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Genre | Crime drama Thriller |
Created by | Aubrey Nealon |
Based on | Cardinal series by Giles Blunt |
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Composer | Todor Kobakov |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 24 |
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Producer | Jessica Daniel |
Production locations | Sudbury and North Bay, Ontario |
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Editor | Teresa De Luca |
Running time | 40 minutes |
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Release | 25 January 2017 11 May 2020 | –
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Cardinal is a Canadian crime drama television series, which was first broadcast on January 25, 2017, on CTV (in English) and Super Écran (in French).[1][2][3] The series adapts the novels of crime writer Giles Blunt, focusing on police detective John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) and his partner Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse), who investigate crimes in the fictional city of Algonquin Bay.[3]
Across six episodes, the first season adapts the first John Cardinal novel Forty Words for Sorrow (2000),[4] which focuses on the investigation of the murder of a young girl.[1] On February 28, 2017, CTV renewed Cardinal for a second and third season, each containing six episodes.[5] The second season adapts Blunt's third Cardinal novel, Blackfly Season, while the third adapted the novels By the Time You Read This and Crime Machine, the fourth and fifth novels in the series.[5] The fourth and final season adapts the sixth novel, Until the Night.[6]