From Alex Strachan of Canwest:

• TV tonight: Michael, Tuesdays & Thursdays
  It’s Tuesday, time for another session of Michael, Tuesdays & Thursdays. The much-praised, lightly watched sitcom is in the final stretch of its debut season, with a second season looking entirely possible. Ratings don’t count for everything, after all. Sometimes, quality counts. Some of TV’s best comedies need time to find their voice, and it can take time for audiences to find them — especially when they don’t rely on cheap laughs, a big-name star, sexual innuendo or a terminal case of the cutes to make an instant impression. Read more.

From Andrew Ryan of the Globe and Mail:

• Daily Show’s Samantha Bee salutes Canadian roots
  Samantha Bee is proud to be America’s Canadian sweetheart. Although committed to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Toronto native regularly returns home to appear on Canadian programs, including Little Mosque on the Prairie and, most recently, Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays. Read more.

From Danielle Perry of the National Post:

• Samantha Bee’s line for the border
  For quadruple threat Samantha Bee (that would be comedian, actor, writer and Daily Show mirth-maker), guest-starring on CBC’s new sitcom Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays not only gave her the opportunity to work with an old friend, but to also return to her Canadian comedy roots. Read more.

From Jim Slotek of the Toronto Sun:

• Samantha Bee serious about comedy
  he other upside was a reunion with Watts, her old friend and partner- in-laughs from her first comedy sketch troupe, Catch 21. In Toronto in the ’90s, there was an explosion of sketch comedy, in and outside of the orbit of Second City. Bee came to The Daily Show from an all- female troupe called The Atomic Fireballs. Her husband was in one called The Bobroom. Read more.

From the Kitchener Citizen:

• Kitchener native takes his knowledge of therapy from the doctor’s office to television
  This summer, Dr. Peter Farvolden took on a surprising new patient. Farvolden, a Toronto-based therapist who grew up in Kitchener, was hired by the new CBC show Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays. The show is the story of the lovable Michael Dyer, who suffers from anxiety, and fears everything from vomiting to small talk. Twice a week for 15 years he’s seen Dr. Storper, a cognitive behavioral therapist (CBT) who helps Michael conquer his fears one by one. Read more.

From CTV:

• ‘Daily Show’ comic Bee enjoys northern TV exposure
  “I have a role in (HBO Canada’s) ‘Good Dog’ as well and so I was in Canada shooting that and I was able to watch I think three episodes of (‘Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays’) which I thought was terrific,” says Bee, who appears as a TV talk show host on this week’s instalment. Read more.

From a media release:

SAMANTHA BEE on MICHAEL: TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS

• Airs Tuesday, November 15 at 9p.m. (9:30 NT) on CBC-TV

The fabulous Samantha Bee, recently named Comedy Person of the Year at the 12th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards, makes a guest appearance on MICHAEL: TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, Tuesday, November 15 at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT)

Bee is perhaps best known as the ‘Most Senior Correspondent’ on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. On MICHAEL: TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, the comedienne plays Wendy Slade, a morning talk show host who puts David (Bob Martin) and Michael/Miguel (Matt Watts) in chef hats and aprons to make huevos rancheros while promoting David’s book. Michael shines, David seems a bit scrambled.

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