Cover Me (Canadian TV series)

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Cover Me
Genre Thriller
Written byPeter Lauterman
Directed by
  • Stacey Stewart Curtis
  • Marc F. Voizard
Starring
Country of originCanada
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Production companies
  • Alliance Atlantis Communications
  • Power Pictures
  • Serendipity Point Films
Release
Original network CBC Television
Original release26 September (1999-09-26) 
28 September 1999 (1999-09-28)

Cover Me is a Canadian television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1999. It starred Colin Ferguson, Caroline Neron, Jackie Burroughs and Philip Craig.

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Premise

The Ottawa Citizen described the series as, "A clear-eyed, right-wing, steak-and-potatoes Calgary Mountie is teamed up with a tempestuous, sophisticated, chain-smoking Montreal séparatiste, who also happens to be a CSIS agent. They fight international terrorism when not fighting each other." [1]

Cast

Production

The series was the first production from Serendipity films, which was formed by Montreal-native Robert Lantos when he sold Alliance to Atlantis to form Alliance Atlantis. [2]

Reception

Richard Helm of The Edmonton Journal described the series as "laughably awful", adding that "...Cover Me also stands as a cautionary tale about what can happen when a broadcaster wades into a populist TV genre with which it's totally unfamiliar." [3]

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References

  1. Tony Atherton (September 25, 1999). "Cover Me: A Canadian TV Challenge". The Ottawa Citizen . p. E3 via Newspapers.com.
  2. Mike Boone (September 26, 1999). "Sex, spies, straight arrow". The Gazette . Montreal, Canada. p. C7 via Newspapers.com.
  3. Richard Helm (September 23, 1999). "CBC's laughable espionage series, Cover Me, needs a good stiff zap". The Edmonton Journal . p. C1 via Newspapers.com.