“There’s a Heart and a Niceness”: Son of a Critch and Schitt’s Creek Producer Compares Canadian and American Sitcoms

After debuting on Canada’s CBC network to initial success, Schitt’s Creek blew up in earnest once it made the jump to Netflix and found a huge audience in the US. The show even swept the 2020 Emmy Awards and was hugely praised for the amount of growth experienced by each protagonist and, of course, its character-based humor. On top of that, Schitt’s Creek had a general tone and feel that offered something refreshingly different from what was popular in the US at the time.