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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Alex Lifeson to appear in new Trailer Park Boys TV series

[Leaving the comforts of the Trailer Park for the chaos of Port Cockerton]

UPDATE - 11/13@10:10AM: Here's an interview with Robb Wells, JP Tremblay, and Mike Smith (aka the Trailer Park Boys) where they talk with Zach Feldberg at Showcase about the show (thanks State of Grace).

The latest Trailer Park Boys movie - Countdown to Liquor Day - opened to Canadian theaters back in September. At the time of the release I informed you of an interview with the Trailer Park Boys where they discussed the new TV series they were working on and mentioned that Alex Lifeson would be involved with the show. The show's working title is The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour and earlier today via a press release it was announced that the show had finally been greenlit for six episodes that will air on Showcase in 2010. From the press release:

... The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour is a genre-breaking and highly innovative mix of narrative and sketch comedy that builds on the success of Trailer Park Boys and follows in the proud tradition of such comedy classics as Monty Python's Flying Circus and the more recent British import The League of Gentlemen.

Transformed through innovative costumes and make up, Mike Smith, Robb Wells and JP Tremblay play many of the quirky characters in the series. The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour opens as the three boys 'wake up' after shooting has wrapped on their new TV series - a children's show filmed in the sleepy town of Port Cockerton called The Happy Funtime Hour. Production on the series was going smoothly until Alex Lifeson, hired to play a German scientist who teaches children about nutrition, goes too far and assumes the personality of his character after synthesizing a powerful and addictive hallucinogen from local berries. Chaos ensues as the cast unknowingly ingests the drug and begin to believe they really are the characters they are portraying on the show - including deranged pirates, playboys from a 1980's television show and a group of not-very-super, superheroes.

As the series unfolds, Robb, Mike and JP must deal with the bizarre cast of hallucinating children's show characters, a dysfunctional crime family that runs the town, and a dangerous cult, all while trying to piece together what has happened to them and get out of Port Cockerton alive. ...

Thanks to Paul N for the heads up.