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Lady Dicks is a Canadian police drama television series, slated to premiere on CBC Television in 2021. [1] The series stars Meredith MacNeill and Adrienne C. Moore as Samantha and Kelly, a pair of mismatched police detectives. [2]

The cast also includes Karen Robinson, Tara Strong, Dean McDermott, Al Mukadam, Percy Hynes White, Katie Douglas and Ronnie Rowe. [3]

The series was created by Tassie Cameron and Sherry White. [4] The launch of production was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada; during the summer, further, the racial protests associated with the deaths of George Floyd in the United States and Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Canada led Cameron and White to rewrite some of their scripts. [4]

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