This Space for Rent
2005-2006 Comedy TV Series
Executive Producer: Brian Hamilton
Creator/Producer: Jason James
Creator/Writer: Nick Citton
Directors: Michael Kennedy, Scott Smith
Cast: Dov Tiefenbach, Emily Hampshire, Rainbow Sun Francks, Sonja Bennett, and Jason Bryden
Lucky Carroway, a recent college graduate caught in the headlights, is living in a shrinking world - right now it consists of the sofa and the fridge. Although his roommates and friends are trying their best to pull Lucky out of this emotional car-wreck, they aren't faring much better. His best friend and roomie, Barnaby Sharpe, is a struggling actor who might also be the world's most over-qualified coffee barista. Iona Goldenthal fills the hollow void of life after law school with alcohol, sex, and cash money. April Melnyk, Lucky's girlfriend, attempts to struggle through med school and her disappearing social life. While Elliott Hayden, the bon vivant of the group, tries to maintain a winning smile in the perpetual search for a good time.
The series follows these five friends as they come of age in downtown Vancouver - a world of concrete and beach, rain and apathy, youth and ambition. It's about that period in your life when you feel on the cusp of greatness, but everything is so much more comfortable on the couch. While the characters all feel compelled to live extraordinary lives, they have no qualms about bowing out of the race rather than settling for a life of mediocrity. As they make baby steps towards self-fulfillment, they investigate the minutiae of their everyday lives; the pathetic details you just have to laugh at otherwise you might cry.
Awards: Nominated for Leo Award - Best TV Comedy
