Save Me set to stream
Life can change in an instant — with a phone call, a tragic accident involving cutlery. It’s in those moments that the new Canadian web series Save Me resides.
Created, written, directed and starring Fab Filippo, it’s an anthology show with each episode tracking the lead-up to an incident requiring 911 responders.
Filippo plays one of those responders, Goldie, shuttling around downtown Toronto and tying the series together.
But the focus remains firmly on the cast of characters whose lives are dramatically altered in that bridge between present and future.
Save Me starts streaming Monday at cbc.ca/watch. Some of the stand-alone episodes are darkly comedic, others have daubs of magical realism and still others aim for dramatic melancholy. But they’re all well-crafted, poignant and — sometimes oddly — relatable.
Filippo is known for playing and Ethan Gold on Queer as Folk.
SNATCH REBOOTED
Based on the 2000 Guy Ritchie movie of the same name, Snatch starts streaming April 7 on CraveTV. Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint stars in and executive-produces the 10-episode drama lurking in the world of heists and gangsters and rogue cops.
The camera zooms in on a group of hustlers who find a truckload of stolen gold bullion and tumble headfirst into the world of London’s organized crime. Luke Pasqualino, Lucien Laviscount, Dougray Scott, Phoebe Dynevor, Juliet Aubrey and Ed Westwick also star.
MUCH ADO ABOUT HUGH
Hugh Hefner gets the docuseries treatment with American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, launching April 7 on Amazon Prime Canada.
The founder of Playboy magazine made thousands of hours of archival footage available for the project. The 90-year-old also granted access to more than 2,900 personal scrapbooks, and has been involved in the show’s development.