Crave Orders New Original Docuseries COCAINE, PRISON & LIKES: ISABELLE’S TRUE STORY

– Available in English and French, the docuseries details the captivating story of two Québec women arrested in Australia for cocaine possession in 2016 –
– COCAINE, PRISON & LIKES: ISABELLE'S TRUE STORY is set to premiere on Crave in December –

Crave announced today it has ordered the new docuseries COCAINE, PRISON & LIKES: ISABELLE’S TRUE STORY. The three-part Crave Original docuseries tells the astonishing story of Isabelle Lagacé and Mélina Roberge, who, while on a world cruise in 2016, were implicated in one of Australia’s largest-ever cocaine seizures. Now, back in Canada after spending several years behind bars in Australia, Isabelle Lagacé tells her story, detailing how she became a mule for an international drug trafficking network. The docuseries premieres on Crave in December, and is available to audiences in English and in French as COCAÏNE, PRISON & LIKES: LA VRAIE HISTOIRE D’ISABELLE. “The world media labelled Isabelle as a major drug dealer. After serving her sentence, she returned to Canada completely transformed by her experience. She then chose to share her stranger-than-fiction story exclusively with Bell Media, and our partners at URBANIA and Connect3 Media.,” said Suzane Landry, Vice-President, Content Development, Programming and News at Bell Media. In association with Bell Media, COCAINE, PRISON & LIKES: ISABELLE’S TRUE STORY is produced by URBANIA and Connect3 Media. Executive producers for URBANIA are Philippe Lamarre and Annie Bourdeau. Executive producers for Connect3 Media are Pablo Salzman and Andre Barro. Director is Sébastien Trahan. For Bell Media, Suzane Landry is Vice President, Content Development, Programming and News (French). Justin Stockman is Vice President, Content Development and Programming (English). Karine Moses is Senior Vice President, Content Development & News.

About Crave

Delivering more Oscar^®-nominated and Emmy^®Award-winning programming than any other service, Crave is Canada’s prestige entertainment offering, with HBO, HBO Max Originals, SHOWTIME^®, 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 LGBT 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, 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.

About Bell Media Original Programming

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 #1 Canadian drama TRANSPLANT; record-breaking Canadian format THE AMAZING RACE CANADA; comedy series JANN; and new comedy CHILDREN RUIN EVERYTHING from the producers of LETTERKENNY. 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; CTV Comedy Channel’s ROAST BATTLE CANADA and the upcoming ACTING GOOD. Crave Originals include hit series LETTERKENNY, CANADA’S DRAG RACE, and WAY OVER ME (SORTEZ-MOI DE MOI); docuseries DARK SIDE OF THE RING; and acclaimed documentaries FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK and A.RTIFICIAL I.MMORTALITY. Discovery is home to Bell Media’s hit factual series and franchises HIGHWAY THRU HELL, HEAVY RESCUE: 401, and MUD MOUNTAIN HAULERS, and others. Bell Media is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company. Learn more at www.BellMedia.ca.

About URBANIA

Since its founding in 2003, URBANIA has been surprising and entertaining audiences with bold content. URBANIA is a concentration of curiosity, audacity and irreverence developed by inventive and invested creative people who make the ordinary extraordinary. The content agency creates TV series, docuseries and webseries, documentary films, variety shows, a talk show, podcasts, short content, and now fiction. Its quartet of creative, curious and unique services include a production house, media platform, creative agency, and digital creation workshop.

About Connect3 Media

Connect3 and its parent company, Cineflix Media, are based in Quebec but deploy an international strategy. In addition to the group’s production capacities in Canada, the Cineflix group’s production companies also hold infrastructure and operations in the U.S., U.K. and Ireland. Connect3 and Cineflix produce and co-produce fiction and documentary series. In 2020, the Cineflix group produced 8 drama series and close to 20 series in English Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.