REGINA – Corner Gas creator and star Brent Butt will join the rest of the crew to film their 100th episode Wednesday at the Canada-Saskatchewan Production Studios in Regina.
“100 of anything seems like a lot to me,” says Butt. “I tried doing 100 sits ups once and got to about eight or nine and quit. So 100 episodes of a TV show – we’re really proud of that.”
The hit comedy, about an odd collection of residents who bond at a gas station in the fictional town of town of Dog River, Sask., wraps up its sixth and final season on CTV next year. The crew plans to film a total of 107 episodes before the five-time Gemini-winning series goes off the air in spring 2009.
Butt, who plays the lead character of Brent Leroy on the show, announced this past spring that "Corner Gas" would turn off the pumps for good after next season so that it could go out on a high note.
Butt leads a six person writing team which includes Supervising Producer Kevin White (This Hour Has 22 Minutes) along with Mark Farrell (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Made In Canada) as producer/writer; Emmy winner Norm Hiscock (Saturday Night Live, King Of The Hill, Kids In The Hall) as consulting producer/writer; Andrew Carr (Comics) as story editor/writer; and Dylan Wertz as story editor/writer.
The show is produced in association with CTV by Prairie Pants Productions, comprised of Virginia Thompson (Incredible Story Studio, renegadepress.com) of Vérité Films and 335 Productions, a partnership of Brent Butt and David Storey (Blackfly, The Seán Cullen Show).
