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Georges St-Pierre Joins I Kill the Bear After Building an Acting Career Beyond the UFC
Former UFC champion Georges St-Pierre will play a member of the Thibault family in Jared Keeso’s new Crave comedy I Kill the Bear, premiering November 6.
Where Was I Kill the Bear Filmed? Sudbury, Garson and the Northern Ontario Connection
Jared Keeso’s new Crave comedy I Kill the Bear was filmed in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, with provincial production records identifying Garson as the location
Chad Kroeger’s role in I Kill the Bear: What’s known about the Nickelback singer’s Crave appearance
Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger is among the performers in Jared Keeso’s new comedy I Kill the Bear, which premieres on Crave on November 6.
I Kill the Bear: Complete Cast and Character Guide
Jared Keeso’s new Crave comedy I Kill the Bear arrives November 6 with a Canadian ensemble led by Keeso, Georges St-Pierre, Sarah-Maude Beauchesne and Jonathan Torrens.
Jared Keeso’s 49-Episode Crave Deal: I Kill the Bear and What Comes Next
In December 2023, Crave and Toronto-based production company New Metric Media announced a multiyear agreement encompassing 49 new episodes of programming involving Jared Keeso
YAGA Episode 3 recap: Logan's murder, the hidden room and Henry's identity
Baba Yaga returns to a story about a man who arrived at her home looking for shelter
YAGA Episode 2 recap: A dangerous party, a mysterious professor and a body on the beach
Someone has nailed a burning rooster to Charlie Rapp’s hotel room door, and he interprets a message from Henry Park’s phone as a warning to stop looking.
What Was the First Canadian Television Show?
Canada's first regularly operating television station, CBFT in Montréal, officially began service on September 6, 1952
What Was Canada's First Science-Fiction Film?
Canada was making films about astronomy, imagined technology and other unusual possibilities long before Julian Roffman released The Mask in 1961.
Eric Bauza (1979–2026): The Scarborough Artist Who Became the Voice of Looney Tunes
Growing up in Scarborough, Eric Bauza recorded The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show on VHS tapes so he could pause the cartoons and copy the characters into a notepad.
YAGA Episode 1 recap: A missing heir, an identical roommate and a flaming chicken
Baba Yaga has heard what people say about her: she's old and wicked, lives in a hut on chicken feet and eats children.
Ancestral Beasts Review: What We Acknowledge and What We Leave Behind
A story shared online describes a teacher who takes a student's water bottle to the front of a classroom.
Freddie Highmore and David Shore’s I’m Not Here to Hurt You Lists B.C. Production Dates
Freddie Highmore and Canadian television creator David Shore’s new Crave drama, I’m Not Here to Hurt You, has a British Columbia production schedule.
Who Were Canada's First Filmmakers?
On September 3, 1897, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that two men had returned to the city after photographing Manitoba's harvest.
What Makes a Film an International Co-Production? How Canada’s Treaty Rules Work
Laetitia Colombani’s film The Braid had producers in France and Canada. In a May 2022 funding announcement, Telefilm Canada named French companies Moana Films and Curiosa Films alongside Canada’s Forum Films.
The History of Independent Filmmaking in Canada
In 1913, the Halifax-based Canadian Bioscope Company filmed Evangeline in Nova Scotia, adapting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about the Acadian expulsion.
Netflix’s Below reaches 38.2 million views as Newfoundland weighs its success — and a possible Season 2
Netflix’s Newfoundland-set thriller Below has spent two consecutive weeks atop Netflix’s global English-language television chart, generating a reported 38.2 million equivalent full-series views between October 8 and 18. Its 21.2 million views in the second chart week set a new single-week record for a Canadian Netflix original title, according to the streamer.
YAGA episode release schedule: When do new episodes arrive on Crave?
Crave’s YAGA premieres in Canada on Friday, October 23, 2026, with two episodes. The eight-part mystery thriller will then release one episode each Friday before ending with another two-episode drop on November 27.
Below Episode 6 finale recap: “The Unfathering Deep” brings Calvin back to the sea
After everything that happened at Little Pot Rock, Calvin and Wade are back on a boat together, surrounded by blue water beneath a blue sky.
Alberta Kills review: Seven Alberta horror shorts bring revenge, paranoia and sleepless nights to NorthwestFEARFest
Seven Alberta-made horror shorts screened under the title Alberta Kills at NorthwestFEARFest on October 18, with a program that moved from a two-minute comedy to a teenage revenge ritual and the nightmares of a young man caught in sleep paralysis.