The Big Guy’s Back on Top.
Reacher, starring Alan Ritchson, was #1 on Prime’s most-watched original series chart in its season 4 premiere week.
Cottage country coming-of-age hit Sterling Point, which premiered August 5th, dropped to #2 but is still going strong.
Hot hockey romance phenom Off Campus, which premiered May 13th, has been in the Top 3 since Prime started releasing Top 10 weekly charts in May.
All three series are filmed in Canada: with Reacher and Sterling Point shooting in Ontario — Reacher in Toronto and Sterling Point in Toronto and Muskoka — and Off Campus filming in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Reacher:
Season 4 of Reacher adapts the 13th novel in the Lee Child series titled Gone Tomorrow, which opens with Jack Reacher travelling on a subway at 2 am – before everything goes to hell.
Much of the action takes place in Phildelphia (a change from the New York setting in the book) and that’s where Reacher production started for a few days before getting underway in Toronto.
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Reacher’s new team: Alan Ritchson as former military intelligence officer Jack Reacher, Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette as officer Jacob Merrick; and Sydelle Noel as Philadelphia Police Detective Tamara Green.
Season 4 has “the best fight ever on Reacher and that’s saying something, cause every fight prior this season felt the same way”, Alan Ritchson posted on his Instagram.
Season 5 of Reacher is currently in production in Toronto..
Sterling Point:
An island she’s never seen. A sister she didn’t know existed. A summer that rewrites everything.
Sterling Point stars Ella Rubin as Annie, a Manhattan teen who inherits an Island in Canada’s wealthy Muskoka Lakes region.
Where she discovers she has a secret sister raised by their grandfather — Amélie Hoeferle as Ramona.
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And experiences a summer on the lake that rewrites everything.
Amélie Hoeferle as Annie’s sister Ramona, Bo Bragason as Oona, Ella Rubin as Annie, Keen Ruffalo (Mark Ruffalo’s son) as Annie’s twin Connor, Nikko Angelo Hinayo as Sully, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie as Ellis, Daniel Quinn-Toye as Rory.
Creator Megan Park grew up summering in Muskoka (Lake Muskoka, Lake Rousseau and Lake Joseph) and wanted to set a series there to celebrate cottage life, which is a big part of Canadian culture.
Sterling Point has been renewed for season 2.
Off Campus:
Adapted from Canadian Elle Kennedy’s best-selling books about college hockey stars and the young women in their lives, Prime Video’s wildly popular Off Campus stars Belmont Cameli as hockey captain Garrett Graham, Stephen Kalyn as Dean Heyward-Di Laurentis, Antonio Cipriano as John Logan and,Jalen Thomas Brook as John Tucker.
Plus Ella Bright as Hannah Wells and Mika Abdalla as Allie Hayes.
Season One followed Elle Bright’s Hannah and Belmont Cameli’s Garrett as the featured couple.
Season 2 follows Mika Abdalla ‘s Allie and Stephen Kalyn’s Dean as the featured couple.
Off Campus regulalyr turns the University of British Columbia campus into the fictional Briar University, using the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre as the hockey arena.
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Season 2 of Off Campus is currently in production in Vancouver.