Determined to prevent his best friend Boots O’Neal from being transferred to a boarding school with better athletic facilities, mischief-maker Bruno Walton rallies the boys of Macdonald Hall and the girls of Scrimmage Academy in an epic quest to raise enough money to build Macdonald Hall its own swimming pool. The original movie based on the much-loved Macdonald Hall book series by best-selling young adult author Gordon Korman. Premiers Friday, April 1 at 7:30p.m. ET/PT on YTV
From John Doyle of The Globe & Mail:
Letterkenny’s a refreshing and intoxicating Canadian comedy
Awright, awright. Keep your city-pants on. We’re gettin’ Canadian here today.
Letterkenny, which has started streaming on CraveTV, is a heck of a thing. A half-hour comedy, it’s funny, mad, droll, childish and spiky. In the context of Canadian TV, it’s kind of thrilling to see it. Continue reading.Â
From Melissa Hank of O.Canada.com:
Letterkenny a sharp slice of small-town Canada
Remember that guy from that small town you once drove through? Or maybe it was the guy back home who always wore a plaid shirt and jeans? Or maybe he worked the produce stand every second Saturday?
Anyway, that guy now has his own show. Really!
Embodied by 19-2 star Jared Keeso, that guy is Wayne — the main character in the new CraveTV web series Letterkenny. The titular Ontario ghost town has been fictionalized as the home of 5,000 blessed souls, all of them either hicks, skids, hockey players or Christians. Continue reading.
From Bill Harris of Postmedia Network:
Ex-Supergirl Laura Vandevoort on the end of ‘Bitten’ and rejoining ‘Supergirl’
“More than anything, it’s pretty amazing the number of fans we’ve amassed, either from the books, or people who have just started watching the show, and maybe read the books afterward. So it touches my heart that people are asking for the show to come back, and I know all of us in the cast and crew feel the same way.” Continue reading.
From Zi-Ann Lum of The Huffington Post Canada:
Melanie Joly, Heritage Minister, Vows CBC Help After Years Of ‘Planned Demolition’
The NDP pressed the federal government over its platform pledge to boost funding to CBC/Radio-Canada, days after the heritage minister hinted Liberals could renege on the marquee campaign promise.
“For 10 years the CBC was attacked and needs some oxygen,†NDP opposition heritage critic Pierre Nantel said in question period Monday. “The government made promises it has to keep them now.†Continue reading.
