Hatching, Matching and Dispatching

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| genre = {{plainlist|

• Comedy}}

| starring = Mary Walsh
Shaun Majumder
Mark McKinney
Joel Thomas Hynes
Jonny Harris
Susan Kent

| executive_producer =

| creator = Mary Walsh

| theme_music_composer = Ron Hynes

| producer = Mary Sexton

| director = Henry Sarwer-Foner
Stephen Reynolds

| composer =

| country = Canada

| location = St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

| language = English

| num_seasons = 1

| num_episodes = 6 + pilot

| list_episodes =

| runtime = 22 minutes

| company =

| channel = CBC Television

| first_aired = {{Start date|2005|1|17}}

| last_aired = {{end date|2006|2|10}}

}}

Hatching, Matching and Dispatching is a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television on 2006."Weddings and funerals under the same roof". Regina Leader-Post, January 6, 2006. The show starred Mary Walsh as Mamie Lou Furey, the matriarch of a family in Cats Gut Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador who owns a combination ambulance, wedding and funeral business.{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130115092855/http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/11/30/2560862.html "Walsh hatches new comedy on CBC"]}}. canoe.ca, January 12, 2005. The show's title — and a basic summary of its premise — had previously appeared as a one-time gag in a "Wake of the Week" sketch on CODCO.

The cast included Sherry White, Mark McKinney, Rick Boland, Joel Thomas Hynes, Jonny Harris, Shaun Majumder and Susan Kent.[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/friday-night-is-all-right-for-surfing/article1328202/ "Friday night is all right for surfing"]. The Globe and Mail, January 6, 2006. Hynes, White and Walsh were also writers for the series, along with Ed Macdonald and Adriana Maggs.

The series pilot aired January 17, 2005 as one of three CBC sitcom prototypes which included Getting Along Famously and Walter Ego. The CBC employed a viewer response poll to gauge interest in these pilots, a technique previously employed with the shows Rideau Hall and An American in Canada.

Hatching, Matching and Dispatching began shooting its first season of six episodes in Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove on July 18, 2005"Hatched, then gobsmacked". The Globe and Mail, August 4, 2005. and began airing as a regular series on January 6, 2006 with six episodes, following a rebroadcast of the original pilot on December 30, 2005. The episodes were repeated from July 18 to August 22, 2006. The CBC subsequently announced the cancellation of the series after its sole season.{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130115092855/http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/11/30/2560862.html "Mary Walsh coping with laughter"]}}. canoe.ca, November 30, 2006. Newfoundland musician Ron Hynes composed and performed the show's theme song.{{Cite web|url=https://borealisrecords.com/artists/ron-hynes/?v=e4b09f3f8402|title = Ron Hynes|date = 26 October 2010}}

At the 21st Gemini Awards, Walsh and Macdonald won the award for Best Writing in a Comedy Program or Series, for the series pilot."Slings & Arrows sweeps Gemini Awards". Vancouver Sun, November 6, 2006.