Bell Media’s Crave announced Monday its first-ever original animated series, Super Team Canada, will debut with a two-episode premiere on Friday, May 16.
Described as a “campy” 10-part, half-hour comedy, Super Team Canada is created by the Emmy-winning, Calgary-born brothers Robert Cohen (The Big Bang Theory, Somebody Somewhere) and Joel H. Cohen (The Simpsons) and features an all-Canadian cast including Will Arnett, Cobie Smulders, Kevin McDonald, Charles Demers, Brian Drummond, Ceara Morgana, Veena Sood and guest star Jay Baruchel. The show’s theme song is written and performed by Canadian music icon Bryan Adams.
“With more action, heart, and hilarity than a Fredericton bonspiel, Super Team Canada follows six lesser known and underrated Canadian superheroes, tasked with saving the world from giant evil robots, an unemployed octopus, and a seriously needy hardware store clerk. When the world’s other heroes are trapped and killed, these wanna-be benchwarmers become Earth’s last and most maple-syrup-powered hope,” reads a description in a Bell Media press release.
Arnett voices Breakaway, a former minor league hockey player and the unofficial leader of Super Team Canada (according to him). Other members of the Canuck superhero team include Niagara Falls (voiced by Smulders), Poutine (Demers), Sasquatchewan (Drummond), RCM-PC (Sood) and Chinook (Morgana). McDonald voices the Prime Minister of Canada, who by default becomes boss of the only team of superheroes left on Earth.
Super Team Canada is produced by Thunderbird Entertainment’s Atomic Cartoons and Arnett’s production company Electric Avenue, in association with Crave. Showrunner Robert Cohen serves as an executive producer along with Joel H. Cohen, Atomic/Thunderbird’s Jennifer Twiner McCarron, Matthew Berkowitz and Kristin Cummings, and Electric Avenue’s Arnett and Marc Forman. Thunderbird Distribution and Brands is overseeing global media and consumer product rights for the series.
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