Blood and Water

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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
Fiona Fu
Osric Chau
Peter Outerbridge
Selena Lee
Composer(s) Richard Pell
Isabelle Noel
Ian LeFeuvre
Country of origin Canada
Language(s) English
Cantonese
Mandarin
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 32
Production
Running time 24 minutes
Production company(s) Breakthrough Entertainment
Broadcast
Original channel Omni Television
Original run November 8, 2015 (2015-11-08) – present
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Blood and Water (血与水|t=血與水 Xuè Yǔ Shuǐ) 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 Fiona Fu as Weiran Xie, the matriarch who holds the Xie family together; 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 Detective Al Gorski, a police colleague of Josephine's.

The first block of eight episodes began airing on November 8, 2015. The first season was further extended with a second block of eight episodes, which began airing on November 13, 2016.[3] The second season of eight episodes began airing on September 9, 2018.[4] The third and final season of eight episodes began airing on June 13, 2021.[5]

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