Scripted series · CBC Television
The Ambassador
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Ambassador actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Ambassador reads strongest on Humour, Serialized and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Olivia Winters, a former actor turned savvy-yet-unorthodox diplomat, and her childhood best friend Andrea Taylor, a sharp, policy-driven Chargé d’Affaires, are sent to the hinterland of global diplomacy to uncover new business opportunities for Canada in a rapidly shifting world. Tasked with doing more with less, and operating far from the polished centers of power, Olivia and Andrea rely on bold instincts, chaotic brilliance, and uniquely Canadian workarounds to punch far above their weight. Under constant scrutiny from Ottawa, the duo turns diplomatic afterthoughts into surprising wins, even while skating on very thin ice.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Michael SoutherExecutive Producer
- Teza LawrenceExecutive Producer
- Tim McAuliffeExecutive Producer
- Samantha BeeProducer
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