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Genre | Time travel |
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Based on | Plan B |
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Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
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Network | CBC |
Release | February 27, 2023 – present |
Plan B is a Canadian television drama series, that premiered on CBC Television on February 27, 2023. [1] [2]
An adaptation of the French-language Québécois series Plan B which premiered on Ici Radio-Canada Télé in 2017, the series is an anthology centred on a mysterious agency that allows people to travel back in time to change their lives, with each season telling a different self-contained story.
The first season stars Patrick J. Adams as Phillip, a man who is offered the opportunity to go back in time to make different choices in life to salvage his marriage to Evelyn (Karine Vanasse) and his career after a major personal setback. [3]
The second season will star Vinessa Antoine as Mia Coleman, a police officer who wants to change her actions after her intervention in a domestic dispute between Paul (Vincent Leclerc) and Keri (Sarah Booth) Whitman goes disastrously wrong. [4] The second season of the English series is adapted from the third, rather than the second, season of the French series, [5] and will see two actors, Leclerc and Patrick Emmanuel Abellard as Mia's police partner, reprise the same roles they played in French. [6]
No. | Title [7] | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [7] |
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1 | Episode 1 | Maxime Giroux | Teleplay by : Lynne Kamm & Jean-François Asselin Story by : Bruce Smith | February 27, 2023 |
2 | Episode 2 | Maxime Giroux | Teleplay by : Lynne Kamm & Jean-François Asselin Story by : Bruce Smith | March 6, 2023 |
3 | Episode 3 | Aisling Chin-Yee | Lynne Kamm | March 20, 2023 |
4 | Episode 4 | Aisling Chin-Yee | Teleplay by : Lynne Kamm & Jean-François Asselin Story by : Bruce Smith | March 27, 2023 |
5 | Episode 5 | Aisling Chin-Yee | Lynne Kamm | April 3, 2023 |
6 | Episode 6 | Jean-François Asselin | Teleplay by : Bruce Smith and Lynne Kamm & Jean-François Asselin & Jacques Drolet Story by : Bruce Smith | April 10, 2023 |
The series is produced by KOTV, directed by Jean-François Asselin, Aisling Chin-Yee, and Maxime Giroux. The English adaptation was written by Lynne Kamm; the co-creators of the original French-language series are Jean Francois Asselin and Jacques Drolet. [3] [8]
On September 22, 2023, CBC announced the second season of Plan B. [9]
In June 2022, the casting of Patrick J. Adams and Karine Vanasse in the lead roles was announced. [10] In August 2022, it was announced that François Arnaud, Josh Close and Troian Bellisario would be joining the cast in undisclosed roles. [8]
International distribution rights to the series have been acquired by Seven.One Studios through Red Arrow Studios International. [11]
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