Prime Monday Night Hockey is back this fall with a national spotlight on Canada’s biggest hockey cities. The 2025–26 season begins with a late afternoon game on Thanksgiving (Monday, October 13, 2025) when the Toronto Maple Leafs host the Detroit Red Wings at 4 p.m. ET before moving west for the second matchup of a doubleheader, with the Vancouver Canucks taking on the St. Louis Blues at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Canadian matchups take centre stage on multiple nights this season, including an all-Canadian tilt between Ottawa and Winnipeg on December 15, a primetime faceoff between Vancouver and Montreal on January 12, and a Battle of Alberta on March 30. Prime Monday Night Hockey will also host a marquee Atlantic Division rivalry between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning on December 8.

The 2024-25 regular season saw Canadian teams surge up the standings with the Winnipeg Jets winning their first-ever Presidents’ Trophy and the 2025 postseason featured five of seven Canadian teams. Fans can catch more competitive action on Monday nights this regular season with Prime Monday Night Hockey’s national broadcast. All games stream live and in English exclusively on Prime Video, at no additional cost to Canadian Prime members. Follow @sportsonprimeca and download the full Monday night schedule here.

Prime Video’s hockey programming continues to offer fans multiple ways to watch their favourite teams and players:

FACEOFF: Inside the NHL, the critically acclaimed all-access docuseries from Box To Box Films (Drive to Survive) and NHL Productions returns this fall. The second season follows top-tier NHL talent including Sidney Crosby, Marc-Andre Fleury, Brady and Matthew Tkachuk, and more across the highs and lows of the NHL season – with cameras once again capturing unprecedented access during key events including Alex Ovechkin’s triumphant quest to become the NHL all-time goals leader to the star-studded 4 Nations Face-Off tournament, all while teams are in pursuit of the Stanley Cup.

NHL: Coast To Coast, a live whiparound studio show airing Thursday nights returns this season, featuring expert analysis, live look-ins, and highlights from across the League.

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Out Standing, by director Mélanie Charbonneau (Fabulous), will have its World Premiere this September at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film boasts a stellar cast that includes Nina Kiri (Handmaid’s Tale) as Sandra Perron, Vincent Leclerc (Allen Sunshine), and Enrico Colantoni (Humane, English Teacher).

In 1995, after returning home from a peacekeeping mission in Croatia, Captain Sandra Perron—Canada’s first female infantry officer—stuns the military by resigning abruptly. When a disturbing photo surfaces of her tied to a tree in uniform, apparently unconscious, questions spiral. Pursued by journalists and a relentless military investigation, Sandra is thrust into a reluctant journey to confront buried traumas and the true cost of loyalty and sacrifice. Refusing to label herself a victim, she reveals a story of fierce courage and resilience, uncovering the battles fought within her own ranks. Based on a powerful true story of endurance against the odds.

Director: Mélanie Charbonneau
Screenplay: Mélanie Charbonneau, Martine Pagé
Principal Cast: Nina Kiri, Vincent Leclerc, Enrico Colantoni, Adrian Walters, Antoine Pilon, Stephen Thomas Kalyn, Conrad Pla
Producer: Marcel Giroux, Julia Rosenberg
Production Company: GPA Films, January Media
Canadian distributor: Sphere Films

Netflix has announced it will renew Wednesday – the Addams Family-inspired series following teenaged Wednesday Addams – for a third season ahead of its season 2 debut which will arrive in two parts on August 6 and Sept. 3, 2025.

Wednesday originally premiered on Netflix on November 23, 2022 and currently holds the record for Netflix’s most-popular English language show of all time with 252.1M views in 91 days.

The multigenerational hit series reached #1 in 90 countries and crossed the 1 billion hours viewed mark only three weeks after debut.

Season 1 ranked #1 on the Netflix Global Top 10 for 6 straight weeks after debuting, still a record for an English TV show.

Season 1 broke the record for the most-viewed in a week for an English language TV series on Netflix twice in back-to-back weeks.

Season 2 is already one of the most anticipated new Netflix titles of 2025 with more than 2.8 billion social impressions to-date.

Season 3 details, casting and additional information will be shared at a later time.

Quotes:
Creators/Writers/Showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar: “It’s been a dark delight to watch Wednesday cast her spell over audiences across the globe—one deadpan quip at a time. We’re beyond thrilled she’ll be returning to stalk the halls of Nevermore in Season 3. This time, she’ll unearth more of the school’s sinister secrets—and descend even deeper into the Addams family crypt. Or, as Wednesday would say: ‘Nothing brings a family together like a good exhumation.’”

Bela Bajaria, Netflix Chief Content Officer: “The undeniable impact of Wednesday resonated immediately with fans worldwide, driving it to the top of our charts as our most popular English language TV show, and sparking cultural trends. We are so proud of Al Gough, Miles Millar, Tim Burton, Jenna Ortega, and the entire Wednesday cast and crew for everything they’ve accomplished. On the heels of its highly anticipated season two return, we are thrilled to renew the iconic series for a third and to deliver more of what the fans love.”

ABOUT WEDNESDAY:
S2 Synopsis: Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega), returns to prowl the Gothic halls of Nevermore Academy, where fresh foes and woes await. This season, Wednesday must navigate family, friends and old adversaries, propelling her into another year of delightfully dark and kooky mayhem. Armed with her signature razor-sharp wit and deadpan charm, Wednesday is also plunged into a new bone-chilling supernatural mystery. Creator/showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar return for the spine-tingling second season of WEDNESDAY, alongside executive producer and director Tim Burton.
S2 Release Dates: August 6 (201-204), September 3 (205-208)
Based on the Characters Created by Charles Addams
Creators / Showrunners / Executive Producers / Writers: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
Studio: MGM Television

Premiering at TIFF ’25, Aziz Ansari‘s directorial debut GOOD FORTUNE gets a new Trailer today! Cineplex Pictures release October 17, 2025.

Details:

Written and Directed by: Aziz Ansari
Cast: Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves, Keke Palmer, Sandra Oh
Synopsis: In GOOD FORTUNE, a well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel (Keanu Reeves) meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker (Aziz Ansari) and a wealthy venture capitalist (Seth Rogen).

Lionsgate presents, in association with Media Capital Technologies, a Garam Fiilms / Keep Your Head / Yang Pictures production.

About Cineplex Pictures
Cineplex Pictures, a division of Cineplex, is a distributor of a wide range of films. Recent titles include Ballerina, Flight Risk, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Strangers: Chapter 1, The Queen of My Dreams, The Boy and the Heron, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, SAW X, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, and John Wick: Chapter 4.

Starbucks has long had an unofficial secret menu of viral fan-favourites – but now, they’re making it official. Starting this week, Starbucks Rewards members can find Starbucks “secret menu” customizations in their app. From twists on fan favourites to customer creations, the secret menu, which can be found in the “offers” tab of the app, will regularly feature new drink customizations.

To kick off the launch of the secret menu, four new drink customizations are featured:

–Cookies on top: For cookies and cream lovers, order a Cold Brew with two pumps of vanilla syrup, Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam, and cookie crumble topping.
–Dragonfruit glow-up: Elevate the Mango Dragonfruit Lemonade Refresher by adding peach juice blend, then have it blended and topped with Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam.
–Green tea + strawberry: Green tea lemonade and strawberry make a perfect pair – add an extra pop of flavour with the strawberry acai refresher base.
–Just add white mocha: Put a spin on the Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso by adding White Chocolate Mocha Sauce and topping it with Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam.

The Starbucks secret menu in the app allows Starbucks Rewards members to easily order the featured, popular drink customizations at participating stores. Members can just select the drink and it’ll be added to the cart with all the customizations already populated for a seamless ordering experience. Keep checking the offer tabs in the Starbucks app for the latest customizations featured in the Secret Menu.

An absolute dream come true finally seeing the world’s biggest girl group, BLACKPINK live finally! We have been waiting forever, and after all the chatter about newly-christened Rogers Stadium in the news, seeing this concert was like two birds with one stone. At just under two hours, Blackpink filled the 50k-capacity venue as their Deadline Tour landed in Toronto for the first of two nights!

The Show highlighted the K-Pop queens’ concise repertoire of hits like How You Like That, Kill This Love, Forever Young, Ddu-Du Ddu-Du, and latest single Jump! Not only this, but also their own solo material with sets allotted to each member: Rosé, Lisa, Jennie, and Ji Soo.

Rosé praised how beautiful the new venue is, also thanking fans for getting their cardio in with a lengthy walk to the venue, norrh of the City. She also was seen backstage snacking on Tim Hortons before hitting the stage for her solo numbers!

A Vlog of highlights:

…and how bonkers is it that my friend Jenny and I ate at the same exact restaurant HUH GA NE, that Rosé and Lisa went to later that night. What are the odds?

Epic night!

(Photo/video credit: Mr. Will Wong)

Today, TIFF proudly announces its 2025 Discovery programme, presented by Air France, offering audiences a rare treat to witness talented, visionary filmmakers from across the globe premiering their debut and sophomore features. This year’s diverse lineup kicks off strongly with its opening night film, Maddie’s Secret, an unmissable directorial debut satirizing and skewering content culture from iconic alt-comedian John Early, who, alongside a troupe of comedians including Kate Berlant, Vanessa Bayer, and Conner O’Malley, plays the titular role. Other anticipated films include Cato Kusters’ Julian, produced by Michiel and Lukas Dhont; Nadia Latif’s The Man in My Basement, starring Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe; Zamo Mkhwanazi’s Laundry, a rare co-production between South Africa and Switzerland; Taratoa Stappard’s Māori Gothic Mārama; and Canadian director and TIFF alum Eva Thomas’ Nika & Madison.

The Discovery programme holds a rich history of championing and launching some of the world’s most acclaimed filmmakers, such as Ildikó Enyedi, Alfonso Cuarón, Julie Dash, Jean-Marc Vallée, Christopher Nolan, Maren Ade, Yorgos Lanthimos, Barry Jenkins, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Emma Seligman, and Elegance Bratton. The 2025 Discovery selection has been programmed by Dorota Lech, Jason Anderson, Kelly Boutsalis, Diana Cadavid, Robyn Citizen, June Kim, and Jason Ryle. The programme will deliver 23 World Premiere titles, spanning 30+ countries, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey, promising this year to be a truly unmissable moment to catch the international voices of the future.

2025 Discovery Programme (in alphabetical order):

100 Sunset | Kunsang Kyirong | Canada

World Premiere

Amoeba | Siyou Tan | Singapore/Netherlands/France/Spain/South Korea

World Premiere

As We Breathe | Şeyhmus Altun | Turkey/Denmark

World Premiere

Babystar | Joscha Bongard | Germany

World Premiere

Bayaan | Bikas Ranjan Mishra | India

World Premiere

Dinner With Friends | Sasha Leigh Henry | Canada

World Premiere

Egghead Republic | Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja | Sweden

World Premiere

Forastera | Lucía Aleñar Iglesias | Spain/Italy/Sweden

World Premiere

Ghost School | Seemab Gul | Pakistan

World Premiere

Julian | Cato Kusters | Belgium/Netherlands

World Premiere

Laundry | Zamo Mkhwanazi | Switzerland/South Africa

World Premiere

Little Lorraine | Andy Hines | Canada

World Premiere

Maddie’s Secret | John Early | USA

World Premiere

Mārama | Taratoa Stappard | New Zealand

World Premiere

Nika & Madison | Eva Thomas | Canada

World Premiere

Noviembre | Tomás Corredor | Colombia/Mexico/Brazil/Norway

World Premiere

Oca | Karla Badillo | Mexico/Argentina

World Premiere

Our Father | Goran Stankovic | Serbia/Italy/Croatia/North Macedonia/Montenegro/Bosnia and Herzegovina

World Premiere

Out Standing | Mélanie Charbonneau | Canada

World Premiere

Retreat | Ted Evans | United Kingdom

World Premiere

Sink | Zain Duraie | Jordan/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/France

World Premiere

The Man in My Basement | Nadia Latif | United Kingdom/USA

World Premiere

The Son and the Sea | Stroma Cairns | United Kingdom

World Premiere

Tomorrow’s TIFF Takeover is the Midnight Madness programme and the last announcement of the week. More Festival details will be announced in the coming weeks. The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, runs September 4–14, 2025.

TIFF today announces its 2025 Platform programme lineup, marking the tenth anniversary of the Festival’s auteur competitive section, which champions bold directorial vision and distinctive storytelling. Platform offers audiences a first glimpse at some of the most compelling cinematic voices on the rise. This year’s edition features 10 exceptional films representing 19 countries. The programme opens with the World Premiere of Steve, from Belgian director Tim Mielants (Small Things Like These, Peaky Blinders), starring Tracey Ullman and Academy Award–winner Cillian Murphy. While this marks Mielants’ first appearance at TIFF, this is his third collaboration with Murphy. The other nine films participating in the Platform competition are: Farnoosh Samadi’s Between Dreams and Hope, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s Bouchra, György Pálfi’s Hen, Pauline Loquès’ Nino, Bretten Hannam’s Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts), Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents, Yoon Ga-eun’s The World of Love, Valentyn Vasyanovych’s To The Victory!, and Kasia Adamik’s Winter of the Crow.

The Platform programme is curated by TIFF’s programming team under the direction of Robyn Citizen, Platform Lead and Director of Programming, Festival & Cinematheque. Platform spotlights 10 films from early- to mid-career filmmakers poised to break out on the world stage. Past Official Selections include acclaimed works such as Anthony Shim’s Riceboy Sleeps (TIFF ’22), Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal (TIFF ’19), Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden (TIFF ’19), William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth (TIFF ’17), and Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight (TIFF ’16). All films in this programme are eligible for the Platform Award, which is selected by an international jury. The winning filmmaker will receive a $20,000 CAD cash prize. The Platform Award will be presented as part of the TIFF awards ceremony on the last day of the Festival on Sunday, September 14.

This year’s Jury Chair is Spanish film writer, editor, and director Carlos Marqués-Marcet, who won the 2024 Platform Award for They Will Be Dust. He is joined by Oscar-nominated actor, writer, composer, and director Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who was most recently at the Festival with Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths (TIFF ’24), and Québécois filmmaker Chloé Robichaud, whose acclaimed Sundance hit Two Women recently had a theatrical run at TIFF Lightbox, and who has attended TIFF previously for her films Days of Happiness (TIFF ’23), Boundaries (TIFF ’16), and her short film Delphine (TIFF ’19), among others. Previous jury members include: Atom Egoyan, Hur Jin-ho, Jane Schoenbrun, Claire Denis, Béla Tarr, Brian De Palma, Mira Nair, Riz Ahmed, Jia Zhang-Ke, Patricia Rozema, and Barry Jenkins.

Watch Robyn Citizen’s insights on this year’s Platform programme here:

2025 Platform programme (in alphabetical order):

Between Dreams and Hope | Farnoosh Samadi | Iran

World Premiere

Farnoosh Samadi, whose feature film 180° Rule (TIFF ’20) and short film Disappearance (TIFF ’17) both premiered at the Festival, returns with Between Dreams and Hope. In this bold queer love story, Azad (Fereshteh Hosseini), a trans man, and Nora (Sadaf Asgari) are two young lovers toggling between tradition and modernity in their society and family. Together, they travel to a remote Iranian village to face Azad’s estranged father and obtain documents that would permit the pair to live authentically.

Bouchra | Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani | Italy/Morocco/USA

World Premiere

Longtime collaborators and partners, visual artist Meriem Bennani and documentary filmmaker Orian Barki, known for their previous works Life on the CAPS (TIFF ’22) and 2 Lizards (TIFF ’22), bring their latest animated project, Bouchra, to the Festival, marking the first animated feature to premiere in Platform. In this film, 35-year-old Moroccan Coyote and filmmaker, Bouchra, lives in New York and chronicles the impact her queerness has on her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, in Casablanca. Cutting between the film that’s forming and real-life conversations between Bouchra and Aïcha (recreations of phone calls that took place between Bennani and her mother), Bouchra is a humorous and tender portrait of the love and pain that both sides have to understand in order to move forward.

Hen | György Pálfi | Germany/Greece/Hungary

World Premiere

György Pálfi’s Hen, an inventive live-action feature, chronicles a remarkable chicken as she escapes from her grisly fate in this unorthodox and bold story. Escaping from a chicken farm, she finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.

Nino | Pauline Loquès | France

International Premiere

With a breakout performance from TIFF ’17 Rising Star and Québécois actor Théodore Pellerin (whose previous TIFF credits include Never Steady, Never Still, Family First, and Genèse and the most recent, Solo), Pauline Loquès’ Nino follows its titular character (played by Pellerin) over three pivotal days. Nino faces a major health challenge, but first, his doctors have assigned him two vital tasks. These two missions lead the young man on a journey through Paris, compelling him to reconnect with the world — and himself.

Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts) | Bretten Hannam | Canada/Belgium

World Premiere

From Indigenous, two-spirited filmmaker Bretten Hannam (Wildhood, TIFF ’21) comes Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts), which follows siblings Mise’l and Antle who were close as children, but trauma from their upbringing has caused them to drift apart as adults. When they are both haunted by a malevolent spirit of bones and rot, the siblings are forced to reunite and venture deep into the forest to confront their trauma together.

Steve | Tim Mielants | Ireland/United Kingdom | Opening Film

World Premiere

Set in the mid-90s, Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s Sunday Times bestseller Shy. The film follows a pivotal day in the life of headteacher Steve (Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy) and his students at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken them. As Steve fights to protect the school’s integrity and impending closure, we witness him grappling with his own mental health. In parallel to Steve’s struggles, we meet Shy (Jay Lycurgo), a troubled teen caught between his past and what lies ahead as he tries to reconcile his inner fragility with his impulse for self-destruction and violence.

The Currents | Milagros Mumenthaler | Switzerland/Argentina

World Premiere

Known for her evocative storytelling, filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler, whose acclaimed film Abrir puertas y ventanas (Back to Stay) premiered at TIFF ’11, unveils her latest drama, The Currents. The enigmatic film follows Lina on a business trip to Geneva. She is driven by an impulse that puts her life in danger. On her return to Buenos Aires, Lina keeps what happened hidden, but the past which she escaped from emerges and puts her present in abyss.

The World of Love | Yoon Ga-eun | South Korea

World Premiere

Yoon Ga-eun’s third feature, The World of Love, brings together Seo Su-bin in her debut role with Chang Hyae-jin (Parasite, Crash Landing on You). The film introduces us to Jooin (Seo Su-bin), an enigmatic 17-year-old high school student who is curious about and baffled by love. One day, some words she says in a fit of anger cause a major scene. Afterwards, she receives anonymous notes questioning her behaviour, and cracks begin to appear in her formerly peaceful world. “Jooin, who is the real you?”

To The Victory! | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine/Lithuania

World Premiere

The latest from multi-talented filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych, who also stars as the lead character in To The Victory! Ukraine, in the near future. The war has ended. A film director is out of work, out of luck, and out of touch with his family abroad. While his wife and daughter built a new life in Vienna, he stays behind — confused, restless, and convinced that things will get better. Eventually. Probably. Maybe.

Winter of the Crow | Kasia Adamik | Poland/Luxembourg/United Kingdom

World Premiere

Winter of the Crow, stars Lesley Manville, Zofia Wichłacz, and Tom Burke and is based on a short story by Nobel Prize–winning author Olga Tokarczuk. Set during the onset of Poland’s Martial Law era, the country is shut down just as British psychiatry professor Dr. Joan Andrews (Manville) arrives as a guest lecturer in Warsaw. Taxis have been replaced by tanks; citizens are treated like criminals. As chaos engulfs the city, Joan witnesses a brutal murder by the secret police. In mortal danger and trapped as Poland is closed down, Joan becomes a hunted fugitive running for her life.

2025 Platform Award Jury (photographed above left to right)

Carlos Marqués-Marcet, Jury Chair

Carlos Marqués-Marcet is a writer, director, and editor from Barcelona. He co-wrote and directed 10.000 KM (2014), Anchor and Hope (2017), The Days to Come (2019), and his latest film, They Will Be Dust, which won the Platform Award at TIFF ’24. He has also directed several projects for Spanish platforms such as HBO and Atresmedia.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Marianne Jean-Baptiste is an Oscar-nominated actor, writer, composer, and director. Known for her acclaimed performance in Secrets & Lies (1996), she recently reunited with Mike Leigh for Hard Truths (TIFF ’24), earning major critic awards. Television credits include Without a Trace, Surface, Soundtrack, Homecoming, Blindspot, and Broadchurch. Film credits include Rumble Through the Dark, Boxing Day, In Fabric, Training Day, RoboCop, and 28 Days.

Chloé Robichaud

Chloé Robichaud is a Québec-based filmmaker and screenwriter who first gained recognition with Herd Leader (Canada’s Top Ten, TIFF ’12) and Sarah Prefers to Run (TIFF ’13). Further work showcased at the Festival includes Boundaries (TIFF ’16), Days of Happiness (TIFF ’23), and Delphine (TIFF ’19), which won the Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film. Her latest feature, Two Women, received the 2025 Special Jury Award at Sundance.

The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, runs September 4–14, 2025.

More than 25 years after it first stomped across our TV screens, the iconic Walking with Dinosaurs is being reimagined in BBC’s latest landmark series. Premiering Tuesday, August 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on BBC Earth in Canada, Walking with Dinosaurs (6×60’ HD) will take viewers on a unique journey back through time, revealing the extraordinary life stories of these long-lost giants. Each episode in the six-part series will bring to life the dramatic story of an individual dinosaur whose remains are being unearthed by world-leading dinosaur experts, including Alberta-based paleontologists Emily Bamforth and Mark Powers. From the mountainous forests in Alberta to the red rock canyons of Utah, audiences will meet a range of dinosaur species in an array of prehistoric landscapes. Walking with Dinosaurs premieres Tuesday, August 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on BBC Earth in Canada. BBC Earth is also available via Prime Video Channels, and viewers can stream Walking with Dinosaurs beginning August 27, with new episodes uploaded weekly.

Thanks to cutting-edge science, experts can work out how these prehistoric creatures lived, hunted, fought and died more accurately than ever before. As the dinosaurs’ bones emerge from the ground, Walking with Dinosaurs brings these prehistoric stories to life with state-of-the-art visual effects – making each episode a gripping dinosaur drama based on the very latest evidence.

The Canadian Palaeontologists digging the Pipestone Creek bonebed discover from 100 to 300 bones per year, but it had been almost two decades since a skull was found. Shortly after filming for the Walking With Dinosaurs episode was completed, palaeontologists discovered a massive Pachyrhinosaurus skull in Northern Alberta near Grande Prairie. The biggest skull discovered in Pipestone Creek to date, it was nicknamed “Big Sam” after a member of the BBC Studios team.

Walking with Dinosaurs was commissioned for BBC One and BBC iPlayer by Jack Bootle, Head of Commissioning, Specialist Factual. Bill Gardner is Editorial Consultant for PBS. Diana El-Osta is the Executive in Charge for PBS. It is a BBC Studios Science Unit Production co-produced with ZDF and France Télévisions for BBC and PBS. The Executive Producers are Andrew Cohen and Helen Thomas; the Showrunner is Kirsty Wilson; the Producer/Directors are Stephen Cooter; Tom Hewitson and Owen Gower; and the Line Producers are Max Brunold and Libby Hand. The BBC Commissioning Editor is Tom Coveney. BBC Studios is handling global sales, in addition to negotiating the co-production deals with PBS, ZDF, and France Télévisions.

Episode Descriptions:

Episode 1 – The Orphan (August 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT)

In Laramidia, a lush, subtropical landscape 66 million years ago, we meet Clover, an orphaned baby Triceratops. Alone and vulnerable without a herd for protection, she’s stalked by the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex.

Today, palaeontologists in Montana are uncovering her fossils, allowing us to imagine Clover’s life and the dangers she faced. Through stunning VFX we recreate her dangerous encounters and bring her fight for survival vividly to life.

Episode 2 – The River Dragon (September 2 at 9 p.m. ET/PT)
North Africa, 100 million years ago. A Spinosaurus father must embark on a dangerous voyage to feed his babies. To reach the destination, he must lead his young family across one of the deadliest environments in earth’s history: a land crawling with ferocious predators. At the end of their journey, an extraordinary feast awaits – if he can run the gauntlet without his babies becoming someone else’s meal.

Episode 3 – The Band of Brothers (September 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT)

Utah, 130 million years ago. A band of armoured dinosaurs battle to reach adulthood, pursued by some of the most formidable predators that have ever lived: utahraptors. It’s a deadly game of cat and mouse that pits heavy armour against vicious claws and lethal cunning; a life-and-death struggle that builds to a final showdown amongst the flames of a burning forest.

Episode 4 – The Pack (September 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT)

Seventy-one million years ago lived a teenage Albertosaurus – a faster, nimbler relative of T. rex. She had to earn her place in a deadly, ferocious pack or risk starvation.

Today, palaeontologists in western Canada are unearthing her remains, allowing us to imagine her story. Based on real-world evidence, stunning VFX recreate her encounters, from hunting pterosaurs to fighting the dominant matriarch and battling for survival in the brutal late Cretaceous world.

Episode 5 – The Journey North (September 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT)

Based on an unprecedented discovery in Alberta, Canada, this episode tells the epic tale of a Pachyrhinosaurus herd, one of the largest dinosaur groups that ever lived, through the eyes of its young member Albie.

Episode 6 – Island of Giants (September 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT)

The tale of one of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the earth, a colossal, long-necked Lusotitan. Living 150 million years ago on an island known as the Iberian Mesta, now in Portugal, this 25-metre-long titan dwarfs every other dinosaur in the region. Yet its intimidating size is only part of the story. The ultimate goal of the male of the species is to win over a female and secure his legacy. It’s a quest that sees him embark on an epic journey as he risks his life for love.

For more information on Walking with Dinosaurs, visit bbcearth.ca and follow @BBCEarthCanada on X and @BBCEarth on Facebook.

BBC First is a Blue Ant Media specialty channel giving Canadians access to a huge lineup of BBC’s original, award-winning, and uniquely British programming from drama to comedy, action and adventure, to mysterious thrillers. In Canada, BBC First is owned and operated by Blue Ant Media in partnership with BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC. Visit BBCFirst.ca. Follow us on Facebook: BBCFirstCanada.

MUBI, the global film distributor, streaming service and production company, has acquired Father Mother Sister Brother, the enchanting new film from legendary director Jim Jarmusch (Stranger than Paradise, Paterson, Only Lovers Left Alive) ahead of its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival in Competition.

MUBI has acquired all rights in North America, Latin America, UK, Ireland, Benelux*, Turkey and India, and is pleased to reveal the first-look images of the film, available here. MUBI’s release plans will be announced soon. Cinéart will release the film in Benelux in collaboration with MUBI.

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, the film stars Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, and Françoise Lebrun.

The Match Factory is handling international sales. Gersh represented the North American rights.

Father Mother Sister Brother was produced by Charles Gillibert, Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan and Atilla Salih Yücer. The film is presented by MUBI, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and The Apartment (a Fremantle Company), in association with Jarmusch’s badjetlag and Gillibert’s CG Cinema, Cinema Inutile, Films du Losange and Weltkino. In Ireland Hail Mary Pictures co-produced and finance was provided by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland. Lenders were Cofiloisirs and Three Point Capital.

Directors of Photography on the film are Frederick Elmes (The Dead Don’t Die, Paterson) and Yorick Le Saux (Only Lovers Left Alive, Personal Shopper). Production Designers are Mark Friedberg (Joker, Paterson) and Marco Bittner-Rosser (Only Lovers Left Alive, Tár), Editing was led by Affonso Gonçalves (I’m Still Here, Paterson), Costume Design was by Catherine George (Mickey 17, We Need To Talk About Kevin) , Sound Design is from Robert Hein (The Dead Don’t Die, Ad Astra) and Casting was by Ellen Lewis (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Dead Don’t Die). Music is by Jim Jarmusch and Anika.

Jim Jarmusch is represented by Bart Walker of The Gersh Agency and Victoria Cook and Hayden Goldblatt at Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz.

SYNOPSIS
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country.

FATHER is set in the Northeast US, MOTHER in Dublin, Ireland, and SISTER BROTHER in Paris, France. The film is a series of character studies, quiet, observational and non-judgmental –a comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy

DIRECTOR STATEMENT
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is a kind of anti-action film, its subtle and quiet style carefully constructed to allow small details to accumulate – almost like flowers being carefully placed in three delicate arrangements. Collaborations with the masterful cinematographers Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux, the brilliant editor Affonso Gonçalves and other frequent collaborators elevate what started as words on a page into a form of pure cinema.