All things must pass, as George Harrison once said. Which brings us to the fifth and final season of Son of a Critch, the CBC sitcom based on the early life of Mark Critch (This Hour Has 22 Minutes).
Last June as production wrapped I met with the four main castmates from the series — Critch, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Claire Rankin and Malcolm McDowell — at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto. There we shared a conversation about how the series ends with young Mark (Ainsworth) graduating from high school and into a very uncertain future, for himself as a budding performer, and for his home province of Newfoundland.
Critch says it is the ending he always had in mind. Ainsworth talks about going from child star to young adult actor with a starring role as Link on The Legend of Zelda. McDowell, now 83, says he will miss the show as well as St. John’s which became a second home for the veteran actor.
Look for the final season to begin Tuesday, Sept. 8 on CBC and CBC Gem.
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