Series features an international ensemble cast including Evelyne Brochu, Jack Laskey, Dustin Milligan, Warren Brown, Connor Price and Hugh Dillon
From the creators of Flashpoint and the producers of Orphan Black comes the CBC original WWII spy drama X COMPANY, premiering Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT) on CBC Television. Inspired by remarkable true events, X COMPANY is an emotionally driven character drama set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII espionage and covert operations. During World War II, a real life spy training school existed on the shores of Lake Ontario. The new series follows the stories of five highly skilled young recruits torn from their ordinary lives to train as agents at an ultra-secret training facility, Camp X.
In the series premiere, the head of Camp X, Duncan Sinclair (Hugh Dillon), pulls out all the stops to convince his British counterpart that Alfred Graves (Jack Laskey), a fragile young man with a perfect memory, would make a good Allied agent. Meanwhile Sinclair’s first team is already behind enemy lines working to thwart a German plot to slaughter an entire village.
Shot on location in Hungary last summer, the exhilarating new show highlights Canada’s epic role in the war, which has largely remained unseen for many Canadians. The international ensemble cast stars Evelyne Brochu (Orphan Black, Pawn Sacrifice) as Aurora, a half Jewish-German, half French-Canadian, trilingual strategist and undercover specialist; Jack Laskey (Endeavour, Hatfields and McCoys) as Alfred, a gentle soul with synesthesia - a condition that cross-wires one sense with another, giving him near-perfect memory; Warren Brown (Luther, By Any Means) as Neil, an English ex-copper specializing in weapons and combat who lost his family in the Blitz; Dustin Milligan (No Clue, Extract) as Tom, a Madison Avenue advertising wunderkind, intimately familiar with the mechanics of persuasion, propaganda and seduction; and Connor Price (Being Human, Carrie) as Harry, the team’s radio operator, explosives specialist and gadgeteer. Rounding out the cast is Hugh Dillon as Duncan Sinclair, who runs the secret training facility Camp X and Lara Jean Chorostecki as Sinclair’s right-hand woman, Krystina Breeland.
Enter the secret world of X Company, with the weekly Debriefing, an online interactive experience including new content tied to the week’s current episode, available at cbc.ca/xcompany. Viewers will have the opportunity to examine classified agent dossiers, tour important locations, watch training videos, read additional documents, and more. Plus, catch episodes online in real-time as each broadcast of X Company will become available on the CBC Player during the Atlantic broadcast.
A special encore presentation of the series premiere will air on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) followed by the series’ second episode, Trial by Fire, at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT).
Find X COMPANY online:
Website: CBC.ca/xcompany
Instagram: @X_Company
Facebook: facebook.com/xcompanytv
Twitter: twitter.com/XCompany
Tumblr: xcompanytv.tumblr.com
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Cathleen Saville, publicist
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