Twitch City

Twitch City
Genre	Sitcom
Starring	Don McKellar Molly Parker Daniel MacIvor Callum Keith Rennie Bruce McCulloch Mark McKinney
Country of origin	Canada
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	Susan Cavan Armand Leo Bruce McDonald
Running time	30 min.
Release
Original network	CBC Television
Original release	January 19, 1998 – April 5, 2000

Twitch City is a Canadian sitcom produced by CBC Television, which aired as two short runs in 1998 and 2000. The series also aired in the United States on Bravo, and in Australia.

The show's surreal humour was popular with critics. The show was never a mainstream ratings success in Canada, although it had an extremely devoted cult following.

The show was directed by Bruce McDonald and produced by Shadow Shows and Accent Entertainment in association with the CBC. Music was composed by Bob Wiseman.

Set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, the series is about Curtis (Don McKellar), a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends Nathan (Daniel MacIvor), Hope (Molly Parker) and Newbie (Callum Keith Rennie). McKellar was also one of the show's creators.

In the first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food. The homeless man was played by Al Waxman, who had been the star of the 1970s sitcom King of Kensington, although the producers claimed that they did not intend for the homeless man to be seen as the same character. Nathan remained in prison throughout the run of the series; the first episode of the second season opened with an Oz parody in which he criticized the hip hop-inspired slam poetry of his cellmate.

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