First look at Elliot Page’s sapphic softball comedy Slo Pitch
Slo Pitch is co-produced by Elliot Page (Crave)
Canadian streamer Crave has shared a first look at Slo Pitch, a new queer sports comedy co-produced by Elliot Page.
The half-hour mockumentary follows The Brovaries, a hopelessly dysfunctional, last-place softball team in an LGBTQ+ beer league in Mississauga, Ontario.
When team coach Joanne Pico (Jess Salgueiro) is dumped by her long-term girlfriend, who promptly defects to a rival team, she becomes determined to whip her ragtag squad into shape for a championship run.
The series has been compared to comedy favourites like Parks and Recreation and Letterkenny, with Salgueiro’s character channelling a Leslie Knope-esque determination.
The ensemble cast includes Karen Knox, Gwenlyn Cumyn, Chelsea Muirhead, Emma Hunter, Lane Webber, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Amanda Cordner, with Schitt’s Creek star Emily Hampshire, who has just joined the cast of Heated Rivalry season two, also appearing.
Created by J Stevens, Karen Knox and Gwenlyn Cumyn, the show began life as a 2020 web series before being picked up by Crave.
It is co-produced by Bell Media and Elliot Page’s Pageboy Productions, part of a development deal between the two aimed at spotlighting original queer stories.
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