February 16, 2006

TV: Slings and Arrows

Hooray! The Sundance Channel has picked up the second season of this fine Canadian series, and it will begin airing on Sunday evening.

The show's about the backstage relationships of a Shakespearean theater company -- the struggle to put on the play, the interpersonal dramas, and so forth -- and it sits precisely on the boundary between comedy and drama.

If you missed the first season when Sundance aired it last fall (it originally aired in Canada in 2003), there will be a marathon showing of the six episodes on Saturday. I commented after the first episode last August, and the series just kept getting better. A second season is good news, indeed.

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