XPM (TV series)
Template:Infobox television XPM was a short-lived Canadian television sitcom broadcast in 2004 on CBC Television.[1] It was centred on shamed former Prime Minister Bennett Macdonald, played by Don Ferguson, who was trying to adjust to a life where the best job he could find was at a small law firm in a shopping mall.[2] The series also starred Dave Broadfoot as Macdonald's law partner, Kathy Greenwood as his wife, and Jessica Holmes as his secretary Jasmine.[3]
The series produced just two episodes, which the CBC aired back-to-back as a one-off comedy special on February 27, 2004, after declining to pick up any further episodes.[4] It was created by Steven Barwin and Gabriel David Tick, who were also executive producers along with Don Ferguson and Roger Abbott.
References
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- ↑ "CBC televises 'warm, family comedy': Show about ex-prime minister airs tonight". Journal-Pioneer, February 27, 2004.
- ↑ "Air Farce star heads up new CBC comedy 'XPM'". Nanaimo Daily News, June 16, 2003.
- ↑ "Are they kidding us?: The CBC's new 'sitcom' has many, many flaws. And we paid for them". National Post, February 26, 2004.
- ↑ "Channel surfing". Waterloo Region Record, February 27, 2004.
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