back time every time the world is at threat of extinction.