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Former YouTuber Jasmeet Raina’s Culture-Clash Comedy ‘Late Bloomer’ Owes More To ‘The Sopranos’ Than Meets The Eye
'Late Bloomer', Jasmeet Raina's comedy series about a conflicted Pubjabi-Canadian, is our Global Breakout this week.
Crave’s Justin Stockman and his team had been supportive of Raina’s trajectory, and soon the project landed at the streamer and scored a greenlight, with stand-up comedian Russell Peters, another Canadian with Indian immigrant parents, joining as executive producer. Season 2 has begun even more creatively, with Raina’s directorial debut taking the comedy back to his high school life in the early 2000s, and Jordan Singh Sahni and Lennox Blue Powell playing younger versions of Jasmeet and his cousin, Neal, in an episode that touches on anti-Sikh racism following 9/11. Run the Burbs showrunner Shebli Zarghami is showrunning the second season, with Raina and his long-time production partner, Baljinder Dhawan, acting as exec producers, alongside others including those from Pier21, Russell and Clayton Peters and Stockman, Crave’s Vice President for Content Development & Programming.
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