37% Metacritic Genre Comedy Original language(s) English First episode date 2013 Cast Dillon Casey | 5.3/102 Votes AlchetronIMDb 29% Rotten Tomatoes Country of origin Canada United States No. of seasons 1 Program creator Jay Bennett | 4.3/10 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Created by Daniel Dales Jarrett Sherman Jay Bennett Starring Dillon Casey Noah Reid Meghan Heffern Giacomo Gianniotti Networks The CW, CTV Television Network Nominations Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance in a Program or Series Produced for Digital Media Similar Seed, Spun Out, Significant Mother, Good Dog, Baxter |
Backpackers is a Canadian comedy web series, which aired in 2013 on CTV.ca and CW Seed. The CW picked up the series for television broadcast, for which material from the web series was edited into four half-hour episodes, and six new episodes were produced. Backpackers made its television premiere on July 14, 2014. The series stars Dillon Casey and Noah Reid as Brandon and Ryan, two friends on a backpacking trip across Europe after Ryan and his girlfriend Beth (Meghan Heffern) experience cold feet over their pending engagement. Ryan's stolen journal is posted on the Internet and goes viral, sending Ryan, Brandon, and Brandon's brother Andrew (Giacomo Gianniotti) on another journey, to recover the journal and fulfill Ryan's dream of becoming a published author.
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