Slo Pitch (web series)

Slo Pitch
poster
GenreComedy
Created by
Written by
  • Gwenlyn Cumyn
  • Karen Knox
Starring
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
ProducerPaige 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]

  1. ^ a b John Doyle, "A timely feast of gentle comedy to comfort you". The Globe and Mail, August 1, 2020.
  2. ^ "Everything On Our Pop Culture Radar This August". Elle Canada. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
  3. ^ a b Kelly Townsend, "Slo Pitch EPs on opportunities in short-form LGBTQ content". Playback, August 17, 2020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Mcneely, Jen (2022-06-10). "Queer Toronto series 'Slo Pitch' hits it out of the park with big US deal". Shedoesthecity. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  6. ^ "The Bell Fund Announces the Results of the April 8, 2019 Deadline for the Short-Form Digital Series - Fiction Program". Bell Fund. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
  7. ^ Liz Braun, "Slo Pitch a hit right off the bat". Toronto Sun, July 19, 2020.
  8. ^ "Review: Slo Pitch, OUTtv and KindaTV". Parton and Pearl. Retrieved 2020-08-30.