Super Team Canada, Crave’s first-ever original animated series, will get a two-episode premiere on the Bell-owned streaming service on May 16.
The 10-episode, half-hour comedy series follows a team of six lesser-known Canadian-themed superheroes as they fight evil robots, an unemployed octopus, a needy store clerk and more. Super Team Canada was created by Calgary-born writers Joel H. Cohen (The Simpsons) and Robert Cohen (The Big Bang Theory) and produced by Vancouver’s Atomic Cartoons and Toronto-born Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue. (Fun fact: Robert Cohen also wrote one episode of The Simpsons: the iconic “Flaming Moe’s.”)
The series features an all-Canadian voice cast that includes Arnett (Arrested Development), Vancouver’s Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Vancouver’s Charles Demers (The Debaters), Salmon Arm, B.C.’s Brian Drummond (Dragon Ball Z), Kenyan-Canadian Veena Sood (Battlestar Galactica), Vancouver’s Ceara Morgana (Starship Troopers: Extermination) and Montreal’s Kevin McDonald (The Kids in the Hall). It’s also worth noting that Kingston, Ontario’s Bryan Adams (“(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”) wrote and performed the theme song.
All in all, it looks like a quintessentially Canadian series, down to the designs of the superheroes themselves. For instance, Arnett’s hero, “Breakaway,” is a former junior hockey player, while Demers’ “Poutine” is a French-Canadian who shoots gravy and cheese curds at his foes.
Unfortunately, the show’s trailer is not out yet, although Crave’s official blog post does offer a breakdown of each character.
Image credit: Crave
Source: Crave
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