Billy Campbell and Karine Vanasse will star in CTV's one-hour series "Cardinal" (tentatively titled), a murder mystery drama based on "Forty Words For Sorrow", the first novel in Giles Blunt's John Cardinal mystery series, about Campbell's intelligent, calm, stubborn detective John Cardinal, who comes from the northern city of Algonquin Bay and carries years of grievances. Vanasse plays Cardinal's partner Lise Delorme, a shrewd, strong, imaginative and naturally talented investigative detective. The show will be broadcast on CTV between 2016 and 2017, and production will begin as early as February 2016.