Victoria Ahearn
TORONTO - On set they called her COVID Cathy, or CC for short.
As the COVID-19 supervisor on the new Toronto-shot CBC series Pretty Hard Cases, Catherine Lang had to not only help develop pandemic protocols for the production, but also keep a close eye on the cast and crew to ensure they were following them.
It can be a tricky position, having to police everyone while trying to prevent positive cases, but Lang says she was determined to keep the mood upbeat. What I found the hardest about COVID supervising was that it s hard to spend 100 per cent of your day worrying about people s health. And unfortunately, I m a bit of a worrier, Lang says.
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Starsky and Hutch, Bad Boys, Rush Hour and
Lethal Weapon all fall under this classic category.
Although CBC s new show
Pretty Hard Cases seems to have all the elements that make up the buddy cop genre, it s also reinventing it through a few key differences, most obviously through it s two strong female leads.
Baroness von Sketch Show star Meredith MacNeill plays Samantha Wazowski, Guns and Gangs detective and Drug Squad detective Kelly Duff is played by
Orange is The New Black star Adrienne C. Moore.
The two women are forced to work together after realizing they re both trying to take down the same Toronto street gang, but the way they plan on doing so is exceptionally different.
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