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That town you passed through,

its not called Schittsville, its called Schitts Creek.

And, its where we live.

JOHNNY ROSE

FAN ART BY CARA MATHIS

FAN ART BY JESSICA CRUICKSHANK

DANIEL LEVY and EUGENE LEVY

BEHIND THE SCENES

Eugene Levy and Daniel Levy on set for episode 607, Moira Ros.

June 3, 2019

WHEN WE WERE FIRST APPROACHED about putting a book

together we asked ourselves the same question that was raised

when we fi rst started making Schitts Creek over seven years ago:

what can we do with this opportunity? Our original answer was

a simple one: tell stories that make us laugh about people we

want to root for. Little did we know that would result in eighty

episodes of laughter and tears, growth and love, risk and reward.

And that was just behind the scenes!

Somehow, along the way, we also met you, our loyal viewers.

Although loyal feels like an understatement. To be blunt, we

simply wouldnt be here if it werent for your generosity, passion,

and steadfast support of the stories we were telling. Over the

years weve tried to read every letter youve sent us, every tweet

on Tweeters, every strange and wonderful piece of fan art you

made honoring our cast, because you have become a part of our

television family. So when we thought about this book and asked

ourselves, What can we do with this opportunity? the answer

was simple: thank all of you for helping make this show what it

is today.

And with that we have spent nearly two years attempting to

perfect this little token of our appreciation by pulling back the

curtain on all the fun we had making the show.

So, cheers to you.

With our best wishes and our warmest regards,

DAN AND EUGENE LEVY

FAN ART BY ROSS COOKE

EUGENE LEVY

: Launching Schitts Creek was the most

fascinating part of this whole journey for me. It began with an

invitation from my son, Daniel, to work with him on developing

a TV show, something I thought would never be in the cards.

I took it upon myself to make absolutely sure I would come

through for him. And so, I listened to his idea about a wealthy

family who lose everything.

His rationale, that Reality TV has already formed

our perspective of the way wealthy families function, was

defi nitely on point. It puts us in position as the y on the wall,

observing how these family members relate to each other when

funds are unlimited and opulence is the comforting blanket

that keeps them all safe and secure.

But what would it be like to be a y on the wall,

observing these people if all the money was suddenly gone?

This was at the nub of Daniels very solid idea. And so, we

embarked on what turned out to be more than just a father-son

project. It had all the makings of a very interesting, very funny,

character-based show.

I knew from watching Daniels work for seven years

on MTV Canada that he was exceptionally relaxed on live

television. He was smart, funny, and knew how to promote the

strongest aspects of who he was as a person. His sketch work,

both as a writer and performer, continued to mature comedically

over the years. In my eyes he was the strongest, most charismatic

host they had. What I didnt know was whether he had what it

takes to write and perform a weekly half-hour comedy, where

character has to be strong enough and consistent enough to

attract and hold its viewers every single week.

Working on our presentation pilot showed me just how

strongly he was coming into his own as a writer, particularly a

writer who had his fi nger on the pulse of his own generation.

His work on camera showed me in the most vivid way just how

entrenched he was, as an actor, in his own character of David

Rose. I was totally confi dent, if we could sell our pilot, that

Daniel would be as strong a creative partner as anyone with

years more experience than he.

Launching our fi rst season on CBC was exciting in so

many ways. Our scripts were solid, our cast was exceptionally

talented, and our sets and locations gave the show its personality.

The thing that stood out the most to me in that fi rst season, as

was the case in every season, was working on the family scenes.

Shooting the Rose family scenes, in those two motel rooms,

with Catherine, Annie, and Daniel, proved to be the most fun,

rewarding, and heartfelt for me. Those scenes were the bedrock

of Schitts Creek .

The other thing that struck me about our fi rst season

was the combination of script and performance and just how

beautifully they melded to give the show the most idyllic

sensibility. We laughed at and with the Roses, but we were

also starting to feel something for the Roses. It became so

quickly evident that the character-driven comedy that Daniel

and I set out to make was already superseding our grandest

expectations. It was the perfect launching pad to give the show

its ultrabright future.

DANIEL LEVY: I have long admired my Dads work with

Christopher Guest in redefi ning and refi ning the mockumentary

genre. The time and care they put into writing those movies built

the perfect foundation upon which a brilliant troop of actors

could shine. The movies were indisputably funny, but they were

also kind and warm and hopeful, with characters that were

realized, awed, and lovable.

Because I knew Schitts Creek needed that kind of

character-driven energy to elevate it from a slapstick sitcom to a

more nuanced, single camera comedy, I asked him if hed be into

discussing the idea of working together. Fortunately, he agreed

to sit down with me and over the course of several weekends we

began to build a show. That process started out slowvery slow.

The exercise of fi guring out who these characters would be was

a long one, but it was also, as I came to realize, a necessary one.

We would spend weeks brainstorming a single character: Where

did they go to school? Who were their parents? Were they happy

babies? By the end of the process we knew every single thing

about each character in the show. In fact, Alexiss short-lived

reality show, A Little Bit Alexis , was born from one of those

early brainstorming sessions.

As anxious as I was to just start writing the scripts, my

Dad insisted that nailing down the characters was going to

make the writing easier. He was right. How fortunate we were

to then fi nd a cast that would elevate all that work we did to

hilarious, meaningful, and emotional new heights. This show is a

celebration of those characters. What a time we all had bringing

them to life.

My family and I have been staying in a motel for the past

three years. And I wouldnt trade our stay there for anything.

by

EUGENE LEVY

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