THE PORTER

  • 60 minutes x 12 episodes
Genre(s)

Drama

Platform(s)
CBC

Season: Winter 2022

ICI TÉLÉ

Season: Winter 2024

Schedule: Monday to Thursday, 2 PM

Creator

Arnold Pinnock (Altered Carbon, Travelers) and Bruce Ramsay (19-2, Cardinal), with Annmarie Morais (Killjoys, Ransom, American Soul), Marsha Greene (Private Eyes, Ten Days In The Valley, Mary Kills People) and Aubrey Nealon (Snowpiercer, Cardinal).

Writer

Information to come

Director

Information to come

Production

Back Alley Films, Muse Entertainment and Cineflix Studios

Starring

Aml Ameen (I May Destroy You, Yardie), Ronnie Rowe Jr. (Star Trek: Discovery, Pretty Hard Cases) and Mouna Traoré (Self Made, The Umbrella Academy)

Synopsis

The Porter follows the journeys of an ensemble of characters who hustle, dream, cross borders and pursue their ambitions in the fight for liberation - on and off the railways that crossed North America. It is a gripping story of empowerment and idealism that highlights the moment when railway workers from both Canada and the United States joined together to give birth to the world's first Black union. Set primarily in Montreal, Chicago and Detroit as the world rebuilds after the First World War, The Porter depicts the Black community in St. Antoine, Montreal - known, at the time, as the “Harlem of the North.” They're young, gifted and Black, from Canada, the Caribbean, and the U.S. via the Underground Railroad and through the Great Migration, and they find themselves thrown together north and south of the color line, in an era that boasts anything is possible - but if change isn't coming for them, they will come for it. By any means necessary.

A gripping story of empowerment and idealism that highlights the moment when railway workers from both Canada and the United States joined together to give birth to the world's first Black union.

Inspired by real events and set in the roar of the 1920s.

A CBC and BET+ original series.

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