Two of the four Baroness Von Sketch Show players, Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill, are back with a new CBC series — and it’s a period piece!
The series is called Small Achievable Goals and it is about two women in midlife encountering all of the joys of menopause. Hot flashes, mood swings, homicidal trendencies and more.
Now, you can’t swing a tampon in daytime TV without Drew Barrymore or Oprah manopausing for station identificatioon. Even in primetime this has come up before. Remember that episode of The Golden Girls? Where Blanche thought she might be pregnant? That episode was called, “End of the Curse.”
Well, Whalen and MacNeill wage war on the curse. Helping is a top Canadian comedy cast including Jon Dore (The Lake), Peter McKeleghan (Workin’ Moms), Tricia Black (Pretty Hard Cases) and Paul Braunstein (Shelved). The two main characters are podcasters, so right there, I have a rooting interest.
The eight episode series airs Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. ET on CBC and CBCGem. To listen to the podcast interview with Whalen and MacNeill, conducted last December at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto, simply click on the white arrow in the blue dot above.
