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A night before its TV and streaming debut tonight (Feb. 7), the first episode of the series was screened in Centre Stage theatre and adjacent room for an overflow crowd, followed by food and drinks.
stars Supinder Wraich and Enrico Colantoni attended the evening party, along with fellow actors, the showB次元官网网址檚 creative team, politicians, business leaders and others.
Airing Wednesdays at 9 p.m., the series stars Wraich as B次元官网网址淪urrey girlB次元官网网址� Sabrina Sohal, a rookie police officer who fights to exonerate her politician father, played by Stephen Lobo. The first woman in her trailblazing Punjabi-Canadian family to become a Canadian Federal Police Corps officer, Sohal patrols Surrey alongside veteran officer Vince Brambilla, played by Enrico Colantoni.
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke said she was impressed by the pilot episode, which sees Sohal graduate from the police academy and, on her first day on the beat, work to find a missing child while coping with the arrest of her father, Minister of Public Safety.
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Locke said she met with the series producers last spring.
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It's here: The just-released trailer for new Surrey-set police drama "Allegiance," debuting Feb. 7 on .
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Surrey Coun. Doug Elford said he enjoyed the moving script and pace of the pilot episode.
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With a Surrey policing transition still a very hot topic in the news, the B次元官网网址淎濒濒别驳颈补苍肠别B次元官网网址� creative team says the timing of the series launch is coincidental.
B次元官网网址淭he CFP is a fictionalized police force and not meant to really represent the RCMP or the Surrey Police,B次元官网网址� Wraich underlined during a recent interview on Zoom alongside Colantoni, series creator Anar Ali and co-showrunner Mark Ellis.
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