Cardinal is a Canadian crime drama television series, currently in production for a scheduled debut on CTV in the 2016-17 television season. An adaptation of Giles Blunt's award-winning mystery novel Forty Words for Sorrow, the series stars Billy Campbell as John Cardinal and Karine Vanasse as Lise Delorme, detectives investigating the murder of a young girl. The cast also includes Deborah Hay, Alanna Bale, Glen Gould, David Richmond-Peck, Gail Maurice, Kristen Thomson, Brendan Fletcher and Allie MacDonald.