Blood and Water (TV series)

Blood and Water
Genre Crime Drama
Written by Dan Trotta
Al Kratina
Directed by John L'Écuyer
Starring Simu Liu
Loretta Yu
Elfina Luk
Steph Song
Osric Chau
Peter Outerbridge
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
Cantonese
Mandarin
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 8
Production company(s) Breakthrough Entertainment
Release
Original network OMNI
Original release November 8, 2015 (2015-11-08) – present

Blood and Water is a Canadian television crime drama series, which premiered on OMNI Television in November 2015.[1] The first television drama series produced for a Chinese Canadian audience,[1] the show mixes dialogue in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.[1]

Set in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show centres on police detective Josephine Bradley (Steph Song). After Charlie Xie (Osric Chau), the son of billionaire real estate developer Li-Rong Xie, is found murdered, Josephine is brought into investigate despite having just been diagnosed with cancer.[2]

The cast also includes Loretta Yu as Charlie's widow Teresa; Elfina Luk as his sister Anna, who is plotting her eventual takeover of the family business empire; Simu Liu as his brother Paul, a guardian of many of the family's shady secrets; and Peter Outerbridge as a police colleague of Josephine's.

Eight episodes were produced for the show's first season.[1] A second season is already in development.[2]

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