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\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> The buyers keep lining up for Yaga<\/em>, the upcoming Canadian drama series featuring Heated Rivalry<\/em> star Hudson Williams.<\/p>\n \n\tHBO Max in Europe (excluding the UK and Ireland), Foxtel in Australia and Sky New Zealand have acquired the Crave series from distributor Sphere Abacus. The deals closely follow AMC Global Media snapping up U.S. rights and Sky taking the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n \n\tThe series comes from Bell Media-owned Crave, Blink49 Studios and Front Street Media, with Bell\u2019s UK-based sales house Sphere Abacus shopping it internationally as both a four-part hour-long series and in eight-part half-hour format.<\/p>\n \n\tThe series stars Williams, Carrie-Anne Moss, Clark Backo and Noah Reid, and is based on Kat Sadler\u2019s play, which reimagines the myth of Baba Yaga as a contemporary mystery thriller. Sadler serves as writer and showrunner.<\/p>\n \n\tYaga<\/em> follows Rapp (Reid), a private investigator who arrives in a small coastal town to investigate the disappearance of a young heir to a powerful fishery, Henry Park (or Williams). He finds himself at odds with an apprehensive local detective, Carson (was Backo), a charismatic university professor with a taste for younger men, Katherine (Moss), and a labyrinth of enigmatic suspects, secret lives, and ancient magic.<\/p>\n \n\tAlso starring are\u00a0Sheila\u00a0McCarthy, Megan\u00a0Follows, Ezra Franky, Patrick Gilmore, Katharine Isabelle,\u00a0Hiro Kanagawa, Emilija Baranac, Georgia Acken, Anisa Harris and Sam\u00a0Krochmal. David Frazee and Rachel Talalay are the co-directors and Mackenzie Donaldson, Andrew Miller and Moss are the exec producers. Charles Cooper is producing.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a fantastic response across major territories for this unique series. Yaga<\/em> is a brilliant example of a genre-defying, high-energy production \u2013 with an incredible cast,\u201d said Hana Palmer, Sphere Abacus\u2019 Head of Sales. \u201cCombine these attributes with the exceptional credentials of Bell Media, Canada\u2019s premier media and content company, we look forward to announcing further global sales in the weeks to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n