Saint-Pierre, the CBC drama that maroons a Newfoundland cop on a French island with fewer than 6,000 residents and a fictional body count to match, is now streaming on Netflix Canada. The streamer’s Canadian arm announced season one is live for subscribers, billing it as “your next can-con binge-watch.”
The timing is tidy. Season 1 surfaced on Netflix Canada’s October slate more than 20 months after its linear debut on CBC and CBC Gem — and at the moment the show is arguably Canada’s hottest English-language drama. CBC calls it the network’s most-watched drama series, and season 1 ranked as its biggest series of 2025.
That first season ran 10 episodes from Jan. 6, 2025, with Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle) as Inspector Donny “Fitz” Fitzpatrick and Joséphine Jobert (Death in Paradise) as Deputy Chief Geneviève “Arch” Archambault, a Parisian transplant with private reasons for taking a posting off the coast of Newfoundland. James Purefoy plays crime boss Sean Gallagher. The season picked up six Canadian Screen Award nominations.
Jobert summed up the premise neatly for the CBC: “Saint-Pierre may have the highest crime rate in the world, but the pastries are so good.”
Newcomers should brace for a cliffhanger: season 1 closes on a guns-drawn standoff in a cemetery, with Arch newly aware of exactly whose daughter she is. Season 2, which picks up days later and expanded to 12 episodes when it launched on Jan. 5, 2026, is not part of this Netflix drop.
Abroad, the show has travelled widely. Distributor FIFTH SEASON has licensed season 1 to UKTV in Britain, France Télévisions, ABC in Australia, Disney+ across Belgium and Eastern Europe, Sky in New Zealand and BBC Studios in the Netherlands and Poland, with U&Alibi carrying it in the UK.
Production on season 3 got underway in July in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon itself, with Assaad Bouab and Caroline Dhavernas joining the ensemble as a decorated officer from mainland France and a businesswoman pushing to turn the islands into a tourist destination. The 12-episode run is set for CBC and CBC Gem in winter 2027.
So Netflix subscribers get the origin story: the back-to-nature cult leader, the escaped bank robber, the buried family secret. Everything that happens after that standoff still lives on CBC Gem.
