From Brad Oswald of the Winnipeg Free Press:

• New TV genre: The comeuppance comedy“Living In Your Car, a new Canadian-made cable series that premieres Friday on HBO Canada, could fairly be described as a comeuppance comedy — a show that gives its viewers what they want by really giving its central character what he deserves.” Read more.

From Cassandra Szklarsi of the Canadian Press:

• HBO Canada’s ‘Living In Your Car’ finds comedy in disgraced exec’s downfall
  “‘They believed what they were doing was good, they believed in trickle-down economics. Anything that was good for them was good for everyone and that this was just a little blip on their recovery road to success and even greater success. That belief in themselves, and that kind of childlike innocence mixed with a kind of almost devil-may-care foolishness is sort of what we came up with.'” Read more.

From Bill Harris of QMI:

• ‘Living in Your Car’ fun to watch
  “Living in Your Car is a new Canadian comedy series that debuts Friday on HBO Canada. It tells the tale of former hot-shot executive Steve Unger (played by John Ralston) whose arrogance and illegal business practices lead to the loss of his company and a brief jail term, and now he’s trying to rebuild his life.” Read more.

Premieres May 7 on HBO Canada:

LIVING IN YOUR CAR (WORLD PREMIERE; CANADIAN ORIGINAL SERIES) Friday, May 7 at 9:30 p.m. With the unstable economy as a backdrop, this 13-part half hour series from The Movie Network and Movie Central follows the winding karmic adventures of Steve Unger (John Ralston), a fallen corporate executive whose rule over the financial world comes to an abrupt halt when he’s arrested and charged with fraud, obstruction and racketeering. After cutting a deal to get out of prison, Steve quickly realizes his old life no longer exists: his former colleagues shun him, his wife and daughter don’t want to live with him, and even his own parents refuse to help him. As he clings desperately to the last vestige of his former self, a luxury sedan, Steve finds himself under court order to teach an ethics class, forbidden from working in any position that involves other people’s money, and making a new home for himself in his car. Created and written by George F. Walker, Dani Romain and Joseph Kay, and directed and executive produced by David Steinberg. Also starring Ingrid Kavelaars, Mariah Horner, Colin Cunningham, and Lucia Moniz.

From a media release:

HBO Canada presents Living in Your Car, one man’s karmic fall from the high life to the highway

• Created and written by George F. Walker, Dani Romain and Joseph Kay
• Directed and executive produced by legendary Canadian comedic talent David Steinberg
• New Canadian original series from Movie Central and The Movie Network premieres Friday, May 7 at 9:30 p.m. ET/MT on HBO Canada
• Online audiences get a sneak peek when www.hbocanada.com hosts the first episode for two-weeks starting Friday, April 23

Steve Unger had it all – money, a beautiful wife, a mansion, and a great kid – until greed got in the way. Premiering Friday, May 7 at 9:30 p.m. ET/MT on HBO Canada, a multiplex channel of Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada) and Astral Media’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada), Living In Your Car is the offbeat story of one corrupt business mogul’s fall from grace and his faltering and often pathetic attempts to regain the life he lost.

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