Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson will reprise their roles from Canadian procedural Private Eyes in a spinoff series, four years after the original came to an end.
Private Eyes West Coast will see private investigators Matt Shade (Priestley) and Angie Everett (Sampson) solving cases in Victoria, British Columbia. Now leading different lives from their Toronto crime-fighting days, they encounter a world of different cases along with a new group of friends.
Further detail on casting, start of production and storyline will be announced “at a later date.” Fair to say the series will almost certainly retain the comedy-drama tone of the original show.
Corus Entertainment
Lionsgate Canada and Piller/Segan are making it for Corus Entertainment network Global, reuniting the trio four year after the end of Private Eyes, which ran from 2016-2021. Lionsgate Television will handle international sales on West Coast, with the original having been a solid seller for the studio.
Shawn Piller and Lloyd Segan – whose credits include Private Eyes, CBC and The CW series Wild Cards and adaptations of Stephen King’s novels Haven and The Dead Zone – are producing. Corus is the commissioning broadcaster with Corus Studios’ Rachel Nelson, VP Original Programming and Head of Corus Studios, and Lynne Carter, Director, Original Programming, overseeing production.
“This marks the first time Corus has greenlit a spinoff of one of our homegrown scripted series,” said Nelson. “Private Eyes resonated so deeply with viewers at home and abroad, and alongside our valued production partners, we’re so excited to see Shade and Angie now on the beautiful coast of British Columbia.”
The original series starred Priestly as a former hockey player who teamed with tough-talking P.I. Angie Everett (Sampson) to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse. In the U.S., it ran on the now Ion Network following a 2017 deal with eOne, which was later acquired by fellow Canada-based company Lionsgate.
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