TORONTO - Bell Media touted homegrown fare from "equity-deserving" groups as it detailed TV plans Thursday, but a Black-led show that just won the Canadian Screen Award for best comedy series was conspicuously absent. Programming bosses outlined a fall and winter schedule that includes Drag Race vacation series "Slaycation" and the Will Arnett-created animated series "Super Team Canada" for Crave but did not mention "Bria Mack Gets a Life." Bell said in a statement that it cancelled the Crave series due to many factors, "the biggest being audience performance.
" It was created by Toronto's Sasha Leigh Henry and starred Malaika Hennie-Hamadi as a young Black woman navigating life with the help of an invisible hype girl. The half-hour comedy aired just one six-episode season. Top entertainment headlines, all in one place The media giant said it's ordered a new show from Henry -- a six-episode drug-trafficking drama "Bad Trips" -- that she co-created with Tania Thompson and is bound for Crave.
The news comes days after Henry accepted the best TV comedy Screen Award for the critically acclaimed "Bria Mack Gets a Life" and told reporters backstage at Friday's gala that one of the "crowning achievements" of the show was "to be able to accurately reflect the Jamaican-Canadian immigrant experience in a contemporary way." Executive producer Mark Montefiore also told journalists "Bria Mack" was Canada's first Black female-led premium TV series since Global's "Da Kink in My Hair," which .
