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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From a media release:

Production Begins on CTV’s HICCUPS, a New Original Comedy Series From Brent Butt

• CORNER GAS alum Nancy Robertson cast in lead role
• Brent Butt returns to helm his latest project as creator, writer, show runner, executive producer and co-star
• Production now underway in Vancouver, BC

CTV, in association with The Comedy Network and Sparrow Media, announced today that principal photography is underway on the original comedy series, HICCUPS, in Vancouver, BC. From the star and mastermind behind CTV’s hit comedy CORNER GAS, Brent Butt returns to helm his latest project as creator, writer, executive producer and co-star. The 13-part, half-hour series stars the hilarious Nancy Robertson (CORNER GAS) as the lead character and will continue production through November. HICCUPS is the second CTV/The Comedy Network comedy series to begin production this month, the first being DAN FOR MAYOR, starring Fred Ewanuick (CORNER GAS, ROBSON ARMS).

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From CBC:

• Brent Butt to stay behind scenes in new comedy Hiccups
  “Brent Butt didn’t write the role of Millie Upton, the dysfunctional children’s writer in his new comedy Hiccups, with his wife in mind, he said Wednesday. Nancy Robertson, his wife of three years, plays Upton in a pilot of the show, already shot and set to be shown in 2009. Butt is now waiting for CTV’s go-ahead to turn Hiccups into a series.” Read more.