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The Riches of Relationships www.CallTheResultsTeam.com (From left) Daniel Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Annie Murphy star on the reversal-of-fortune comedy H T - “Schitt’s Creek,” airing its first holiday special and season 5 4 8 9 4 1 - four finale Wednesday at 10 p.m. on Pop TV. 1 [email protected]@exprealty.com Call for a 1-812-961-7008 The Free Home 1-800-Next-Window Nation’s www.windowworldscindiana.com Largest Estimate Window today! Replacement HT -362968-1 Company Veteran Owned and Operated T2 | THE TV THE | | TIMES Smelling Like a Rose in ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Dish Bedford DirecTV Cable Mitchell Comcast Comcast Comcast New Wave New New Wave New Mooreville Indianapolis Indianapolis Bloomington Conversion Martinsviolle BY DAN RICE circumstance and more being about the exploration of love, I WTWO NBC E@ - - - - - - - Every setback can lead to think, at the end of the day. WAVE NBC E# a new opportunity for growth - 3 - - - - - S “We were researching how $ A E WTTV CBS 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 – given one’s openness to chang- people lost extreme amounts of T WRTV ABC E^ 6 6 6 6 - 6 6 URDAY, URDAY, ing direction. Consider the E& money. And Kim Basinger at one WTVW IND - - - - - - - Rose family: After video store point bought a bankrupt town. WISH IND E* 8 8 8 8 8 - 8 magnate Johnny Rose (Eugene “So, when Dan came in with WNIN PBS E( - - - - - - - Levy) and his former soap E10 that article about Kim Basinger WTHI CBS 15 15 - - - - - star wife, Moira (“SCTV,” “A D E11 buying a town,” Eugene says, WHAS ABC - 7 - - - - - ECEMBER 15, 2018 15, ECEMBER Mighty Wind” co-star Catherine WTHR NBC E13 13 13 12 13 12 13 13 “the pieces really kind of fell WKPC PBS E15 - - - - - - - O’Hara), lost their riches when into place. You know, what if WHAN IND E17 - - - - - - - their business manager failed to they bought a town, and the WFYI PBS E20 - - 2 3 2 - 20 pay their taxes, they and their town was really not a pleasant WNDY MYNET E23 10 10 10 10 10 - 23 pampered, twenty-something town, and it turns out the WEHT ABC E25 - - - - - - - children, David (Daniel Levy) only place that this family can WTIU PBS E30 5 5 - 5 - 30 30 and Alexis (Annie Murphy), now live is the town that they E32 WLKY CBS - 12 - - - - - were forced to rebuild their lives once bought as a joke because E38 WAWV ABC - - - - - - - with their last remaining asset the town was called Schitt’s WHMB IND E40 9 9 5 9 5 - 40 – a small town they’d bought as Creek. And that really kind of WDRB Fox E41 - 17 - - - - - a joke birthday present, “Schitt’s E42 cemented the whole thing. The WCLJ IND 2 2 - 2 - - - Creek,” airing its first holiday WMYO NYNET E58 - - - - - - - fish-out-of-water scenario is E59 special and season four finale what initially was funny about WXIN FOX 11 11 13 11 13 59 59 Wednesday at 10 p.m. on Pop WIPX ION E63 18 18 3 18 3 - 63 it, but the heart of the show WGN 20 20 9 20 9 307 239 TV. The network’s flagship orig- and the longevity of the show AMC 23 23 23 23 23 254 - inal comedy series’ fifth season is about this family that never USA 25 25 27 25 27 242 105 will premiere on Wednesday, really functioned that well as a ESPN 26 26 18 26 18 115 140 Jan. 16. family, and now living in two SPEED 27 27 457 27 457 607 150 Now that the family is living adjoining motel rooms in this Eugene Levy (“SCTV”) plays a video-store magnate turned rundown-motel operator on “Schitt’s Creek,” a comedy he BRAVO 28 28 360 28 360 237 129 in a rundown motel he’s running, depressing little town.” DISN 29 29 19 29 19 290 172 Johnny is hoping to ring in the co-created with his son, Daniel, airing its first holiday spe- “But a town that we didn’t cial and season four finale Wednesday at 10 p.m. on Pop TV. CNN 30 30 16 30 16 202 200 holidays with a traditional Rose want to be the butt of the joke,” ESPN2 32 32 32 32 32 209 144 Christmas party like they used NICK 33 33 14 33 14 299 170 to. However, with their big-city watching this family realize that ANPL 36 36 - 36 - 282 184 attitudes still intact despite COMPLETEO AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE &REPAIR they love each other, and the CNBC 37 37 - 37 - 355 208 the sudden reversal of fortune, novelty of that.” TBS 39 39 7 39 7 247 139 TRANSMISSIONR SERVICE •ELECTRICAL REPAIR •BRAKES TNT 40 40 - 40 - 245 138 getting everyone to participate Still worldly in their new OWNED AND OPERATED A&E 41 41 30 41 30 365 118 will be easier said than done. provincial environment, the Ros- LIFE 42 42 25 42 25 252 108 Co-created by the father-and-son BY ROBLIPSCOMB es routinely experience culture SPIKE 43 43 29 43 29 241 168 team of Eugene and Daniel, the FREE ESTIMATES clashes with the stubbornly un- DISC 44 44 22 44 22 278 182 sitcom explores how being freed sophisticated residents of Schitt’s BET 46 46 - 46 - 329 124 from the distractive weight of THIS AREA’S Creek, particularly its annoyingly CMTV 47 47 21 47 21 327 166 affluence can foster more open 812-277-8705 TRANSMISSION quirky mayor, Roland Schitt, 1104 5THSTREET •BEDFORD TOON 48 48 - 48 - 296 176 and loving familial relations. SPECIALIST! played by Chris Elliott (“Get a TVLND 49 49 - 49 - 304 106 Surprisingly, the show’s concept MON-FRI 7AM-5PM EXPERIENCE Life,” “Cabin Boy”). MSNBC 50 50 - 50 - 356 209 was inspired by TV models of SERVICE FOOD 51 51 - 51 - 231 110 PRICE “The relationship between spoiled superficiality. Johnny and Roland,” Eugene FAM 52 52 15 52 15 311 180 “I came to my dad with sort FOXN 53 53 - 53 - 360 205 elaborates, “for Johnny, it is the FX 54 54 20 54 20 248 136 of a seed of an idea way back one thing that makes it difficult when the reality based ‘Real Daniel amends. “I think it “That was the joke,” Eugene TLC 55 55 95 55 95 280 183 was really important from the seconds. “Just to have a framed to get through a day, which is HGTV 56 56 383 56 383 229 112 Housewives,’ Kardashian fran- normally difficult enough. His chises were really sort of in an beginning that this town be sort deed on your wall that says you TRAV 57 57 - 57 - 277 196 whole intent right now is to upswing,” Daniel explains. “And of wiser than the family, and that own a town called ‘Schitt’s Creek.’ HIST 59 59 99 59 99 269 120 make a success out of this motel E! 60 60 96 60 96 236 144 my curiosity sort of went to this the joke fall on the family, and But the joy of the show really is in Schitt’s Creek, but he has to FSMW 61 61 98 61 98 671 418 place of like, well, feeling so not the town. Because so often in how this family is kind of de- COM 62 62 - 62 - 249 107 inundated with extreme wealth, you see these small-town come- veloping and growing as a family. deal with Roland Schitt every dies where the town was the joke. SYFY 63 63 17 63 17 244 122 what would these families look That’s the joyous part.” single day. Now, personally, BTN 64 64 97 64 97 610 440 And we thought, we’ve seen it. “I think the show is ulti- the hardest thing for me is to like if that were to go away? Be- Let’s make the family the joke.” TRUTV 65 65 - 65 - 246 204 mately about these four people show this kind of attitude on cause so much is relying on gifts “I love the arrogance of HALL 70 70 - 70 - 312 185 that are given and parties that who had a ton of money and camera as my character when OXY 71 71 - 71 - 251 - buying the town because of the I’m working with Chris, because are thrown. If that was stripped name,” Catherine says. “We just used it to fix problems and used CSPAN 98 98 38 98 38 350 210 on a personal level I think he is away, would there be love thought that was hilarious, and it as a Band-Aid to sort of solve TIU2 419 419 - 419 - - - and always has been for me one ENC 630 630 610 630 610 535 340 there, and what would those we had the money, it was the family issues, life issues,” Daniel STARZ 650 650 670 650 670 527 350 bare-bones relationships look father’s idea but never having says.