Plan B (2023 TV series)

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Plan B
Genre Time travel
Created by
  • Jean-François Asselin
  • Jacques Drolet
Based on Plan B  [ fr ]
Starring
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Production companies
Original release
Network CBC
ReleaseFebruary 27, 2023 (2023-02-27) 
present (present)

Plan B is a Canadian television drama series, that premiered on CBC Television on February 27, 2023. [1] [2]

Contents

An adaptation of the French-language Québécois series Plan B  [ fr ] 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.

Premise

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]

Cast

Main (Season 1)

Main (Season 2)

Episodes

No.Title [7] Directed byWritten byOriginal air date [7]
1Episode 1 Maxime Giroux Teleplay by: Lynne Kamm & Jean-François Asselin
Story by: Bruce Smith
February 27, 2023 (2023-02-27)
2Episode 2Maxime GirouxTeleplay by: Lynne Kamm & Jean-François Asselin
Story by: Bruce Smith
March 6, 2023 (2023-03-06)
3Episode 3 Aisling Chin-Yee Lynne KammMarch 20, 2023 (2023-03-20)
4Episode 4Aisling Chin-YeeTeleplay by: Lynne Kamm & Jean-François Asselin
Story by: Bruce Smith
March 27, 2023 (2023-03-27)
5Episode 5Aisling Chin-YeeLynne KammApril 3, 2023 (2023-04-03)
6Episode 6Jean-François AsselinTeleplay by: Bruce Smith and Lynne Kamm & Jean-François Asselin & Jacques Drolet
Story by: Bruce Smith
April 10, 2023 (2023-04-10)

Production

Development

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]

Casting

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]

Broadcast

International distribution rights to the series have been acquired by Seven.One Studios through Red Arrow Studios International. [11]

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