CraveTV adds new US dramas

CraveTV, the streaming service from Canada-based broadcaster Bell Media, has acquired the exclusive SVoD rights to five new US broadcast dramas.

The shows will be available to CraveTV subscribers exclusively from the fall next year following their first-window seasons on fellow Bell Media-owned broadcaster CTV.

Among those picked up are the Kiefer Sutherland-starring political thriller Designated Survivor, from Entertainment One (eOne), and legal drama Conviction, also sold by eOne.

These will be joined by criminal law and media drama Notorious, which comes from Sony Pictures Television; Training Day, based on the feature film of the same name; and romantic drama Time After Time.

The latter two were picked up from Warner Bros International Television, which CraveTV has struck a multi-year, multi-title exclusive SVoD deal with. This gives it rights to shows such as Blindspot, Lucifer, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The Detour and Angie Tribeca, from this coming fall.

The deals come as CraveTV begins to grow its slate of original series, having announced its second show in partnership with CTV earlier this week.

Russell Peters is the Indian Detective (4×60′) has been created by executive producer and writer Frank Spotnitz (The Man in the High Castle) and is set to go into production in Durban, Mumbai and Toronto this fall.

The fish-out-of-water dramedy is a coproduction between Big Light Productions, Blue Ice Pictures and Wonder Films and will premiere on CraveTV in 2017.