Plan B (2023 TV series)
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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.
An adaptation of the French-language Québécois series Plan BIci 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.
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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.
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. The second season of the English series is adapted from the third, rather than the second, season of the French series, and will see two actors, Leclerc and Patrick Emmanuel Abellard as Mia's police partner, reprise the same roles they played in French.
Cast
Main (Season 1)
- Patrick J. Adams as Phillip Grimmer (Original French: Louis Morissette as Philippe Girard)
- Karine Vanasse as Evelyn Landry (Original French: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Évelyne Lalonde)
- François Arnaud as Patrick Landry (Original French: Émile Proulx-Cloutier as Patrick Lalonde)
- Josh Close as Andy Tremblay (Original French: Fabien Cloutier as André Dumais)
- Troian Bellisario as Miranda Delano (Original French: Julie Le Breton as Marie Denoncourt)
Main (Season 2)
- Vinessa Antoine as Mia Coleman (Original French: Anne-Élisabeth Bossé as Mylène Clermont)
- Vincent Leclerc as Paul Whitman (Original French: Vincent Leclerc as Bruno Bernier)
- Sarah Booth as Keri Whitman (Original French: Mélanie Pilon as Caroline Nadeau)
- Patrick Emmanuel Abellard as Tyler (Original French: Patrick Emmanuel Abellard as Patrick Grimard)
- Rossif Sutherland as Bryson (Original French: Pierre-Luc Brillant as Guillaume Raymond)
Episodes
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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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 |
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.
On September 22, 2023, CBC announced the second season of Plan B.
Casting
In June 2022, the casting of Patrick J. Adams and Karine Vanasse in the lead roles was announced. In August 2022, it was announced that François Arnaud, Josh Close and Troian Bellisario would be joining the cast in undisclosed roles.
Broadcast
International distribution rights to the series have been acquired by Seven.One Studios through Red Arrow Studios International.