SketchCom
{{Short description|Canadian television series}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=March 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
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Don Ferguson
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| runtime = 30 minutes (time slot)
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SketchCom was a 1998 Canadian television comedy series, created by Roger Abbott and Don Ferguson of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. The series aired on Monday evenings, 7:30 pm in most time zones.
The first of the series' 13 episodes aired 5 October 1998 and aired most weeks until early 1999. Different sketch performers were featured in each episode. CBC did not renew SketchCom for the 1999-2000 television season.
Program funding included contributions from Bell Canada's Broadcast and New Media Fund{{cite web |url=http://www.ipf.ca/Bell/publications_PDF/BFAR1998.pdf |access-date=2008-01-14 |publisher=Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund |title=1998 Annual Report |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051223201417/http://www.ipf.ca/Bell/publications_PDF/BFAR1998.pdf |archive-date=23 December 2005 }} and the Canadian Television Fund.{{cite web | url=http://www.canadiantelevisionfund.ca/archives/9899/funding/ | title=1998-1999 Funding Results | publisher=Canadian Television Fund | access-date=2008-01-14 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125124227/http://www.canadiantelevisionfund.ca/archives/9899/funding/ | archive-date=25 January 2007 }}
Episodes and guest performers
Original air dates of selected episodes, with guests:
- 5 October 1998 – debut
- 26 October 1998 – Corky and the Juice Pigs{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/insite/HOTSHEET_TORONTO/1998/10/26.html |title=Hotsheet CBC Program Listings |date=26 October 1998 |access-date=2008-01-14 |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020918202754/http://cbc.ca/insite/HOTSHEET_TORONTO/1998/10/26.html |archive-date=18 September 2002 }}
- 2 November 1998 – Illustrated Men (David Huband, Bruce Hunter and Adrian Truss){{cite news | url=http://www.cbc.ca/insite/HOTSHEET_TORONTO/1998/11/2.html | title=Hotsheet CBC Program Listings | date=2 November 1998 | accessdate=2008-01-14 | publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation }} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}
- 11 January 1999 – Fred's Bicycle Repair Shop and Urban Myth{{cite news | title=Worth Watching | first=Bob | last=Blakey | newspaper=Calgary Herald | date=11 January 1999 | page=C12}}
- 25 January 1999 – The Stand-Ins, The Bobroom{{cite news | title=Worth Watching | first=Bob | last=Blakey | newspaper=Calgary Herald | date=25 January 1999 | page=B8}}
- 1 February 1999 – Fast and Dirty{{cite web |url=http://www.fastanddirty.ca/press.html |title=F&D Press Bits |access-date=2008-01-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070220105029/http://www.fastanddirty.ca/press.html |archive-date=20 February 2007 }}
References
External links
{{Portal|Television|Canada}}
- {{IMDb title|0287880}}
Category:1998 Canadian television series debuts
Category:1999 Canadian television series endings