Madison Keegan
Bell Media – Astral
CANADA’S DRAG RACE Reveals Guest Judges and Trailer for Season 4
– Nelly Furtado, Winnie Harlow, Luann de Lesseps, Tegan and Sara, Jaida Essence Hall, Ra’Jah O’Hara, Sarain Fox, Rêve, and Christian Allaire join the judges table –
–Neutrogena®, Shoppers Drug Mart, TROJAN™, and göt2b® on board as brand partners for Season 4 –
– CANADA’S DRAG RACE Season 4 premieres November 16 on Crave –
–Neutrogena®, Shoppers Drug Mart, TROJAN™, and göt2b® on board as brand partners for Season 4 –
– CANADA’S DRAG RACE Season 4 premieres November 16 on Crave –
TORONTO (November 1, 2023) – Crave confirmed today a star-studded selection of guest judges joining Brooke Lynn Hytes, Brad Goreski, and Traci Melchor, on Season 4 of Crave Original series, CANADA’S DRAG RACE. Also revealed today, is the much-anticipated Season 4 trailer, and this season’s brand partners.
- Christian Allaire – Senior fashion and style writer at Vogue and author of The Power Style
- Jaida Essence Hall – Winner of Season 12 of RUPAUL’s DRAG RACE and competitor on RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS Season 7
- Luann de Lesseps – Original cast member of THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK CITY, now with her own spinoff, LUANN AND SONJA: WELCOME TO CRAPPIE LAKE, and cabaret star
- Nelly Furtado – Grammy and JUNO Award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter
- Ra’Jah O’Hara – World-renowned drag artist and winner of Season 1 of CANADA’S DRAG RACE: CANADA VS. THE WORLD, plus competitor on RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE Season 11 and RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS Season 6
- Rêve – JUNO Award-winning Canadian dance-pop singer/songwriter
- Sarain Fox – Canadian activist, broadcaster, and filmmaker
- Tegan and Sara – JUNO Award-winning, Grammy-nominated, Canadian indie-pop sister duo
- Winnie Harlow – Canadian supermodel, beauty entrepreneur, activist, and spokesperson
- TROJAN™ Brand Condoms is back for Season 4 as the grand prize partner delivering the pleasure of $100,000 to the winner, a sponsored challenge, and social media content such as “Moments of Raw Pleasure,” featuring weekly clips from each episode
- As the exclusive skincare brand partner, Neutrogena® returns for a 4th season with in-show integrations, branded content, and for the very first time, as a challenge prize sponsor
- Shoppers Drug Mart returns as a grand prize partner, providing a sickening supply of cosmetics to the Season 4 winner, and custom content for social media such as “Painted by a Queen,” where three queens create everyday drag-inspired makeup looks using products from Quo Beauty, available exclusively at Shoppers Drug Mart
- göt2b® has signed on as the hair colour and styling sponsor of the series. Partnership elements include in-show integration, a sponsored challenge, and a custom co-brand extension on Astral Out of Home and social media.
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Bell Media has commissioned some of Canada’s most-watched and most-acclaimed original programming, working with the best Canadian independent producers in the country. Hit series commissioned by CTV include the most-watched Canadian dramas TRANSPLANT and SULLIVAN’S CROSSING; record-breaking Canadian format THE AMAZING RACE CANADA; comedy CHILDREN RUIN EVERYTHING; unscripted series THE TRAITORS CANADA and FARMING FOR LOVE; and quiz series BATTLE OF THE GENERATIONS. Among the original series on Bell Media specialty and streaming platforms are CTV Life Channel’s culinary series MARY MAKES IT EASY with Mary Berg, and food, travel, and adventure series EVOLVING VEGAN; CTV Comedy Channel’s ROAST BATTLE CANADA and the scripted series ACTING GOOD. Crave Originals include hit series LETTERKENNY and its official spinoff series SHORESY, CANADA’S DRAG RACE, WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE (EVEN JAY BARUCHEL), and LITTLE BIRD; docuseries DARK SIDE OF THE RING; and acclaimed documentaries including KINGS OF COKE. Discovery is home to Bell Media’s hit factual series and franchises HIGHWAY THRU HELL, EAST HARBOUR HEROES, and Animal Planet’s PETS & PICKERS. Bell Media is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company. Learn more at www.BellMedia.ca.
About Crave
Crave is Canada’s prestige entertainment offering, delivering more Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning programming than any other service, with HBO, HBO Max Originals, SHOWTIME®, STARZ, Hollywood-hit movies, and boasts a robust slate of English and French original series. It is a bilingual TV and streaming service, with thousands of hours of exclusive French-language content. Crave is available directly to all Canadians with access to the Internet at Crave.ca, via iOS and Android, and other platforms such as Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, select LG Smart TVs, PlayStation, Roku, select Samsung Smart TVs, and Xbox One, and through participating service providers across ten, 24-hour High Definition linear and on demand channels.
Blue Ant Studios
Blue Ant Studios is a leading studio and award-winning production business with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. The company’s premium slate of programming spans documentaries and docuseries, scripted, unscripted, and reality competition, with recent hits including the award-winning competition series Blown Away (Netflix); original mixology cocktail competition, Drink Masters (Netflix), original competition series Race Against the Tide (CBC); the newly released, hilarious Carolyn Taylor docu comedy, I Have Nothing (Crave); award-winning docuseries The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks (Amazon); investigative docuseries Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell (Peacock and SKY): and groundbreaking documentary series Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies (Peacock). Blue Ant produces the multi-award-winning Canada’s Drag Race (seasons 1-4) and Canada vs. The World (Crave for Bell Media) with new seasons of each in production. Blue Ant Studios is a subsidiary of global media company, Blue Ant Media.
About World of Wonder
World of Wonder (WOW) has reshaped international pop culture, earning 30 Emmys, inspiring two Oscars, creating global network WOW Presents Plus across 190 territories, and bringing drag culture to the world stage via RuPaul’s Drag Race and DragCon. WOW’s pioneering television portfolio includes other smash-hit franchises like Million Dollar Listing. Their film division WOW Docs produces groundbreaking documentaries including Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, Party Monster, and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. WOW also operates YouTube channel WOWPresents, music label World of Wonder Records, the WOW Podcast Network, and year-round international live events. Co-founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have been profiled in Variety’s Reality TV Impact Report and Hollywood Reporter’s Most Powerful Producers in Unscripted. Honors for their trailblazing work include the IDA Pioneer Award, Realscreen’s Global 100 list, Banff’s Impact Award, and the OUT 100. In 2022, World of Wonder was ranked #2 among film and TV powerhouses in Fast Company’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.
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