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Posted on 05/28/2026 3:42:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
‘The Ambassador’ for the CBC will follow the former ‘Full Frontal’ host as an actor-turned-scrappy diplomat in Canada’s embassy in Bulgaria.
Samantha Bee, the former host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and one-time Daily Show correspondent, is getting her own sitcom, The Ambassador, for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
The workplace comedy will see Canadian-born Bee play Olivia Winters, an actor-turned-scrappy diplomat in Canada’s embassy in Bulgaria, alongside co-star Allana Harkin. The half-hour series from showrunner Terry McAuliffe and Amaze Film & Television will be part of the CBC’s winter 2026-27 schedule, the public broadcaster announced Tuesday.
And Kathleen Robertson, who got her start on the Canadian comedy Maniac Mansion when she was still a teenager before a stateside breakout on Beverly Hills, 90210, is also heading north to star in the medical drama Blessed Sacrament. Robertson created and will showrun the 10-part series from Sphere Media and Debut Content, while executive producing with husband Chris Cowles for the CBC.
The latest series from the pubcaster continues a trend where Canadian TV brings homegrown stars back from Hollywood to topline local series produced for global export. Also for the CBC, Canadian NHL star and ESPN analyst P.K. Subban will provide inspiration for Junior, a coming-of-age drama about a 16-year-old black hockey player making his way in Canada’s ruthless junior hockey league, with an eye on reaching the NHL.
Kyle Hart created Junior, with Subban, Damon D’Oliveira and Clement Virgo executive producing. The upcoming 2026-27 CBC schedule also includes Cold Country, a limited series from creators and showrunners Shane Belcourt and Tasha Hubbard, starring Sarah Podemski, Chaske Spencer and Michael Greyeyes.
The CBC and APTN co-production is a true crime series that centers on two indigenous men found frozen to death in a single week in the same remote location. The pubcaster has also tapped Rolling Stone and the Toronto Star for Snow King, director Chelsea McMullan’s documentary series about Olympic snowboarder turned-alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding.
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Oh it’s for the CBC. Never mind.
Ambassador to Bulgaria?! I hear Sofia is very nice this time of year lol.
She was a member of The Daily Show on Comedy Central and parlayed that into her own show on TBS ….. she called Ivanka Trump a c*nt on one of her episodes. And now she has banished back to Canada… good for us!
Recycled, unfunny, unwatchable. Hates Trump. Sign her up.
Didn’t know the dumb b...bunny was still around.
She’s awful.
Who? Aunt Bee?
I think it is great that she getting her own show. We just don’t seem to have enough stupid leftist crap on tv.
SCTV was as good as if not better than SNL.
This POS had her own show on TBS 2016-22. She was full blown TDS on steroids.
I think I watched about 5 minutes of her show one time while running through channels to find something to watch. I’ll fess up, it was the lecher in me that made me pause. But she was even less funny than that Jimmy-What’s-His-Face dude.
Correct!
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