The fifth season of TheHandmaid’s Tale will have two streaming homes this fall. At the time of publication of this story, Crave and Prime Video claim that the TV show will land on their respective platforms on September 14th.
While the TV show is filmed in Canada, TheHandmaid’s Tale streams as a Hulu Original in the United States. In theory, since Disney owns Hulu, most would assume that the TV show would end up streaming on Disney+ via Star now that the section is available in Canada. However, in Canada, Bell Media’s Crave has been the home of TheHandmaid’s Tale for several years.
Other Hulu Originals have streamed on Prime Video in Canada, suggesting the service is either getting more aggressive when it licenses content or that it has a deal with Disney regarding the platform’s content streaming in Canada. If accurate, this would be one of the few instances where a popular TV show is available on two platforms at once. TheHandmaid’s Tale will also air on CTV.
MobileSyrup has reached out to Bell and Amazon Prime Video for more information. Bell has stated that TheHandmaid’s Tale will stream on Crave with back-to-back episodes on September 14th. TheHandmaid’s Tale seasons 1-4 are also available on Crave, according to a Bell spokesperson.
Prime Video has yet to offer MobileSyrup more information.
A synopsis for the fifth season of TheHandmaid’s Tale is as follows:
“June faces consequences for killing Commander Waterford while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead’s influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise in power. June, Luke and Moira fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite with Hannah.”
Every month, Amazon adds several new series and movies to its streaming service, Prime Video, and September 2022 will be no different.
Below is everything set to hit and leave Prime Video in Canada. Amazon also shared some featured titles coming to Prime Video Channels, which are add-on channels with additional content for extra subscription fees (they’re noted below):
September 1st
The Girl On The Train
DC’s Stargirl: Season 3
September 2nd
The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon Original)
September 5th
Rick & Morty: Season 6 — on Adult Swim Channel
September 6th
Petite Maman
September 8th
Last Seen Alive
September 9th
Flight/Risk (Amazon Original)
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Seasons 1- 2
As the case every month, several shows and movies are leaving Netflix Canada, Crave and Prime in August.
It’s worth noting that the streaming services may only be removing certain shows and movies for a specific amount of time.
Series like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Gossip Girl and movies like Mean Girls have all left Netflix and then returned to the service months or years later. If you’re more interested in what’s coming to Crave, Prime Video, and Netflix, check out our respective ‘what’s coming to’ posts.
Below are all the shows and movies leaving Netflix, Prime Video and Crave in August.
Netflix
Prison Break: Seasons 1-5 (August 14th)
Wheel of Fortune: Season 35-37 (August 24th)
Chicago Fire: Seasons 1-4 (August 31st)
Prime Video
The Big Sick (August 1st)
Baronness Von Sketch Show: Season 4 (August 5th)
The Craft: Legacy (August 19th)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (September 1st)
Bones (September 15th)
Crave
It’s Complicated (August 4th)
Lion (August 9th)
Enchantimals: Secrets of Snow Valley (August 14th)
I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight (August 21st)
Wonder Woman 1984 (August 21st)
Every month, Amazon adds several new series and movies to its streaming service, Prime Video, and August 2022 will be no different.
Below is everything set to hit and leave Prime Video in Canada. Amazon also shared some featured titles coming to Prime Video Channels, which are add-on channels with additional content for extra subscription fees; they’re noted below as well.
August 1st
Law & Order: Seasons 6-16
August 4th
All or Nothing: Arsenal (Amazon Original)
August 5th
Thirteen Lives (Amazon Original)
The Outlaws: Season 2 (Amazon Original)
Licorice Pizza
August 6th
The Hustle
August 10th
Rutherford Falls on Showcase
August 11th
The Duke
Last Survivors
August 12th
A League of Their Own (Amazon Original)
Cosmic Love (Amazon Original)
Noticia De Un Secuestro (Amazon Original)
National Champions
Alone: Frozen on History
Secret Headquarters on Paramount+
August 14th
Father Stu
Tales of the Walking Dead on AMC+
Power Book III: Raising Kanan on Starz
August 15th
Chesapeake Shores on Super Channel
August 19th
Making the Cut: Season 3 (Amazon Original)
The Italian Job
The Island
August 24th
Nine Bullets
August 26th
Big Gold Brick
Samaritan (Amazon Original)
Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby (Amazon Original0
Old School Tropic Thunder
Measure of Revenge
Leaving Prime Video in August
The Big Sick (August 1st)
Baronness Von Sketch Show: Season 4 (August 5th)
The Craft: Legacy (August 19th)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (September 1st)
Bones (September 15th)
Amazon Prime is priced at $79 per year with a 30-day trial period. The trial isn’t available for those in Quebec, but Prime Video costs $79 for a 13-month subscription, giving you one extra month for the same price.
Amazon Prime Video is available on Android, iOS, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Google TV, PlayStation, Xbox and more.
Amazon is rolling out a new user interface for Prime Video. At long last, it seems the tech giant aims to clean up the interface and provide a better experience for Prime Video subscribers.
Prime Video offers an extensive library. However, Amazon mixes much of the included catalogue of shows and movies with content that requires additional payments or subscriptions. It often becomes difficult to find a movie offered through Prime Video versus one available via premium video-on-demand (PVOD).
With this in mind, Amazon is rolling out a new user interface to help solve this issue. Subscribers of the service will begin to see a newly redesigned experience on their devices. The rollout starts with Fire TV sticks and Android phones. Following the successful release on the aforementioned devices, the new interface will arrive on desktop and iOS.
It appears as though Amazon is taking a page out of the book of Netflix. The redesigned Prime Video app will soon offer a more simplified side menu. This will include options to navigate between Home, Store, Find, Live TV, Free with Ads and My Stuff pages. Each provides its own catalogue of content.
For instance, if you’re hoping to rent Spider-Man: No Way Home, you’d merely have to navigate to the Store page and purchase the rental. Alternatively, once The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power is available, it can be found via the Prime Amazon Originals sub-menu on the Home page.
A big part of this new change is to help identify which piece of content is available via the Prime Video subscription and what isn’t. Pieces of content such as The Terminal List, another Amazon Original, have a blue checkmark next to them. Shows, movies, etc. that are available to rent or buy will have a shopping bag icon next to them.
Plus, Amazon is including a Top 10 Chart, mimicking Netflix. This will showcase the top 10 ranked titles at the time. Much like Netflix, this list will likely rotate each week, though that remains unclear.
Overall, this should help clean up the matter of what is included with a Prime Video subscription and what comes as an add-on or additional purchase. With live channel bundles like StackTV and AMC+ on top of PVOD purchases available, a Prime Video UI refresh was long overdue.
Amazon has not clarified when the desktop and iOS updates are due to arrive. Additionally, it’s not clear whether native smart TV apps will be updated.
As the case every month, several shows and movies are leaving Netflix Canada, Crave and Prime in July.
It’s worth noting that the streaming services may only be removing certain shows and movies for a specific amount of time.
Series like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Gossip Girl and movies like Mean Girls have all left Netflix and then returned to the service months or years later. If you’re more interested in what’s coming to Crave, Prime Video, and Netflix, check out our respective ‘what’s coming to’ posts.
Every week, MobileSyrup outlines some of the most notable movies and TV shows that recently hit Canadian streaming platforms.
Our ‘Streaming in Canada’ column typically focuses on new content from Amazon Prime Video, Crave and Netflix, but other services like Apple TV+ and Disney+ are mentioned when relevant. Premium video on demand (PVOD) platforms are also fair game as movies continue to come to digital early amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Finally, we’ll highlight shows or movies that are made by Canadian companies, involve notable Canadian cast or crew and/or are filmed in Canada.
Amazon’s Prime Video
Petite Maman
After the death of her grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly bonds with another young girl while playing in the woods.
Petite Maman was written and directed by Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) and stars Nina Meurisse (A Woman’s Life) and newcomers Joséphine Sanz and Gabrielle Sanz.
Canadian theatres premiere date: May 6th, 2022 Prime Video Canada premiere date: July 1st, 2022 Genre: Fantasy drama Runtime: 1 hour, 12 minutes
Stream Petite Maman here.
The Terminal List [Amazon Original]
Navy SEAL commander James Reece hunts down the people responsible for the murder of his entire platoon.
Based on Jack Carr’s novel of the same name, The Terminal List was created by David Digilio (Crossbones) and stars Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Kelowna, B.C.’s Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights), Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Criminal Minds) and Riley Keough (Logan Lucky).
Prime Video Canada premiere date: July 1st, 2022 Genre: Action thriller Runtime: Eight episodes (around one hour each)
The full list of movies and shows that hit Prime Video Canada in June can be found here. A round-up of July’s new content is available here.
Crave
No Time to Die
In Daniel Craig’s final 007 film, James Bond is pulled out of retirement by the CIA to investigate a kidnapped scientist who holds the key to a deadly bioweapon.
No Time to Die was directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and stars Daniel Craig (Knives Out), Léa Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Colour), Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody), Lashana Lynch (Still Star-Crossed), Ben Whishaw (A Very English Scandal), Jeffrey Wright (Westworld) and Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List).
Three young children grow up together in a low-income neighbourhood in the Scarborough area of Toronto.
Based on Scarborough-raised writer Catherine Hernandez’s 2017 book of the same name, Scarborough was directed by Toronto’s Shasha Nakai and Rich Williamson (Take Light) and stars newcomers Liam Diaz, Essence Fox and Anna Claire Beitel.
Canadian theatrical release date: February 25th, 2022 Crave premiere date: July 1st, 2022 Genre: Drama Runtime: 2 hours, 16 minutes
A standard Crave subscription is priced at $19.99/month, with Starz costing an additional $5.99/month. A mobile-only subscription is also available for $9.99/month.
The full list of movies and shows that hit Crave in June can be found here. A round-up of July’s new content can be found here.
Disney+
Baymax! [Disney+ Original]
Scott Adsit reprises his Big Hero 6 role of Baymax in this new series about the healthcare robot helping those in need.
Baymax! was created by Big Hero 6 director Don Hall.
Disney+ Canada premiere date: June 29th, 2022 Genre: Animated comedy Runtime: Six episodes (10 to 11 minutes each)
Only Murders in the Building (Season 2) [Star Original]
Charles, Oliver and Mabel are publicly implicated in a murder, making them the subjects of a competing podcast.
Only Murders in the Building was created by Steve Martin (Planes, Trains & Automobiles) and John Robert Hoffman (Grace & Frankie) and stars Martin, Hamilton, Ontario’s Martin Short (SCTV) and Selena Gomez (Wizards of Waverly Place).
Disney+ Star Canada premiere date: June 28th, 2022 (first two episodes, new episodes every Tuesday) Genre: Mystery-comedy Runtime: 10 episodes (around 30 minutes each)
The full list of what’s hitting Disney+ Canada this month can be found here.
Netflix
Beauty [Netflix Original]
A promising young singer finds herself torn between her overbearing family, the music industry and her girlfriend.
Beauty was directed by Andrew Dosunmu (Restless City) and stars Gracie Marie Bradley (Grown-ish), Aleyse Shannon (Leverage: Redemption), Niecy Nash (Claws), Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct) and Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad).
Netflix Canada premiere date: June 29th, 2022 Genre: Drama Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes
In the final two episodes of the penultimate season of Stranger Things, Netflix ominously teases that “it might not work out for us this time.”
Stranger Things was created by the Duffer Brothers (Wayward Pines) and features an ensemble cast that includes Winona Ryder (The Age of Innocence), David Harbour (The Newsroom), Millie Bobby Brown (Intruders), Vancouver’s Finn Wolfhard (It), Gaten Matarazzo (Prank Encounters), Caleb McLaughlin (The Lion King on Broadway) and Noah Schnapp (The Peanuts Movie).
It’s worth noting that Montreal’s own Shawn Levy (Free Guy) is a producer and director on the show.
Netflix Canada premiere date: July 1st, 2022 Genre: Sci-fi, horror, drama Runtime: Episode 8 is 1 hour, 25 minutes and Episode 9 is 2 hours, 30 minutes (!!!)
Amazon says that in the three days since season 3’s release, the popular TV show has experienced 17 percent viewership growth over season 2 and 234 percent over season one.
“From our first conversation with Eric Kripke and the creative team about Season Three of The Boys, we knew the show was continuing to get even bolder — an impressive feat considering the wild success of the Emmy-nominated second season,” said Vernon Sanders, head of global television at Amazon Studios, in a recent statement.
The franchise also offers an animated series, The Boys Presents: Diabolical (currently streaming on Prime Video) and an Untitled Boys Spinoff is currently in the works.
In a statement, The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke also said, “this is the first time in history that exploding genitalia has led to further success,” which is a weird flex, but this is also undeniably one of season 3’s best moments.
It’s unclear when the fourth season of The Boys will release.
The Boys season 3 is available to stream in Canada on Prime Video, which costs 9.99/month or $99/year. The first three episodes of season three are now available to stream, with new episodes dropping every Friday at 7pm ET/4pm PT.
As the case every month, several shows and movies are leaving Netflix Canada, Crave and Prime in June.
It’s worth noting that the streaming services may only be removing certain shows and movies for a specific amount of time.
Series like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Gossip Girl and movies like Mean Girls have all left Netflix and then returned to the service months or years later. If you’re more interested in what’s coming to Crave,Prime Video, and Netflix, check out our respective ‘what’s coming to’ posts.
Below are all the shows and movies leaving Netflix, Prime Video and Crave in June.
Netflix
Blindspot: Seasons 1-5 (June 14th)
Glee: Seasons 1-6 (June 29th)
Spy Kids (June 30th)
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (June 30th)
Spy Kids 3: Game Over (June 30th)
Spy Kids: All the Tiem in the World (June 30th)
Prime Video
Love, Once & Always (June 1st)
Mrs. Scooter (June 1st)
Dater’s Handbook (June 1st)
Love On A Limb (June 1st)
Charmed (June 3rd)
Stage Mother (June 3rd)
Macgyver (June 7th)
Happiest Season (June 10th)
Younger (June 14th)
Rage of Bahamut Virgin Soul (June 18th)
12 Monkeys (June 19th)
Jerry Maguire (June 30th)
Lawrence of Arabia (June 30th)
The Impossible (June 30th)
Jumanji (June 30th)
Antebellum (June 30th)
Crave
Radioactive (June 11th)
Wish Upon A Unicorn (June 14th)
I Am Sam Kinison (June 18th)
Target Number One (June 25th)
50/50 (June 30th)
The Amazing Race Canada: Season 5 (June 30th)
American History X (June 30th)
Big Fat Liar (June 30th)
Carmine Street Guitars (June 30th)
Champs (June 30th)
The Cobbler (June 30th)
Cold Mountain (June 30th)
Conan The Barbarian (2011) (June 30th)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (June 30th)
