Fargo set in the Thousand Islands.
Crave’s new crime drama Underbelly, starring Stephen Amell. Hamza Haq and Minnie Driver, is for sale at the global entertainment market MIPCOM in Cannes.
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Production on the series began at the beginning of October in Toronto and in Gananoque, the Canadian gateway to the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River.
What’s Underbelly about?
Underbelly is a darkly-twisted comedy of errors, a deadly-violent crime-drama about good people who do bad things and bad people who do worse things. Think Fargo set in the Thousand Islands. The plot revolves around cops and bad guys in the hotbed of crime that is the Thousand Islands- although we are never quite sure who are the bad guys.
Officer Henry Roland (Stephen Amell) finds evidence linking a case of missing illegal substances to his childhood best friend, Tommy Hawley ( Hamza Haq ). As Henry embarks on a mission to save his friend, a ruthless British crime family, led by matriarch May Ferguson (Minnie Driver) is also looking for the missing contraband and Tommy.
With Tamara Podemski as rival officer Erica Ross; Christopher Heyerdahl as Henry’s police chief father-in-law; Katia Edith Wood as a family friend’s daughter Ruby and Jeremy Watson as her partner.
What’s next for Stephen Amell?
The Arrow star wrapped a shoot in July in Sydney, Nova Scotia on Andy Hines’s Little Lorraine, about a cocaine smuggling operation hidden in funeral homes.
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After Underbelly, Amell heads to Los Angeles to star as entertainment lawyer Ted Black in NBC’s Suits: L.A., a spinoff from the streaming phenom Suits.
Underbelly
Episodes: 6.
Ontario filming dates: October 02 2024 – November 22 2024.
Showrunners: Graeme Stewart, Aaron Martin.
Cast: Stephen Amell, Minnie Driver, Hamza Haq, Tamara Podemski, Christopher Heyerdahl, Katia Edith Wood, Jeremy Watson, Diego Klattenhoff.
Producers: Stephen Amell, Shaftesbury Films.
Underbelly will premiere in 2025 on Canadian streamer Crave.