Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson will reprise their roles from Canadian procedural Non-public Eyes in a spin-off collection, 4 years after the collection got here to an finish.
Non-public Eyes West Coast will see non-public investigators Matt Shade (Priestley) and Angie Everett (Sampson) fixing instances in Victoria, British Columbia. Now main completely different lives to their Toronto crime combating days, they encounter a world of various instances together with a brand new group of associates.
Additional element on casting, begin of manufacturing and storyline might be introduced “at a later date.” Honest to say the collection will nearly definitely retain the comedy-drama tone of the unique present.
Lionsgate Canada and Piller/Segan are making it for Corus Leisure community International, reuniting the trio 4 yr after the tip of Non-public Eyes, which ran from 2016 to 2021. Liongate Tv will deal with worldwide gross sales on West Coast, with the unique having been a stable vendor for the studio.
Shawn Piller and Lloyd Segan – whose credit embrace Non-public Eyes, CBC and The CW collection Wild Playing cards and variations of Stephen King’s novels Haven and The Useless Zone – are producing. Corus Leisure is the commissioning broadcaster with Corus Studios’ Rachel Nelson, VP, Unique Programming and Head of Corus Studios, and Lynne Carter, Director, Unique Programming, overseeing the manufacturing.
“This marks the primary time Corus has greenlit a derivative of certainly one of our homegrown scripted collection,” stated Rachel Nelson, VP, Unique Programming and Head of Corus Studios. “Non-public Eyes resonated so deeply with viewers at residence and overseas, and alongside our valued manufacturing companions, we’re so excited to see Shade and Angie now on the attractive coast of British Columbia.”
The unique collection starred Priestly as a former hockey participant who teamed with tough-talking P.I. Angie Everett (Cindy Sampson) to kind an unlikely investigative powerhouse. Within the U.S., it ran on the now Ion Community following a 2017 cope with eOne, which was later acquired by fellow Canada-based firm Lionsgate.
