Television's old reliable, Saturday Night Live has occupied the same time slot on the same network for longer than much of its fan base has been alive. Over the course of its rocky but brilliant run, ...

SCTV is kind of the show you didn’t know you knew: hugely influential without being popular. As far as cult sketch shows go, SCTV is one of the best. Begun in 1976 by the Toronto chapter of Second ...

“Every day, on every page, he has been our North Star,” Gerber said in a statement. “From his days at National Lampoon, Brian was ‘every comedy writer’s favorite comedy writer,’ crafting an ...

In the late 1970s, a group of improv comedy actors from Chicago and Toronto teamed up to star in one of the greatest sketch comedy series ever seen on North American television. “Saturday Night Live”?

TORONTO — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the beloved Canadian sketch series "SCTV," has died. He was 82. His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief ...

With a garbage strike looming, Edith persuades Pierre Trudeau to let SCTV pick up the CBC feed. Meanwhile, Sammy Maudlin decides to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his show two years early. Fred ...

Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82. His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness. Flaherty, who ...

Netflix has been selected as the exclusive streaming partner of the upcoming SCTV reunion special. And Rick Moranis, one of the original cast members, is the last to officially sign on to return. The ...

As a kid obsessed with not just television, but also the business of television, I was enamored with “SCTV Network” from the first time I saw it. Not only was it wickedly sharp — even to an 8-year-old ...

Comedian Dave Thomas, whose eponymous weekly half-hour show is one of the brighter lights on CBS` summer schedule (9:30 p.m. Mondays, WBBM-Ch. 2), says he realized it was time to quit the popular ...

Adam Sandler is mourning the loss of his "Happy Gilmore" co-star Joe Flaherty, who died April 1 at age 82. Sandler honored the late "SCTV" and "Freaks and Geeks" star in an Instagram tribute. "Oh man.

Screw SNL; the real outlaw genius pioneers of late-night TV satire were on SCTV, the imaginary network conjured up in the ’70s and ’80s by John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, ...