''Cover Me'' is a Canadian television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1999. It starred

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and Philip Craig.

Premise

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'' 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."

Cast

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as Andrew Chase * Caroline Neron as Pascale Laurier *

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 Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (commonly known as Alliance Atlantis and commonly shortened to simply Alliance or Atlantis and formerly traded as TSX:AAC) was a Canadian media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operato ...

Reception

Richard Helm of ''

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'' 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."

References

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