SketchCom
SketchCom was a 1998 Canadian television comedy series, created by Roger Abbott and Don Ferguson of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. The series aired on Monday evenings, 7:30 pm in most time zones.
| SketchCom | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sketch comedy |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Roger Abbott Don Ferguson |
| Running time | 30 minutes (time slot) |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBC |
| Original release | 5 October 1998 – 1 February 1999 |
The first of the series' 13 episodes aired 5 October 1998 and aired most weeks until early 1999. Different sketch performers were featured in each episode. CBC did not renew SketchCom for the 1999-2000 television season.
Program funding included contributions from Bell Canada's Broadcast and New Media Fund[1] and the Canadian Television Fund.[2]
Episodes and guest performers
Original air dates of selected episodes, with guests:
- 5 October 1998 - debut
- 26 October 1998 - Corky and the Juice Pigs[3]
- 2 November 1998 - Illustrated Men (David Huband, Bruce Hunter and Adrian Truss)[4]
- 11 January 1999 - Fred's Bicycle Repair Shop and Urban Myth[5]
- 25 January 1999 - The Stand-Ins, The Bobroom[6]
- 1 February 1999 - Fast and Dirty[7]
gollark: The diode and transistor cults still live on spirit, if not actually in role.
gollark: I almost always find these "do X to support cause Y" things kind of weird, because most of the time you're not (asked to be) doing anything to directly support said cause, but just getting people to give you donations to fund something related to it.
gollark: No.
gollark: My school uses MS Teams and it does mostly work okay, except that apparently they don't support Firefox properly, and it's weird and glitchy at times. Also, it uses more RAM than Discord somehow.
gollark: I wonder why they decided to make TOSLINK optical. I don't know of any other consumer fiber-optic connection things around.
References
- "1998 Annual Report" (PDF). Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 December 2005. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
- "1998-1999 Funding Results". Canadian Television Fund. Archived from the original on 25 January 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
- "Hotsheet CBC Program Listings". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 October 1998. Archived from the original on 18 September 2002. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
- "Hotsheet CBC Program Listings". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2 November 1998. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
- Blakey, Bob (11 January 1999). "Worth Watching". Calgary Herald. p. C12.
- Blakey, Bob (25 January 1999). "Worth Watching". Calgary Herald. p. B8.
- "F&D Press Bits". Archived from the original on 20 February 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
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