According to Jayme Pfahl of Vancouver production company Gang of 2, CBC Television has passed on Fancy as a possible series.  Pfahl gives a March 2011 prospective airdate for the pilot itself.  The exact airdate is subject to change by CBC.

Fancy is about children’s show host Maureen Fancy (Kate Hewlett.)  Fancy is cheery on-set, and miserable away from the camera.  Playback and Hollywood Reporter scribe Etan Vlessing also mentions Patrick McKenna and Jana Peck as part of the cast.

Pfahl co-founded Gang of 2 with Angus Fraser.  Pfahl and Fraser recently produced The Cult, a pilot which aired on CBC earlier in 2010.

While Fancy‘s premise isn’t original, I think the idea could sustain a series.  CBC Television has shied away from dark comedies as of late, given CBC’s shift to lighter dramas and reality shows.

100 Things Every Man Should Know and Floorwalker are still in development with CBC.  A third CBC/Gang of 2 project, After, is no longer being developed.

I’d like to see at least one Gang of 2 product get past CBC Television’s pilot stage.  I’m not one to complain about CBC’s existence, but why does CBC keep rejecting shows I might be interested in?  There’s something scary about HBO Canada, APTN and Showcase being the vanguards of edgier comedy in this country.

This is hardly news to the KitH faithful, so I’ll only give the basic details.  Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town will air in America on IFC, which is rebranding itself as a more comedy-centric, “offbeat” network.

Death Comes to Town is part of the 2010-11 broadcast slate, which includes The Onion News Network and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.

IFC has previously aired The Jon Dore Television Show.  The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret is a British show with a Canadian costar.

I’m not bragging, by the way, about Canadians who have Made It in America^®.  I’m just stating that Americans will watch Canadian comedy if there’s a demand for it.  IFC’s not a bad home for Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town, although I expected Comedy Central or BBC America to blink first.  Nice one, IFC.

Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town will begin airing in August 2010.  Why late summer instead of the fall, I don’t know, but Death Comes to Town isn’t the main draw for IFC in 2010-11.  The Onion News Network is, with zombie horror-comedy Dead Set sliding under the radar.

The Whitest Kids U’Know, Z Rock and Greg the Bunny have built up IFC’s reputation for comedy.  It’ll be quite interesting to see what IFC mounts and/or picks up over the next few years.  If Pure Pwnage and/or Testees end up on IFC, I won’t be surprised.  I think IFC has discovered a new niche.