Prime Video to start streaming all of SCTV in March

Prime Video will start streaming the whole lot of SCTV in Canada on March 3.

That is significantly noteworthy because the iconic Canadian sketch comedy sequence has traditionally been tough to look at, outdoors of a handful of episodes and clips on YouTube. Initially aired intermittently between 1976 and 1984, the sequence follows a fictitious TV station throughout broadcast day. It’s notable for serving to to launch the careers of quite a few well-known Canadians, together with the late Catherine O’Hara and John Sweet, Eugene Levy, Martin Brief, Rick Moranis and Harold Ramis.

All in all, that is nice information for Canadians and comedy followers typically. Hopefully, this may also spur conversations concerning that SCTV reunion that was introduced (and filmed) manner again in 2018. Directed by legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese and introduced by comic Jimmy Kimmel, the particular reunited the likes of Levy, O’Hara, Brief, Dave Thomas, Andrea Martin, and Joe Flaherty.

It was speculated to be launched in 2018 in partnership with Netflix and CTV, however that got here and went with none official phrase. Three years later, Flaherty claimed the title had been shelved, however one of many corporations that labored on it, Toronto’s Perception Productions, mentioned it had merely been postponed as a result of Scorsese’s many different commitments. Finally, it’s unclear what occurred to the particular.

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Supply: Prime Video Canada