CBC’s Street Legal confirms new and returning cast as production begins

From a media release:

More than 20 years after the original series came to an end, production is now underway on the highly anticipated revival of CBC’s STREET LEGAL (6×60). The reboot of the Canadian series sees Cynthia Dale reprise her role as Olivia Novak, with Cara Ricketts (The Book of Negroes), Steve Lund (Haven) and Yvonne Chapman (The Crossing) joining the series as the next generation of Toronto lawyers fighting the good fight. Original cast members Eric Peterson (“Leon Robinovitch”) and Anthony Sherwood (“Dillon Beck”) are also confirmed to return for special guest appearances. The series starts production this week for a winter 2019 premiere on CBC, the CBC TV streaming app and cbc.ca/watch.

Like the original, the rebooted series will combine cutting-edge storylines with ongoing serialized character development, focused on the people who practice law and the lives they lead both on and off the job.

The award-winning character-driven legal drama picks up 25 years after the original series with Olivia now a partner at a major Bay Street law firm. Beaten to the punch on filing a massive class-action lawsuit by an upstart firm of young social-activist lawyers, Olivia pursues them as an acquisition target. But when her own firm goes down in a flame of egos and departing partners, Olivia finds herself starting over at the boutique firm with new younger colleagues.

A CBC original series, STREET LEGAL is co-produced by IGP and Broken Clown Productions. Bernie Zukerman (Remedy, King) is Executive Producer. Bruce Smith (19-2) is Executive Producer and Showrunner. Cynthia Dale and Rayne Zukerman are Producers. For CBC, Sally Catto is General Manager, Programming; Helen Asimakis is Senior Director, Drama, Scripted Content; and Deborah Nathan is Executive in Charge of Production.

IGP Productions:
A boutique family-run company, IGP is renowned for its high-quality content. IGP produces for all platforms, leans into relevant and insightful content that inspires viewers to think differently. We’ve had success with our interprovincial and international co-productions. We’ve produced the scripted medical series Remedy for Global; the top international export Kinga police procedural for Showcase, and the CBC legal classic This is Wonderland. IGP has also produced a number of features, movies, and mini-series celebrating Canada’s history and its diversity with classics such as John A: The Birth of a Country; Niagara Motel; Victor: The Victor Davis Story; Million Dollar Babies; Conspiracy of Silence and The Many Trials of One Jane Doe. For more information, visit: www.igpproductions.com.

Broken Clown Productions:
Great television starts with great talent and a passion to create. This is the driving principal behind the new Montreal-based independent production company, The Broken Clown Company Inc. / La Compagnie Broken Clown Inc. owned by acclaimed Canadian showrunner, Bruce M. Smith. After years of driving the creative vision of numerous television series, including the award-winning internationally distributed 19-2, Bruce is broadening his vision to produce more internationally marketable television in Quebec. His strong relationships with writers, directors and actors puts him in an enviable position to attract the talent international drama requires. Supported with a leading Quebec-based business team knowledgeable in rights management and financing, The Broken Clown Company is well positioned for success. The company’s first series, Street Legal Reboot for CBC is slated for production in Montreal in the summer of 2018 (in co-production with Indian Grove Productions).

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2 thoughts on “CBC’s Street Legal confirms new and returning cast as production begins”

  1. I welcome this sequel to the original series. Admittedly I was a young kid when my mom watched it back in the day so I only remember bits and pieces about it but I’m glad they are doing this as a sequel series rather than a reboot. I hate reboots and find the idea of a reboot lazy. Charmed for instance, could of done much better as a sequel than a reboot.

  2. My wife and I were 37 and 32, our son was 10 in 1987 when the original Street Legal with it’s dynamite theme music showcasing Toronto and iconic CN Tower, the dynamic cast and crew and the fantastic episodes blasted onto tv sets in Canada, wowing Canadian viewers like never before. The 1980s were exciting times for Canada in many ways including Canadian TV shows. Wikipedia article lists and links 145 shows back then, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1980s_Canadian_television_series

    which included other greats like CODCO, ENG, Street Cents, Alan Thicke, Bits and Bytes, Tommy Hunter, and more, but, Street Legal was by far the ‘flagship’ star of all time.

    Also in 1988 Calgary hosted the Winter Olympics where Canada shone extra bright, proud to be Canadian bursting out all over.

    The economy was booming like it hadn’t since after WWII into the 1960s.

    Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin’s father, was trying valiantly to wrest control and ownership of Canada back from Americans and their global corporations.

    They didn’t like that.

    So they cooked up a plan to make it look like we were succeeding, by pouring billions of our own real money and their manufactured money into the Canadian economy, to set a trap to make sure once and for all that Trudeau’s efforts, and any future efforts would never succeed.

    It all lulled half of Canadians into a false sense of bravado that they felt invincible, and eager to take on the U.S. at it’s own game by voting to sign the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in the Federal Government Election of that year. Then several years later in 1991 supporting expansion with NAFTA, to include Mexico.

    In 1992, now that the U.S. had what it wanted, total power and control of Canada and Mexico, the shit hit the fan, the money stopped, the economy collapsed.

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