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Crave Original Series CANADA’S DRAG RACE Serving Realness in More Than 160 Countries Around the World

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– CANADA’S DRAG RACE is airing in North America, Europe, and Australia –
– The series recently made its U.S. linear television debut on Logo –

Tags: @CanadasDragRace, #CanadasDragRace, @CraveCanada, @Crave_PR TORONTO (July 29, 2020) – Yasssss henny! Drag Race fans around the world are shantaying along with the Canadian queens on CANADA’S DRAG RACE this summer. The Crave Original Series is now available internationally in more than 160 countries on a variety of TV and streaming platforms including:
  • Crave (Canada)
  • BBC Three (UK)
  • Logo (U.S.)
  • Stan (Australia)
  • WOW Presents Plus (available in 160 countries including the U.S.)
  • YES (Israel)
“Oh Canada! We hope audiences are enjoying CANADA’S DRAG RACE and watching along as our Canadian queens show the world just how true, north, strong, and fierce they really are!,” said Tracey Pearce, President, Distribution and Pay, Bell Media. “Continuing in the tradition of the Drag Race franchise, CANADA’S DRAG RACE is a celebration of diversity, inclusivity, tolerance, and acceptance – with an unapologetically Canadian twist – and we’re thrilled to share it with the world.” Outside of the US and Canada the deals were brokered by London-based Passion Distribution. Since its premiere on July 2, CANADA’S DRAG RACE has connected with fans and media around the world:
  • The series is a top trending topic Thursday nights on Twitter in Canada every week
  • The @CanadasDragRace Instagram has account gained more than 40K followers since the series premiere surpassing the 120K mark
  • Decider.com says the series “…brings all the glitz and glamour of America’s reality TV phenomenon to the Great White North….starts out strong with a first episode that will take diehard fans back, back, back, back, back in time to the show’s earlier seasons”
  • Toronto Star review sums up by saying…“Let’s just say it looks as funny, naughty and snarky as you would hope.”
  • Entertainment Weekly said this ahead of its debut…“For the franchise’s latest international offshoot, no part of the brand’s magic is lost in translation as 12 queens trek the show’s signature competitive fabulousness north of the border for the first CANADA’S DRAG RACE ”
Featuring guest host Mary Walsh, the next all-new episode of CANADA’S DRAG RACE officially welcomes Snatch Game to Canada and premieres tomorrow at 9 p.m. ET. For CANADA’S DRAG RACE publicity assets – including interviews with the first three eliminated queens and photography – visit TheLede.ca. Official brand partners for CANADA’S DRAG RACE include DoorDash Canada, Hilton, Neutrogena®, and Roots Canada. In association with Crave, CANADA’S DRAG RACE is produced by Blue Ant Studios. Executive producers for World of Wonder are Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, and Tom Campbell. RuPaul serves as Executive Producer. Executive producers for Blue Ant Studios are Michael Kot, Laura Michalchyshyn, Mike Bickerton, and Betty Orr. For Bell Media, Production Executive is Danielle Pearson. Robin Johnston is Director, Original Production, Factual, Bell Media. Corrie Coe is Senior Vice-President, Original Programming, Bell Media. Jeff Hersh is Vice-President, Strategy, OTT Distribution & Premium SVOD, Bell Media. Tracey Pearce is President, Distribution and Pay, Bell Media. Randy Lennox is President, Bell Media.

Social Media

  • @CanadasDragRace
  • @CraveCanada
  • @Crave_PR

About Crave
Delivering more Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning programming than any other service, Crave is Canada’s prestige entertainment offering, with HBO, SHOWTIME®, Starz, Hollywood-hit movies, a superior collection of kid’s movies and programs, and thousands of hours of acclaimed television series, specials, factual programming, and originals that can’t be found anywhere else.

Crave is the exclusive home of HBO in Canada, delivering HBO’s current slate of signature dramatic and comedic programs, documentaries, films, and live specials, as well as titles from HBO’s extensive off-air library. Crave is also home to current SHOWTIME series and specials, and past SHOWTIME hits. Crave Original hit series include comedies LETTERKENNY and NEW EDEN; CRAVINGS: THE AFTERSHOW with Lainey Lui; HEALTHY IS HOT with Chloe Wilde; candid interview series MUCH STUDIOS PRESENTS: MIKE ON MUCH IN CONVERSATION WITH…; a series of original stand-up specials; and competition series CANADA’S DRAG RACE.

Crave is a major supporter of Canada’s production industry, helping to fund and develop numerous film and documentary projects including feature films THE SONG OF NAMES, WHITE LIE, and THE GRIZZLIES among others, as well as Crave Original Documentaries ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND, SHARKWATER: EXTINCTION, YOU ARE HERE: A COME FROM AWAY STORY, and ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH. Crave also includes acclaimed selections from the Toronto International Film Festival which are featured in two exclusive collections: Best of TIFF and TIFF Selects.

Crave is a bilingual TV and streaming service with more than 6,000 hours of exclusive French-language content included with the Super Écran add-on. Crave is available directly to all Canadians with access to the Internet at Crave.ca, via iOS and Android, and other platforms. It’s also available in English through participating television providers across six 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 Blue Ant Studios
Blue Ant Studios is a leading international studio and production business, based in Los Angeles with offices in New York. Blue Ant Studios includes production companies in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, which produce content in multiple genres including Scripted, Documentary, Kids, Adult Animation, Factual Entertainment and Natural History. Current series and documentaries include LOVE ON THE SPECTRUM (Netflix), CANADA’S DRAG RACE (Crave for Bell Media), THE HEALING POWERS OF DUDE (Netflix), DOOMLANDS (Quibi), NEOPETS, produced in partnership with JumpStart Games Inc., and HOTEL PARANORMAL (Travel Channel and T+E).  Blue Ant Studios works with all major international streaming, cable and broadcasting companies as well as regional players in the markets it operates in. Blue Ant Studios is a subsidiary of Blue Ant Media.

About World of Wonder
Outside of Canada, CANADA’S DRAG RACE will stream on World of Wonder’s premium service WOW Presents Plus, the international home of Drag Race US, UK, Thailand, Chile – and now Canada. For more than two decades, award-winning production company World of Wonder has introduced audiences to new worlds, talent and ideas that have shaped culture. Programming highlights include: Emmy® Award winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (VH1/Logo), “Million Dollar Listing” LA & NY (Bravo), “Dancing Queen” (Netflix), “Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce” (Fuse), and “Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric” (National Geographic); award-winning films and documentaries including “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures,” “Menendez: Blood Brothers,” “Inside Deep Throat,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “I Am Britney Jean,” “In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye,” “Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking,” “Monica in Black and White,” Emmy-winning “The Last Beekeeper,” and Emmy-winning “Out of Iraq.” Seven of WOW’s films have premiered at the Sundance Film festival including “Becoming Chaz” and “Party Monster.” World of Wonder has also created a substantial digital footprint with its YouTube channel WOWPresents (1M+ subs), SVOD digital platform WOW Presents Plus, along with an award-winning blog, The WOW Report. World of Wonder’s bi-annual RuPaul’s DragCon is the world’s largest drag culture convention, welcoming 100,000 attendees across LA and NYC in 2018. Co-founders Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey authored The World According to Wonder, celebrating decades of production, which can be found online at http://worldofwonder.net/. Randy and Fenton were honored with the IDA Pioneer Award in December 2014, celebrating exceptional achievement, leadership, and vision in the nonfiction and documentary community, named to Variety’s Reality Leaders List in 2017, and chosen for the OUT100 list in 2018 for their trailblazing work in the LGBTQ+ community. World of Wonder was also selected for Realscreen’s 2018 Global 100 list, which recognizes the top international non-fiction and unscripted production companies working in the industry today. World of Wonder creates out of a historic building/gallery space in the heart of Hollywood.

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