Town Beat!

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22 minutes / Pilot / English / 2004  Produced by Rink Rat Productions  Written by Ed Riche, Mac Furlong and Steve Palmer  Directed by Paul He

 

A satire on the world of cable TV talk shows.

“Town Beat!” (televised Jan. 23, 2004), was a pilot for a series developed in 2000 by the principal creative team that brought you CBC Radio's cult favourite “The Great Eastern” for five years: Mack Furlong, Steve Palmer and Ed Riche. The show wasn't picked up but GE fans will recognize many of the leitmotifs and subversive humour of The Great Eastern in “Town Beat!”

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"How To Be Deadly"
(Currently In Development) On the eve of the biggest dirt bike competition of the year, alpha underdog, working class hero and utterly "unique human" Donnie Dumphy cashes his welfare cheque, tours the sketchiest regions of town, loses the love of his life, gets a shit-knocking, puts his "all" into an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet, steals hallucinogenic mushrooms from some teens, brings the house down at the hottest club with his raps and sleeps with his social worker. What else do you wanna know? Oh yeah, he so really wins that dirt bike competition despite what the judges say. Everybody knows dat..

    

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