''Plan B'' is a Canadian television drama series, that premiered on

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on February 27, 2023.Greg David
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in 2017, the series is an

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centred on a mysterious agency that allows people to travel back in time to change their lives, with each season telling a different self-contained story.

Premise

The first season stars

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as Phillip, a man who is offered the opportunity to go back in time to make different choices in life to salvage his marriage to Evelyn ( Karine Vanasse) and his career after a major personal setback. The second season will star

Vinessa Antoine Vinessa Lynn Antoine (born July 21, 1983) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles as Judith Winters in the CBC comedy-drama ''Being Erica'' (2009-2011), Jordan Ashford in the ABC soap opera '' General Hospital'' (2014-18), and Ma ...

as Mia Coleman, a police officer who wants to change her actions after her intervention in a domestic dispute between Paul (

Vincent Leclerc Vincent Leclerc is a Canadian actor from Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2018 film ''The Fall of the American Empire (La chute de l'empire américain)'', for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Su ...

) and Keri (Sarah Booth) Whitman goes disastrously wrong. The second season of the English series is adapted from the third, rather than the second, season of the French series, and will see two actors, Leclerc and Patrick Emmanuel Abellard as Mia's police partner, reprise the same roles they played in French.

Cast

Season 1

Season 2

Episodes

Production

Development

The series is produced by KOTV, directed by Jean-François Asselin, Aisling Chin-Yee, and Maxime Giroux. The English adaptation was written by Lynne Kamm; the co-creators of the original French-language series are Jean Francois Asselin and Jacques Drolet.

Casting

In June 2022, the casting of

and Karine Vanasse in the lead roles was announced. In August 2022, it was announced that François Arnaud, Josh Close and Troian Bellisario would be joining the cast in undisclosed roles.

Broadcast

International

International distribution rights to the series have been acquired by Seven.One Studios through Red Arrow Studios International.Kelly Townsend
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'', June 6, 2022.

References

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