X Company (2015)

Genre

thriller television series

Country

Canada

Length

3 seasons, 28 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, five recruits are trained as secret agents at Camp X in Canada. They are then sent on missions in Europe behind enemy lines.

tensehistoricalsuspensefulcharacter-drivengrittymethodicalseriouswartime

What happens

X Company is a Canadian-Hungarian spy thriller television series created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern, the creators of the CTV series Flashpoint, which ran from 2008 to 2012. The series premiered on February 18, 2015, on CBC Television. The series takes place during World War II, and follows five recruits as they are trained as agents at a secret Canadian training facility, Camp X near Lake Ontario east of Toronto and then sent out into the field in Europe. The final episode of the series aired on CBC on March 15, 2017. X Company was produced by Temple Street and Pioneer Stillking Kft. Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern wrote some episodes and were also executive producers with Ivan Schneeberg, David Fortier, Kerry Appleyard (Temple Street) and Bill Haber (Ostar Productions). Directors included Grant Harvey, Amanda Tapping, Paolo Barzman, Julian Gilbey and Stephanie Morgenstern. On March 4, 2015, CBC renewed the series for a second season with ten episodes, two more than the first season of eight. On March 31, 2016, CBC announced that the series would be renewed for a ten-episode third season, to début in the winter of 2017. On September 1, 2016, it was announced that this would be the final season for the show. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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