Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and CBS in the United States. The series is broadcast on the Canadian French-language network V (formerly known as TQS) in Quebec since March 9, 2009. The show was created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern and stars Enrico Colantoni, Amy Jo Johnson, Hugh Dillon and David Paetkau. It was announced January 25, 2011 that Ion Television had acquired all rights to the show and the rights to continue production in house.

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The majority of the cast of Flashpoint are Canadians, including Enrico Colantoni, David Paetkau, Hugh Dillon, Sergio Di Zio, Michael Cram, Mark Taylor and Ruth Marshall. Amy Jo Johnson is the only American actress starring in the Canadian-made drama;[4] she said that she had no problems being in Flashpoint despite announcing to the press that she was already pregnant with her first child with her fiancé Oliver Giner during initial production of Flashpoint.

Ruth Marshall left the series after Season 1 and Mark Taylor left after the first episode of Season 2, Part 2 (aka episode 211) after his character dies. During Amy Jo Johnson’s pregnancy, she was temporarily replaced by Jessica Steen who played Donna Sabine. Steen’s involvement with the series ended in the sixth episode of Season 2, Part 1 when Johnson’s character returned full-time. Taylor was replaced by Olunike Adeliyi who portrays Leah Kerns as of the second episode of Season 2, Part 2 (aka episode 212).
In an interview, the creators of the show stated that they like to cast only Canadians in the show and the only non-Canadian that has ever been on the show is Amy Jo Johnson.