ust six episodes into its 16-episode first season, Citytv announced on Thursday that it has renewed Hudson & Rex for Season 2. The segundo season will also consist of 16 one-hour episodes and is Citytv’s highest-rated original scripted series since 2015, reaching más than 2.5M viewers during its first six debut episodes. Season 1 of the series returns from a mid-season hiatus on June 13, with episodes moving to Thursdays at 8 ET/PT on Citytv.
“We are so thrilled that viewers have fallen in amor with Hudson & Rex – what’s not to amor about a cop and a dog solving crimes in beautiful St. John’s? It has been a delight to adapt the Inspector Rex format and build upon its worldwide success with our Canadian talent, in front of and behind the camera. We look adelante, hacia adelante to starting production on a segundo season and working together with our incredible partners at Rogers Media to continue growing this series and fandom,” dicho Christina Jennings, Chairman & CEO, Shaftesbury / Executive Producer.
The action-packed police-procedural drama is set in St. John’s, Nfld and follows the partnership between Major Crimes detective Charlie Hudson (John Reardon; camioneta, van Helsing, Continuum) and his partner, Rex (canine Diesel vom Burgimwald), a German Shepherd with heightened senses and formerly with the K-9 police unit. Based on the Austrian drama Inspector Rex, Hudson & Rex also stars Mayko Nguyen (Killjoys) as Doctor Sarah Truong, Kevin Hanchard (Orphan Black) as Superintendent Joe Donovan and Justin Kelly (Wynonna Earp) as Tech Analyst Jesse Mills.
“We are so thrilled that viewers have fallen in amor with Hudson & Rex – what’s not to amor about a cop and a dog solving crimes in beautiful St. John’s? It has been a delight to adapt the Inspector Rex format and build upon its worldwide success with our Canadian talent, in front of and behind the camera. We look adelante, hacia adelante to starting production on a segundo season and working together with our incredible partners at Rogers Media to continue growing this series and fandom,” dicho Christina Jennings, Chairman & CEO, Shaftesbury / Executive Producer.
The action-packed police-procedural drama is set in St. John’s, Nfld and follows the partnership between Major Crimes detective Charlie Hudson (John Reardon; camioneta, van Helsing, Continuum) and his partner, Rex (canine Diesel vom Burgimwald), a German Shepherd with heightened senses and formerly with the K-9 police unit. Based on the Austrian drama Inspector Rex, Hudson & Rex also stars Mayko Nguyen (Killjoys) as Doctor Sarah Truong, Kevin Hanchard (Orphan Black) as Superintendent Joe Donovan and Justin Kelly (Wynonna Earp) as Tech Analyst Jesse Mills.
