Editor's note: This story has been updated that SurrealEstate will return for a Season 2 but not until 2023.
Shoresy makes its Crave debut this Friday. Shoresy, a spin-off of Letterkenny, has 6 episodes that will debut 2 episodes at a time each Friday.
Hulu will carry Shoresy outside Canada starting May 27, presumably with all 6 episodes at once.
Jared Keeso, co-creator of Letterkenny, has been the personification of the title character on the original show. We do know from this extremely NSFW preview that Keeso will physically appear as Shoresy.
The character Shoresy joins the Sudbury Bulldogs of the Northern Ontario Senior Hockey Organization (The NOSHO).
Hi everyone. I had a hand in bringing this baby to life. Very proud hope you all enjoy it. https://t.co/dun2g0mCQ4
— Kaniehtiio Horn (@kaniehtiio) April 24, 2022
While we enjoy Letterkenny a lot, the Shoresy bits are okay in small doses. Keeso and the group can definitely prove us wrong as they did with Letterkenny.
The Canadian landscape is filled with Canadian hockey films but that hasn't translated to Canadian TV. Shoresy might be the exception.
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Kids in the Hall also debuts on Friday on Amazon Prime Video in the United States, Canada, and more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. We would say they need no introduction but they might since younger generations may not remember and older generations who didn't like them the first time might be swayed by the middle-aged version.
Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson are back with 8 episodes. The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks is a 2-part documentary that recently premiered at SXSW and will screen at Hot Docs this month. The documentary debuts on May 20.
The list of guest stars includes Canadians and Americans who generally have some level of improv experience: Paul Bellini, Pete Davidson, Catherine O’Hara, Kenan Thompson, Brandon Ash-Mohammed, Will Forte, Catherine Reitman, Samantha Bee, Fred Armisen, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jay Baruchel, Eddie Izzard, Tracee Ellis Ross, Mark Hamill, and Colin Mochrie.
McCulloch is a director and mentor for Tallboyz. Baroness von Sketch can trace its roots back to the iconic CBC show from 1989-1995 that also ran on CBS, HBO, and Comedy Central in the United States. Lorne Michaels is behind the scenes of this version as well.
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Amazon Prime Video has been doing with Canadian content what Netflix theoretically wanted to do and has been miserable at that so far.
We knew of The Lake, a comedy set in cottage country with Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black), Madison Shamoun, and Julia Stiles. Gavaris will get to use his regular Canadian accent for this show. Gavaris' character Felix in Orphan Black was British.
The Sticky is an English-language dramedy set in Quebec about a real-life maple syrup heist. Mike Downie will do a documentary about The Tragically Hip featuring his late brother, Gord Downie.
Patrick Huard (Starbuck, Bon Cop, Bad Cop) will host LOL: Qui Rira Le Dernier?, a French-language version of the global comedy format.
Netflix hasn't done much and what little it has done has not been impressive. The Decline was a decline and Code 8: Part II can't likely match up to the level of the original Code 8.
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U.S. viewers of Transplant on NBC might be wondering what happened to the rest of the episodes of Season 2. NBC aired the first 7 episodes but haven't aired an episode since April 24.
The season didn't debut until March 6. The pause is more about sweeps in U.S. television where networks feel the need to run specials instead of some regular programming.
Sunday night at 10 pm Eastern wasn't a great timeslot for the medical drama. There is a report that the season finale on NBC will be on June 19. To make that timing fit, there would be at least one back-to-back run of episodes.
The show that won 8 Canadian Screen Awards — including the Best Drama Series and major acting awards for Hamza Haq, Laurence Leboeuf, and Ayisha Issa — deserves better treatment south of the 49th parallel.
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SurrealEstate, which had been cancelled by Syfy, will be back for Season 2 in 2023. Tim Rozon and Sarah Levy starred in the drama, which focused on a real estate agency that dealt with ghostly inhabited houses.
We hadn't realized the show had been cancelled but glad to see the program will be back at some point. The show also runs on the CTV Sci-Fi Channel in Canada.
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Paul Pope, president of Pope Productions and Hudson & Rex executive producer, passed away suddenly last month at 63.
Pope was a strong force in Canadian television and Canadian film in his native Newfoundland. We have more on his impact. Allan Hawco had beautiful words to say about Pope with fellow Newfoundlander Tom Power on Q.
I just told @MelanieScrofano that she needs to guest star on @WorkinMoms so she can be a hotmess mom that drives @KatBarrell ‘s Alicia completely crazy!! It would be so awesome to see these 2 reunite on another awesome fing show!! @reitcatou @DaniKind #workinmoms #WynonnaEarp 😁
— Katie Dlo (@KatieDlo) April 9, 2022
The answer to that question is "definitely, yes." Other burning questions we hope to know more soon:
- When is Jann Season 3 coming to Hulu?
- When is Workin' Moms Season 6 coming to Netflix? (We do know the answer: today, May 10)
- Are we ever seeing the Martin Scorsese hosted interview with the SCTV reunion on Netflix?
- When will Fox show Diggstown? Will Fox ever show Diggstown?
photo credits: Shoresy/Crave; Amazon Prime Video
Twitter captures: @kaniehtiio; @KatieDlo
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