[1] It starred Rebecca Northan, Paul O'Sullivan, Debra McGrath, Lisa Merchant and Peter Oldring as the members of the Grass Roots Theate Collective, an amateur theatre troupe preparing to stage a musical based on the lives of a couple they had discovered shopping at Honest Ed's.
The Comedy Network could still green-light a series, mind you; it's waiting to gauge reaction to the first effort.
This may be fiscally responsible, especially in these times, but it also reflects a skittish, almost cowardly quality that plagues the industry.
)"[1] Joel Rubinoff of the Waterloo Region Record was more dismissive, writing that "it's like watching a karaoke version of the film Waiting for Guffman (about, interestingly, the exact same thing), with elements of Best in Show and This Is Spinal Tap thrown in for good measure.
With no artistic muse of its own, and a bad case of hero worship, Joe Blow is to mockumentaries what Ben Mulroney is to TV hosts: earnest, committed -- and so bland even its edges seem phony.