OCTOBER 14 – Crave Original Series CANADA’S DRAG RACE *Season 2 Premiere* 

• The award-winning Crave Original series CANADA’S DRAG RACE returns on Thursday, Oct. 14 at 9 p.m. ET for its 10-episode sophomore season and follows the journey of 12 fierce and fiery Canadian queens as they compete for the title of “Canada’s Next Drag Superstar.” Each episode tests the queen’s talents, and challenges them to master singing, dancing, acting, impersonations, costume making, and improvisation. Judging CANADA’S DRAG RACE this season is a panel of four homegrown icons, including Brooke Lynn Hytes, Brad Goreski, Amanda Brugel, and Traci Melchor – who are joined every week by a celebrity guest judge. One competitor is eliminated at the end of each episode, until one queen is left standing. New episodes of the one-hour original competition series roll out Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET.

OCTOBER 14 – HBO Max’s WHAT HAPPENED, BRITTANY MURPHY? *Series Premiere*

• Streaming Thursday, Oct. 14 is the two-part HBO Max Original docuseries WHAT HAPPENED, BRITTANY MURPHY? A captivating actress as effervescent on-screen as she was off, Murphy was a rising star whose movies helped define a generation. But in 2009, Murphy’s untimely passing ended her promising career, while the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death quickly became fodder for speculation and conspiracy theories. Featuring new archival footage and interviews with those closest to her, WHAT HAPPENED, BRITTANY MURPHY? goes beyond the tabloid rumours to examine the impact of Hollywood's sexism on her struggles, as well as lingering concerns about her relationship with husband Simon Monjack. 

OCTOBER 14 – HBO Max’s PHEOBE ROBINSON: SORRY, HARRIET TUBMAN

• The HBO Max Original stand-up comedy special PHEOBE ROBINSON: SORRY, HARRIET TUBMAN debuts Thursday, Oct. 14. After a “truly trash” year, actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Phoebe Robinson (HBO’s 2 DOPE QUEENS) is finally out of quarantine and ready to get back onstage. Bringing her signature brand of authentic confessional humour to her first-ever solo stand-up special, Robinson gets real about therapy; interracial dating; reparations; hanging out with Michelle Obama; aging out of watching civil rights movies; and more, in a no-holds-barred hour of comedy that’s both unflinchingly honest – and uniquely hilarious.

OCTOBER 15 – SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW *Movie Premiere*

• It’s officially spooky season and the perfect time to catch the ninth installment of the Saw film franchise, SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW, which drops on Friday, Oct. 15 on STARZ. Working in the shadow of his father Marcus Banks (Samuel L. Jackson), Detective Ezekiel "Zeke" Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner William Schenk (Max Minghella) take charge of an investigation into grisly murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city's gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the centre of the killer's morbid game. All films in the Saw franchise are available to stream on STARZ.

OCTOBER 17 – HBO’s SUCCESSION *Season 3 Premiere* 

• The highly anticipated third season of HBO’s Emmy^®-winning drama SUCCESSION premieres on Sunday, Oct. 17 at 9 p.m. ET. The critically acclaimed drama, depicting the hyper-wealthy and hyper-depraved Roy family, returns with guns blazing after its bombshell Season 2 ending. Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Logan Roy (Brian Cox) begins the new season in a perilous position. Scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances, tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war. As fractures in the Roy family deepen, this season is rounded out with new players, including Adrien Brody (CHAPELWAITE), and Alexander Skarsgård (BIG LITTLE LIES), both playing billionaire executives, and Sanaa Lathan (THE AFFAIR) as a high-profile lawyer. SUCCESSION follows a weekly release schedule, with new episodes dropping Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.

OCTOBER 17 – STARZ’s HIGHTOWN *Season 2 Premiere*

• The picture-perfect summer on Cape Cod clashes with its off-season reality when the second season of STARZ drama HIGHTOWN premieres Sunday, Oct. 17. Jackie Quinones (Monica Raymund) a hard-partying National Marine Fisheries Service agent with dreams of being a cop, is thrust immediately into the crime wave of deadly car-fentanyl flooding the Cape. This season, Jackie is laser-focused on bringing down drug dealer Frankie Cuevas (Amaury Nolasco), the man she holds responsible for the death of her best friend, Junior. When Frankie's cousin Jorge (Luis Guzmán) joins his operation, he introduces a new level of violence and chaos. With disgraced officer Ray Abruzzo (James Badge Dale) off the force and mired in depression, Jackie finds a new partner in Leslie (Tonya Glanz), the only other female on the force. Through it all, Jackie must walk the tightrope of sobriety as she struggles to stay above an ocean of secrets, betrayal and the shame and failure of her past.

OCTOBER 18 – SHOWTIME’s WAKEFIELD *Series Premiere* 

• The Australian drama series WAKEFIELD, starring British actor Rudi Dharmalingam, premieres Monday, Oct. 18 at 9 p.m. ET. The eight-episode psychological drama shines a comedic light on what happens when the sanest individual working in a psych ward begins to lose his grip. Inspired by show creator Kristen Dunphy’s personal experiences, WAKEFIELD follows Nik Katira (Dharmalingam), who after years working as a psych nurse at Wakefield, is exceptionally good at his job. But right now, as his own sanity is slipping, he questions the line between reality and madness. Tackling the complexity of mental illness with humour and heart, WAKEFIELD explores the fine line between sanity and madness, powered by an intriguing psychological mystery.

OCTOBER 19 – THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN and THE INCREDIBLE 25^TH YEAR OF MITZI BEARCLAW

• As the 2021 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival kicks off on Oct. 19, Crave adds two feature films to its Indigenous Stories Collection: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s, THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN, and Shelley Niro’s THE INCREDIBLE 25^TH YEAR OF MITZI BEARCLAW. Premiering with critical-acclaim at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN tells the story of an audacious act of heroism and kindness, as Áila (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) chooses to console a young woman she finds barefoot and sobbing in the streets. She soon discovers that Rosie (Violet Nelson) has just escaped an assault by her boyfriend. Compelled to take action, Áila brings Rosie into her home, and, over the course of the evening, the two women explore the after-effect of this traumatic event. Taking a comedic look at life on an Indigenous reserve, THE INCREDIBLE 25^TH YEAR OF MITZI BEARCLAW, brings viewers into the life of Mitzi Bearclaw, a 24-year-old Indigenous woman whose dream to design cool hats is put on hold when she decides to move back to her isolated reserve to look after her sick mother.

**Media Note: Assets for Crave programming are available at the Bell Media press site, The Lede, here

Complete listings for the week of October 14 – 20

*All Programming Subject to Change

HBO and HBO Max Programming

HBO Max Seris DOOM PATROL, Season 3, Episode 6 (October 14 at 9:30 p.m. ET)

HBO Max Special PHEOBE ROBINSON: SORRY, HARRIET TUBMAN (October 14)

HBO Max Series WHAT HAPPENED, BRITTANY MURPHY? (October 14)

HBO Series SUCCESSION, Season 3, Episode 1 *Season Premiere* (October 17 at 9 p.m. ET) 

HBO Series AXIOS, Season 4, Episode 15 (October 18)

HBO Series WE’RE HERE, Season 2, Episode 2 (October 19) 

HBO Documentary FOUR HOURS AT THE CAPITOL (October 20 at 9 p.m. ET) 

Movies

CASPER (1995) (October 15) 

FEAR OF RAIN (October 15)

FOUR GOOD DAYS (October 15)

NORTHERN TIES *Canadian Documentary* (October 15)

WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (October 15)

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982) (October 17)

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE 2 (1987) (October 17)

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (2021) (October 17)

THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN *Canadian Film* (October 19)

THE INCREDIBLE 25^TH YEAR OF MITZI BEARCLAW *Canadian Film* (October 19)

AAP MUJHE ACHCHE LAGNE LAGE (October 20)

AGAR TUM NA HOTE (October 20)

ANDAAZ (October 20)

AUZAAR (October 20)

BETA (October 20)

BHABI (October 20)

BHAGAM BHAG (October 20)

CHAL MERE BHAI (October 20)

DIL (October 20)

DIL KA RISHTA (October 20)

EK AJNABEE (October 20)

GOLMAAL – FUN UNLIMITED (October 20)

JHANAK JHANAK PAYAL  BAJE (October 20)

LOVE LOVE LOVE (October 20)

MAINE PYAR KYUN KIYA (October 20)

MASTI (October 20)

RUDRAKSH (October 20)

SAJAN KI SAHELI (October 20)

SHOOL (October 20)

YEH LAMHE JUDAAI KE (October 20)

SHOWTIME Programming

PASSION PLAY: RUSSELL WESTBROOK *Documentary* (October 15)

THE CIRCUS, Season 6, Episode 13 (October 17 at 8 p.m. ET)

AMERICAN RUST, Season 1, Episode 6 (October 17 at 10 p.m. ET)

DESUS & MERO, Season 3, Episode 43 *Mid-Season Premiere* (October 17 at 11 p.m. ET) 

WAKEFIELD, Season 1, Episode 1 *Series Premiere* (October 18 at 9 p.m. ET)

STARZ Programming

ARRIVAL (October 15)

CASPER (1995) (October 15) 

FACE/OFF (October 15)

THE MUMMY (October 15)

THE MUMMY RETURNS (October 15)

SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW (October 15)

WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (October 15)

BMF, Season 1, Episode 4 (October 17)

HIGHTOWN, Season 2, Episode 1 *Season Premiere* (October 17)

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982) (October 17)

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE 2 (1987) (October 17)

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (2021) (October 17)

THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN *Canadian Film* (October 19)

THE INCREDIBLE 25^TH YEAR OF MITZI BEARCLAW *Canadian Film* (October 19)

More Riveting TV to Watch

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, Season 2, Episode 10 *Season Finale* (October 14)

RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: UK, Season 3, Episode 4 (October 14)

CANADA’S DRAG RACE, Season 2, Episode 1 *Crave Original Series* *Season Premiere* (October 14 at 9 p.m. ET)

DARK SIDE OF THE RING, Season 3B, Episode 5 *Crave Original Series* (October 14 at 9 p.m. ET) 

Comedy Central Series AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, Season 2 (October 15)

VICE Series DARK SIDE OF THE 90S, Season 1 (October 15)

W5, Season 56, Episode 2 (October 15)

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, Season 35, Episode 13-17 (October 19)

ATN’S TRIBUTE TO 100 YEARS OF INDIAN CINEMA, Season 1, Episode 1-20 (October 20)

THE VOICE, Season 21, Episode 9-10 (October 20)