CTV Your Morning features Hate The Player: The Ben Johnson Story starring Shamier Anderson, and subject of the film, former Canadian Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson, a six-part series following a humourous mockumentary rendition of Johnson's disqualification at the 1988 Seoul Olympics for doping.

Michael Rowe/IMDB/Getty Images In Hate the Player, the Scarborough-born actor satirizes Canada’s biggest doping scandal. Hate the Player  is a comedy about one of the most scandalous events in the history of Canadian sport. How did you square that? Ben Johnson  doesn’t mind being made fun of, and our story comes directly from him. The showrunner, Anthony Q. Farrell, and I spent a lot of time with him. We shot it mockumentary style, and similar to I, Tonya , it tells a story t

Hate the Player: The Ben Johnson Story will spring from the starting blocks on March 26 on GameTV and Paramount+ in Canada a day later (March 27). You can watch a trailer for the six-part show above. The satirical sports comedy series is starring Shamier Anderson as controversial sprinter Ben Johnson, who won gold at the 1988 Olympic Games in what became known as “the dirtiest race in history” before he was caught in a doping scandal and disqualified. The first two episod

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