Yaga, starring Carrie-Anne Moss and Hudson Williams, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Crave show, which will be on AMC+ in the U.S., is part of TIFF’s Primetime program for TV.
TIFF’s Primetime program will open with Jesse McKeown’s Netflix drama Below, which is set in a remote Newfoundland town terrorized by a mysterious sea creature. The TV section will wrap with Carrie, Mike Flanagan’s reinvention of the Stephen King classic, for Prime Video.
Elsewhere, there will be the world premiere of Shawn Ryan’s anthology series American Hostage, which stars Jon Hamm and is for MGM+, as well as Brad Caleb Kane’s Crystal Lake, the Friday the 13th prequel series from A24 that will stream on Peacock. The new season of Apple TV’s Slow Horses will have an international premiere.
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International series screening include 2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback from Australia, Alice out of France and Blindspot Berlin, hailing from Germany. From Brazil, there is Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically.
The aforementioned Yaga, meanwhile, comes from Bell Media-owned Crave, Blink49 Studios and Front Street Media. Clark Backo and Noah Reid also star in the series, which is based on Kat Sandler’s play, reimagining the myth of Baba Yaga as a contemporary mystery thriller.
The festival’s TV lineup completes a round of programming announcements from TIFF, which runs September 10–20. The Primetime section ‘s lead programmer is Geoff Macnaughton, VP, Market Programming & Theatrical.
Here’s the full Primetime lineup
2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback Darren Dale (Australia)
Alice Virginie Verrier, Guillaume Lonergan, (France, Canada)
American Hostage Shawn Ryan, Eileen Myers, Adam Arkin (U.S.)
Below Jesse McKeown (Canada)
Blindspot Berlin David Nawrath (Germany)
Carrie Mike Flanagan (Canada, U.S.)
Crystal Lake Brad Caleb Kane, Michael Lennox (U.S.)
Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically Marcelo Gomes, Carol Minêm (Brazil)
Slow Horses Will Smith, Adam Randall (UK, U.S.)
YAGA Kat Sandler, Rachel Talalay, David Frazee (Canada)
