The Border - Season 2 Hits Next Week

Here's one that slipped through the cracks at the site - Video Service Corp will release the second season of the hit Canadian series The Border on August 25. Here's a press release they sent over:

In the second season of the award-winning series The Border, which airs on CBC, Major Mike Kessler (James McGowan) and ICS’ elite border-security task force risk their lives to protect Canada from terrorists, corporate spies, and the international mafia. Agent Liz Carver (Grace Park, Battlestar Gallactica), joins the Squad as a smart, ambitious U.S. Homeland Security Agent who Detective Gray Jackson (Graham Abbey) finds impossible to resist. And Dougie Jackson (Nicholas Campbell, Da Vinci’s Inquest), Gray’s father, leads Kessler and ICS down a dangerous path with deadly repercussions. Daisy Beaumont (The East Enders) also joins the cast as the amoral, engaging British MI6 Agent Charlotte Bates.

• Nominated for nine 2008 Gemini Awards including Best Dramatic Series
• Recently nominated by the Monte Carlo Television Festival for Best Dramatic TV Series, Best Performance by an Actor for the show’s star James McGowan, and Best Performance by an Actress for Sofia Milos
• 3 Disc Set
• Season 3 starts airing on the CBC in September 2009
• Bonus features include five behind-the-scenes featurettes

The 3-disc set includes all 13 episodes of the second season (600 mins), and retails for $29.98 CAN. The set can be preorder from Amazon.ca for $21.99. Thanks to Cameron Archer for the reminder.