A number of domestic series including Coroner, Burden of Truth and Frankie Drake Mysteries are heading into Canadian Screen Week with the security of a greenlight after CBC unveiled 10 additional renewals for its 2019-2020 schedule.
Coroner, which has so far been CBC’s highest-rated new series of the current broadcast season, will go to a second season. The premiere episode garnered an audience of 1.05 million, making it CBC’s most-watched drama premiere in four years and the series was also picked up by NBCUniversal International Networks.
Meanwhile, heading into third seasons are Burden of Truth (8 x 60 minutes), Frankie Drake Mysteries (10 x 60 minutes) and The Detectives (8 x 60 minutes).
CBC’s ever-present Murdoch Mysteries was also greenlit to its 13th season. The Yannick Bisson-fronted series has continued to draw average weekly audiences in excess of one million during its season-12 run.
Alberta-shot drama Heartland will head into its 13th season.
The pubcaster also unveiled renewals for its CBC Arts series Exhibitionists (season five, 26 x 30), CBC Docs POV (season five, 18 x 60 minutes), In the Making (season two, 8 x 30 minutes) and The Nature of Things (season 59, 18 x 60 minutes).
Previously announced renewals for CBC’s 2019-2020 schedule include Schitt’s Creek, which was last week renewed for a sixth and final season, Still Standing (season five, 13 x 30 minutes), Kim’s Convenience (season four, 13 x 30 minutes), The Great Canadian Baking Show (season three, 9 x 60 minutes), Dragon’s Den (10 x 60 minutes), Baroness Von Sketch Show (10 x 30 minutes) and Anne With an E (season three, 10 x 60 minutes).
CBC noted in a press release that additional renewals across all genres will be announced later in the spring. Renewals have not yet been confirmed for series including Cavendish, Workin’ Moms, Street Legal and Little Dog.
This story originally appears in Playback.