Kids in the Hall reunite for series! - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 08-20-2009, 10:26 PM

MONTREAL -- Quirky Canuck comedy troupe the Kids in the Hall are back together shooting a comic murder-mystery series in Ontario.
Five members of the gender-bending comedy outfit, whose eponymous sketch comedy show ran on CBS and HBO in the first half of the 1990s, star in "Death Comes to Town."

The eight-part series was conceived by Bruce McCulloch and co-written by McCulloch and fellow Kids Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson.

McCulloch is exec producer; Susan Cavan produces for Accent Entertainment.

Directed by Kelly Makin, who helmed the original "Kids in the Hall" series and movie, "Brain Candy," the series is about what happens in a small town when all its most distinguished citizens are murdered. A suspect is arrested, there's a trial and many dark secrets are revealed along the way.

It is filming in the small northern city of North Bay and is set to air on Canuck pubcaster CBC in January.

"We have thought about reuniting on television for years but we've all had a lot of personal projects and weren't sure about how we wanted to come back together," said McCulloch.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=14&cs=1

Chocoholic · 08-21-2009, 12:01 AM

Does the murderer crush their heads?

catlover79 · 08-21-2009, 12:07 AM

Very cool!! I always found it amusing that wild, crazy Bruce McCulloch could so convincingly play the terminally boring Fred Wright in the 1987 miniseries Anne of Avonlea. I also enjoyed Scott Thompson in one of my favorite TV shows, Providence.

Marvo301 · 08-21-2009, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

Very cool!! I always found it amusing that wild, crazy Bruce McCulloch could so convincingly play the terminally boring Fred Wright in the 1987 miniseries Anne of Avonlea. I also enjoyed Scott Thompson in one of my favorite TV shows, Providence.

And of course Dave Foley was brilliant on Newsradio!

catlover79 · 08-21-2009, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Marvo301

And of course Dave Foley was brilliant on Newsradio!

Yes, and he also had a cameo in Anne of Avonlea!

Marvo301 · 08-21-2009, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

Yes, and he also had a cameo in Anne of Avonlea!

I think almost every Canadian actor did!

catlover79 · 08-21-2009, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Marvo301

I think almost every Canadian actor did!

Good point.

Chocoholic · 08-21-2009, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Marvo301

And of course Dave Foley was brilliant on Newsradio!

He sure was. NewsRadio was such a brilliant and underrated show.

robyrob · 08-21-2009, 11:45 AM

the big question - will it air stateside?

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