TORONTO — CBC announced today production on season three of its hit original drama series Coroner has started in Toronto. The series is produced by Muse Entertainment, Back Alley Films and Cineflix Studios.
Inspired by the best-selling series of books by M.R. Hall, Coroner is created for television by Morwyn Brebner (Saving Hope, Rookie Blue) and stars Serinda Swan (Inhumans, Ballers) as coroner Dr. Jenny Cooper.
Joining the cast this season are Mark Taylor (Flashpoint) as Clark, a crown attorney working with Jenny on a new inquest, and Uni Park (Kim’s Convenience) as Melanie, the coroner office’s new pathologist. Returning cast members include Roger Cross (Dark Matter, Caught) as Detective Donovan McAvoy, Éric Bruneau (Goalie, Blue Moon) as Liam, Ehren Kassam (Degrassi, Next Class) as Jenny’s son Ross, and Nicholas Campbell (Da Vinci’s Inquest, Bad Blood) as Jenny’s father Gordon Cooper.
The series will run to 10 one-hour episodes this season and is scheduled to debut on CBC and CBC Gem in winter 2021.
“We are ecstatic to be returning to Coroner for season three! It has been no small feat to resume production amidst this pandemic, and we are truly grateful to the CBC for their support,” said showrunner Brebner and lead director and executive producer Adrienne Mitchell, in the news release.
Coroner was the highest-rated new drama series premiere on CBC in more than four years when it premiered in Canada in winter 2018, according to the news release. Following that, NBCUniversal International Networks (NBCUIN) acquired the rights to all three seasons of the series for multiple territories from global distributor Cineflix Rights. The third season will premiere across NBCUIN’s channel portfolio in Sub-Saharan Africa, France, Spain, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Latin America and Brazil. In Germany, season three will premiere on 13th Street. The CW Network launched season one of Coroner in the U.S. earlier this summer to strong ratings, with season two set for a fall primetime slot. In the UK, Coroner premieres on Sky Witness, with season two currently on air and season three to follow next year. Cineflix Rights has also sold the series to the UK’s Channel 4 for its More 4 channel.
