Jason Priestley & Cindy Sampson Board ‘Non-public Eyes’ Spinoff

Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson will reprise their roles from Canadian procedural Non-public Eyes in a by-product sequence, 4 years after the unique got here to an finish.

Non-public Eyes West Coast will see personal investigators Matt Shade (Priestley) and Angie Everett (Sampson) fixing circumstances in Victoria, British Columbia. Now main totally different lives from their Toronto crime-fighting days, they encounter a world of various circumstances together with a brand new group of associates.

Additional element on casting, begin of manufacturing and storyline shall be introduced “at a later date.” Truthful to say the sequence will virtually actually retain the comedy-drama tone of the unique present.

Lionsgate Canada and Piller/Segan are making it for Corus Leisure community International, reuniting the trio 4 yr after the top of Non-public Eyes, which ran from 2016-2021. Lionsgate Tv will deal with worldwide gross sales on West Coast, with the unique having been a stable vendor for the studio.

Shawn Piller and Lloyd Segan – whose credit embrace Non-public Eyes, CBC and The CW sequence Wild Playing cards and diversifications of Stephen King’s novels Haven and The Lifeless Zone – are producing. Corus is the commissioning broadcaster with Corus Studios’ Rachel Nelson, VP Unique Programming and Head of Corus Studios, and Lynne Carter, Director, Unique Programming, overseeing manufacturing.

“This marks the primary time Corus has greenlit a by-product of considered one of our homegrown scripted sequence,” mentioned Nelson. “Non-public Eyes resonated so deeply with viewers at residence and overseas, and alongside our valued manufacturing companions, we’re so excited to see Shade and Angie now on the gorgeous coast of British Columbia.” 

The unique sequence starred Priestly as a former hockey participant who teamed with tough-talking P.I. Angie Everett (Sampson) to type an unlikely investigative powerhouse. Within the U.S., it ran on the now Ion Community following a 2017 take care of eOne, which was later acquired by fellow Canada-based firm Lionsgate.