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"I want to make our community a better place." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a funny comedy series called North of North, a Canadian sitcom series set in the very far North in a small Arctic town. Co-created by Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, the fun series is about a young Inuk woman who wants to build a new future for herself after a spontaneous — and extremely public — exit from her marriage. But this might be a challenge in a small Arctic town where everybody knows your business. Meet Siaja, a young woman who dreams of reinventing herself in her small Arctic town - but it's not going to be easy when everyone knows her. Determined to forge her own path, Siaja, a newly single young mom, takes bold risks in her career and love life. This was filmed on location up in Iqaluit, Nunavut (see Google...

North of North is coming soon to Netflix. The streaming service has announced the cast for the new comedy series (formerly known as "Untitled Arctic Comedy") which has started production in Nunavut in Canada.

Mary Lynn Rajskub, Maika Harper, Braeden Clarke, Jay Ryan, Kelly William, Zorga Qaunaq, Doreen Simmonds, and Tanya Tagaq are joining the previously cast Anna Lambe and Keira Cooper.

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Netflix’s upcoming arctic comedy finally has a name and has rounded out cast, as it goes into production in snowy Nunavut, Canada.

Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s North of North began production today. The comedy follows a young Inuk mother (Anna Lambe) who wants to build a new future for herself, but finds it won’t be easy in her small Arctic town where everyone knows her business.

Joining Anna Lambe and Keira Cooper in the cast are Mary Lynn Rajskub, Maika Harper, Braeden Clarke, Jay Ryan, Kelly William, Zorga Qaunaq and Doreen Simmonds (True Detective: Night Country).

Lambe and Cooper were cast in mother-daughter roles in December, as we reported at the time.

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