When asked for his thoughts on how the story is ending, he said: “I’m not sure how I feel about it. Priestley said he thinks “it was a great season” with “really strong episodes” and an emotional through-line.
The traumatic experience has her and Matt reassessing their lives, relationships and goals. The episodes pick up after last season’s cliffhanger, in which Angie was shot. Guest stars including singer-songwriter Royal Wood, actor Enrico Colantoni and Toronto drag queen artist Lucy Flawless.
Season 5 is shorter than usual with eight episodes because of the pandemic, said Priestley. “We hadn’t come to the end of our storytelling cycle with this show.” “You’re always sad when a show comes to its end, especially a show like this, that I think we certainly had the opportunity to make for a few more years,” Priestley said from Nashville, Tenn., where he lives. The show has also sold in more than 186 territories around the world and won last year’s Golden Screen Award for Canada’s most-watched series at the Canadian Screen Awards. The characters have grown close in both their professional and personal lives throughout the series, with a romantic chemistry that prompted fans to nickname them Shangie.Ĭorus called the Toronto-set series a “smash hit” and “fan-favourite” throughout its run, which began in May 2016 and drew in a slew of guest stars, including venerable actor William Shatner and former professional boxing legend George Chuvalo. “Private Eyes” stars Priestley as Matt Shade, a former professional hockey star-turned-P.I., and Sampson as his tenacious detective partner, Angie Everett. “It came as a great surprise to all of us that the show was coming to an end.” “I wasn’t ready to be done with the show.
“I’m very sad to see the show coming to an end,” Priestley said in an interview this week. The former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star says the show was “very personal” for him, since he was one of the producers who developed it from the novel “The Code” by G.B. He says the cast and crew found out about the cancellation a few weeks ago, after shooting season 5 last fall and winter.
Troy Reeb, executive vice-president of broadcast networks at Corus Entertainment, said in a recent interview that the company chatted with producers and they all decided the Canadian show “had hit its creative arc” and “wanted the show to go out on top.”īut the Vancouver-born Priestley, who starred alongside Nova Scotia-raised Cindy Sampson as a crime-solving duo, says he thinks the Toronto-shot procedural had more life in it. It was Global that decided to wrap up the Toronto-shot private-detective drama after the fifth and final season, which started Wednesday and moves to its regular time slot next Thursday. TORONTO - “Private Eyes” star Jason Priestley says he’s sad his Global TV series is coming to an end, noting its demise came as “a great surprise” to the cast and crew.
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