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New Crave Original Series, THE REBUILD: INSIDE THE MONTREAL CANADIENS, Premieres September 18
– Narrated for English audiences by George Stroumboulopoulos, the eight-episode bilingual docuseries offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Montreal Canadiens 2023-2024 season –
– The series features exclusive interviews with some of the team’s top players, including Nick Suzuki, Cole Caulfield, Mike Matheson, and Juraj Slafkovsky –
– The series features exclusive interviews with some of the team’s top players, including Nick Suzuki, Cole Caulfield, Mike Matheson, and Juraj Slafkovsky –
TORONTO (July 25, 2024) – Crave announced today that its new original docuseries, THE REBUILD: INSIDE THE MONTREAL CANADIENS, presented by Bell, premieres on Wednesday, September 18. The eight-episode, one-hour series is produced by Fair-Play in collaboration with Crave, and offers a rare, inside look at one of professional hockey’s most iconic clubs during their recent 2023-2024 season.
The series is available to Crave audiences in English and French, with the English version featuring narration by Canadian media personality George Stroumboulopoulos.
The Montreal Canadiens played their 2023-2024 season with the sole objective of re-establishing the team as an NHL powerhouse. The docuseries takes viewers up close with players, coaches, executives, and diehard Habs fans, and tells the behind-the-scenes story of a great sports organization undergoing profound change.
From the season-opening golf tournament, to training camp, to the excitement of the home opener, exclusive interviews with the team’s elite players including Nick Suzuki, Cole Caulfield, Mike Matheson, Juraj Slafkovsky, and others, offer a glimpse into never-before-seen moments, both on and off the ice.
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About Groupe Fair-Play
Established in 1998, Groupe Fair-Play is a Montreal-based television production company focused on creating impactful television content in English and French. Our slate includes documentary projects, variety shows, live action drama, comedy, youth content and more. Our current flagship shows are dance competition and international format Revolution, the youth and family quiz bowl style game show 100 Génies, the prime-time variety program Les enfants de la télé, and consumer magazine Ça vaut le coût. Two live-action series are in the works: Danse!, for release in 2024, and La collecte, about the world of criminal debt collecting, shot by acclaimed Quebec director Podz and scheduled for release in 2025. Groupe Fair-Play is known as a stimulating, creative and people-focused place of work. Our name is more than a play on words, it reflects our work culture.
About Crave
Delivering more Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning programming than any other service, Crave is Canada’s prestige entertainment offering, with HBO and 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.
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.
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