Every generation got their Catherine O'Hara, from “SCTV” to “Schitt’s Creek,” and each version was more hilarious and bananas than the last

The CBC and BBC Studios are developing the half-hour about a family in a witness protection living next door in the U.K. to Canada’s most-hardened criminals as fellow program members and neighbors. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief

TORONTO — On a warm Mother’s Day afternoon here, sunlight streamed into the gold-filigreed lobby of the Elgin Theater, where traveling vaudeville acts passed through a century ago. A troupe from the more recent past, though also tinged with nostalgia ...

After a successful Canadian run as Second City TV on Global and SCTV on CBC, the cast packed up and moved to America (theoretically) when NBC offered them a timeslot under the title SCTV Network 90. With them, they brought their unique, quirky characters ...

Joe Flaherty, a writer and performer on the influential and beloved sketch comedy series SCTV and a series regular on Freaks and Geeks, died Monday following a brief illness. He was 82. His death was announced by his daughter Gudrun Flaherty, who said in a ...

Thanks to so many of you for writing in in response to yesterday’s post about SCTV. It hadn’t occurred to me that lots of the sketches and maybe whole shows are on YouTube. But of course that makes perfect sense. One of the interesting things about ...