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Genre | Comedy |
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Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
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Producer | Paige Haight |
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Slo Pitch is a Canadian web television comedy series, co-created by J Stevens, Gwenlyn Cumyn, and Karen Knox.[1] The series centres on the Brovaries, an underachieving softball team for LGBTQ women and non-binary players; despite being perennial losers who are mostly more concerned with drinking beer and meeting women at after-game parties than they are with the sport, they unexpectedly find themselves in the league championships playing against their arch-rival Toronto Blue Gays.[1]
Slo Pitch features a fully female and/or non-binary led creative team, a key cast that is 50 percent BIPOC, 70% of the cast and crew identifying as female or non-binary, and 80% of key cast identifying as LGBTQ+.[2] The cast includes Kirsten Rasmussen, Gwenlyn Cumyn, Karen Knox, Lane Webber, K Alexander, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Amanda Cordner, Aisha Evelyna, and Chelsea Muirhead.
It premiered August 3, 2020 on OUTtvgo in Canada, and aired on OutTV's linear television channel in 2021.[3] Slo Pitch was picked up by IFC (U.S. TV channel) and aired on their platform October 18, 2021.[4]
Shortly after being picked up by IFC, Season Two premiered in June, 2022.[5]
The series was produced by Shaftesbury Films (Paige Haight) and Boss & Co (Michael Schram, Cumyn, and Knox).[3] with funding from the Independent Production Fund and the Bell Fund.[6]
Co-writers Knox and Cumyn met 12 years ago at George Brown Theatre School where they started collaborating on plays.[7]
The show’s theme song is called "Play the Field", by Partner.[8]
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