Cardinal (TV series)

Cardinal
GenreCrime drama
Thriller
Created byAubrey Nealon
Based onCardinal book series by Giles Blunt
Written by
Directed by
Starring
ComposerTodor Kobakov
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes24
Production
Executive producers
  • Jennifer Kawaja
  • Julia Sereny
  • Daniel Grou
  • Jocelyn Hamilton
  • Armand Leo
  • Aubrey Nealon
  • Sarah Dodd
  • Patrick Tarr
ProducerJessica Daniel
Production locationsSudbury and North Bay, Ontario
Cinematography
EditorTeresa De Luca
Running time40 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network
Release25 January 2017 (2017-01-25) –
11 May 2020 (2020-05-11)
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Cardinal is a Canadian crime drama television series, which was first broadcast on January 25, 2017, on CTV (in English) and Super Écran (in French).[1][2][3] The series adapts the novels of crime writer Giles Blunt, focusing on police detective John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) and his partner Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse), who investigate crimes in the fictional city of Algonquin Bay.[3]

Across six episodes, the first season adapts the first John Cardinal novel Forty Words for Sorrow (2000),[4] which focuses on the investigation of the murder of a young girl.[1] On February 28, 2017, CTV renewed Cardinal for a second and third season, each containing six episodes.[5] The second season adapts Blunt's third Cardinal novel, Blackfly Season, while the third adapted the novels By the Time You Read This and Crime Machine, the fourth and fifth novels in the series.[5] The fourth and final season adapts the sixth novel, Until the Night.[6]

  1. ^ a b Tony Wong (January 25, 2017). "Cardinal could be The Killing for Canada". Toronto Star. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  2. ^ Marie-Josée Roy (January 23, 2017). "Karine Vanasse, détective aguerrie dans "Cardinal"". Le Huffington Post. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  3. ^ a b "CTV and Super Écran Partner on New Serialized Drama" Archived 2016-02-15 at the Wayback Machine. Broadcaster, February 11, 2016.
  4. ^ "eOne, Sienna Gets Greenlight For 'Cardinal' Murder Mystery Drama at Canada's CTV (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter, November 13, 2015.
  5. ^ a b "CTV's Cardinal gets two more seasons". Toronto Star, March 1, 2017.
  6. ^ "Cardinal season 5: Why the hit crime show is cancelled from Hulu and BBC!". 4 June 2020.