TORONTO and MONTREAL — Bell Media’s Crave announced today it has ordered a new three-part original docuseries that tells the story of two Quebec women arrested in Australia for cocaine possession in 2016.
Available in English and French, Cocaine, Prison & Likes: Isabelle’s True Story/Cocaïne, prison & likes: la vraie histoire d’Isabelle is set to premiere on Crave in December 2022.
The docuseries, produced by Urbania and Connect3 Media in association with Bell Media, “tells the astonishing story of Isabelle Lagacé and Mélina Roberge, who, while on a world cruise in 2016, were implicated in one of Australia’s largest-ever cocaine seizures. Now, back in Canada after spending several years behind bars in Australia, Isabelle Lagacé tells her story, detailing how she became a mule for an international drug trafficking network,” explains a press release.
“The world media labelled Isabelle as a major drug dealer,” said Suzane Landry, vice-president of content development, programming and news at Bell Media, in the release.
“After serving her sentence, she returned to Canada completely transformed by her experience. She then chose to share her stranger-than-fiction story exclusively with Bell Media, and our partners at Urbania and Connect3 Media.”
For Urbania, Philippe Lamarre and Annie Bourdeau are executive producers of the docuseries. Executive producers for Connect3 Media are Pablo Salzman and André Barro. The director is Sébastien Trahan.
Please click here for Bell Media’s English press release, and here for its French release.
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