Michael Bublé and Drew Scott hoping to score with new Prime Video series Hometown Giants

Michael Bublé (l) and Drew Scott are co minority owners of the Vancouver Giants WHL hockey team. The team is the focus of a new Amazon Prime video series Hometown Giants. The series is streaming now. Photo by Amazon Prime Video /Amazon Prime Video

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On paper, Hometown Giants has all the ingredients of a glossy sports series: famous owners, a storied Canadian game, and a junior hockey team chasing a championship.

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But the six-part Prime Video docuseries quickly finds its drama somewhere more vulnerable — in the teenage players trying to make a Western Hockey League roster, battling injuries, and living with the knowledge that only a small fraction will reach the professional ranks.

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Streaming now, the series follows the Vancouver Giants through their 2025-26 season, training camp, a gruelling road trip, then the trade deadline and NHL draft. It is produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Scott Brothers Entertainment, with team co-owners Michael Bublé and Drew Scott serving as executive producers and appearing throughout the series.

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The project also has deep local roots. Bublé is from Burnaby, while Scott grew up in Maple Ridge and lives in North Vancouver. The two met through Bublé’s sister about 30 years ago, long before Bublé became an international music star and Scott created the Property Brothers and a television empire with his twin brother, Jonathan.

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“This is all about community,” Bublé said. “This is about our hometown and being able to come together. Two kids from these stomping grounds, to be able to come back and be a part of growing our community and pulling everyone together, is phenomenal.”

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Property Brothers host Drew Scott (left) and Michael Bublé, co-minority owners of the Vancouver Giants, have teamed up to executive produce the new docuseries Hometown Giants. The six-part series that follows the WHL junior hockey is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Photo by Arlen Redekop /PNG

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Scott nodded, then supplied the punchline. “Also, a big part of this was to feed Michael’s hockey ego. He wanted to feel more involved in hockey,” he said with a laugh, referring to Bublé’s well-documented devotion to the game and the Vancouver Canucks. Bublé even has an indoor rink at his Burnaby home.

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Bublé joined the Giants’ ownership group in 2008. Scott came aboard in 2023 with one firm condition: e did not want to be merely another celebrity attached to a team.

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“I’ve been producing for almost 20 years now, and we have 15 series that we produce on the unscripted side,” Scott said. “I just didn’t want to join to be another celebrity face that was part of the team if I wasn’t contributing.”

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Scott began thinking about what his production experience could bring to a franchise that had not won a championship since 2007. The answer was to put the players’ stories at the centre.

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That plainspoken enthusiasm is the series’ strongest asset. Beneath the celebrity banter and the business ambitions, Hometown Giants is a story about teenagers living under pressure, adults trying to guide them, and a season that didn’t follow a championship script.

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“It’s the emotional journey of these kids,” Scott said. “You’ll laugh, you’re going to cry.”

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Streaming now on Prime Video the reality series Hometown Giants follows the Vancouver Giants of the WHL hockey league. The series is executive produced by team co-owners Michael Bublé and Property Brothers star Drew Scott. Photo by Amazon Prime Video /Amazon Prime Video

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For Bublé, access to the team is the fulfilment of a childhood wish.

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“I am the hugest dork hockey fan ever. I live, breathe hockey, and I have always bitched and complained that there was no access,” Bublé said. “With Hometown Giants, we get to know what it is really like when the curtain is pulled back. As a hockey fan, to get to go from that first day of training camp to that kid standing on the stage getting drafted — that’s what I’ve always wanted to see.”