From Cassandra Szklarski of The Canadian Press:
Jared Keeso to create comedy for CraveTV
The crass musings of a country boy named Wayne are leaping from YouTube to CraveTV.
Bell Media says its on-demand streaming service has commissioned its first original Canadian series: a six-part, half-hour comedy called Letterkenny that will star 19-2 actor Jared Keeso.
Keeso just won Best Actor in a Drama Series at the Canadian Screen Awards. Continue reading.
From Marty Thompson of BlackburnNews:
Listowel’s Jared Keeso Awarded ‘Letterkenny’ TV Show
Just days after winning a Canadian Screen Award for his work on the television show 19-2, Listowel’s Jared Keeso has seen one of his projects turn into a TV show.
Bell announced on Thursday that Keeso will star in the comedy ‘Letterkenny’ which, in partnership with The Comedy Network, will air on their new digital TV service, Crave TV.
The six-part half-hour comedy will be based off of the wildly successful web series called Letterkenny Problems, which Keeso says came from his upbringing in Listowel. Continue reading.
This sounds super interesting. Keeso is a real solid talent and maybe this keeps him in Canada longer. Everyone wins.