The cast records their lines together in sets simulating the locations taking place, making the dialogue sound natural.
The series stars comedian Russell Peters as Russell Page, an aspiring Hollywood film producer who ends up returning to work for his Indo-Canadian family's book publishing business after squandering his cantankerous father's money in an attempt to finance a comedy starring Tom Arnold as a pediatric surgeon.
He ends up helping the family's publishing company, Monsoon House, produce a biographical film about John Diefenbaker, based on their only hit selling novel, Hail to the Dief.
The cast includes Pamela Sinha as Russell's sister Sabrina, Sam Moses as their father Kesh, and Michael Riley as Trenton Harrison, a successful, womanizing novelist constantly trying to seduce Sabrina.
Recurring cast members includes Simon Rakoff as a script doctor, Rick Green as Milton Claymore, a comically unstable street poet who is Monsoon House's only client other than Trenton, as well as Shauna MacDonald, Carly Street, David Huband and Imali Perrera.