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A Tribe Called Love comes to Crave on Oct 8, 2026
Canadian feature A Tribe Called Love begins streaming on Crave on Oct 8, 2026, bringing Mohamed Ahmed’s Toronto-set romance to the service after its festival and theatrical runs.
Hudson & Rex Season 9 premieres on Citytv: time, returning cast and where to watch
Hudson & Rex returns for Season 9 on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Citytv, with John Reardon back as Detective Charlie Hudson. Rogers Sports & Media has ordered 12 episodes for the new season.
Is Snooks Arm in Netflix’s BELOW real? What happened to Newfoundland’s Snook’s Arm
Snooks Arm in Netflix’s BELOW is fictional. There is, however, a real Newfoundland community usually written Snook’s Arm in Statistics Canada and provincial records, and its relocation history overlaps with the broader resettlement history creator Jesse McKeown has drawn on for the series.
Who is in the cast of Netflix’s BELOW? Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis and the Penney family
Netflix’s Below centres on fisherman Calvin Penney and his family in the Newfoundland community of Snooks Arm.
Where was Netflix’s BELOW filmed? The Newfoundland locations behind Snooks Arm
Netflix’s Below was filmed in Newfoundland in 2025. The strongest records support St. John’s and the surrounding metro area, Brigus South and Pouch Cove as production locations, while provincial documents tie the production more specifically to Brigus South Harbour and planned filming at Marine Park in Pouch Cove
Heartland Season 20 premieres today: when and where to watch in Canada
Heartland returns for Season 20 on Sunday, Oct. 4, with the premiere available to Canadian viewers on CBC Gem at 7 p.m. ET and on CBC television in its Sunday 7 p.m. local-time slot.
What is All Heart: A Rugby Story? Crave’s Canadian rugby docuseries arrives Oct. 9
Crave will release all four episodes of All Heart: A Rugby Story on Oct. 9, giving viewers the full four-part documentary at once rather than on a weekly schedule. Each episode runs 30 minutes.
Private Eyes West Coast Episode 1 recap: ‘Changing Tides’ brings Shade and Angie back to work
Global’s Private Eyes West Coast begins its new Victoria chapter with “Changing Tides,” the Sept. 30 premiere of the Private Eyes spinoff.
Toronto Film School alum Zain Duraie’s Sink returns to Toronto as Jordan’s Oscar submission
Zain Duraie’s debut feature Sink returns to Toronto on Oct. 1 after being selected as Jordan’s official submission for consideration in the International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards.
Narco Mennonites Episode 1 recap: “This Mennonite Is a Drug Dealer”
I knew almost nothing about Narco Mennonites before starting it.
Anna Pigeon Episode 3 Recap: ‘The Preacher’
Anna Pigeon Episode 3, “The Preacher,” opens with a bank robbery, but not the kind where someone storms in waving a gun and screaming at everyone to get on the floor.
Northern Ontario is building the workforce to keep film and TV production in the North
In the summer of 2022, Northern Ontario had a problem created partly by its own success.
Jay Odjick talks Indigenous representation as Amanda Strong’s Inkwo screens at Library and Archives Canada
Jay Odjick remembers looking for Indigenous people in the comics he read growing up and finding few characters who resembled anyone he knew.
OIAF at 50: More than two dozen of its Canadian favourites come from the NFB
When programmers at the Ottawa International Animation Festival began looking through the Canadian films screened during the festival's first 50 years, they had more than 700 to consider and eventually chose 50.
From Ice Cove to Snooks Arm: Netflix’s New Canadian Screen Geography
Ice Cove doesn't exist, although much of what viewers see around it does. North of North is set in a fictional Nunavut community, but the Netflix comedy was filmed in Iqaluit, where local residents appeared on screen, worked with the production and took part in a mentorship program that provided experience in television production.
On this day in 1976: Joyce Wieland’s The Far Shore was released
Library and Archives Canada records Sept. 24, 1976 as the release date for Joyce Wieland's The Far Shore, a 105-minute Canadian feature that took a filmmaker known for experimental cinema into period melodrama.
Canadian creature features: Why Below is interesting
In Netflix’s Below, fisherman Calvin Penney lives in Snooks Arm, Newfoundland, where the local way of life is changing and an unidentified creature has begun terrorizing the community from the water.
Megan Follows joins Netflix’s This Summer Will Be Different, another P.E.I. story four decades after Anne of Green Gables
Four decades after Megan Follows starred as Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables, Netflix has cast her in another screen story tied to Prince Edward Island.
North Bay-shot Foreign Tongue returns to Northern Ontario for Cinéfest Sudbury
Boris Mojsovski’s Foreign Tongue spent three weeks filming in North Bay early last year.
Northern Ontario-shot werewolf western Last Moon heads to Cinéfest Sudbury gala
Brandon D. Cox’s first feature, Last Moon, arrives at Cinéfest Sudbury on Sept. 24 after filming in Powassan, Ontario, last summer. The period werewolf Western has been selected for the festival’s Thursday gala presentation.