Working with the then-regional Canadian network Global, the show only had $5,000 to produce each of the first 30-minute episodes, which were aired one month at a time. THE TOTAL BUDGET FOR THE FIRST SEVEN EPISODES WAS $35,000 No matter the title, the premise of each episode was that the audience was being shown programming from the fictitious channel SCTV, airing out of the equally fictional Melonville. For its sixth and final season, and now with 45-minute episodes (with commercials), it was SCTV Channel. To acknowledge the now 90-minute runtime for seasons four and five, it was rechristened SCTV Network 90, then later SCTV 90. For season three it became SCTV Television Network. SCTV HAD FIVE DIFFERENT OFFICIAL TITLES, NONE OF WHICH WERE SCTVįor the first two seasons, the half hour show was Second City Television. If you know who Levy and O’Hara are, then you definitely know the names John Candy, Harold Ramis, Martin Short, Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, and Andrea Martin, their co-stars on the legendary and influential sketch comedy show SCTV.īut even the biggest comedy fans might not know everything there is to know about the show Conan O’Brien once said was “perfect out of whole cloth.” 1. In their latest project, Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara play a riches-to-rags couple forced to live in an unfortunately named small town in the new comedy series Schitt’s Creek, which will make its American debut on Wednesday.
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