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Crave Confirms Its Hit Original Series, CANADA’S DRAG RACE, is Returning for a Sixth Season
– Casting for Season 6 is now open, and applications can be submitted at https://www.canadasdragracecasting.com/ –
– CANADA’S DRAG RACE Season 5 debuts November 21, and is produced by Blue Ant Studios in association with Crave and World of Wonder –
– CANADA’S DRAG RACE Season 5 debuts November 21, and is produced by Blue Ant Studios in association with Crave and World of Wonder –
Tags: @CanadasDragRace, #CanadasDragRace, @CraveCanada, @Crave_PR
TORONTO (October 31, 2024) – CANADA’S DRAG RACE continues to sl-eh on Crave! Ahead of the series’ Season 5 premiere on November 21, Crave announced today that the wildly popular series has been renewed for a sixth season, joining Crave’s ever-growing library of original DRAG RACE content, which also includes CANADA’S DRAG RACE: CANADA VS. THE WORLD and the upcoming SLAYCATION. Canadian drag artists looking to flaunt their distinct brand of Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent on Season 6 can submit their applications now at https://www.canadasdragracecasting.com/. Applicants must be at least 19 years of age as of October 17, 2024, and a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada. Since premiering in 2020, CANADA’S DRAG RACE has taken home 17 Canadian Screen Awards, and continues to resonate with Crave audiences as one of the Top 3 best-performing Canadian series in Crave history*. Season 5 of CANADA’S DRAG RACE premieres Thursday, Nov. 21 at 9 p.m. ET, and is also available on World of Wonder’s SVOD platform WOW Presents Plus in the U.S., and in 190 territories around the world. Seasons 1-4 of CANADA’S DRAG RACE are currently available to stream on Crave, along with Seasons 1-2 of CANADA’S DRAG RACE: CANADA VS. THE WORLD. The new series and format, SLAYCATION, in partnership with Blue Ant Studios and World of Wonder, premieres on Crave later this year. *Source: Adobe Analytics / mParticle, Rank on Crave Streaming as of October 23, 2024About Crave
Delivering more Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning programming than any other service, Crave is Canada’s prestige entertainment offering, with HBO Originals, Max Originals, STARZ, Hollywood-hit movies, is the exclusive Canadian streaming home of FRIENDS, and boasts a robust slate of English and French original series. Crave is a major supporter of Canada’s production industry, helping to fund numerous film projects, and features acclaimed selections from some of Canada’s prestigious film festivals including Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, HOT DOCS, ImagineNATIVE, and Inside Out Film Festival.
Crave 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, Amazon Prime Video Channels, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, select LG Smart TVs, PlayStation, Roku, select Samsung Smart TVs, and Xbox One. It’s also available through participating service providers across ten, 24-hour High Definition linear and on demand channels. Crave is from Bell Media, Canada’s leading content company, providing Canada’s most-watched and most-acclaimed television programming on network, specialty, pay and digital platforms. Visit our website at Crave.ca.
Blue Ant Studios
Blue Ant Studios is an international production studio and rights business with offices in Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, Singapore and Sydney. The company’s diverse production slate spans scripted comedy and drama, unscripted entertainment, formats, high-impact documentaries, live-action kids + family, and animation. The studio is anchored in original storytelling, with award-winning series that include BLOWN AWAY (Netflix), CANADA’S DRAG RACE (Crave), the scripted teen comedy series, DAVEY AND JONESIE’S LOCKER (Hulu and Prime Video), CASEY ANTHONY: WHERE THE TRUTH LIES (Peacock), DRINK MASTERS (Netflix), RACE AGAINST THE TIDE (CBC), THE KIDS IN THE HALL: COMEDY PUNKS (Prime Video), 9/11 KIDS (CBC), SEE NO EVIL (Investigation Discovery US), and the adult-animated series, GARY AND HIS DEMONS (Prime Video, Amazon Freevee). The company’s recent feature-length documentary, MR. DRESSUP: THE MAGIC OF MAKE-BELIEVE (Prime Video), was awarded the Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary in 2023. Blue Ant Studios’ distribution arm has a vast catalogue of over 7,000 hours of premium programming from the studio and third-party, top-tier producers around the world. Blue Ant Studios is a subsidiary of the global media company, Blue Ant Media. blueantmedia.com ⼁Twitter⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn
About World of Wonder
World of Wonder (WOW) has reshaped international pop culture, earning 33 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. SVOD WOW Presents Plus, the exclusive home to the global DRAG RACE franchise and hundreds of WOW Original series, saw 35M hours of content watched in 2023 with 77% subscriber growth in the same year. 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. Honours 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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