TORONTO – CraveTV’s first original comedy series Letterkenny will begin streaming on February 7 (a.k.a. Super Bowl Sunday).
Commissioned by Bell Media’s CraveTV in partnership with The Comedy Network, the entire six-part, half-hour series will launch exclusively on the TV streaming service, followed by its television debut on Comedy in spring 2016.
Based on the internet hit Letterkenny Problems, a five-part series of shorts which have garnered more than 10 million views and earned a Canadian Screen Award nomination in 2014 for Best Web Series, Letterkenny revolves around the dustups that Wayne (creator, co-writer, star, and executive producer Jared Keeso, pictured left) and his buddies get into with their small-town Ontario rivals.
CraveTV also announced that it has acquired Letterkenny Problems and will begin streaming the shorts on November 20, and that six brand-new shorts will accompany each episode streamed on the service.
“With a distinctive voice and unmistakeable tone, we’re very proud to feature Letterkenny as CraveTV’s first original series,” said Mike Cosentino, SVP programming CTV Networks and CraveTV, in the news release. “Letterkenny is a brazen and exciting brand-builder for the service, so we thought it deserved to be launched on the juggernaut event day that is Super Bowl Sunday.”
