Following the success of Crave’s pop culture juggernaut Heated Rivalry, attention is slowly turning to the Canadian streamer’s upcoming lesbian softball series! Slo Pitch is a 10-episode mockumentary that follows a queer underdog slo pitch softball team, led by their determined coach. The queer sports series promises “beer, lesbians and baseball.”
Slo Pitch is based on the Canadian web series of the same name that ran between 2020 and 2022 for LGBTQ+ streaming service OutTV. The original web series was created by J Stevens, Gwenlyn Cumyn, and Karen Knox and featured a cast and crew made exclusively of women and non-binary people, with the vast majority identifying as LGBTQ+.
Crave’s Slo Pitch will star Schitt’s Creek‘s Emily Hampshire and Frasier‘s Jess Salgueiro. Karen Knox, Gwenlyn Cumyn, Emma Hunter, Chelsea Muirhead, Lane Webber, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, and Amanda Cordner also star. Women’s softball legend Ayami Sato, who recently made history as the first woman to play in a Canadian men’s pro baseball league, will also make an appearance, as will Nadine Bhabha, who recently rose to prominence on Heated Rivalry, where she plays Kip’s (Robbie G.K.) best friend (and the ultimate ally!) Elena.
The official synopsis reads: “Welcome to the world of beer league sports, where Joanne Pico (Jess Salgueiro) is to coach six-time league losers, The Public Lass Brovaries. Coach Joanne is dead set on turning things around this season despite having just been brutally dumped by her girlfriend and co-founder of the team. Throughout the summer, Joanne leads her lovable, chaotic crew through a season of strikeouts, petty rivalries, conservative-politician sponsors, and sexy carwash fundraisers gone wrong. With her ex now playing on a rival team, Joanne’s got a lot to prove this season. It’s time to win the breakup, get the gang back together, and maybe even find new love over beers in the dugout.”
Slo Pitch for Crave was originally announced back in early October 2025, weeks before Heated Rivalry found proper viral, international success, so clearly the Canadian streamer has faith in the queer sports genre. The upcoming series is set to be produced by Shaftesbury, BOSS & CO, and Elliot Page’s production company, PageBoy Productions. The latter was set up by Page the year after he came out as a trans man, and aims to “champion underrepresented voices and prove that telling those stories is not only socially responsible, but financially viable.”
A Canadian release date for Slo Pitch has yet to be announced, though the series is expected to premiere later this year. Filming on the series is rumoured to have wrapped up recently, which means it might be on its way sooner rather than later. So far, no American distributor has been announced.
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