Corner Gas

One of the show’s original writers explains how the show really got made

Rob Ford, Nigel Wright, Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, electoral fraud, patronage, robocalls…

Season two of Dan for Mayor, about a complete political neophyte, is eerily topical

Fred Ewanuick isn’t a politician, but he’s about to play one on TV in the new series Dan for Mayor

Our critic picks the English-language shows from the past 10 years that kept him glued to the small screen

Why didn’t Corner Gas get nominated for any Gemini Awards at all (which you’ve got to admit is pretty weird, even in the unlikely event that all the shows nominated ahead of it were better)? It seemed so unexpected that I originally figured there must be some kind of eligibility issue or a mistake of some kind, but apparently it wasn’t; it just got left out of every category.

Stephanie Law has an excellent interview with writer-producer (and sometime TV Guidance commenter) Mark Farrell, showrunner of This Hour Has 22 Minutes and one of the developers of Corner Gas. He talks about the writing process, the things he looks for in a writer (on a topical show like 22 Minutes, it’s a writer who can get used to writing a lot of material that won’t get on the show) his new pilot “Dan For Mayor,” and the fact that, apparently, the CBC does not have a blacklist for writers who cross over to another network:

Today is Corner Gas finale day, and here’s my piece for the print edition on the success of the series.

‘Corner Gas’ is ending after six seasons. Jaime J. Weinman explains why it was such a huge success.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDcw_mi4qg