Production has finished on a “transformative season” of CBC and Max’s Sort Of, which saw veteran Canadian director Shamim Sarif joining the team.

Co-creator and co-showrunner Fab Filippo (pictured right) posted on Instagram this week about completion of filming for season three of the comedy series, which is produced by Sphere Media and was greenlit last December.

Production on the 8 x 30-minute season three started in early May and lasted about two months, a CBC spokesperson tells Playback Daily. The third season is slated to premiere in Canada on CBC and CBC Gem this fall.

Co-creator and co-showrunner Bilal Baig (pictured left) stars in the series as a nanny helping a crisis-stricken family while dealing with their own family and relationship drama in Toronto. Baig and Filippo are also executive producers on the Peabody Award-winning series.

Directors this upcoming season include Filippo and Sarif, whose extensive list of credits includes the director, writer and producer on the feature Polarized, as well as director on series including Hallmark Channel’s The Way Home (Neshama Entertainment, MarVista Entertainment), CBC’s Diggstown (Circle Blue Entertainment, Freddie Films, Waterstar Entertainment) and SkyMed (Piazza Entertainment).

The season three writers are Fillipo, Baig, Ian Iqbal Rashid and Tricia Fish.

Other cast members returning for season three include Gray Powell, Amanda Cordner, Ellora Patnaik, Grace Lynn Kung, Supinder Wraich, Kaya Kanashiro, Aden Bedard, Raymond Cham Jr., Becca Blackwell, Ali Hassan, Kareem Vaude, Varun Saranga, and Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves.

The shoot was challenging yet “transformative,” with support from all departments who came together to problem-solve “like a choir standing there singing the same line over and over: ‘How about this?'” wrote Filippo in the Instagram post.

Photo courtesy of CBC