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Prime Video gets sticky with new Canadian Amazon Original series


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...