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Crave Reveals Trailer and Guest Judges for Season 5 of CANADA’S DRAG RACE

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– Lauren Chan, LU KALA, Orville Peck, Peaches, Sarain Fox, Shea Couleé, Simone Denny, Steph Tolev, and Ts Madison take their seat at the judges desk –
– New brand partners for Season 5 are Gilead Sciences Canada, Inc. and Knix, while TROJAN™ returns –
– CANADA’S DRAG RACE Season 5 premieres November 21 on Crave –

TORONTO (November 1, 2024) – Crave announced today the lineup of fierce, fabulous, and feisty extra special guest judges joining Brooke Lynn Hytes, Brad Goreski, and Traci Melchor on Season 5 of CANADA’S DRAG RACE. Also revealed today is the show-stopping Season 5 trailer, along with this season’s brand partners.  

Featuring a star-studded lineup of musicians, comedians, actors, activists, and models, the guest judges for Season 5 are:
  • Lauren Chan – Model, fashion editor for Glamour magazine, and size-inclusion activist
  • LU KALA – JUNO Award-nominated Canadian pop singer/songwriter
  • Orville Peck – JUNO and GLAAD Media Award-nominated country musician
  • Peaches – Musician, producer, director, and performance artist
  • Sarain Fox – Canadian activist, broadcaster, and filmmaker
  • Shea Couleé – Drag artist, winner of RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS Season 5, and Season 7 finalist of the all-winners edition.
  • Simone Denny – JUNO Award-winning and Billboard Dance Chart-topping Canadian vocalist
  • Steph Tolev – Canadian comedian and actor
  • Ts Madison – Reality television personality and actress
Season 5 also features the return of CANADA’S DRAG RACE Season 2 Miss Congeniality winner, Suki Doll, and resident choreographer Hollywood Jade.  

Season 5 of the Canadian Screen Award-winning original series premieres Thursday, Nov. 21 at 9 p.m. ET on Crave in English and French, with new episodes streaming on subsequent Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET. The new season launches simultaneously on World of Wonder’s SVOD platform WOW Presents Plus, in the U.S. and in 190 territories worldwide. TROJAN returns as a brand partner, while Gilead Sciences Canada and Knix have come on board for Season 5:
  • TROJAN™ Brand Condoms is back for Season 5 as the grand prize partner delivering the pleasure of $100,000 to the winner.
  • This season, Knix partners with CANADA’S DRAG RACE in a custom challenge, with a co-branded social extension.
  • Gilead Sciences Canada has signed on as the “Miss Congeniality” prize partner.
The recently announced queens competing on Season 5 of CANADA’S DRAG RACE are: In association with Crave, Season 5 of CANADA’S DRAG RACE is produced by Blue Ant Studios with World of Wonder. Executive Producers for Blue Ant Studios are Matthew Hornburg, Mark J.W. Bishop, Donna Luke, and Laura Michalchyshyn. Trevor Boris is Executive Producer/Showrunner, Lori Greenberg is Supervising Producer. Executive Producers for World of Wonder are Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, and RuPaul Charles. For Bell Media, Justin Stockman is Executive Producer. Senior Production Executive is Danielle Pearson. Sarah Fowlie is Head of Production, Original Programming. Carlyn Klebuc is General Manager, Original Programming. Justin Stockman is Vice President, Content Development & Programming. and Karine Moses is Senior Vice President, Content Development & News.

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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 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

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.comTwitterInstagramLinkedIn

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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