''Walter Ego'' was a Canadian television
sitcom
A sitcom (short for situation comedy or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy produced for radio and television, that centers on a recurring cast of character (arts), characters as they navigate humorous situations within a consistent settin ...
pilot, which aired on
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, p ...
on January 3, 2005.
The show starred
Peter Keleghan
Peter Keleghan (born September 16, 1959) is a Canadian actor and writer, perhaps best known for portraying Ben Bellow in the comedy series '' 18 to Life'', Clark Claxton Sr. in the comedy series '' Billable Hours'' and Ranger Gord in '' The Red G ...
as cartoonist Walter Davis, whose friends and family often provide fodder for his successful comic strip. The cast also included
Diane Flacks
Diane Flacks is a Canadian comedic actress, screenwriter and playwright.
Early life and education
Flacks was raised in the Jewish faith. Her early education took place in Jewish parochial schools. Flacks studied drama at Leah Posluns Institu ...
,
Jackie Burroughs
Jacqueline Burroughs (2 February 1939 – 22 September 2010) was a British-born Canadian actress. Burroughs starred in over 100 films and television shows over her career, including ''Heavy Metal (film), Heavy Metal'', ''The Care Bears Movie'', ...
, and
Charmion King
Charmion King (July 25, 1925 – January 6, 2007) was a Canadian actress.
Biography
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she was part of the country's burgeoning theatre and television industry in the decade of the 1950s. Fresh out of the University of ...
.
It was one of three sitcom pilots aired by the CBC, along with ''
Getting Along Famously
''Getting Along Famously'' is a Canadian sitcom which aired on CBC Television in 2006.
Set in the early 1960s, ''Getting Along Famously'' starred real-life couple Colin Mochrie and Debra McGrath as the hosts of a television variety show. Supporti ...
'' and ''
Hatching, Matching and Dispatching'', as a viewer response poll. Pilots that poll favourably will be developed into full series. The CBC previously employed this strategy with the shows ''
Rideau Hall
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'' and ''
An American in Canada
''An American in Canada'' is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on CBC Television in 2003 and 2004.
The show starred Rick Roberts as Jake Crewe, an American television news host who was forced, after beating up his station manager, to accep ...
''.
References
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External links
Walter Ego
Television pilots not picked up as a series