bruce mcculloch-related stories
Posted Aug 19th 2009 1:02PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free

Just imagine how much fun
Harper's Island could have been if it had been written by and starred The Kids in the Hall. If you live in Canada, you don't have to imagine it, because the Kids are creating just that.
Death Comes to Town is to be an eight-part comedy where the Kids (Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch and Kevin McDonald) will each play multiple roles, possibly including some of the characters made famous on
The Kids in the Hall sketch comedy show. I'm hoping the murderer kills people by crushing their heads.
Continue reading The Kids in the Hall reunite for a murder-mystery miniseries
Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:02PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free

As a special
Sketch Comedy Saturday treat, I will forgo the lengthy, typed-out, text version of me humming the
Kids In The Hall theme song and get right down to business. This is one of those shows that are now considered classic sketch comedy (and Canadian comedy), so I feel silly for even having to profile them, but I am constantly surprised by the number of people whose eyes glaze over when I ask them if they've ever heard of the Kids. So ... Have you heard of the Kids?
Continue reading Sketch Comedy Saturday: The Kids In The Hall
Posted Dec 4th 2008 11:31AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Video, Reality-Free

The news that
The Kids in the Hall are working on a
new Canadian TV miniseries should make comedy nerds everywhere happy. I know I'm excited, even though it might be a while until it airs in the U.S. (I'm kicking myself for not moving to Canada like I said I would after the 2004 presidential election.)
Mr. Dave Foley told the Canadian Press that all the original Kids (Foley, Bruce McCullough, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson and Kevin McDonald) are writing an eight-ep miniseries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the home of their original sketch comedy show. It sounds like their recent reunion tour went pretty well. The five-member troupe will star in the series, which Foley says won't be a sketch comedy, but will involve a number of comic characters.
Continue reading Kids in the Hall working on new miniseries - VIDEO
Posted Oct 29th 2007 9:21AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, OpEd

Sometimes, when it's too rainy outside to go anywhere and the air is full of a sense of doom and gloom, all you want is to just hole up indoors and watch hours and hours and hours of nonstop Canadian sketch comedy and cross-dressing. Hey, I can't possibly be the only one that feels that way, because otherwise, the
Kids in the Hall complete series megaset wouldn't have been made. I had a full rainy week to lounge around with this lovely collection and we got to know each other pretty well. It's a real sweetheart, to be sure... A real cross-dressing, head-crushing, fact-sharing, cabbage-headin' sweetheart.
Continue reading Kids in the Hall complete series megaset - DVD review
Posted Oct 23rd 2007 4:59PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals, Pushing Daisies

Some interesting news coming out of ABC today, one of which is a surprise, the other of which isn't:
First the non-surprise: Both
TV Week and Kristin Dos Santos at
E! Online are reporting that
Pushing Daisies has been picked up for the rest of the season. That means 22 episodes of non-contact cuteness from Ned and Chuck. Ratings for the first three episodes have been solid, and -- at least based on
the fun third episode -- worries about how the show might operate with budget restrictions have been so far unfounded.
The surprising ABC news: The former Ms. Veitch
is also reporting that three more scripts have been ordered for
Bruce McCulloch's Carpoolers, bringing the total order to 12 episodes.
Despite the pedigree, the show hasn't been all that impressive so far either in quality or in the ratings. This makes me wonder if ABC is ordering more scripts
in case there's a writers' strike.
Posted Oct 2nd 2007 11:28AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Interviews, Celebrities

When I wrapped up my interview with Bruce McCulloch -- executive producer of ABC's
Carpoolers and a member of the legendary comedy troupe Kids In The Hall -- I asked him if there was anything else he might be working on. "Yeah, I'm going to have a heart attack next March, and I wanted people to know about that," he joked. For a guy who has worn a lot of hats in his career, nothing has kept him busier than being the boss.
Carpoolers, a single-camera comedy premiering on ABC tonight at 8:30 PM ET, is about four guys who use their carpool to explore what's going on in each other's lives. The show is McCulloch's brainchild, which means he's involved with everything from the writing to how many donuts will be on the craft services table. Yet he still has time to write and perform his own surreal works, as well as perform occasionally with the Kids, who have been together for almost a quarter-century.
I got a chance to speak to McCulloch last week, and we talked about what it's like to premiere after the season's most lambasted new show (
Cavemen), what parts of himself he sees in each of his main characters, what it's like to work with
Fred Goss and Jerry O'Connell (
who spoke to our friends at AOL last week), and why the Kids have managed to stay together for so long. Highlights are after the jump, as well as an audio embed of the interview (35 minutes).
Continue reading Bruce McCulloch of Carpoolers: The TV Squad Interview - AUDIO
Posted Jul 25th 2007 11:38PM by Michael Maloney
Filed under: TCA Press Tour, Casting

We TV Critics are dead on our feet now that we're in the last two days of a near-three week press tour at the Beverly Hilton, but that hasn't stopped us from getting dish from actors and producers here to hawk their fall ABC series.
On stage to promote Cashmere Mafia (a series about four women living life in New York City) creator Darren Star was asked about his other program about four women that call the Big Apple home. Star says: "There's a [film] script. It's in the form of pre-production."
Continue reading The day with ABC: New shows, Hope, Faith, and Sex - TCA report
Posted Jan 25th 2007 12:12PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals

The career trajectories of the former
Kids in the Hall have been fascinating to behold. Dave Foley went from a starring turn in
News Radio to a funny, but strange co-hosting gig on
Celebrity Poker Showdown. Mark McKinney appeared briefly on
SNL and now sits around the writer's room of
Studio 60 hoping Aaron Sorkin will throw him a bone and actually let him write something. Kevin McDonald turns up in bit parts everywhere and keeps a steady gig as the voice of
Lilo and Stitch's alien life form Pleakley. Scott Thompson visits Conan every once in awhile, but my favorite Bruce McCulloch's post-
Kids appearances have been few and far between. McCulloch served a brief stint as a
SNL writer and wrote and directed the forgettable film
Dog Park.
Continue reading ABC picks up pilot from Kids in the Hall alum