‘Kim’s Convenience’ stars Nicole Power and Andrew Phung getting their own CBC shows

TORONTO

Two stars of the soon-to-be-finished series “Kim’s Convenience” are each getting their own show, one of which is a spinoff created by the showrunner of the CBC hit comedy.

The public broadcaster says Nicole Power and Andrew

Phung will star in new, half-hour original comedies set to launch during the upcoming 2021-22 broadcast season.

Power, who hails from in Middle Cove, N.L., will star as her “Kim’s” character Shannon Ross in the spinoff “Strays.”

“Kim’s Convenience” co-creator Kevin White also created Ross’s new series, which will follow the enthusiastic car-rental agency manager Shannon as she embarks on a new career in Hamilton.

Calgary-raised Phung, who played Kimchee on “Kim’s,” will star in “Run the Burbs” as a stayat-home dad with an entrepreneur wife and two kids.

Phung also created the series with his best friend and collaborator, filmmaker Scott Townend.

“Kim’s Convenience” stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Simu Liu and Andrea Bang as a Korean-Canadian family who run a corner store in Toronto.

Ross’s character works with Jung, played by Liu, and Kimchee who is Jung’s best friend.

Producers announced earlier this month the show, which has earned a global following on Netflix, will end for good on April 13 with the final episode of the current fifth season.

That’s a full season shorter than what was planned in early 2020, when the comedy was renewed for two additional seasons at the CBC.

The producers said the decision came after White and fellow co-creator Ins Choi confirmed at the end of production on season 5 that they were moving on to pursue other projects.

“Given their departure from the series, we have come to the difficult conclusion that we cannot deliver another season of the same heart and quality that has made the show so special,” the producers said in a statement.

A publicist says “Strays” is the project White was moving on to.

The CBC says “Strays” is currently in production and has been in development since July 2018, while “Run the Burbs” has been in development since last May.

“Kim’s Convenience” debuted in 2016 and is based on the award-winning play by Choi.

When news broke it was ending, Lee and Liu took to social media to say they were “heartbroken.”

“Strays” and “Run the Burbs” join the previously announced original show “Sort Of” as new additions to the comedy lineup in the upcoming broadcast season at the CBC, which has also seen several other series come to an end in recent months for various reasons: “Burden of Truth,” “Trickster” and “Frankie Drake Mysteries.”

Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo created “Sort Of,” which also stars Baig “as a gender fluid millennial trying to live their most authentic life,” says a news release.

Thunderbird Entertainment produces “Strays,” which also includes cast members Frank Cox-O’Connell, Tina Jung, Nikki Duval, Kevin Vidal, Tony

Nappo, Paula Boudreau and Emily Piggford.