EDMONTON – Super Channel has acquired the dark comedy Get Shorty from MGM Television.
Based in part on the 1990 best-selling novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard, the ten-episode hour-long series will make its Canadian broadcast premiere on September 20 at 9:00 PM ET (SC1), and each episode will also be available to viewers on Super Channel On Demand the day following its weekly linear broadcast.
Produced by MGM Television, Get Shorty stars Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA TV Award nominee Chris O’Dowd (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, The Sapphires, Bridesmaids) and multiple Emmy winner Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond, Men of a Certain Age, Parenthood). O’Dowd plays Miles Daly, a hitman from Nevada who tries to become a movie producer in Hollywood as a means to leave his criminal past behind and win back his recently-estranged family. There, he meets Rick Moreweather (Romano), a washed up producer of low quality films who is desperately hanging on to the rungs of Hollywood relevancy and begrudgingly becomes Miles’ partner and guide through the maze of show business.
“We are ecstatic to have Super Channel as the home of Get Shorty in Canada,” said Super Channel's director of programming, international distributors and Canadian pre-sales, Melissa Kajpust, in the news release. “The series delivers everything a premium cable audience is looking for – exceptional cast and characters, great writing, healthy doses of dramatic tension and dark humour, all set in the unconventional world of a hitman trying to make it in Hollywood. We know our viewers are going to love it.”
