CBC Gem exclusive Normal People to premiere May 27; viewership up 43%

TORONTO — CBC announced Friday the 12-part BBC/Hulu series Normal People will premiere in Canada exclusively on the free CBC Gem streaming service on Wednesday, May 27. Normal People (12x30) is based on Sally Rooney’s best-selling, coming-of-age novel and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (War of the Worlds, Cold Feet) and newcomer Paul Mescal. The series recently launched in the U.K. and the U.S. and has been touted as one of the best book-to-series adaptations in recent years. The series tracks the complicated relationship of Marianne (Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Mescal) from the end of their school days in a small town in...