Schitt’s Creek’ Stars Chat about Final Season of Their Cult Hit
Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Dan Levy, and Annie Murphy join talked about the final season of their significantly much-admired sitcom “Schitt’s Creek.” Dan Levy said that it is nice to have warm memories in people’s minds while Eugene gagged that he wanted more golf time.” Murphy entitled this show as joy and love.
Schitt’s Creek is a Canadian television sitcom produced by Dan and Eugene Levy that telecasted on CBC Television on January 13, 2015. The TV series is created by Not a Real Company Productions. On March 6, 2018, the series was changed for a 14-episode fifth season, which was broadcasted on January 8, 2019.
The series will premiere a 6th and final season including 14 episodes starting on January 7, 2020. The show is telecasted on Pop TV in the United States and on 4Music in the United Kingdom.
The series has won several awards, counting an ACTRA Award and 18 Canadian Screen Awards. It is the first Canadian comedy series to be chosen for a Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Series. It is the first show to win an MTV Movie & TV Award. Daniel Levy won the Best Comedic Performance in 2019. It is also the first series from Pop TV to achieve Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with Outstanding Comedy Series.
The well-to-do Rose family—video store tycoon Johnny (Eugene Levy), his wife and previous soap opera actress Moira (Catherine O’Hara), and their grown-up children David and Alexis (Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy)—lose their wealth after being deceived by their business executive. They are enforced to re-establish their lives with their only remaining advantage: a small town named Schitt’s Creek, which they had bought for their son as a joke birthday gift back in 1991.
The Roses move to Schitt’s Creek, stay in two neighboring rooms in a run-down motel. As the family fine-tunes to their new lives, their affluent mindset come into divergence with the more regional and simple residents of Schitt’s Creek, including mayor Roland Schitt (Chris Elliott), his wife Jocelyn (Jenn Robertson), and the motel’s administrator, Stevie Budd (Emily Hampshire).
Schitt’s Creek is captured using a single camera set-up with no live spectators or laugh track. The interior scenes for the first two seasons were recorded at Pinewood Toronto Studios in Toronto, while interior scenes for season 3 were captured at Dufferin Gate Studios in Toronto. The remaining series is shot on location in Goodwood, Ontario, the Regional Municipality of Durham of the Greater Toronto Area, and Mono, Ontario, where the motel scenes are shot.
