The much anticipated TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale finally has a Canadian distributor.

Bravo will show the 10-episode series beginning with a two-hour premiere Sunday, April 30 at 9 p.m., with consecutive episodes airing Sundays at 9.

The entire first season will then be released on CraveTV following the season finale on Bravo.

There has been much buzz since it was announced last spring that Elisabeth Moss, known for Mad Men and Top of the Lake, would play the lead role in the series based on Atwood’s dystopian novel about a society in which women are stripped of all power and enslaved for breeding purposes in an area of the United States.

The series will stream on Hulu in the U.S. on April 26.

A trailer released last week only increased Canadian viewers’ appetite to watch the series here, especially since it was filmed in Toronto.

The show also stars Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love), Samira Wiley (Orange Is the New Black), Max Minghella (The Mindy Project), Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck), Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls) and Ann Dowd (The Leftovers).

Atwood’s 1985 novel has been having a moment lately. It recently made it to the top of bestsellers lists, one of several dystopian literary works including George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here getting renewed attention since the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.

Atwood is also having something of a TV moment. Besides The Handmaid’s Tale, on which she is a consulting producer, her 1996 novel Alias Grace has been turned into a CBC-Netflix miniseries.

The author got to play a cameo role in Alias Grace, which stars Sarah Gadon as a maid convicted of murder in 1840s Upper Canada.

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