Less Than Kind
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Title design by Cuppa Coffee Studios
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| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Created by | Marvin Kaye Chris Sheasgreen |
| Directed by | James Dunnison Bruce McDonald Mark McKinney Kelly Makin Douglas Mitchell Henry Sarwer-Foner Shawn Alex Thompson Gary Yates Marvin Kaye Chris Sheasgreen |
| Starring |
Jesse Camacho Wendel Meldrum Benjamin Arthur Nancy Sorel Emma Bambrick Maury Chaykin Brooke Palsson |
| Theme music composer | The Weakerthans |
| Opening theme | "One Great City!" |
| Composer(s) | Richard Pell |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 48 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Mark McKinney Marvin Kaye Chris Sheasgreen Phyllis Laing Ira Levy Peter Williamson |
| Producer(s) | Jan Peter Meyboom Kirsten Scollie Paula J. Smith |
| Location(s) | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Cinematography | David Perrault Mike Marshal |
| Editor(s) | Gareth C. Scales Paul Winestock Matt Hannam Craig Webster |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Buffalo Gal Pictures Breakthrough Films & Television |
| Release | |
| Original network |
City (Season 1) HBO Canada (Season 2-4) |
| Original release | October 13, 2008 – July 14, 2013 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Production website | |
Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older brother Josh, and Nancy Sorel as his aunt Clara. The Blechers struggle to operate a driving school out of their home in Winnipeg's fading North End. Less Than Kind made its debut October 13, 2008, on Citytv, and moved to HBO Canada in February 2010.
The ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed series won Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009 and 2010.Less Than Kind received the 2010 Gemini Award for Best Comedy Program or Series and the inaugural award for Best Comedy Series at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.
The title sequence and logo for Less Than Kind were inspired by an iconic highway sign at Winnipeg's Confusion Corner intersection, depicting arrows pointing in every direction.
The name of the series is found in the first line spoken by Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 2): "A little more than kin, and less than kind."
We understood that the value of the show was in the fact that it's not a sitcom — it's a show that's beautifully written, with characters that are less than perfect, that are real.... We're not wrapping every episode up nice and neatly, because it's all in the sloppiness — that's where the gold is.
Less Than Kind was created by Marvin Kaye and Chris Sheasgreen, who loosely based the series on Kaye's successful one-act play, They Have Mayonaisse in Montreal. "I liked the characters and liked that it was kind of based on Marvin's life," said showrunner Mark McKinney. "It had a ring of truth to it, had heart.... It was pretty easy to climb on board."
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