Showcase is preparing to premiere two series that have already earned sizable audiences on their home turfs in the U.K. and the U.S. -- starting with the FX hit The Riches.

The series, premiering on the cable channel's Wednesday 10 p.m. ET timeslot on May 9, casts Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver in a family of traveling con artists who try to come off as a normal, well-to-do family. The 13-episode series earned favorable reviews when it premiered in the U.S. last month, and viewers liked it, too. The Riches shot immediately up the list to become FX's second highest rated series, earning 2.5 million viewers 18-49 (3.8 million total).

A second spring offering, the BBC sketch comedy Swinging, comes to Canada Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. ET, starting on May 31. The sex comedy's recurring characters are a prudish sex therapist, a predatory female art teacher and a snobby lawyer smitten with a dirtbag boyfriend. A 15 x 30 run comprises the first season, while a second is running on Five Network in the U.K.

From Media in Canada