EXCLUSIVE: Canada‘s CBC has renewed five series, including new procedural hit Saint-Pierre, with entertainment chief Sally Cato vowing the pubcaster would “continue to showcase homegrown storytelling.”
Saint-Pierre will return for a second season after becoming CBC’s most-watched new series of the year, according to Numeris TV Meter and CBC’s own analysis, and will be joined by two more seasons of Wild Cards and new runs for Allegiance, Heartland and Murdoch Mysteries.
The news comes as CBC/Radio-Canada gears up for a boost to its budget following the victory of Mark Carney’s Liberals in Tuesday’s federal election. On the campaign trail, Carney had pledged C$150M ($109M) to strengthen local news output and promote both English- and French-language media on the public broadcaster and producers will be hoping he makes good on that.
Made by Hawco Productions in association with Fifth Season, Saint-Pierre stars Alan Hawco and Josephine Jobert, who play seasoned police officers with very different styles who are forced together to solve crimes in the French territory of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon.
The setting is known as one of the most remote locations in the world, only accessible via a 90-minute ferry from a nearby island or a nine-hour flight from Paris. Deadline wrote that it “grabs the award for the cop show in the most remote location when we featured it in our MIPCOM Hot Ones back in October, as Fifth Season took it out to market.
The new season will run to twelve episodes, with Fifth Season once again shopping the show, which was created by Hawco, Robina Lord-Stafford and Perry Chafe.
Wild Cards, meanwhile, has landed Seasons 3 and 4, both running to ten episodes. The show – made by Blink49 Studios, Front Street Pictures and Piller/Segan in association with The CW – is a blue sky procedural with a comedic twist following a by-the-book cop (Giacomo Gianniotti) and a spirited con woman (Vanessa Morgan), who are partnered together to solve crimes. Set and shot in Vancouver, it comes from Michael Konyves, who won the 2025 DGC Screenwriting Award in Drama for the show, and is sold internationally by Fifth Season.
Allegiance is also getting a third season. The character-driven police procedural from Anar Ali (Transplant) set in Surrey, British Columbia, centers around identity and belonging, policing and politics and justice. Supinder Wraich plays the lead character in the series, which has been nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards. Lark Productions is the producer, in association with Universal International Studios. Season 2 will run to ten episodes.
Heartland, set around the foothills of Alberta, will return for a nineteenth seasons. The multi-generation family dramas, based on Lauren Brooke’s books, follows a family as they deal with the challenges of running the Heartland Ranch. Michelle Morgan is up for Best Lead Performer at the Canadian Screen Awards for her role as Amy Fleming. Dynamo Films and Seven24 Films make the show.
Murdoch Mysteries, one of Canada’s biggest-selling scripted series globally, is also getting a nineteenth season, this time comprising 21 episdoes. The show is set in early 1900s Toronto, where Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) uses innovative forensic techniques to solve the city’s most perplexing murders. Shaftesbury produces in association with ITV Studios, with both companies selling the show.
“With the renewal of these five hit dramas offering compelling characters, unique stories and a strong sense of place from different regions across Canada, CBC will continue to showcase homegrown storytelling that audiences can’t find anywhere else,” said Catto, who is CBC’s General Manager, Entertainment, Factual & Sports.
