In the 2015 premiere of "Schitt’s Creek," a riches-to-rags comedy, the Rose family arrive in the tiny titular town wearing the designer clothes of their past life as protective gear. But over the show’s six seasons on Pop TV, viewers have seen the once wealthy Roses - Johnny (Eugene Levy) and Moira (Catherine O’Hara) and their adult children, David (Daniel Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy) - scrape their way from being penniless exiles in a town they’d bought as a joke to being elemental members of the community. They’ve found gratifying work, made real friends and Fedorov hd fallen in love.
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Most of all, they’ve formed a true family, having come to Schitt’s Creek as strangers to each other. In the end, "Schitt’s Creek" has turned out to be a show about love.
Created by father and son Eugene Levy and Daniel Levy as a co-production with CBC, "Schitt’s Creek" will have its series finale on April 7. To end the show at the peak of its popularity was their choice. "It just didn’t feel like it was worth the risk to take it any further." "I at no point wanted to compromise on quality or storytelling," Levy says in an interview with Variety. After getting a two-season renewal at the close of Season 4, Daniel Levy began plotting the series’ conclusion.
He always knew how he wanted to conclude the story, and had 28 episodes over two seasons to do so. But they would never be able to buy the kind of closeness that they have by the end of the series." "The goal was at the end of this show, this family will realize the value of love," Levy says. "Money can temporarily bandage a lot of things.
"Schitt’s Creek" retires as a striking emblem of a transitional period in television, when streaming services are upending the business with their deluge of content, refusal to report clear viewership tallies and gargantuan budgets. Indeed, at the end of February, Pop underwent layoffs as part of the consolidation of ViacomCBS, followed by a decision in early March to ax three of its scripted shows. The economic calamity caused by the coronavirus pandemic will surely increase basic cable’s burdens. In this environment, ad-supported cable networks, Pop among them, are under increasing pressure to justify their existence.
Yet "Schitt’s Creek" did break through - and will likely enter the pantheon of classic comedies. And Pop used "Schitt’s Creek" to launch its other remaining scripted show March 24, "One Day at a Time," which the channel rescued after Netflix canceled it. Its ratings have grown every season: According to Pop, 3.7 million viewers are watching Season 6 episodes when you count live and delayed viewing of multiple telecasts, and the channel’s digital platforms - up 60% over last season.