A Ladner filmed spy drama makes its debut tonight on CBC television.
Fortunate Sonstars Kari Matchett (Covert Affairs), Darren Mann (Giant Little Ones) and Stephen Moyer (True Blood), which airs at 9 p.m.
The show, inspired by a true story and created by showrunner Andrew Wreggitt (Pure, Borealis) is set in the social and political chaos of the late 1960s.
According to a bio about the show, war, riots, assassinations, political corruption and racial tension - like today, 1968 was a time of global political and social upheaval. Tensions between generations, races and genders were all reaching critical levels. Violence was spilling out onto the streets and families were increasingly divided over social and political issues.
Fortunate Son tells the story of a family divided by a mother’s deeply held commitment to activism, and the personal cost it exacts on those she loves. It focuses on the Howard family as they struggle to escape their past and deal with the increasingly tumultuous world around them.
Ruby Howard, played by Matchett is an American activist pursued into Canada by the FBI who refuses to give up the antiwar cause she so deeply believes in. Howard helps smuggle American draft dodgers and war deserters across the Canadian border to safety. One deserter she helps is Travis Hunter, played by Mann, who brings his own troubled past with him and ends up leading the U.S. Intelligence services to her door.
Moyer stars as Vern Lang, a CIA agent.
Fortunate Son was filmed in Ladner as well as Calgary.
