Fish Out of Water Drama Irreverent, Cyber
Thriller The Undeclared War, and Investigative Drama Series
The Calling Debuts This January
New Seasons of Critically Acclaimed Drama Series
All American and Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's
Butler Return
Coming in 2023, Bel-Air Returns for a New
Season
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TORONTO, Dec. 6, 2022
/CNW/ - Corus Entertainment's top 10 specialty network*,
Showcase has announced today its winter schedule of new
buzzworthy, compelling dramas and returning seasons of fan
favourite series, all available to stream live and on demand with
STACKTV.
Kicking off Showcase's winter slate is fish out of water drama
series Irreverent premiering on Sunday, January 8 at 9
p.m. ET. Irreverent follows a criminal mediator
from Chicago who is forced to flee
his life, and everything he knows, and hide out in a small
Australian reef community in Far North Queensland, posing as the
new church Reverend. "Reverend Mackenzie
Boyd" (not his real name) has made a mess so bad, he can
never go home, but he's going to need all his considerable street
smarts to pull off posing as clergy – something he doesn't know the
first thing about. If he slips up, he's dead, and after a lifetime
of crime, doing good works isn't something that comes
naturally. But in this small beach town, with no phone or
internet, he finds a community filled with people desperate for
connection and crying out for a leader. What at first seems like a
perfect hiding place from the Chicago mob quickly becomes Mack's home. But
as he reluctantly settles into his new life, the Chicago mob commences the hunt. The only way
he'll be able to stay off their radar will be to maintain the
illusion that he is a Reverend. To do that though, Mack will have
to appear to care. Trouble for Mack is, after all that pretending,
it may just become a little bit real. Produced by Matchbox
Pictures, which is a part of Universal International Studios, a
division of Universal Studio Group, the series stars
Colin Donnell, PJ
Byrne, Kylie Bracknell,
Briallen Clarke, Tegan
Stimson, Ed Oxenbould, Wayne Blair, Russell Dykstra, Calen Tassone, and Jason Wilder.
Also joining the lineup is The Calling, a new
drama from Emmy Award®-winning executive producer
David E. Kelley, Academy
Award®-winning director Barry
Levinson, and co-composers Hans
Zimmer and Steve Mazzaro,
which debuts on Monday, January 16
at 9 p.m. ET. The series tells
the story of NYPD Detective Avraham
Avraham (Jeff Wilbusch), whose belief in mankind is
his superpower when it comes to uncovering the truth. Guided by a
deep sense of spirituality and religious principles, Avraham is
left to question his own humanity when a seemingly routine
investigation turns upside down. The Calling also stars
Juliana Canfield,
Karen Robinson and
Michael Mosley. The series is
produced by Keshet Studios, the U.S. production arm of global
content producers and distributor Keshet International, and
Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
The timely and provocative cyber thriller The Undeclared
War, which was directed and co-written by seven-time BAFTA
winner Peter Kosminksy and stars Academy Award® winner
Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, Adrian Lester, Alex Jennings, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and
Hannah
Khalique-Brown, premieres Thursday, January 19 at 9
p.m. ET. Set in 2024, The Undeclared War tracks a
leading team of analysts buried in the heart of GCHQ, secretly
working to ward off a series of cyber-attacks on the UK in the run
up to a general election. When a routine stress test of internet
infrastructure goes awry, 21-year-old GCHQ intern Saara Parvin (Khalique-Brown) suddenly finds
herself operating on the invisible frontier of high-stakes cyber
warfare. In a thrilling cat and mouse game, Saara and the team at
GCHQ must try to stay one step ahead and anticipate their
opponents' every hidden move. The clock is ticking as a battle with
high stakes and unpredictable enemies takes place entirely online,
with very real consequences. But how do you win a war most of the
public don't know you're fighting? The series is co-produced by
Playground and Universal International Studios, a division of
Universal Studio Group.
Returning to the network, critically acclaimed drama series
All American is back for Season 5 on Monday, January 2 at 10
p.m. ET, and finds Spencer and his friends thriving
as young adults on the cusp of real adulthood. This season brings
its fair share of sexy, messy love lives, hard lessons learned on
and off the field, fun college drama, and parties galore. But even
when life gets difficult for our crew, they will always find a way
to rise from the ashes.
DC origin series Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's
Butler picks up again for Season 3 on Wednesday,
January 11 at 9 p.m. ET. The
new season of this psychological thriller begins after a five-year
time jump: The civil war is over, and a cultural revolution has
changed the world for better or worse – ushering in a new age of
superheroes and supervillains.
Following the success of Season 1, last Spring's #1 new
specialty drama** Bel-Air will return for Season
2 in 2023. Produced by Universal Television, a division of
Universal Studio Group, and Westbrook Studios, Bel-Air
imagines the beloved '90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
through a new, dramatic take on Will's complicated journey from the
streets of West Philadelphia to
the gated mansions of Bel-Air. The second season of Bel-Air
picks up with Will at a crossroads in his life as a new figure
comes into his life who challenges what he's learned in Bel-Air and
competes for control of his influence. He juggles this while
navigating his home life with the Banks family and trying to
rebuild the trust that was broken at the end of last season. We'll
also see Hilary evolve as she becomes more of a boss in her
influencer world and how that spills into her relationship with
Jazz, as well as highlight the relatable struggles around Viv and
Phil balancing marriage and family while trying to forge their own
career paths and reconnect to the things that are important to
them.
Showcase can be streamed via STACKTV, available on Amazon
Prime Video Channels, FuboTV, Rogers Ignite TV and Ignite
Streaming. The network is also available through all major TV
distributors, including Bell, Cogeco, Eastlink, Rogers, SaskTel,
Shaw, Shaw Direct, Telus and Videotron.
Source: Numeris PPM Data, Total Canada, A25-54,
AMA(000)//Station rank: Fall'22 STD
(Aug 29 – Nov 6/22) confirmed data,
CDN SPEC COM ENG, M-Su 2a-2a//Program Rank: SP'22 (Jan 3 – May 29/22) 3+ airings, CDN SPEC COM ENG
excluding sports
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