Though the name “Second City Television” implies a comic sensibility rooted in Chicago, “SCTV” was always wilder, more exotic and tougher to pin down. Though it bore some resemblance to the sketch ...

"How are ya? Funny man Bobby Bittman s (Eugene Levy) limp catchphrase is an unlikely place to look for the comedic heart of the SCTV beast. But it s precisely here, in Levy s full commitment to and ...

Though the name "Second City Television" implies a comic sensibility rooted in Chicago, "SCTV" was always wilder, more exotic and tougher to pin down. It bore some resemblance to the sketch comedy of ...

On October 24, 2006, Shout! Factory will release SCTV: The Best Of The Early Years on DVD. The three-disc set will contain a compilation of hilarious material from Canada's version of SNL (before The ...

There is a special delight in loving a thing you are sure no one else loves, or could love -- the thing that is strange and scruffy beyond description. (Call it the Velveteen Rabbit effect.) Such was ...

There’s a movement—it’s a clever piece of magazine marketing, actually, but we’ll call it a movement—to build some sort of local monument in Edmonton to the SCTV television series, which was produced ...

SCTV (a.k.a. Second City Television and SCTV Network) was a legendary sketch comedy show from the Great White North that originally aired from 1976 to 1984. Though the show was known for its beloved ...

Fans of SCTV were served a heaping dish of nostalgia on Sunday as cast members of the Canadian sketch comedy series gathered to share memories for an upcoming Netflix special. Seemingly every popular ...

Joe Flaherty, a constant comic presence in film and TV, best known for his work on the sketch show SCTV and Freaks and Geeks, has died. He was 82. Flaherty’s daughter, Gudrun, confirmed his death in a ...