TORONTO — Amazon’s Prime Video announced today the new Canadian Amazon Original series The Sticky — an English-language, Quebec-set episodic comedy series inspired by the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist” that made headlines around the world in 2011.
The true-crime heist involved the theft of more than $18 million of Quebec’s maple syrup reserves, which represented more than 70% of the global maple syrup supply at the time.
The half-hour series The Sticky is scheduled to start filming in Montreal in late fall and, once completed, it will be available exclusively on Prime Video on 240 countries and territories worldwide, says a press release.
The Sticky revolves around Ruth Clarke, “a tough, supremely competent middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. Especially now that that very bureaucracy is threatening to take away everything she loves: Her farm, her comatose husband, and her right to freedom,” reads a description in the release.
With the help of pint-sized local blockhead Remy Bouchard and low-level mobster Mike Byrne, “Ruth changes her fate — and transforms the future of her community with the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of maple syrup,” the release says.
The Sticky is being produced by Blumhouse founder and CEO Jason Blum’s independent studio Blumhouse Television, Jonathan Levine’s Megamix, Jamie Lee Curtis’ Comet Pictures, and Canadian producers Sphere Media.
Brian Donovan and Ed Herro (Little Darlings) co-wrote the pilot script and will executive produce and co-showrun the series with co-showrunner and executive producer Kathryn Borel (Anne with an E). Jonathan Levine (Nine Perfect Strangers) will direct and also executive produce the series.
“We are thrilled to be working with this incredible lineup of talent behind the scenes to bring this story to life,” Christina Wayne, head of Originals, Canada at Amazon Studios, said in the release. “The Amazon Studios team in Canada couldn’t resist these characters and a story centred on delicious stolen goods is perfect for our Prime Video audience.”
Prime Video also announced today the brand-new Canadian Amazon Original series The Kids in the Hall will premiere exclusively on Prime Video on May 13.
“The iconic Canadian comedy troupe — Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson — is back with a new season of their groundbreaking sketch series, featuring a fresh batch of fun offbeat characters and beloved favourites, with sketches that pack a satirical punch, laced with the hilarious, edgy, and fearless comedy The Kids are famous for,” reads a separate press release.
The Kids in the Hall is produced by Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video and Canadian production company Project 10. The series is created, written and executive produced by Foley, McCulloch, McDonald, McKinney, and Thompson, with executive producers also including Michaels, Britta von Schoeler, and Andy Garland for Broadway Video, Andrew Barnsley and Ben Murray for Project 10, and Garry Campbell. Kelly Makin and Julie Klausner are co-executive producers. Mark Valdez serves as producer for Broadway Video. Other producers include Jen Goodhue, Colin Brunton, Jen Kirkman, Matt Watts, and Norm Hiscock.
Prime Video also released two trailers for the new The Kids in the Hall series, which can be seen here and here.
Screenshot of The Kids in the Hall via Prime.
