{"id":787496,"date":"2026-07-08T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787496\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:00:16","slug":"sullivans-crossing-gets-new-showrunner-for-s5-cw-renewal-pending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787496\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sullivan’s Crossing’ Gets New Showrunner For S5; CW Renewal Pending"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Sullivan\u2019s Crossing is undergoing a major behind-the-scenes change ahead of Season 5. Series creator Roma Roth<\/a> has stepped down as head writer\/showrunner; she is being succeeded by Canadian writer-producer Floyd Kane<\/a> (Diggstown) who is assuming day-to-day leadership as Head Writer.<\/p>\n

\n\tRoth remains an executive producer on the popular romantic drama, which was renewed for a fifth season by CTV<\/a> a month ago as part of the network\u2019s upfront announcements. She also has a new series unveiled at the CTV upfront,Thunder Point, which she is focusing on.<\/p>\n

\n\tA Season 5 pickup of Sullivan\u2019s Crossing by the CW<\/a>, which has been the show\u2019s first-window U.S. home since Season 1, is still being finalized, sources said.<\/p>\n

\n\tFilming on the new season is set to begin later this summer in Nova Scotia, with Morgan Kohan<\/a> and Chad Michael Murray<\/a> leading the returning cast. There are no current plans for Scott Patterson<\/a>, the series\u2019 co-lead with Kohan and Murray for the first three seasons, to return, I hear.<\/p>\n

\n\tPatterson departed after Season 3 and was reportedly approached<\/a> by Roth about a possible Season 5 return before the duo each issued statements, revealing a behind-the-scenes rift.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe creative differences were becoming untenable and I just sadly realized that the show was not something that I could agree to continue,\u201d Patterson said in March<\/a> about his exit. <\/p>\n

\n\tThere had long been rumors about issues \u2014 some of them related to Roth\u2019s showrunner style \u2014 on the Sullivan\u2019s Crossing set, which has not been a harmonious work environment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat has not translated on screen, with the series, based on Robyn Carr\u2019s novels, continuing to do well on both sides of the border. In the U.S., Sullivan\u2019s Crossing remains the CW\u2019s most watched series, and it also has been a hit for Netflix, which has domestic streaming rights. <\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 4, which wrapped its run on the CW on June 22, made its debut on Netflix on June 30, immediately shooting into the streamer\u2019s daily U.S. Top 3 for TV series. The new season ranked at #6 on Netflix\u2019s English series chart globally for its opening week<\/a> with 3M views despite only being available in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Roth will no longer be in a managerial position, her creative vision is expected to continue to be reflected on the series.<\/p>\n

\n\tRoth has had her hand in two successful adaptations of Robyn Carr book series; in addition to creating and executive producing Sullivan\u2019s Crossing, she also executive produces with Carr Netflix\u2019s hit Virgin River, which is going to Season 8. Roth\u2019s next 10-episode CTV series, Thunder Point, is also based on bestselling books by Carr. It re-teams Bell Media, Reel World Management and Fremantle.<\/p>\n

\n\tKane is known for creating of CBC\u2019s 2019 series Diggstown, the first Canadian legal drama with a Black female lead, which ran for four seasons. He recently executive produced the TV movie Recipe for Romance and the BBC Scotland\/Sky New Zealand thriller series The Ridge.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Season 4 of Sullivan\u2019s Crossing, Maggie Sullivan (Kohan) finally settles on a new direction for her career and a renewed commitment to Cal (Murray) when her ex-husband, Liam (Marcus Rosner), arrives, upending Maggie\u2019s life once again and causing Cal to question whether she will ever truly be able to leave her past behind.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe season, which referenced the absence of Maggie\u2019s dad Sully (Patterson) a handful of times as he remains in Ireland, ends with a major cliffhanger involving Maggie and Cal, setting up a story arc for Season 5.<\/p>\n

\n\tSullivan\u2019s Crossing is executive produced by Reel World Management in association with Bell Media\u2019s CTV, The CW and Fremantle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Sullivan\u2019s Crossing is undergoing a major behind-the-scenes change ahead of Season 5. Series creator Roma Roth has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,15839,45806,75,278263,94919,278264,94916,2395,2396,348],"class_list":["post-787496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chad-michael-murray","tag-ctv","tag-entertainment","tag-floyd-kane","tag-morgan-kohan","tag-roma-roth","tag-scott-patterson","tag-sullivans-crossing","tag-the-cw","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}