Everyone break out your Andrea True Connection singles, because we are about to get more, more, more Drag Race.
Just days after the Emmy-winning reality competition series aired its groundbreaking 13th season premiere, its poutine-flavored spinoff Canada’s Drag Race was renewed following a messy, chaotic, wildly entertaining first outing. Its debut season saw fan-favorite Priyanka, a Canadian children’s personality, become the franchise’s first Indo-Caribbean winner. Also earning high marks were Québécois drag veteran Rita Baga and self-described “drag clown” Jimbo.
While Crave, the streaming service that airs Canada’s Drag Race internationally, has been mum on a sophomore season after its maiden voyage docked with the September finale, a renewal was all but assured. In a Thursday statement announcing the coming second season, the streaming platform noted that Canada’s Drag Race is “the best-performing Canadian and Crave Original Series in the platform’s history.”
Blue Ant Studios, the production company behind Canada’s Drag Race, said the creative team was “delighted by the incredible talent showcased in Season 1.” “We’re excited and honored to continue this celebration of creativity, love, inclusion, and awesome Canadian drag culture,” the company said in a press release.
While Canada’s Drag Race issued a casting call Thursday urging performers with “charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent” to audition for Season 2, it’s unknown if its embattled judging panel will be coming back for more. The inaugural roster of judges included model Stacey McKenzie, Drag Race Season 11 runner-up Brooke Lynn Hites, and UnReal alum Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, the latter of whom earned the ire of fans for his often harsh feedback for contestants. Bowyer-Chapman briefly quit Twitter over the blowback.
Canada’s Drag Race has already enlisted a new showrunner for Season 2, indicating that more shake ups may be on the way. Trevor Boris, a producer of Big Brother Canada and Canada’s Got Talent, will be overseeing the production.
While the next season of Canada’s Drag Race is expected to air on Crave in Canada and WoWPresents Plus later this year, fans of the rapidly proliferating global franchise will not have to wait that long for more. In addition to the U.S. edition — which made history in casting the show’s first-ever transmasculine contestant, Gottmik, for Season 13 — the sophomore iteration of RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. will take a bow on January 14.
And if that’s not enough, reports indicate that Drag Race Australia has already started production on its first season in Auckland, New Zealand after the program was barred from filming Down Under due to a COVID-19 surge. The cast will allegedly feature both Aussie and Kiwi contestants, and rumors suggest that RuPaul Charles himself will be hosting. That revelation — while a break in tradition from the RuPaul-less spinoffs in Canada, Thailand, and Holland — isn’t entirely a surprise: Charles’ husband, Georges LeBar, is Australian.
Also coming is reportedly Drag Race Spain — and at this rate, Drag Race Narnia, Drag Race Zamunda, and Drag Race Pocatello, Idaho, as well as the inevitable RuPaul’s Fracking U. The possibilities are truly endless.
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