| The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town | |
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 Title card | |
| Genre | Miniseries, dark comedy |
| Created by | The Kids in the Hall |
| Directed by | Kelly Makin |
| Starring | Dave Foley Bruce McCulloch Kevin McDonald Mark McKinney Scott Thompson |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBC Television |
| Release | January 12 – March 16, 2010 |
| Related | |
| The Kids in the Hall | |
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The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town (or simply Death Comes to Town) is an eight-episode Canadian dark comedy miniseries that aired on CBC Television on Tuesdays between January 12 and March 16, 2010. The show takes place in a fictional Ontario town called Shuckton whose mayor has been murdered. As the Shuckton residents cope with the loss, a new lawyer moves in to prosecute a suspect, though another resident, unsatisfied with the evidence, tries to find the real killer. At the same time, a character who is a personification of death waits at a motel room for the latest Shuckton residents to die.
The series was proposed by Bruce McCulloch during a 2008 comedy tour and developed by the ensemble into a dark-comedy murder mystery, a departure from their typical sketch comedy format. Inspiration for the series came in part from the British comedy series The League of Gentlemen. While the members of The Kids in the Hall play all of the major adult characters, a number of other comedic actors appear in supporting roles, including Dan Redican, Colin Mochrie, Wayne Robson, Leah N.H. Philpott, Susan Kent and Mike Beaver. The series was filmed in North Bay, Mattawa, and Sturgeon Falls, Ontario in the summer of 2009.