Shaftesbury and CBC announced today that award-winning actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is joining the cast of the hit Canadian whodunit series Murdoch Mysteries in Season 18.
The Toronto Constabulary’s Station House #4 is getting a new copper: Inspector Albert Choi, played by four-time Canadian Screen Awards winner Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Kim’s Convenience, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Mandalorian), marking the actor’s first foray into the world of period drama. As an Asian man with his own set of investigative skills in early 20th-century Toronto, Inspector Choi brings a whole new perspective to the team.
Based on the works and characters created by Maureen Jennings in her popular “Murdoch Mysteries” novels, Murdoch Mysteries is CBC’s most-watched show and Canada’s top-rated long-running drama. It’s also a staple series for fans of its clever crime stories around the world, including in the US, where the show’s first run airs on Ovation TV and streams on Acorn TV. Set in Toronto in the early 1900s during the age of invention, it stars Yannick Bisson as Detective William Murdoch, who employs innovative forensic techniques to solve some of the city’s most perplexing murders.
Production has started in Toronto on the 18th season of Murdoch Mysteries, which consists of 22 episodes and celebrates the series’ 300th episode. What can we expect? More Murdoch-ian delights, of course, including: a murder at a Charles Dickens convention; Murdoch acting as a bodyguard for a silent film star (Siobhan Murphy) and thrown into a cinematic adventure himself; foiling a theft of the world’s largest ruby; proving the veracity of a “Missing Link” skull found in Milton, Ontario; and a holiday episode celebrating the “misfits” and singletons. Episodes that root mysteries in the social issues of the time are also explored, such as: a worker’s strike at a factory; an early instance of low-income housing; competing public hydro projects; and immigrants trying to purchase land in the “paradise” of the wilds of Canada.
But wait, there’s more! The milestone 300th episode will see Murdoch visit the UK to see his wife, Dr. Julia Ogden (Hélène Joy), as they celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee’s Inspector Albert Choi joins a cast of characters that helps make Murdoch Mysteries the hit series that it is, including Chief Constable Thomas Brackenreid (Thomas Craig), Constables George Crabtree (Jonny Harris) and Henry Higgins (Lachlan Murdoch), Detective Llewellyn Watts (Daniel Maslany), Chief Coroner Violet Hart (Shanice Banton), Margaret Brackenreid (Arwen Humphreys) and Effie Newsome-Crabtree (Clare McConnell), Canada’s first female Crown Attorney.
Murdoch Mysteries is developed and produced by Shaftesbury, in association with CBC, ITV Studios, and UKTV, and with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, the IPF’s COGECO Television Production Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and Ontario Creates. Shaftesbury Sales Company and ITV Studios hold worldwide distribution rights for the series.
The Canada and US premiere dates for Season 18 of Murdoch Mysteries have not been announced yet. Stay tuned for updates.
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