We might never get that longed-for “Schitt’s Creek” movie, but that beloved series’ mastermind, Dan Levy, will be back on our screens before too long.
Netflix announced Wednesday that Levy is co-creating a new comedy show for the streamer with Rachel Sennott in which he will also star alongside veteran actor Laurie Metcalf (“Roseanne”) and Taylor Ortega (“Welcome to Flatch”). It goes into production this year.
What’s the new show about?
It doesn’t yet have a name, but according to Netflix’s Tudum, it’s an eight-episode family crime drama that “will follow two deeply incapable siblings who are blackmailed into the world of organized crime” and “promises to be a wildly dysfunctional, hilariously chaotic ride.”
It’s the first scripted show that Levy has created since “Schitt’s Creek,” which ran from 2015 to 2020 and won nine Emmy Awards. (Four of those Emmys were won by Levy personally for writing, directing, producing and starring in “Schitt’s Creek.”) He co-created that CBC show with his comedy legend father, Eugene Levy (“SCTV,” the “American Pie” films and all those Christopher Guest mockumentary movies).
Since then, the Toronto-born Dan also wrote and starred in the Netflix film “Good Grief”; created and judged the reality competition “The Big Brunch”; co-starred alongside Kristen Stewart in queer holiday rom-com “Happiest Season”; and co-hosted the Emmy Awards with his dad.
Back in 2020, Levy told members of the Television Critics Association that whatever projects he did after “Schitt’s Creek,” he wanted them to have an emotional impact on viewers and “scenes where people can feel loved and appreciated and safe.”
He also wanted to “continue to tell stories of underdogs,” he said.
Who stars in the show?
Besides Levy, the only other cast members we know about are Metcalf and Ortega.
American actor Metcalf has a long list of comedic roles to her credit. She played Roseanne Barr’s sister in “Roseanne,” a role she repeated in the spinoff “The Conners,” but she was also Sheldon Cooper’s Christian mother in “The Big Bang Theory,” the mother of the title character in Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” and a doctor in the hospital comedy “Getting On.”
Levy said in the Netflix release that it has “been my life’s mission to get (everyone) to call Laurie Metcalf ‘mother.’” He also said that Ortega “is going to become a household name.”
Laurie Metcalf, left, with Niecy Nash and Alex Borstein in the HBO comedy “Getting On.”
Lacey Terrell/HBO via MCTThe American actor was a regular in the mockumentary series “Welcome to Flatch,” and also appeared in an episode of the Toronto-shot “What We Do in the Shadows” and three episodes of the comedy series “Ghosts.” “Succession” fans might cast their minds back to the fifth episode of Season 1 in which Ortega played a bit part as the character Greta.
Who is Levy’s co-creator, Rachel Sennott?
The American actor and comedian is known for her roles in the movies “Shiva Baby,” Halina Reijn’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies” and “Bottoms,” which she co-wrote and co-starred in alongside Ayo Edebiri of “The Bear.”
She also starred in the made-in-pc28film “I Used to Be Funny” from Canadian writer/director Ally Pankiw as a standup comedian with PTSD.
Rachel Sennott in the Toronto-made movie “I Used to Be Funny.”
When and where is the show getting made?
Netflix hasn’t said beyond that it’s starting production this year, and there’s no indication on the show’s IMDb page of where it might shoot.
Since it’s an American production and given Donald Trump’s recent musings about imposing tariffs on movies made outside Hollywood, it might be too much to hope that Levy returns to his home and native land to make this one.
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