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Hiccups premieres March 1

From a media release:

Viewers No Longer Need to Hold Their Breath: CTV Original Series Hiccups Premieres March 1

  • Featuring Brent Butt, HICCUPS stars CORNER GAS alumnus Nancy Robertson
  • Original series leads Monday Comedy block on CTV at 8 p.m. ET
  • A second bout of HICCUPS can be caught on The Comedy Network, Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT
  • New episodes available post-broadcast on The CTV Video Player at CTV.ca and on popular internet download stores

Prolonged laughter is often the cause of HICCUPS. This isn’t news for HICCUPS creator and writer Brent Butt: his latest brainchild, and CTV’s newest original series, premieres Monday, March 1 at 8 p.m. ET (visit CTV.ca to confirm local broadcast times). The 13-part, half-hour comedy series stars Nancy Robertson as Millie Upton, a successful children’s author who’s prone to flying off the handle, and features Brent Butt as Stan Dirko, Millie’s less-than-qualified life-coach. Together, they work through Millie’s…err…unpredictable spasms, and lead the laughs on CTV’s two-hour Monday night comedy block.

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Dan For Mayor premieres March 1

From a media release:

Original New Comedy Series DAN FOR MAYOR Gets Inducted into CTV Line Up, March 1

  • New comedy stars CORNER GAS’s Fred Ewanuick
  • Original series joins Monday night comedy block at 8:30 p.m. ET
  • Created by three of Canada’s most talented comedy writers and producers
  • Three real life Mayors make cameo appearances
  • New episodes available post-broadcast on CTV.ca

CORNER GAS and ROBSON ARMS alumnus Fred Ewanuick stars as Dan, an average 30-something bartender whose off-the-cuff comment spirals into his haphazard candidacy for mayor in the half-hour Original Comedy Series DAN FOR MAYOR, premiering Monday, March 1 at 8:30 p.m. ET on CTV (visit CTV.ca to confirm local broadcast times). Created and written by three of Canada’s most respected comedy writers and producers – Mark Farrell (CORNER GAS; THIS HOUR HAS 22 MINUTES), Paul Mather (CORNER GAS; THE RICK MERCER REPORT) and Kevin White (CORNER GAS; THIS HOUR HAS 22 MINUTES) – DAN FOR MAYOR follows Dan on his new-found quest to make it big in local politics.

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