Week Thus Far goes further with Season Two
By Lara Violet
If you are still channel surfing, you may have caught wave of local Shaw TV comedy Week Thus Far, styled after late night talk shows with the host/guest/live band paradigm, but enjoying the zany liberties allotted to public access programming. If you have decided to take your television viewing habits into your own double-clicking hands online, you may be missing out on the bizarre beauty of local DIY TV.
Development of Week Thus Far began when producer Craig Ward got the job of “Master Controller” at Shaw, and approached future WTF host Dan Huen about starting a talk show. With various burgeoning ambitions to start a sketch comedy group, rounding up hilarious talent was almost instantaneous, even though the vision was uncertain. “Nobody knew what this was or was going to be, we knew we wanted jokes, a guest and a band. Beyond that we had nothing pre-conceived. The meetings began to be about whether or not we could actually provide the content,” writer/producer Tim Gray explained. Continue reading “Thus Far and Thenceforth”