New Series Include Peacock Comedy Laid,
Sky Original Series Small Town, Big Story, Plus Hallmark
Channel's The Chicken Sisters and Small Town
Setup
This Spring Will Also See the Season Finales of
The Way Home, Season 3 and Based on a True Story,
Season 2
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TORONTO, March 10,
2025 /CNW/ - This spring, W Network, a Corus
Entertainment top 10 specialty network*, is blooming with freshly
picked new series featuring star-studded performances, humour and
heart. This season, W Network ushers in new comedies such as
Laid and Small Town, Big Story as well
as Hallmark's family drama The Chicken Sisters and
Hallmark's unscripted series Small Town Setup. All
series are available to stream on STACKTV.
First to spring onto the schedule is Peacock's twisted romantic
comedy, Laid, starring Academy
Award®-nominee Stephanie
Hsu and Zosia Mamet. Premiering on
Monday, March 24 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, a woman (Hsu) finds out her
former lovers are dying in unusual ways and must go back through
her sex timeline to confront her past in order to move forward.
Laid is a dark rom-com where the answer to "why can't I find
love, is there something wrong with me?" is a resounding "Yes.
There is. The problem is definitely you."
Up next is the dramatic comedy Small Town, Big
Story premiering Thursday, March
27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Created and directed by Emmy® Award winner
Chris O'Dowd (Moone
Boy), the series stars Emmy® nominee
Christina Hendricks (Good
Girls, Mad Men) and BAFTA award-winner Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon,
The World's End), and looks at the untold chaos caused when
a big budget Hollywood production
rolls into a small, rural Irish town. Wendy
Patterson (Hendricks) is a local girl who found success as a
TV producer in Los Angeles,
returns to her hometown in Ireland
after over 20 years, having left under something of a cloud.
Back in the chaotic microcosm of Drumbán, this time with a film
crew in tow, Wendy is caught in between her past and her epic new
production. Séamus Proctor (Considine) is the local doctor and
pillar of the community. He has a neat and well-ordered life, or at
least he thinks he does. Soon, he will find himself in the eye of a
storm as a celluloid circus descends on the town, threatening to
shine a spotlight on a secret he's been harbouring for ages.
On Sunday, March 30 at
8 p.m. ET/PT, W Network
serves up new Hallmark series, The Chicken Sisters,
based on the New York Times
bestseller and Reese's Book Club selection of the same name by KJ
Dell'Antonia. Created for television and executive produced by
Annie Mebane (Shrinking,
Atypical, The Goldbergs), the eight-episode series is
a family drama dipped in southern charm and served up with a saucy
side of romance. The setting is the fictional town of Merinac,
where a generations-old rift between dueling fried chicken
restaurants – Mimi's and Frannie's – has left the founders'
families fractured and the locals taking sides. When the popular
cooking competition show Ultimate Kitchen Clash comes to town, it
could be the recipe for ending this feud once and for all. But
things are fixing to heat up both inside and outside of the kitchen
as the reality show spotlight causes sparks to fly as secrets are
spilled and feathers get ruffled. The series boasts an impressive
cast, including Schuyler Fisk
(Sam & Kate), Genevieve
Angelson (The Handmaid's Tale), Lea Thompson (Back to the Future) and
Wendie Malick (Just Shoot
Me!) as the women at the heart of the restaurant rivalry.
James Kot (Virgin
River), Rukiya Bernard
(Yellowjackets), Ektor
Rivera (Groundswell) and Jake Foy (Ride) round out the
supporting cast. Emmy® Award-winning actress
Margo Martindale
(Justified) lends her voice as the nearly omniscient
narrator, who serves up history and offers country fried context
the way only the best town gossip can.
Following the premiere of The Chicken Sisters on
March 30, Small Town
Setup debuting at 9 p.m.
ET/PT, explores the unique charm of small-town
America and its welcoming community in this heartwarming
unscripted, romantic comedy docu-style dating series, hosted by
Ashley Williams. In each
episode, viewers meet different hometown parents with a big problem
– their successful adult child is living far away in a big city –
and is still single. The couple gathers their neighbours and asks
for help to find a match for them to go out with. Now, the entire
community is on the hunt to find the best three daters for the
"city single" to go on dates with, in the hope that they will fall
in love, move back home and live happily ever after.
This spring will also see the Season 3 finale of the
multi-generational family drama and top 5 specialty entertainment
program** The Way Home on Sunday, March 16 at 9 p.m.
ET/PT and the Season 2 finale of the dark comedic
thriller Based on a True Story on Monday, March 17 at 9 p.m.
ET/PT.
W Network can be streamed via STACKTV, available on
Amazon Prime Video Channels, Bell Fibe TV app, Fubo, Rogers Ignite
TV and Ignite Streaming. The network is also available through all
major TV distributors, including: Shaw, Shaw Direct, Rogers, Bell,
Videotron, Telus, Cogeco, Eastlink and SaskTel.
*Source: Numeris PPM Data, Total Canada, FL'24 (Aug 26 – Dec29/24), SP'25
STD (Dec 30/24 – Feb 9/25) confirmed to Feb 2/25, A25-54,
AMA(000), CDN SPEC COM ENG, M-Su 2a-2a
**Source: Numeris PPM Data, Total Canada, SP'24 (Jan 1 – May 26/24), 3+ airings, SP'25 STD (Dec 30/24 – Feb 9/25) 2+ airings,
confirmed to Feb 2/25, CDN SPEC COM ENG excluding sports
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