Rainbow Rainbow Sun Francks: This Space For Rent

Rainbow Sun Francks: End of Year

As the year terminates, perhaps it’s better to look forward with a smile. On New Year’s Eve (Saturday [December 31]), the Comedy Network tries to help with four back-to-back episodes of Stella, from 8 to 10 p.m. Touted by the CBC as an “offbeat new comedy”, This Space for Rent misses a few beats here and there.

But despite its self-consciously slacker mindset, the series, premiering next Wednesday (January 4) at 9 p.m., has its heart in the right place. Set in a fictional loft across from the Save-On-Meat store in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, it stars Dov Tiefenbach (The Delicate Art of Parking) as life-stalled 20-something writer Lucky Carroway, in what amounts to a funkier Robson Arms by way of Paul Mazurzky’s Next Stop, Greenwich Village.

The series’ pilot episode, where we meet Lucky and his pals—played by Rainbow Sun Francks, Emily Hampshire, Kea Wong, and Jason Bryden—felt bumpy, even annoying, in places, and some of its characters seemed more like character studies. With a bit of retooling, however, the show—which features hip scene-break music from the Ladies and Gentlemen and the New Pornographers (the latter appear at a rooftop party in the premiere) might become something very cool indeed.

Vancouverites will either cringe or smile with recognition at such local references as the Save-On neon pig, to whom Lucky confesses nightly, and the fact that his literary nemesis is the author of a book with the Douglas Coupland–esque title Plate. Glass.City

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Source: Elyse from Stargate_Atlantis_Talk :