Cover Me (Canadian TV series)

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Genre	Thriller
Written by	Peter Lauterman
Directed by	Stacey Stewart Curtis; Marc F. Voizard;
Starring	Colin Ferguson; Caroline Neron; Jackie Burroughs; Philip Craig; Neville Edwards;
Country of origin	Canada
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Production companies	Alliance Atlantis Communications; Power Pictures; Serendipity Point Films;
Release
Original network	CBC Television
Original release	26 September –; 28 September 1999

Cover Me is a Canadian television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1999. It starred Colin Ferguson, Caroline Neron, Jackie Burroughs and Philip Craig.

Premise

The Ottawa Citizen described the series as, "A clear-eyed, right-wing, steak-and-potatoes Calgary Mountie is teamed up with a tempestuous, sophisticated, chain-smoking Montreal séparatiste, who also happens to be a CSIS agent. They fight international terrorism when not fighting each other."[1]

Cast

Colin Ferguson as Andrew Chase
Caroline Neron as Pascale Laurier
Jackie Burroughs as Caitlin Crawford
Philip Craig as Gareth Endicott
Neville Edwards as Malloy

Production

The series was the first production from Serendipity films, which was formed by Montreal-native Robert Lantos when he sold Alliance to Atlantis to form Alliance Atlantis.[2]

Reception

Richard Helm of The Edmonton Journal described the series as "laughably awful", adding that "...Cover Me also stands as a cautionary tale about what can happen when a broadcaster wades into a populist TV genre with which it's totally unfamiliar."[3]

References

Tony Atherton (September 25, 1999). "Cover Me: A Canadian TV Challenge". The Ottawa Citizen. p. E3 – via Newspapers.com.
Mike Boone (September 26, 1999). "Sex, spies, straight arrow". The Gazette. Montreal, Canada. p. C7 – via Newspapers.com.
Richard Helm (September 23, 1999). "CBC's laughable espionage series, Cover Me, needs a good stiff zap". The Edmonton Journal. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

Cover Me at IMDb
Cover Me at History of Canadian Broadcasting

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[1] Tony Atherton (September 25, 1999). "Cover Me: A Canadian TV Challenge". The Ottawa Citizen. p. E3 – via Newspapers.com.

[2] Mike Boone (September 26, 1999). "Sex, spies, straight arrow". The Gazette. Montreal, Canada. p. C7 – via Newspapers.com.

[3] Richard Helm (September 23, 1999). "CBC's laughable espionage series, Cover Me, needs a good stiff zap". The Edmonton Journal. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.