Roku Nabs ‘Bria Mack Gets a Life’ for U.S. (Exclusive)
The Roku Channel has picked up the Canadian streaming comedy Bria Mack Gets a Life for North America, the U.K. and Mexico.
The licensing deal is for the six-part series that follows Bria McFarlane, played by Malaika Hennie-Hamadi, as a 25-year-old black woman navigating adulthood in a predominantly white world. That’s made all the more difficult, yet more tolerable, by Black Attack (Hannan Younis) being her invisible hype girl.
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As Bria balances being the most educated family member and her overdue credit card bill, Black Attack expresses her inner thoughts that reveal who Bria wants to be, but doesn’t believe she’s allowed to. And just as Bria moves back home and her mother looks to retire, she has to assemble her life — friends, dating, a place to live, and most importantly, a job to fund it all — before time runs out.
Bria Mack Gets a Life hails from New Metric Media, the producer of Hulu’s Letterkenny and Shoresy, and the Crave streaming TV service. The series was created by Sasha Leigh-Henry, who was named by The Hollywood Reporter as a rising Canadian talent as part of the Women in Entertainment Canada franchise.
The series’ ensemble cast includes Leslie Adlam, Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz, Amalia Williamson, Marlee Sansom, Preeti Torul, Robert Bazzocchi, Nia Cummins, Robert Clarke, Shannon Jardine, Catherine De Sève and Mark Forward.
Bria Mack Gets a Life, directed by Leigh-Henry and Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, is executive produced by Leigh-Henry, Mark Montefiore and Tania Thompson, while Angelique Knights and Tamar Bird are producers.
Roku earlier acquired another Crave comedy, Children Ruin Everything, from New Metric Media.
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