Netflix has commissioned a coming-of-age drama out of B.C., produced by Thunderbird Entertainment’s Great Pacific Media (GPM).

Written and showrun by Popularity Paper‘s Vivian Lin and co-developed with Morwyn Brebner, Crew Girl stars Canadian Miku Martineau – who leads Boat Rocker’s Netflix series Bet – as a coxswain with a complicated home life on an all-boys rowing team. The series is now in production in Victoria.

The cast also features Jessica Paré (Mad Men), Samuel Braun (Bad Genius), Kyle Clark (Riverdale) and Thomas Cadrot (Scream). It is executive-produced by Lin, Jeff Norton (Geek Girl), Lindsay Macadam, Hillary Zwick Turner, Tony Chung and Lori Massini.

Crew Girl was commissioned by Netflix’s L.A.-based Kids & Family content team. It joins Netflix’s Canadian projects such as Bet, Sphere Media’s Wayward — which makes its world debut in Toronto on Tuesday (Sept. 9) — and its untitled Newfoundland project from creator Jesse McKeown (The Umbrella Academy).

Based in Burnaby, B.C., GPM’s other productions include the features Sidelined: The QB and Me and its sequel, and factual series such as Rocky Mountain Wreckers and Highway Thru Hell.

Image courtesy of Netflix; photo by Brindi Tremblay